This is what being a mom is all about...

For awhile now, I've been writing a blog in my head about what being a mom entails - for my family anyway. I haven't had the time to put it all together, but it would have included stuff such as:

• Being a mom, means you have to turn right out of the subdivision every time we go somewhere, just so we could drive past the firehouse to see if the garage doors are open. (Even though, nine times out of ten, it's out of my way, and no - the garage doors are not open.)
• Being a mom means, you sacrifice the last pancake at breakfast, because someone else is "SO HUNGRY!!!!"
• Being a mom means, you sit and read books upon books to the kids, even though you know that you should be doing something a bit more productive -like, say LAUNDRY!
• Being a mom means, you push the kids on the swings for what seems like hours and hours.
• Being a mom means, you wipe countless amounts of bums in your lifetime!:)

This list doesn't include everything, but it's definitely a start! :) But for today, what being a mom meant for me, was sitting watching the town workers dig up a dead tree, and then turn it into mulch. Yep, we were on our way home from bringing Chloe to school, and the boys saw the big tractor pulling the tree out. So what do you know, I turn around and sat there for well over 1/2 hour to see this tree get turned into mulch, and the boys loved every minute of it!

It doesn't take much to make these kids happy, and, in the end, if it makes them happy - Mommy's happy! :)