I know it is not mother's day - but I wanted to write about how much I appreciate my mom.
My mom does so much for me that it would take me several incarnations to pay her back (if that reincarnation thing actually works :)
I leave for work before my kids even wake up. My mom lives 2 miles down the road. She comes in early in the morning, wakes them up, makes them breakfast and drops them off to school.
Then she cooks something for dinner.
She picks the kids up from school and gives them a snack and waits for me to come home. I usually come home to steaming hot dinner on the table. This is just to name a few - the things that she does for me are countless.
All my friends are envious - they say I am a lazy spoiled brat - No - I am just very lucky. When we were buying a house my number one requirement was that it has to be near enough to mom and dad.
Today I am feeling exceptionally thankful. Today - Monday - always a crazy day at work - too many meetings, nothing getting done as fast as I want to - ended up staying late at work. Mom took the kids to her place so I stopped by there to pick them up. She had a big bag full of food packed for me - all still warm. She has bad arthritis and she recently had cataract surgery. It is hard for her to get around - especially when it gets cold. Whenever she calls me at work to ask what I want for dinner, I always tell her nothing - I just don't want her slaving over stove. I can always throws something quick together. But she says that she gets tired of sitting around and needs to do something.
Today after I picked up the food and kids, I came home and went for a two mile run. As I was running I kept thinking that I can do this only because my mom took care of the kids after school and made dinner for me - otherwise instead of running I will be worrying about dinner right now. After coming home I had the food that she packed for me and it tasted like the best thing I ever had. I felt so good - so content and suddenly my heart was overflowing with love and gratitude. In our family we don't say I love you too much. I mean I say it to my kids, but not to my parents because - I don't know - not part of our culture? Don't know. So if I were to call her right now to say how much I love and appreciate her she would think I am drunk or something. So I will just write here.
My dad is awesome too - but I will save that for another time.
I love my mom :)
My mom does so much for me that it would take me several incarnations to pay her back (if that reincarnation thing actually works :)
I leave for work before my kids even wake up. My mom lives 2 miles down the road. She comes in early in the morning, wakes them up, makes them breakfast and drops them off to school.
Then she cooks something for dinner.
She picks the kids up from school and gives them a snack and waits for me to come home. I usually come home to steaming hot dinner on the table. This is just to name a few - the things that she does for me are countless.
All my friends are envious - they say I am a lazy spoiled brat - No - I am just very lucky. When we were buying a house my number one requirement was that it has to be near enough to mom and dad.
Today I am feeling exceptionally thankful. Today - Monday - always a crazy day at work - too many meetings, nothing getting done as fast as I want to - ended up staying late at work. Mom took the kids to her place so I stopped by there to pick them up. She had a big bag full of food packed for me - all still warm. She has bad arthritis and she recently had cataract surgery. It is hard for her to get around - especially when it gets cold. Whenever she calls me at work to ask what I want for dinner, I always tell her nothing - I just don't want her slaving over stove. I can always throws something quick together. But she says that she gets tired of sitting around and needs to do something.
Today after I picked up the food and kids, I came home and went for a two mile run. As I was running I kept thinking that I can do this only because my mom took care of the kids after school and made dinner for me - otherwise instead of running I will be worrying about dinner right now. After coming home I had the food that she packed for me and it tasted like the best thing I ever had. I felt so good - so content and suddenly my heart was overflowing with love and gratitude. In our family we don't say I love you too much. I mean I say it to my kids, but not to my parents because - I don't know - not part of our culture? Don't know. So if I were to call her right now to say how much I love and appreciate her she would think I am drunk or something. So I will just write here.
My dad is awesome too - but I will save that for another time.
I love my mom :)
Comments
xx lori
Tell your mom that many people are thinking wonderful things of her!
have a great day....
i only really appreciated my mom when i came to live in belgium.no one take a mothers place.
god bless :)
The fact that you appreciate it so much means you are lucky, not spoiled like your jealous friends say!
:)
Nice post!
I've been a SAHM mostly because I chose to get married and have children so young. So I didn't attend college or really have the option of even working much because my parents and hubby's parents couldn't help with babysitting.
My Mom died when I was only 30 and my Dad 4 years later. I miss them every day. They would have loved to see their Great-grandson. Well, they probably know him, just from another place I guess.
Wishing you many more good years with your parents.