At night when the girls are asleep I pick up toys and tiny little clothes and shoes. When did this all happen!?! Growing up I always knew I wanted to be a mother. I wanted children of my own. However sometimes I still get wake up calls after being a mother of 4 years-I am a mom. Sometimes it doesn't dawn on me until I am picking up these little tiny things. I have done it, I am where I have always wanted to be.
I have always watched basketball and thought-wow these people are getting paid to do something that the love. Then I wonder how many people in life actually do what they love and how many people do what they do so they can get a pay check. Obviously motherhood does not give you a pay check. Most of the great things you do go unnoticed. Yet for some reason I love my job. It is the job I always wanted growing up and I am doing it!! I LOVE my job.
I don't know when we really started teaching the girls about saying thank you, but I guess you can say it sunk it well. One night as we were having dinner that Mauricio made Afton said-thanks for dinner daddy, which then Isabel says-thanks for dinner daddy. So then Mauricio gets them water, again Afton-thanks for the water daddy, Isabel-thanks for the water daddy. This goes on with the spoons, the napkins, everything Mauricio does-thanks daddy. I just laughed and Mauricio says-hey we are teaching them right. This happens all day-we have very thankful children:)!
I went to a Relief Society activity tonight and it was full of amazing women singing some amazing songs. One was a song about a mother. I wish I knew all the words, but it talks about all the things she does for her family and how she is not like the women on TV and she doesn't donate hundreds of dollars to charity's, but how much she does and how it doesn't go unnoticed.
Sorry this is a lot of random things, but it also makes me think of my mother. I was talking to my sister about how we had to drive the family van around in high school. How embarrassing right?? However to think back my mother rode her bike to work and let me have the car. Will I be that mom that gives up her car so my kids can drive to school when they could very well take a bus or ride a bike themselves? I just don't know. It is funny the things you don't notice about your mother until you are older. Man I don't look forward to raising teenagers!! Thanks mom.
So for all you amazing mothers out there-Rock On. Know your work doesn't go unnoticed. Heavenly Father sees all you do and he blesses you. Hopefully with kids who chose the right-haha. I love motherhood and look forward to all it holds. I mean if I am willing to keep going through this sickness to have kids-I must love it.
