The number of thankless, sleepless, frustrated moments in a mother's life far outweighs the number of magical rewarding moments. I wish I could say that every second spent with my toddler looked like us frolicking, giggling, and skipping through a never-ending hillside of flowers and butterflies while holding hands, but it really looks more like us sitting on the dirty kitchen floor, yelling at each other, trying to get the other to release her grip of the Windex. And even while the Windex moment is how most moments look, once in a rare while, something will happen that fills up my mom tank and allows me to get through all the ugly moments until the next beautiful thing happens. Here is what happened...
I took this picture yesterday:
As you can see in the background, the once-folded laundry has been strewn about the room by my crazy monster darling daughter, and I snapped this picture on my iphone probably as a means to procrastinate finishing my job, but regardless, right after this picture, she takes off the hat and looks me in the eyes, places the hat on my head and says, "hat on mama?"
First sentence! I can't quite explain what it feels like to be able to have an open line of communication, even if just for a moment, with someone who you love more than anything, but have never really been able to understand. I mean I get it when she grunts and points to her empty sippy cup and says "juice!" but to watch this precious thing, who, merely 2 years ago, was a bean-sized bunch of cells in my uterus, articulate a full thought in front of my eyes blew me away. These are the things that truly makes motherhood the coolest, most rewarding job on the planet.
So, dear Avery, feel free to pee on the floor when I let you run around naked after the bath tonight... Mama's mom tank is full!
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