A New Week...

I know my calendar is still blank, but that's because I forgot to write everything down. I think I will forget for a little while longer, it gives the illusion that my life isn't so hectic...

But in Reality, I will wake up in the morning, get children fed and clothed, check backpacks, find shoes, load children and take Nathan to preschool for speech therapy, go back home, work on boys' Christmas quilts, load children, pick up Nathan, feed boys lunch, load children and take Oren to kindergarten, go home, finish housework and babysit assorted children, go pick Oren up, help with homework and snack-getting, tidy up living room again for piano-lessons, teach, cook, yell (a little) , breathe, pajamas, send kids to bed. With other sundry activities such as Visiting teachers, cookie baking, Doctors appointments, and so forth.

But how refreshing to know that every other mother that I know is doing the exact same thing, or they are lying. :-)

I will also get kisses in the morning, "mommy can we snuggle?" whispered in my ear, sweet thank you's for putting bananas in their sandwich, full body hugs with sweet fists wrapped in my hair by a baby who believes the wetter the kiss, the better, ouwies to make all better, eyes to wipe dry, smiles when I pick up children from school, "mommy I need you" because they really do, and some because they just want me. I get to do lion kisses at bedtime and sneak in later to readjust the bed clothes and tuck in adorable little toes. I get to wonder at how much my 5-year old knows. And how fast the baby can crawl when he wants me.

How lucky I am...