"Happy Mother's day"

In Honor of Mother's Day i thought i would share some random observations from the parental side. Kids a truly a blessing. Almost everyone says that right? Well that's because they are. They say and do some of the craziest, funniest and grossest things you never could have imagined. here are only a few examples. young children will always want to show or give you their boogers. To them a booger is a treasure, pure gold mined from a part of their sweet lil' bodies.When my 2 year old boy looks and me and says "mom, i got a booger", there is such pride in his voice. Children will always wait till you are near them to pass gas. It seems like every time i am doing my daughter's hair she poots and giggles as the rancous odor raises up her back to my unprotected nostrils. If you have a child in diapers and you have someplace to go, they will hold their poo until you are in the car, get to your destination or where ever is the most inconvenient place to let it rip. I always thought that things would get tricky when my daughter turned 13, but i was wrong. You see hormones start early in sweet little girls. Most days are great but there are a few thrown in when the sass is flowing like honey. Raising a girl into a young woman is like seeing a wave far o. ff the shore. As you stand and watch it it grows and grows and grows until the wave hits about age 12 or 13 and then swallows you up in a fit that goes between, "i love you mom" to "i hate you, why did you ever have me?" (all of those things must be said in a tear filled, my life is over sort of way.) I really look forward to it!!
Right now my kiddos are at the phase where they can still share a meal when we go out but i know the day is coming when we will need to pad lock the fridge against my son. One day i will come home to find him eating a BOX of cereal out of my biggest Tupperware dish and he will say something like, "hi mom, did you get any food while you were out?" All of this is said in fun and with love. I have too many friends that say "i will never have kids, all people do is complain about them." sadly that might be true but i will end on a few of the BEST things in life...things you can only feel if you have a child.
The first time you make your baby laugh. best sound ever.The feeling of being the only person that can calm and "heal" some one's boo boo's. The feel of tiny, sticky, pudgy lil' hands on your face. The smell of a sweaty, sun scene covred "summer kid" as they sleep in the car on the way home from the beach. One day seeing them move on to do things that will make you proud like ride a bike, do well in per algebra, and one day make you a grand parent. It can be hard to help lil' humans grow up. i like to sleep in like the rest of you but i would never trade one second of my motherhood away. I love my kids!!