Being a Mom is hard work. The sleepless nights when you're trying to get your little baby to sleep but she's wide awake. Rushing from basketball to scouts to some other activity. Running something that your teenager has forgotten to the High School, even though you reminded him the night before. Yelling at your kids because they were running around and screaming at each other and they just woke you and the baby up 45 minutes before your alarm is set to go off. Sounding like a broken record when you have to tell your 4 year old to leave her baby sister alone. Cleaning the bathroom door knob that's full of some mysterious sticky substance. Being a detective in your kids bedroom trying to find all the dirty clothes that are either stuck under their mattress, under their bed, in the closet under the toys, or in the drawers with the clean clothes! Never enjoying your clean floors for more than a few hours. Doing loads...and loads...and loads of laundry that never seem to end. Having to organize the books in the bookshelves AGAIN because a certain 4 year old (and I suspect a 10 and an 8 year old) keep pushing them to the back of the bookshelf. Asking every night if they have brushed their teeth. Having your teenager throw his stinky shoes, his school backpack and 2 handfuls of clothes on the floor as he walks in the door. Waking up to see empty glasses of milk and bowls of cereal next to the computer because your teenager refuses to pick up after himself. Then you walk upstairs and see empty glasses of milk in the bathroom and in said teenagers room! These are but the few things that can drive any Mom coo-coo for Coco Puffs.
But then you have the moments when you're laying next to your little tiny baby and you look into her face and she has this tiny cute little nose and she looks at you ever so lovely and gives you the biggest little smile and it just melts your heart. When your 4 year old says a prayer and keeps her eyes closed the whole time and says "please keep us saved" instead of "safe". So cute! When your kids tell you that dinner was awesome because it was made with LOVE. When you wake up to see that the house is still clean! What?! And they are all sitting down quietly watching a program..together. Looking at baby pictures of your 10 and 8 year old and remembering how small they were and you wonder where the years went. When you eavesdrop on your kids and they are being silly and giggling. When you can't throw any of their artwork away because it is so beautiful and they are SO talented and you just know they will be famous some day. Caressing your little baby's soft toes and she smells wonderful, like baby. Seeing your 4 year old run up to the TV and dance to Fresh Beat Band's Rock Star song. Eavesdropping on your 4 year old talking to her imaginary friends. When you're angry and ask your child "Who did this?!" and he says "I did Mom" even though he knows he's in big trouble. Or when your 10 year old gets up and bares his testimony in Sacrament. When you get to come down and pray with your teenager before he leaves to seminary. Or when your teenager texts you for no reason other than to say something funny that doesn't require you to run something to him.
Being a Mom IS hard work but it's extremely rewarding. I love being a Mom!
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