A Day in my Life

Yesterday- I got up early to do my long Saturday run.  I wasn't feeling too hot thanks to Milo and Indy who had both been very sick with colds during the week.  After running for about half a mile I realized my long, peaceful, run wasn't going to happen.  My lungs were burning and I felt very out of breath... So I walked another mile and turned around and walked home.  I tried to enjoy the beautiful morning, the cool air, and the rushing river but I was too disappointed. Last weekend I had missed my long run too and I was feeling very much like a running loooo-ser...

I decided I was sick, and for me actually admitting I am sick is rare!  I can get sick but I usually pretend I am not and it just goes away.  Today I wanted to be sick!  I wanted to sleep!  I made sure someone was going to be there for my nursery babies on Sunday and I went into rest and relaxation mode. (With a short break to go to a matinee on Saturday to see Iron Man II- which was freakin' awesome!!)

This morning I just wanted to sleep in! I knew if I could just sleep in the gunk in my chest and sinuses would magically disappear! And, Jared let me... He made the kids breakfast and played with them while I was laying in bed not really sleeping but trying to anyway, which is almost as good! I laid in bed most of the morning reading, something I loved to do as a teenager, and now is only an occasional treat.  I got up to get a bowl of cereal and as I was carrying it upstairs to eat in bed when my foot slipped on a random item left on the stairs and I slipped and spilled the whole bowl of cereal UP the stairs! Jared even cleaned it up.. Since I was in a fit laughing/crying/coughing hysterics... So sad :0)

I eventually got up showered and put on some comfortable lounging type clothes... I made the kids lunch and cleaned it up, did some laundry, and made my bed...  Then Jared took the girls to the park while Milo was napping to fly his helicopter which I don't usually approve of as a Sunday activity, but whatever! I was going to take advantage of the peace and quiet!

So I read some more, and wrote in my journal and pondered stuff, like I usually do when I don't have kids to distract me from my thoughts... And I started thinking about something Mrs. Walton had said to me a couple weeks ago in the hallway at school... It was almost like I had been saving it to be enjoyed privately and contemplated because it was quite possibly one of the highest compliments I had ever been given.  I had said to her that I was sad that she wasn't going to be Libby's teacher next year but that I was so happy that she was having a baby! And she told me, "Thanks, now I will get to be like you!" 

  I pause now to really think what it meant, to have someone want to be like me...

I am always reading about moms that I would like be like, through blogging, and church, and my scores of friends and family that are fabulous mommies! And I know what it feels like to want to be another person because they do something I wish I could do to!  But to think, to KNOW, that I was someone that someone else wanted to be like...Wow!

I have a very charmed life so it's easy to be happy, and energetic when I am happily married with four beautiful, healthy children!  And it is fun to be me most of the time! (I am sooo  not bragging but it would be very ungrateful of me if I didn't admit it! :0)

But there are times when I get frustrated, upset and act in a way that no one would want to be like me if they saw! So I think I will try harder...

I will try harder to be that mom Mrs Walton thinks I am. All the time...

Which is a perfect thought to end on since I am about to try to bathe my four, happy, beautiful children and get them to bed ...