It's practically a party!

I am so excited because I have gotten three other awesome, amazing, real moms to agree to post on this blog as well. All of our condensed bios will be posted so you can remember who is who as you follow along with our daily dramas. And by daily, I really don't mean that we will all be posting daily; that would be great, but...well, we all have kids! Kind of a catch-22, but there it is.

Its amazing to me how, in the course of a single day, I can experience every possible emotion. I suppose it could be that I am unstable, but I tend to think its just par for the course. Someone once said that you could truly only hate someone you had loved. Not that I ever hate my kids (dear God, that is miles from where I am going here so stick with me) but it stands to reason that the stronger your feelings for someone the bigger reaction they are able to provoke from you. Which would explain why I can experience intense love, joy, frustration, sadness, humor, worry, delight and about 20 other emotions in the span of an hour. I can't count the number of times I have been ready to scream only to have the little perpetrator do something adorable and reduce me to a puddle of love.

Today I have been sick. And ordinarily I would be ranting about how unfair it is that moms don't get any sick days (I'm sure there will be a future post dedicated to that) but Sassy was so unbelievably enchanting all day that everything else just seemed to fade into the background. And then towards the end of the day when everyone was getting crankier, I was really starting to lose my cool. But when I realized that Sassy had started running a fever, everything else went away. My fatigue and pains became unimportant in the face of my daughter's possible illness. I'm sure she is just teething (why does that take so very long???) but since toddlers don't tend to be very articulate its hard to be sure how she feels.

Now that she is snuggled up in her bed and Handsome is in the care of Husband, I am starting to feel icky again. Another mom truth: the full extent of our wounds can not be felt and acknowledged until everyone else is taken care of.

Keep visiting and get to know my fellow Mamas!

Cheers,
Mama T