my mother's day...

this year brought my first mothers day with two kids. me. i have two kids. and i haven't killed or seriously injured either one of them yet, i guess that brings a cause for celebration, i'm actually doing okay at this whole mum thing! i have always wondered about these people who say that their kids are their whole life... i love my children and wouldn't give them up for anything in the world, but they are certainly not my whole life. i am a realistic mother (i think...) i love to look at them, spend time with them, be around them, cuddle them, play with them, read to them, sing to them, laugh with them... but i am many other things besides a mum. (i am a wife too and my husband deserves a lot of my time and attention too, after all without him i wouldn't have children would i?)  being a mum takes up more than my time than anything else though, so i am glad they give us mums a day to celebrate...

i got some lovely chocolates (lindt raspberries and cream - if you haven't tried them you need to... run, don't walk - they might sell out - to me - in the meantime!) new pyjamas, with babushkas on the pants - wayyyy cute, and a bunch of irises, my absolute favourite flowers and the only ones i really enjoy having in the house. they are so lovely, my husband knows well what ones i like. good boy.

and these two babes gave me kisses and cuddles all the day long... poor joseph doesn't have a choice, he is exclusively breastfed, so he is in my arms most of the day and i just kept smooching him, and for once maddie was very obliging. she made me a card in her nursery class at church and then got mad because i wanted to keep it. so funny. i love the way little minds think (most of the time...!) 

sometimes i get sick of hearing mummy mummy mummymummymummy all day long and sometimes i want to hide under the sheets for the day, but these little people are the light of my life and sometimes when i see them sleeping i have an overwhelming desire to wake them up for cuddles. then i remember what a dumb thing that would be to do and keep cleaning the house, or cooking, or blogging, or doing washing in the very short time i will have to myself. haha. i remember reading once online just before maddie was born, a short quote which said, "sleep when the baby sleeps? oh shall i cook and clean when he does too?" classic.

i am so grateful to them both for making me a mum and for just being mine. i know that there is no greater role in this life for a woman than motherhood and i wouldn't change it for a thing. sure i'd like to pee in peace every now and then, but i hear that they move out when they're 20 or so, so i'll just keep looking forward to the light at the end of the tunnel.

happy mothers day to all the crazy mums like me out there!!