a good mom day

Jun 03

Posted by: Scott in: blog, caleb isaiah, just another day in paradise, me myself and i, memories, parenting, ramblings

Are you like me? You call it a good mommy day when, even if you haven’t gotten that much done, you can’t remember feeling like you might lose. In my book, with a high energy demanding toddler, if I’m not contemplating pulling my hair out, it has been a pretty okay day. We got a fair amount of cleaning done yesterday, so today was just a lazy day. After I got home from the dentist we finished watching Monster Jam because we record it daily. Yes you read that right. Some kids like morning cartoons. We like morning monster trucks. Anyway, after that we headed out to the library. I was a little surprised at the turn out for story time. We are in a pretty small town but there were probably 20-25 kids there! We turned in last week’s books and checked out several more. When we came home, we had a half hour before lunch so we set our things inside and went back out to play. This morning was gorgeous. Warm but not too warm with a nice breeze. After lunch is naptime here. By late afternoon it had turned ominous outside even though we got very little rain out of it. We worked several puzzles and read some of our new books before dinner.

I asked Caleb if he wanted a hot dog for dinner. Of course he said no. Like he does to most things that aren’t a chicken nugget or a PB&J. I decided I would just fix it anyway. I cut it into several pieces and arranged them as two eyes and a huge smiley face and put a pile of ketchup in the middle for a nose. I was pleasantly surprised to see him giggling instead of complaining and he ate most of it! I feel like that mom on the Pediasure commercials with the little girl in the cart… Broccoli. I don’t think I like broccoli. When she puts the Pediasure in all is quiet. The mom then says okay…waffles. I don’t think I like waffles. Yep that’s me.

We read several more books to wind down before bed. So it has been a nice quiet day. Mostly sans TV. My mind has been wandering in and out of the homeschooling subject lately. That’s about all I have time to do right now. I feel like I’ve known my decision all along. It is just too scary to think about. It is like walking around a cold swimming pool where you can’t see the bottom. I’m afraid to jump in. Luckily my state really requires nothing until he’s seven so I have some time to think. Of course I would want to get started before then but still…we’ll see.

Comments

2 Responses to “a good mom day”

    Val @ Stinky
    June 4th, 2008 12:38 pm

    You’ll figure it out……

    It’s definitely nice when a day goes by smoothly….it has to happen every once in a while or no one would be parents!

    Julie
    June 4th, 2008 10:01 pm

    I love good mom days. And I know how you feel about the homeschool. We’re “practicing” over the summer to see if it will work for us instead of doing summer school. If it works, we’re homeschooling. I’m excited…and scared!

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