One of those special moments

My sweet baby girl.

Tonight I had one of those special moments, the ones that make you relax and remind you exactly why you wanted children. Sometimes I think that in order for those moments to happen you have to be a little stressed or frazzled or even ready to throw the towel in. But kids seem to sense this somehow and do this one little thing that always makes your heart melt. I had one of these this evening.

For starters my day just got off to a really crappy start. When my husband finally came to bed it was like 7 in the morning and however he got on the bed (this is up for debate, I swear he tried to lay a power bomb on me and missed by a few inches, he says he just sat down) he scared the mother f$#%ing daylights out of me and I failed around like I was having a seizure or something. When I calmed down I realized I was in a ton of pain, it felt like I had ripped my Latissimus Dorsi in half!

I take some pain meds and try to use our heating pad, which now does not appear to work at all, and really tried to rest it. After feeding the kids dinner they were driving me nuts so I decided to put them in bed a little earlier than usual tonight. That didn’t really happen though because I found them in my room having torn all the sheets and blankets off my bed and jumping on it. So after we finished remaking mommy’s bed it then took me another 10 minutes to get their pajamas on. Finally got them ready, took them to their room to tuck them in and discovered that my daughter had taken out all her pajamas, socks, and underwear and had them strewn all over their floor.

I got her clothes all picked up had the kids tucked in and given many hugs and kisses when I go to close the door behind me I hear my daughter say “Mom?”. But it wasn’t just any plain old ‘mom’, it was the one they say in a quiet voice that automatically plays your heartstrings like a harp and you have to answer because they addressed you so sweetly. So I opened the door back up and asked what she needed. Then she said a bunch I couldn’t understand so I just said, “Ok honey, we will try to do that tomorrow.” I had one of those moments today. I was frustrated, annoyed and just plain tired among other things but that one little word stopped me in my tracks and said “this is why you are a mom”. Every now and then you have these little moments that put everything precisely in perspective and you then have absolutely no doubt as to why you chose to be a mother.