I am a Mommy

I am a mommy. The hardest job on Earth and the most rewarding! I know people say that all the time, but until you are one, you just don't have a clue!

I remember when I was doing my student teaching. Madeline was 3 and Morgan was 1. I was student teaching full time and working a part time job at night and on the weekends. I was pulled really thin. I was talking to a fellow student teacher about all the things we had to do and I mentioned my kids and my part time job. Her response was, "I know what you mean, I have a dog." I'm sure the look on my face told it all! Clueless! But you know, I wouldn't have done it any other way. The hard work made it twice as rewarding in the end when they were able to watch their mommy walk across the stage and graduate.

As the years have gone on and the bottles and diapers have disappeared, they have been replaced with basketball practice, piano lessons and girl scouts. I want to make sure that my girls have every opportunity to grow, learn and have fun- no matter what the inconvenience to me. Sometimes my calendar looks like it has exploded! But it is all worth it when Morgan makes a basket in her basketball game and looks over at me and smiles. Or when Madeline learns a new song on the piano and plays it in her recital by memory. Both priceless moments for a mommy. But the most rewarding moments for me is when I see my children being kind to other people. That, to me, is the most important thing a mother can teach her child. I will feel like I have done a good job if my daughters grow up with a kind and compassionate heart!

I recently had surgery and had to be in the hospital for a few days. We had to figure out who was taking Morgan to basketball practice and Madeline to piano and how they would get home in the afternoon. Madeline was worried that she wouldn't be able to go to piano. I told her, "Honey, you'll still get to do everything you normally do, it will just take three people to do the job of Mommy instead of one!" Isn't that the truth?

Even though at the end of the day, being a mommy is the hardest job on earth- it is truly the most rewarding!