I wake to music playing softly in the background, a cup of steaming coffee is on my nightstand and my husband is reciting my spa schedule for the day...
That is my dream.
The reality is that we woke up before the kids, I waited while my hubby made the coffee (he hadn't set up the pot the night before) and we had a few moments of snuggling before the kids woke up and the day went into insanity mode.
Once the boys were awake and we'd finished our coffee we headed downstairs where the boys presented me with a mylar Mother's Day balloon, that they then proceeded to fight over. I received two cards, one from the boys and one from hubby.
Both were mushy and made me cry.
In addition to the balloon and the cards was a small wrapped box that held a beautiful necklace with a pendant in the shape of a heart filled with crystals and a smaller heart that was engraved with the word "mom."
Heaven!
As young girls we dream of many things.
Unicorns, white castles, beasts that turn into princes, a knight in shining armor, our wedding day, our dress and being a mommy.
I am no exception.
I dreamt of all of those things, and a few others that shall remain nameless, and just knew that I was going to fall in love with mister perfect and have a bunch of kids...pretty sure I can blame Disney and the Brady Bunch for such dreams...
I fell in love and got married...a couple of times.
Fortunately I finally did find Mr. Right and we have this wonderful little family of four - thank you Lord for boys and not girls.
Mr. Right actually found me...I wasn't looking. So I did finally get it right but as a friend of mine so aptly stated, "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut eventually."
It's wonderful most of the time.
Yeah we have those moments where you just want to lock your kid in a closet and go sit on the porch with a nice hot cup of coffee but for the most part things are great.
My hubby works insanely hard. His job is nuts and this time of year is the worst. He is in the pool industry. The commercial side of it. This is the time of year where everyone needs everything done to get their outdoor pools ready for the masses on Memorial Day weekend. I'm lucky if he's home by 8.
My day's are lightly less insane but only because I do much, much less driving than he does. After we get up in the morning I try to have my coffee while the kids have their morning bottles. Often they like to run around upstairs and play with stuff in our closet.
Last week I actually managed to get in the shower early and, as I was getting dressed, the Stuntman looked at me, patted his head and said, "hat." Thanks hubby!
I wonder how old they'll be before they stop calling bras, hats?
As the kids get older they are learning their body parts: ears, eyes, toes...If you ask them where boogers come from they will point to their noses. Thanks hubby!
I'm so proud.
I really am proud though. You can ask them for a book by the title or subject matter and they can bring it to you.
I might just be a puffed up mommy but I find that to be astounding considering that they just turned 18 months!
If they want to go out they will bring you not one but a matched pair of shoes, they know words like jacket, bucket and turtle. Their vocabulary is growing as fast as they are and we have to be ever vigilant to keep it "clean" around here.
As hard as we try, it's just so easy to get frustrated and let a "dammit" slip out.
I can completely understand why some kids often believe that their first name is actually dammit.
With hubby working so hard he is perpetually exhausted. With that comes his ability to fall asleep instantly.
I hate that he can fall asleep so quickly and am jealous that I can't.
No matter what I do, I do not fall asleep right away.
I can be exhausted to the point of tears streaming down my cheeks and I do not fall asleep right away.
In the evening I take the Stuntman upstairs and hubby stays on the sofa with the Engineer. I put the Stuntman to bed after he's finished his bottle and then let hubby know, via text message, that he can bring the Engineer up...
Then I go downstairs and wake up hubby to let him know that the Stuntman is in bed.
I ask hubby to set up the coffee pot and I take the Engineer up and put him to bed.
After I set up the coffee pot and wake up hubby we go to bed...I am now so wired that sleeping is not an option at all, but I get into bed anyway.
One night last week hubby was snoring so loudly that the windows were rattling and I get downstairs and find the Engineer wide awake and bouncing around on both him and the sofa.
Hubby was clueless.
I gathered the Engineer up, took him up to the rocker in the bedroom and after I got him back to sleep went back downstairs to set up the coffee pot and woke up the hubby.
He said something about trees...
Yeah, we have no idea either!
