Last night I arrived home and while making supper had to
make cupcakes for my sons bake sale today, it has been a rather harrowing week
the kids have been dragging their feet in the mornings and they fight like it’s
nobody’s business every 2 seconds its mommy he hit me or mommy he is on my side of the couch, mommy why is supper taking so long and oh I left my homework at school again or I had a bad day today… and yet at the end of the day when I put them to bed and
kiss them goodnight all that seems to melt away.
In any case so I had to make cupcakes for the bake sale I
always have the luck of the bake sales ending up on my week I do enjoy baking
but always leave it until the last minute and I am then left standing
frustrated in the kitchen and everything seems to go wrong… surprisingly last
night nothing went wrong and the cupcakes looked dam good if I do say so myself
the boys each got a treat and Jesse ended up with the bowl… he absolutely loved
it.
After looking at the cupcakes last night and thinking about
the harrowing journey they would need to make with the kids on the shuttle trip
I decided to drop them myself this morning.
Dropping them at school is something I would just love to do
every day as I walked through the gate I looked at all the other lucky moms who
get to drop their children every day to kiss them goodbye and walk them to
their classes, these supermoms that look so pristine like they have it all
together all the time, those moms who work half days or get to stay home who
get to shuttle their own kids to sport practices and help out with school
events…. This morning I thought to myself I envy you all so much.
Here I am a working mom I try my best but there are days
when things go AWOL… but you know what even on my worst day my children know
that they are loved; they know they are my world and more than that I could
never ask for.
I am sure that if I had to ask those moms how they do it
they would probably envy someone else maybe their lives look perfect from
someone on the outside but maybe they are just as much of a mess as I am…..
I have learnt so many things along my journey as a mom and
there have been so many times when I have said to myself what are you doing,
you can do better or this is not what a mom is and to be honest its bs, a mom
any mom can only do her best she can only give everything she has and can and
sometimes there will be crazy days when you don’t have it all together but that
is ok I am not a supermom, I am just a regular mom trying to do my best for my
children and in this I have learnt the following:
TV can be a great thing not all the time but if you need
free hands then it can be a great tool
Children well mine anyway love 2 minute noodles and if they
have it for supper once in a blue moon it won’t kill them, neither will toasted
sandwiches for that matter or eggs
Children mess and that’s ok your house doesn’t have to be
perfect
Bribery is a something you just have to learn to be ok with
No parent is perfect and there is no manual for parenting
If your child knows they are loved you are doing a great job
I have had many other moms ask me how I do it and to be
honest most days I really don’t have an answer to that question you just do,
there are days when I cry days when I want to scream even days when I just want
to hide away but not because I don’t love my children but because I wonder whether
I am a good enough mom, I may not be perfect but I am a good mom we all are it
just takes one step at a time and lots of love…every moment with my children is a gift and it it is my job to make sure that they know that.
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