Ahhh what a journey motherhood and parenthood can be. When people think about having kids most of them just see a cute little baby. They don't think about what happens when that baby turns into a toddler, a 4 year old, a 6 year old and so on. I hear so many people talk about how they just can not wait until they can take their kid to the park, or play catch with them, or go swimming etc....I do not think that they realize it isn't just throw the kid in the stroller or car and go.
You have diapers, and wipes and sippy cups and sand toys or bathing suits and snacks and maybe nap times to plan around.Its not all rainbows and butterflies. Being a parent is hard, no matter how many kids you have. Sure the more you have the more of a juggling act it is but most of us have had only one kid at some point and even then there were days that were hard and days that we just wanted to pull our hair out. Or we would stare at the clock praying that bedtime would come faster.
There are days when all my kids are in great moods and are getting along and are just great to be around. And there are days ( like yesterday) when the boys can not do anything but fight and addie is being a terrorist and i just can not wait for rob to get home so i can RUN out of the house and do my errands kid free. Luckily the bad days do not happen as often as the good days ( knock on wood) but they happen. And those are the days that remind you just how hard it can be to be a parent sometimes. Are my kids perfect, of course not, and am I the perfect mother, yeah right... but then again i just have to remind myself that NO kids are perfect ( yep even yours aren't perfect) and no parent is perfect. We grow and we learn. We change some things we do as we have more kids and we keep some the same. We learn that with parenthood the good, the bad and the ugly all come together.
There will be days when kids are puking or crabby or just tired and there will be days when they are well rested and in great moods. But we make it trough the rough times to get to the good times. They wouldn't be little for long ( some days I can not wait for them to grow up) so we have to cherish the moments we have while they still call us mommy and daddy and tell us they love us and we are their best friends. Because soon enough they will be teenagers and want nothing to do with us. They will think they know everything ( didn't we all) and that we know nothing and we will once again wish they were little and fighting over Thomas the train.
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