STOP IT

Now this post is probably going to make me sound like a bad mom...actually now that I think about it my last post may have also done that.  I think we have a pattern here.  Shoot...anyhoo, this one may make me seem like a worse mom but I've got to get it out.  I've got to shout from the roof tops about this (yes, my roof top is my blog).  It's something that drives me CrAzY!  Like bat-$h!t CRAZY!  You've seen the posts and articles about it.  You've even been at the grocery store and had the comment directed RIGHT AT YOU!  I know you have, I just know it!!!!!!!!!  It's the "enjoy this time you're gonna miss it" comment/post/article.  It's every where, and it needs to STOP!

I've been in the throws of a toddler having a meltdown in the parking lot of the grocery store refusing to move and it's raining and the infant I'm holding is soaking wet and I've worn flip flops like an idiot and am slipping all over and when I FINALLY get into the store and the kids into the cart some sweet old woman looks at us in all our glory and says, "Ahhh, so cute, enjoy this time you'll miss it so much later"...really old lady, really????

I've been shopping and had my infant totally freaking out crying in the cart because he is hungry but I've got to get one last thing because without this last thing we all starve and I FINALLY get in line to pay and the clerk looks at my frazzled self and my SCREAMING 2 month old and says, "Oh, I miss when my kids were that age"...really clerk, really?

I've been at church when it's taken me 2 hours to get everyone ready and out the door.  My boys have on all manner of snow boots/flipflops/sandals with socks, shirts that are too big and pants that are too small and I'm out in the foyer with 2 kids and church is 3 hours long and I spend the entire 3 hours chasing those boys up and down the halls and didn't get to hear one single talk/lesson and I FINALLY get the baby to sleep and the toddler into nursery without melting down into a pile of goo and a sweet older sister comes by and looks at my now sweet sleeping baby and says, "Oh, so cute...enjoy this time while you can"...really sister, really?

I am sure there will be times about the early years of motherhood that I will miss. I am going to miss the random times when CH comes to me and asks for kisses 25 million times a day.  I'm going to miss the hugs from my 11 year old and the fact that he still holds my hand in public.  I'm gonna miss a sleeping baby on my chest.  I'm gonna miss cute naked baby bums in the bath, and sweet girls that can cook a lovely meal when I'm tired.  I'm gonna miss puddle jumping, and 
make-up how-to videos, and yes, even French Braiding hair!  Heck I may even miss the mess and crazy and loud and whining but PLEASE don't tell me I will.  I know it.  I know it goes too fast, I know it because I have a teenage daughter that is going to graduate from high school next year when yesterday she was attending Kiddie Kollege.  I do miss her little-ness, I miss all their little-ness but I do not miss their tantrums, and the stress I felt, and the long sleepless (although those are still happening) nights.  I REALLY hope that when I look back at what I "miss" it will be the sweet times, the good times and not the ones that right now make me wanna run screaming down the middle of the road and never come back.  And honestly I hope they don't remember those times either!

So next time you see a mom in public who looks like she is about to have a nervous breakdown DO NOT make her feel like crap for not enjoying every single moment, of every single thing that her little "angel" does.  I guarantee you she is enjoying the good and cherishing the sweet and hanging on to those precious moments like they are gold...I guarantee it!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Today we went to our new ward.  We still have one more week in our current ward but we just wanted to check it out, get our faces known, and possibly drum up some help to unload a moving truck in a couple weeks. Can I just say it was amazing!  We've been to this ward before when Chris was on the High Council so there were a few familiar faces.  That wasn't the amazing part... For the last 2 1/2 years Chris has struggled going to church.  The first year was due to the fact that he was in the hospital and fighting for his life and was unable to physically attend.  Frankly the whole family struggled that year and we stayed home for months because it was too painful to go.  The last year and a half Chris has struggled due to anxiety and panic about church.  He still has a testimony and loves the Gospel, he helps get the kids ready for church and attends when he can but for the most part I'm a single mom when it comes to church attendance.  He cann...
Read more

Sometimes life changes and we are all trying to catch up

From day one I could tell there was something different about L...he is my 4th child and right from the start I could tell.  I didn't know I could tell.  I knew he was different from my other kids but I didn't have a clue as to why, or what our future would bring. L was my most sweet baby.  All babies are sweet you say, all babies are different.  I know all babies are sweet but I mean this baby was SWEET.  He slept through the night almost from day one, to a mom 6 hours is like an eternity so I'm calling it through the night.  He rarely cried.  When he did and all the normal boxes were checked, feeding, changing, hot/cold, he just wanted to be left alone.  He would lay for hours on the floor on a blanket and watch life happen.  Then he would just fall asleep and take a nap and it was wonderful.  Being a mom of many kiddos it was like this baby was sent to me on purpose to make it easy.  Usually I have a baby and think "I'm not eve...
Read more

Our 68 Whiskey

All the fretting and studying and worrying and starving paid off!  K scored an excellent score on her ASVAB, better than most people!  She was able to pic the MOS (job) that she wanted and is happily enlisted in the US Army as a 68W (combat medic).  She has a ship out date of June 21 2017 but when she gets her diploma in her hot little hand in December she will renegotiate her contract and try and leave earlier.  This is a huge sigh of relief for her and a bit of a sigh of anxiety for her momma!  That's ok she is following her dream and doing what she will love.  I have faith that she will succeed!  Love that girl of mine.
Read more