I love being a Mom. I want that statement to be concrete in this message, I love being a Mom, but, as I was picking dog poop out of Josh's shoe yesterday I started to think; This job has a lot of "CRAP" Part's. I knew going in that there were going to be challenging moments to being a Mom, but I didn't realize I would dislike a few of them so much. Below is my current list of things that challenge me with being a Mom:
1. Picking Poop out of their shoes. I remember getting poop in my shoe once when I lived in California and instead of taking the time to pick the poop out I threw them away. Wow, how wasteful was that girl? But truly, I had thoughts of throwing these shoes away too. I don't even like to clean mud off shoes. It is messy, it never really seems to work and I don't feel like I have the proper skills to do the job well. There should be a class in college that helps you deal with the "crap" part of life that is going to happen. Maybe they did this in Home Economics, I did not take that class so I guess I am to blame.
2. Wiping anything. I am so sick of wiping butts, noses, faces and digging wax out of their ears. At the same time, I am not willing to let my 4.5 and 3 year old wipe their own derrieres as I have NO FAITH they will do it right. I understand there will come a time when they will do this on their own, and then my post will be "I hate having to deal with skid marks on my kids underwear".
3. Cleaning the toilet after my boys pee. I thought I made it clear that the pee pee goes IN the potty, however, you would NEVER know that was even brought up as there is so much pee around the seat, on the floor and even the wall.....they just go willy nilly wherever their little guy is pointing at the time. I am diligently working on this, and will follow my kids into the bathroom if they are ever at your house, but for now, Clorox wipes are on every grocery list and they are truly a saving grace.
4. Getting ANYTHING out of carpet/couches/fabric. Again, probably should have enrolled in that Home Ec class, but my gosh, I spend a lot of time trying to get stains out of things and I don't like it. In my youth, ie. a few years ago, I would give away outfits if they had stains on them. NOW I feel the pressure that if I can get the stain out, Josh could wear it next year, or in his case a few months from now, AND if I can get the stain out of the carpet or couch we won't have to have it professionally cleaned or replaced. THE PRESSURE OF THE STAIN REMOVAL IS TOO MUCH. SOMETIMES THE CRAP JUST DOESN'T COME OUT!!!!!
5. Waking up with kids. I do feel a little more compassionate about this one when my kids are actually sick. I get it. They need the love, support, help in the middle of the night WHEN THEY ARE SICK. What I REALLY don't like is when they are totally healthy and they just pop in my room to make sure I am still there or tell me they need a drink of the water that is sitting right next to their bed. I tried to do a tally once of the number of nights I actually slept through the night. In a month's time I averaged 3 nights per week of actually sleeping through the night. I stopped the tally because I started to get agitated and figured it was not helping anyone. Mommy needs her sleep, I keep reading that if you want to loose weight all you have to do is get 8 hours of sleep a night...to that study I say YEAH RIGHT!
The list is long and I could go on, however after thinking about a few of my additions I realized they were more pertinent to just "being a home owner" or being a "wife" . At the end of the day I feel very blessed and lucky, but if you take my blog griping away from me there will be blood. (that I won't want to clean up by the way).......
