Motherhood

I giggle a little to myself, as I reminisce. It wasn't long ago, that my little Miss Adi came to me saying she was "freezing". When I leave for work in the mornings, I turn off our heater to save on cost. Mind you, by this time it was easily 7:00pm and I was in the middle of preparing us dinner. As I mentioned, my little squish was ever so dramatically explaining to me how cold she was, as her tiny cute person curled into a ball on the couch with a blanket. Of course, I hurried upstairs to turn it on. In my busy and frenzied state of being a mom with an ever-ending 900 things to do, I'd forgotten to turn it back on when we had arrived home. Apologizing and tackling her in a silly and loving embrace, I explained why it was cold in the house.

After I had explained, she looked at me quite incredulously as any 7 year old would. Note, that I've been teaching her the things I'm responsible in paying for as an adult, because as a single mother, while blessed with an amazing job, it can still be hard at times to make ends meet.

"You pay to keep us warm?!" she said dumbfounded. Insert a facepalm here, LOL. "Yes, dork", I responded as I shook my head and laughed.

I'm sure most of you, as I do, remember as a kid, how so eager we were to become adults. My independant Adilyn is already bringing it up. Knowingly, our parents would reassure us, just how important it was to enjoy being a child for as long as we could. You know, because of "bills".

Excuse my French but, "Holy Shit". I sure I wish I had listened. Being a grown up, kind of sucks sometimes.

Needless to say, if anyone invents a time machine...I'm going back to remind my childhood self, to keep making those mud pies by the walnut tree out in our backyard that we had in Oklahoma. It looks like my struggle to live in the present has followed me in my now old age ;)

I guess my point of sharing this story, is to remember to slow down. Trust me, I'm telling myself at the same time. Even if your list of things to do that is a mile long, include your little ones. Yes, I mean to include them even if it's helping you wash the dishes. Not only are you teaching them valuable responsibility traits they'll need when they're older, but you're also helping remind them that there's some serious benefit to being okay with still making couch forts in the living room.