So today I asked, in a bit of selfishness and self pity, "Why do moms work 100% of the time and feel only 50% accomplished...if that?"
Selfish? Kinda.
But the feelings are there at times, along with the weariness, fatigue, and dark baggy eyes!
Mind you, this came after my work week was coming to a close, and I was severely sleep deprived...night work does that to a mother who can't stop working, even on a hard day!
But the payoff is great.
The boys approached me Friday night as I was finishing the dishes and laundry before heading into work and said, "Mom, I can tell you've been doing a lot of work around here!"
Me: "Thank you, how can you tell?"
Connor: "Because Daddy told me you have!"
I took care of a little guy the past 2 nights post a heart surgery. He was so sick his first night post op, but his second night was fabulous. He giggled as hard as his sore chest would allow him to, his cheeks flushed with redness, and he buried his head into his blankets as I approached him on my second night. We laughed and played for a moment before beginning our night, and he hugged me so tight this morning as I left work, stating "Why do you have to leave?" I wonder if he thought I slept at all that night!!!
My little Lydia is obsessed with me...mocks my every move and sneaks hugs dozens of times through the day.
And I have a husband who tells me he can't wait to see my beautiful face when I leave to go of to work--with my confidence these days, it helps to hear I am beautiful to him!
Maya Ruth came down with an awful UTI this past week. She had fevers upwards of 103 degrees for 5 days with vomiting, chills, and crankiness galore. She went to the doctors and was cathed...not pleasant...and confirmed to have a positive UTI culture. So, in the next week and a half we will be looking into a renal ultrasound and VCUG. Poor baby. Chances are, everything is perfectly fine...she's just a little girl susceptible to nasty bacteria. (Let's hope) She is doing better...not thrilled to be receiving her third round of antibiotics in her first 7 months of life, but doing better.
On a lighter note, she wants to move SOOOO bad, but she is determined that crawling does not take place on your hands and knees but on your bum feet and head. Maya lays on her back, arches her back so that her head and feet are on the floor and pushes off with her feet while her little head slides along the carpet. When her bum touches down, she gives herself a little boost and does it all over again! You are one of a kind girl...just when we thought we were use to all the silly things children do...we had a 5th child, and she proved us wrong!
So, tonight Daddy was playing a game with the boys...
Where does_____ come from?
The "blank" was full of objects, such as steak, pork, wood...etc.
Here's a sample of the game:
Daddy: "Where does pork come from?"
Aiden: "A porcupine." and Connor: "A pig!"
Daddy: "Where does steak come from?"
Aiden: "A dinosaur." and Connor: "A cow!"
Daddy: "Where does milk come from?"
........
Daddy: "A cow, a goat, a cat, a dog, a mommy."
Aiden: (Ever so serious and thrilled to be correct while pointing at me) "A Crystal!!!"
3 comments:
wow, kids are so great! I love all of Aiden's answers.
good luck with the renal ultrasound and VCUG. Laycee has had the tests done twice. First time was when she was about 7 months old (we were in italy and the test was poorly conducted) and the second was when she was about 2. The test went better the second time but it was much more difficult for her. She has had a ton of UTIs and had all the same symotoms you described usually complicated by dehydration which meant an overnight or more in the hospital. she was on a prophalaxis (is that how its spelled?) antibiotic for over a year. Finally, they decided she had reflux in the one kidney, but once she was potty trained, she hasn't had any infections. They said if she gets another UTI she had to have surgery, but for now... shes good. So.. Good luck with Maya. The test is horrible, but its worth it in the long run to avoid being sick every other month or so.
Another feature which the Gods offer as a clue is very foreboading and ominous. Mt. Zion is a mountain to the north of Diablo (the eye of The Beast) and one which has a working quarry at its base. Consistant with the decay we experience in society, Mt. Zion is being eaten away, slowly stripped of its resources, until one day paradise will be gone forever.
7 billion in 2011. Only 1 billion in 1800 and 2 billion in 1900.
Population explosion is a clue::::The gods are sending everyone back for The End.
There must be some purgatory-like place. Or individual. Like an animal.
Now the gods have sent everyone back to try for one final time to fix their problems and ascend into heaven. Avoiding an animal would have been a big positive because those thrust into this decayed enviornment have less of a chance than those who enjoyed the god's generosity of a slowly decaying enviornment with frightening clues, like the Depression, World at War, the Holocaust, etc.
Anything that can get the poeple frightened and praying is a good. thing. Contentment never motivated anyone.
As we approach the Apocalypse the gods are removing "wrath of god" material from xtian dogma.
As we see wickedness spread throughout the country, like preditory behavior, godlessness, social changes, etc, using cable TV and the spread of "Californication" as justification, they changed xtianity, appropriatly with Catholicism first.
xtianity has changed radically in the 20th century, and everyone should be mindful of the way it was, because the people are in a process of slipping out of god's favor into a state of Damnation, from which the vast majority will never survive.
They used to scare people and make them too afraid to make mistakes. Now people aren't afraid of anything and don't think twice about doing something wicked and evil which will hurt their chances.
If people only understood the importance of good parents. You won't be going anywhere without them. And it won't happen unless you are one first.
Whimsical management=Unstable pathology:::
*Tuscon-waffles
*2006 Hawaii-Jewelry
*Ivan/Wilma-SCUBA
*Haiti-slaves
*Chile-crappy fruit
I'm sure you got some excuse. Just like Mustang Ranch.
You've compromised your integrity so hard you no longer deserve the label "gods".
The gods used the Italians to ruin life in the 20th century.
The gods used the Italians to ruin life in A.D..
"The West Bank, where the end of the world will begin."
And they were reincarnated into the ghetto to be punished as crack babies and in drive-by shootings, ironically poetic justice for inflicting these horrors on their hated enemies.
On their brothers.
We saw it with Mustang Ranch as well:::The gods just manufactured the tactic of the Holocaust to accomplish the goals they planned.
I am of the opinion the gods would have interviened in its absence, illustrating their claims of being good, and established "old world" dictatorship control at the dawn of mankind's mass moral deterioration. Purely speculation, I conceed, and a total waste of time which distracts from important work we are all responsible for, but even without the Holocaust the gods would have manufactured something that would allow them to manage their culpability and justify their lack of divine intervention. After all, we all abide by their chronology.
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