I don't need ten dollar cards that sing or a bouquet of cellophane-wrapped flowers from the supermarket coupled with the requisite box of chocolates.I don't need breakfast in bed (if you read my blog you know I'm taking a stand against crumbs in general).
I don't need a meal in a fancy restaurant surrounded by other Moms, all with the dazed expressions of prisoners on parole.
I don't need vouchers for car washes or spa treatments or perfume or bath salts in fancy glass jars.
I don't need a food processor or a dust buster or a new pair of gardening gloves.
And I'm not saying all of the above aren't wonderful and appropriate in their time and place, but on a day when I'm being honored for being a Mom, I'd like to keep it simple. No fuss, no muss, no bother...just a simple, "Thank you". This all encompassing thanks will cover it the whole kit and caboodle -- lost sleep, laughter, tears, tantrums, whining, joy, noise, expenses, frustration, complexity, stress, heartache, mind-broadening, terrifying, heart-stopping beauty that comes along with the honor of being a Mother. (And I'll overlook the dirty socks nesting beside the laundry hamper, the shoes holding parties in hallways, the toilet seats remaining in the down position only 3.7 percent of the time, the dirty dishes that refuse to teleport from the sink into the dishwasher and the sudden deafness that occurs whenever I ask, "Can I get a hand here?")
9 comments:
3.7% of the time? What's your secret to such a high ratio?
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What does Jannie want for Mother's Day? Just some hugs 'n kisses.
And a bunch of bananas.
And to sleep in until 10:00 a.m.
I hope all your wishes come true!
I'll add in my request, no big, unexpected emergency cleaning missions!
For Mother's Day I get to miss normal sleeping time, go to my BBM daughter's BBQ, bring food, then hurry off to work for the night.
MB gave me early card n presents (photos) last week.
I mostly just like no big clean-ups, really!
Jannie, I hope you get nice bunches of everything - bananas, hugs and kisses! Fingers crossed Kelly doesn't jump on you in bed before ten!
My secret is "threat of death" - works about 96.3 percent of the time ;)
Snaggle Tooth, have fun at the barbeque, have a great shift at work and I bet the photos were wonderful. I hope you don't have to deal with ANY clean-ups!
I can't promise to overlook the dirty dishes that fail to teleport the extra six inches from the sink to the dishwasher. That drives me NUTS!
Mama Zen, you'll notice I didn't put "crumbs in the butter" on my list. That drives me bonkers!
I'm not a mother and never will be (Thank God) then again I'd never have to work the rest of my life.
Who am I kidding? Even as a male mother my work would never be done.
Okay my hats off and a very low head bow to all the mothers out there.
Ellis, it's a good thing you redeemed yourself after that first statement! ;)
Thank you. I give props to all the Moms out there.
I wish I could sleep 'til 10am. I feel slighted. My friends got to sleep in. Me, I got to wake up before 6am and make pancakes etc.
Love the photos.
Yum - pancakes! I haven't made any in ages. Sorry you didn't get the sleep-in - but you made pancakes! You sweet Mom! Thanks, Mia.
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