feeling blah, but thankful.

Today has been a bad day. For me, personally. I've been sick with a horrid head cold since Sunday and all I want to do is get away for a few minutes to sleep. But then who watches the kids? Yeah. The life of a Mom, I guess. 
I remember when Ethan was a newborn and I got the stomach flu - I think he was 6 or 7 weeks old. Waking up that morning, throwing my guts up, but needing to nurse and care for my baby was the first day, in my life I realized how much I truly appreciated my Mom. It didn't hit me until that point. Suddenly, her many years of being a self sacrificing Mom, with little time for herself, came slapping me right in the face. 
But today my ears are killing me, my head is pounding {seems I've worked up an immunity to Advil} and my body aches in every place possible. The kids have been fine. Great, actually. At one point Ethan came to me in the kitchen and said "you don't feel good, do you mommy?" and when I told him I felt horrible he said, "well, you're still a pretty amazing Mom anyway" and gave me the world's biggest, best hug. 


Sigh. 


I hate being grouchy. It doesn't settle well with my overall personality at all. But I am. Terribly grouchy. I told the kids they could watch a movie {in the middle of the day!}, they picked Toy Story, I'm going to get Kara out of my bathroom cupboard, where she's having a grand time playing with sanitary pads. I love that girl, but she puts my brain and body in overdrive sometimes. Then I'm taking a nice warm shower and as soon as Jason gets home from work I'll drag my sick body out to the stores to find a dress to wear to his sister's wedding this week. 
Thats' right - in the midst of all this, we're flying to CA on Thursday. Ahhhhh, life. 


So this post is for all of you Mommies out there. We have one of the world's hardest jobs, but its the best job. I think I needed that reminder today, so I figured a blog post from me on the topic would do the trick :) 


Have a great day, ladies.