Motherhood, that one little word says a whole lot. **If you are a Father reading this, substitute Mother/Mom/Mommy/Motherhood for Father/Dad/Daddy/Fatherhood because your role in their life is just as important as ours!
Motherhood is teaching children right from wrong, its about making sure your children do the right thing and make the right choices in their lives. It's wanting the best for children and praying they listen to your wisdom, (even though your sure you do not sound wise).
At times (OK most of the time) it is a tiring and thankless job. Doing laundry over and over to make sure your children have clean clothes to wear, spending the majority of your time in the kitchen (my favorite place to be) to make sure they have healthy food to eat, and keeping the house clean so that they have a healthy environment to live in.
The frustrating times (like yesterday) when you punish the child until her progress report comes in and she makes your life absolutely miserable. Until you realize, she can not leave the house, but you can! Ha ha. When you step on a Lego in the dark and kill your foot. When the clothes made it in front of the hamper and not IN to the hamper. (My ex husband was great for this)
The fights, oh the joys of the fights! Listening to kids fight at bedtime when they are suppose to be going to sleep. Fights over doing their homework, fights over getting in the shower, and the biggest fight of all, getting off the video games! O joy, how I do love the fights!
Then there are the moments that make it all worth while! When your child is sick and wants to lie down next to you (like my 13 year old last night), and only mommy will do. When you witness them doing something you taught them to do, (but thought they were not listening). When you watch your child open the door for an elderly person and you didn't have to ask her to do it. When you come home and the house has been cleaned up like you asked them to do! They seem like little things, but really they are the biggest moments in the Mommy Career, that you realize it is all worth it. Every fight, every struggle, every tear, and every pull your hair moment is 100% worth it. Just to experience those Proud Mommy Moments.
Even when you know (or feel like) everything that you are doing is wrong, turns out it will all work out OK in the end. Motherhood requires prayer and quiet reflection and to know that when you are close to knocking your child through the wall, that you can leave for a little while and calm down.
The number 1 rule of Motherhood we all need to know is: If your child says, "I hate you!", "You suck" or "Your ruining my life", know that you are doing something right!
Until next time.....
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