Mother’s Day - The Holiday That Makes You Resent Having To Do What You Are Being Celebrated For

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the Moms out there! This is one of those days that I think makes me a bit of a bad person for a day. It is branded as a day for Mom’s to rest and relax and be pampered. So when my children ask for food and daddy isn’t right there to give it to them my first thought is, ‘it is my day off, what do you mean I need to feed you.’ Grrr. Then I think back on the fact that if my children were not here, today would just be another day. I can’t possibly expect to sit around and eat bonbons all day, but the part of me that watches commercials has been programmed to think that that is exactly what I am supposed to do.

So now I have expressed my horrible Mother's Day thought process, I am so happy to have my children. They are a blessing. Even when they are making messes and fighting over who gets to play with the fire truck. I love them dearly. I will even feed them on Mother's Day.

A celebration of mothers is a good thing. My mother is a wonderful source of support for me. We only talk three or four times a day. I know that she is always there for me, something I take advantage of sometimes. She taught me how to be the mom I am today. I have so many things to thank her for that I am sure I will miss something if I try to name them all.

My two year old was looking at my baby radish plants yesterday. He was touching them and trying to play with them. Something that you really shouldn’t do with plants that just broke through a couple days ago. We told him he had to be gentle because they were babies. His first response was, “Where’s the mommy.” Um... now I am in a pickle. It was like he wouldn’t believe that these plants were babies unless they were accompanied by a mommy plant. We eventually landed on the mommy plant is at the farm where the seeds come from. That seemed to satisfy him. It is also true, the mommy plant is at the place that packaged the seeds, I am not sure it is a farm, but it works for now. The lesson I took away from this: my two year old believes that mommies and babies go together, and he is right!

Have a happy day, mom or not.