Thursday, December 3, 2009

Jumping the Gun

As I said before Adam returned to work this week, and we're on day four of it being just me with the kids while he's there. Can I just tell you how nervous I was. I mean, they're my kids and I *knew* I could take care of them, I just didn't know if I could. Does that make sense? Although Adam was a huge huge HUGE help the past month I was ready (even though I was nervous) to get into a routine and see just how well I'd do. Honestly, I don't think it could be going any better. Sure, I'm probably jumping the gun. I'm sure there will be a day that I'm about to pull my hair out and be asking for volunteer babysitters so I can go get a couple cocktails, but right now -it's great. We've developed a pretty good routine and we stick to it somewhat. And of course we've had a couple melt downs, and of course at 5 oclock the house house begins to shake with Kolton being hungry and ready for bed and Emma being hungry and ready for bed, but all in all we've had a great couple of days. I really enjoy my kids. I love being a stay at home mom. I love spending time with them. Playing with them, running after them, seeing their face light up with they learn something new. Many of my friends have glamorous well paying jobs and although I'm jealous of the swag they may score from Versace (ahem, not fair) I'm never jealous of their jobs, because no matter what anyone says my job is way cooler. I mean, who wouldn't rather have free snotty kisses compared to a designer clutch. Ha! So let's use this as a little documentation I can look back on when I have one of those not so great days. Because on this day although I have two kids feeling worse than I am (we all have a cold) we were able to sleep in until 8am, have a great breakfast together, I was able to clean the whole upstairs while the kids were AWAKE, I was able to take a shower, and now I'm able to doodle on the laptop while eating my lunch in peace because both kids are asleep, and guess what? They put themselves to sleep!! Oh what a great day it is. So before one of them wake up I'm off to enjoy my yummy lunch..




3 comments:

De said...

I'm so glad you are enjoying being a stay at home Mom! It's the one thing I will never regret is all the time I had with Mandy and Troy as they were growing up. Even as they got older, they knew I would be there for them at any given moment.
Your a great Mommy!

Stephanie Bragg said...

I couldn't agree more with you on this post, I have lots of friends that have great careers and such, and Im a little envious, but I wouldn't change my life for the world! I love being a stay at home mom, watching Landens every move. Its wonderful and wouldn't have it any other way!

Mione said...

Being a mother is the most amazing job in the world! I'll take kisses and love over a fancy bag any day :)