The 30th of December was my birthday, and of course I was WAY to busy to write. (Read this as evidence of how blessed I really am with people who love me, because it is!) However, as we have the rest of the family's birthdays coming up, I thought I would start the new little tradition of "Growing Up Day" posts, featuring the birthday kid and a list of the top three things I have learned about them this year. Today, it will be all about me:)
Top Three Things I Have Come To Accept About Myself and My Life As A Mom This Year
3. My car will almost always look like some variation of this:
(I know that you are all, rightly, ready to chip in and get me a cleaning service, which by the way, is completely fine by me! However, come over to my house and I promise it is not really covered in filth as a whole…the kid-centric areas, however, I will not vouch for!)
2. Gel nails are the way to go! Mommies everywhere have to know about this! It is the only nail polish option that even remotely makes sense because it lasts more than hour after you have them done. My girls have done their worst, creating messes and the need to have my fingernails open tiny plastic things over and over and yet those gel nails hold on for at least a week or even more, without even a scratch or chip to show for it! So if you're into doing something so silly and vain and selfish as getting your nails done, (as I am:) give it the old college try. The kind-of try that remembers you're worth splurging on every now and again on something that just makes you feel like you, whatever that may be:)
1. When Abbie says, "Mommy, why is your butt so big?", as she did the day before my birthday, she needs me to answer with some variation of, "because that's how God made me!" and not with something like, "because Mommy isn't __________________", or "because Mommy is just too _______________". Know why? Because her next statement was, "when I grow up, I want to have a big butt like you!"
Top Three Things I Have Come To Accept About Myself and My Life As A Mom This Year
3. My car will almost always look like some variation of this:
(I know that you are all, rightly, ready to chip in and get me a cleaning service, which by the way, is completely fine by me! However, come over to my house and I promise it is not really covered in filth as a whole…the kid-centric areas, however, I will not vouch for!)
2. Gel nails are the way to go! Mommies everywhere have to know about this! It is the only nail polish option that even remotely makes sense because it lasts more than hour after you have them done. My girls have done their worst, creating messes and the need to have my fingernails open tiny plastic things over and over and yet those gel nails hold on for at least a week or even more, without even a scratch or chip to show for it! So if you're into doing something so silly and vain and selfish as getting your nails done, (as I am:) give it the old college try. The kind-of try that remembers you're worth splurging on every now and again on something that just makes you feel like you, whatever that may be:)
1. When Abbie says, "Mommy, why is your butt so big?", as she did the day before my birthday, she needs me to answer with some variation of, "because that's how God made me!" and not with something like, "because Mommy isn't __________________", or "because Mommy is just too _______________". Know why? Because her next statement was, "when I grow up, I want to have a big butt like you!"
So Happy Birthday Me!!!!
See, it's not so bad in the WHOLE house!
(And isn't that clever how I did that?! Just HAPPENED to put a picture up that is of my awesome birthday streamers, but that also just HAPPENS to show my house looking awesome;)
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