Aaron asked me last week what I wanted for Mother’s Day. I tried to convince him that the Vera Bradley purse I just bought should count for a gift, but he wasn’t having it.
I know, this is the ideal time to beg for that new gadget or gizmo, when I can say, “But look at how much I do – don’t I deserve it?” But honestly, I really don’t need a gift to show appreciation for the hard work I do as a mother.
I could be rewarded just as much by being left alone. I don’t mean I want the kids to disappear for the day, but I would love it if just for one day, I didn’t have to:
– swipe some small object out of Mira’s mouth before she swallows it (where does she find this stuff?)
– yell at Cordy to “Stop hugging your sister like that! Hugging is nice, but knocking her over from the force of your hug is NOT nice!”
– answer the whisper of “Mommy, I’m stinky.”
– pick the couch pillow up off the floor 100 times a day
– yet again remove carpet fuzz from Mira’s hand before she tries to eat it
– deal with the whine of “I’m hungry!” ten minutes after Cordy stuffed herself with a large lunch
– have my mouse pulled away from me yet again by a baby with an electronics fetish
– play the mind-numbingly dull game of crawl up the stairs then demand to go to the bottom and do it again
– spend an hour trying to find “the green buzzy-bee” Cordy has lost and won’t stop talking about, only to realize it was a toy from school and she knew that it was still at school
– erase Mira’s contribution of letters and numbers from my most recent post
– retrieve spoons from the trash after Cordy tries to help me clean up lunch
I normally do all of these without complaint. After all, they’re my girls and they need me. But I can’t say the thought of them not bugging me for a little while is an unwanted dream.
Surely I’m not the only one who wishes her kids would stop doing specific behaviors for just one day. What do you wish your kids would not do just for one day?
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Oh I hear ya. For me, I’d lover for the little one to lose the WHINE.
Oh, I’ve got one. Could they please stop hanging onto my pants while I’m in the kitchen trying to get food on the table? They’re too little to reason with, but if they’d just let go, we’d have dinner 30 minutes sooner!
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I would love if mine would just stay in the house (or backyard) instead of bolting out the front door every chance they get. I am so sick of racing down sidewalks after them, and I can’t relax while I’m doing anything because I’m waiting for the sound of the door cracking open….
grrrr.
I’d have to go with Melissa on this one – the pants-clinging thing is at the top of the list, but maybe to make it more general – for her to stop making a beeline for the one place or thing that I’ve told her a gazillion times is off-limits! I swear, if I catch her with the Muppet Show DVD ONE MORE TIME, I’ll… calmly and rationally tell her no – one more time.
My mother’s day present last year was Nico taking the kids to the park, then calling me on the way back so I could leave the house, even if it was just to go to WalMart. Me Time.
Fighting amongst my kids.
TC losing his little “Power Ranger guy’s legs.” He breaks them off and then wants me to find them. He goes around saying, “Find his knees, find his knees.” UGH.
I wish they wouldn’t bicker about every. single. thing. It gets really annoying when you have an 11 year old boy and a 9 year old girl constantly bickering about everything.. One day is all I ask for; peace! Some wishful thinking.
Btw, I have alot of fun with your blog :).. Yes, I’m a lurker 😉
Oh, your blog is not large enough for the list of behaviors I wish my 4 children would stop demonstrating. The least of which is my 6month old biting my when nursing, continuing on to my 4 year old “shrieking at her siblings, “SSSTTTOOOOPPPP IIIIITTT!” moving on to the 2 year old telling me “NO WANT IT NAP!” and finishing with my 7 year old aspie son’s perseveration of America’s Funniest Home Videos. This is just one behavior each, I could go on, but it’s starting to make me depressed.
Happy Mother’s Day even though none of that nor none of your list stopped happening.
Yep! That is exactly how I feel!
How about adding — get the kids to bed with out complaint or the naked races up and down the hallway away from mom.
Or making a meal that was a favorite yesterday and hearing “I don’t like that! It’s gross.”
Wait…wait a minute. I thought your husband would have offered to watch them?
That post threw me for a loop. So did he give you the purse?
Of course you deserve a day off!!
I’m a single mom … I get one night off a week. Some weeks it’s tough, but on the weeks when my two year old has been driving me crazy – I definitely take advantage of that time to just relax.