"Be happy for this moment, for this moment is your life."
Omar Khayyam, a Persian philosopher said it. I don't know anything about Omar's life, but he seemed to know a lot about mine. Or at least what it feels like to be a stay at home mom. This is not a post about how hard my life is. It isn't hard. It's awesome. What it can be is monotonous. And maybe a little bit frustrating. Actually, it's a lot of things...a lot of different adjectives can describe my day at any given moment. But, for the most part, it's awesome.
Anyway. The point of my post is to remind myself that I have chosen this life. How I spend my days, and the fact that I spend them at home with my children, is MY CHOICE. No one has tied me down and forced me to stay home with my kids everyday. I often (like all day, everyday) forget how lucky I am to have a choice. Most mothers do not.
It's hard to describe how lucky I feel to stay at home with my kids, but then wish I could go to work every now and then. Does that make sense? Probably not.
We had a very nice weekend. Ryan and I did indeed celebrate our anniversary by cleaning toilets. And the garage. And we washed the cars. So romantic. But, things I really appreciated his help with and that's what being married is all about, right?
Ryan was in DC all last week. This week it's more DC and a little NYC. Am I a little bit jealous? Yes. Would he rather be here with us than making sure his boss doesn't flub up an ABC interview? Yes. Either way, we both have jobs to do.
Missy took this picture of Ryan jumping into the pool last weekend. He was trying to clear the pole, but I think Juice pulled it at the last minute. That was a good moment.
7 comments:
i like this post, jen.
probably cause i identify with what you're saying.
happy anniversary!
This is good stuff, Jen. Happy Anniversary.
Bob was home for lunch today and I was kind of lamenting about feeling among other things, over-weight and a little frumpy. He reminded me of one of his favorite quotes. Muhammad Ali: The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
I'm with the others, this is a really good post. I normally really love spending all day with my kids and figuring out new things to do and staying busy with keeping up the house, but the other day I looked at the massive amounts of toys on the floor, dishes in the sink, laundry to be folded, books spilled out of the bookshelf and I really just wanted to leave it all and get out of here. And maybe have someone else make me dinner for awhile and bathe the kids and clean out the sandy food cooler and wake up at 530 with the baby.
But yeah, in the end, it's awesome.
That's one of the things that I'm worried about - the monotony of motherhood (not to mention the lack of praise / compensation / acknowledgement from being a professional in the workforce). But - I'm also reminded that motherhood is a sacrifice for our children (our?!), & they'll be grateful for it someday. And we'll probably end up being better people because of it.
But yeah. I'm worried. :)
happy anniversary Jen and Ry!
you two are some of our favorite people. hope you had a good one.
this post was authentic and I liked reading it. Especially with the last sentence.
Nice post, Jen.
Yes, that makes perfect sense. And relentless is my favorite way to describe every day at home with kids. : )
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