Wednesday~October 21, 2009
For me, it looks just like this…
Just one thrilling load of laundry and bag of garbage at a time!
Or not.
Motherhood
For me,
it looks like this,
“GOOD JOB, HONEY!” (high-pitched and syrupy sweet)
Or not.
(he may look terrified, but he’s just really really excited)
Motherhood
.
.
.
Maybe it looks more like this…
Messy
Battles
Push
Pull
Mad
Kisses
Laughter
Sacrifice
Thankful
In love
Worry
Connection
Teaching
Guilt
Prayer
Giving
Peace
Joy
Fear
Me
Them
Us
Always
However it looks,
losing my cool or not,
looking my best or never,
feeling down or up,
messy house,
the good, the bad, the ugly,
the beautiful, the mundane, the milestones,
the grind, and all the clashing emotions…
Good.
~~~
This post is a part of Wordful Wednesdays at Seven Clown Circus.
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If you’re a mom, and you sometimes feel like
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amazing and wonderful and i get to be the FIRST to tell you that !!!!!
love the pictures!!!
It might not always be beautiful, but at least you have that SWEET apron! Seriously!! :)
Great post. :)
Love, love, love. It's such a hodge-podge, isn't it? Yet so, so good.
I can't stop giggling over that first picture!
Great post :)
You look homicidal in that first picture.
That homicidal thing totally cracked me up.
It is pretty dangerous for everyone around me…having me twirl and kick my leg up behind me like that (all while holding things) Just think what could happen. I mean, just today I tried to carry Asher, two big bags and a cup of popcorn. Then I remembered that I'm hobbling due to a broken toe so I started dropping everything (including my child, whose head hit the wall)
Yeah, I'm a total rock star.
Yes. Exactly. Amen. You're talking to me. (And I want your apron. And probably your sweater.)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sweet. :)
LOVE this post – oh so true!
Totally sweet! (I love your kitchen. Could you just put it in a box and send it my way? T'ank you!")
Great post. Every day full of details & glimpses at the big picture, no?
Lindsey
june cleaver had NUTHIN' on you! cute post heather.
LOVE this :)
i KNOW for a fact that you have more laundry than that.
cute pics and dead on description of the crazy thing that keeps us up at night (and up early in the morning)… motherhood.
Beautiful pictures. Perfect words. Love this place. =]
That last word? Along with the pictures? Sums it all up perfectly for me.
warm and fuzzy…love it
What a perfect motherhood post. I loved this. :)
So true, so true! Love it! Howdy from SITS!
This post just brightened my day. Brilliant!
this was wonderful and one of the best posts on Motherhood I have seen.
I'm so calling profile pic on that first picture, lol
Absolutely LOVED this. FantastiC!
Oh that first picture made my day. I juuuust love it! Your non-poems are the BEST!
Yes, motherhood looks a lot like that at my house, too. Although, I don't know if I've ever looked quite so happy while doing laundry. I love that picture, by the way!!
Love this.
You got it right on, Heather. And funny that you linked to that post (which I have read and I think you wrote just for me) on the same day I wrote my not living up post. When you stopped over this monring and I was still in my PJ's at 10:30 and toys covered the living room floor, the TV was on and Weston was eating cocoa puffs on the living room rug…I thought..she's never going to speak to me again….and then 10 minutes later you called…it it wasn't to tell me you thought I was crazy.
Thank you.
P.S. I will get that book back to you. I read some of it…but it does make me feel a little guilty..I just don't think I'm ready for it…yet.
I LOVE that first picture!!! so much!!! I don't even really know why; it just speaks to me.
Lovely post.
That pretty much sums it up! You look adorable in the June Clever apron! I will confess it took me a minute to realize the white 'fluff' was a garbage bag. I thought on first glance your were flashing some petticoat or something at your hubs indicating another part of Motherhood altogether- that of wife and the accompanying priveledges! LOL!
you are adorable. ;)
Well said! Motherhood…it isn't perfect but it is good.
That was hilarious! And wonderful. And true.
I need that apron. I'm pretty sure I could conquer the world (and maybe twirl and kick my leg behind me) if I had that apron.
You are adorable. And your honesty and grace with respect to your imperfections somehow makes you, well…perfect.
You are soooo Donna Reed and June Cleaver! Motherhood really is messy and pretty awesome all at once!
And we have a winner! Email me your address so I can send you my spice! polly@5thsister.com
Thanks Heather!
Oh my God I love the pictures!!! So funny. Especially the one with trash and laundry. That is me to a T.
I love the words you used to describe motherhood.
It's all so perfect.
Steph
OMG, I was JUST doing the laundry trash dance LAST NIGHT!!!!!!!! Of course, I had my high heels on too. Did you?
Motherhood to me sometimes feels like this:
should i
could i
will i
would i
maybe
i don't know
yes?
no?
huh?
You are adorable! Can't wait to see you tonight!
Ok…seriously…you need to be our friend. We LOVE what you write, I get excited to see a new post. Well, well done! Come over…Come on by for a visit. Holly at lifelaughlatte.blogspot.com
You're the poster child for Motherhood!
wonderful. just wonderful.
Motherhood looks good on ya!
Nell
Motherhood is really awesome, exhausting but awesome…
Oh, and if you get tired of that sweater just let me know :)
Love the pictures, love the words, love your blog!
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I love yours! Great pix showing what motherhood looks like in your home. :o)
Sweet, sweet…and so is that story that you and Miles wrote. I think I just might try that with MY four yr old.
Best motherhood post EVER!!! Great photos and you nailed the emotions and elements of motherhood PERFECTLY!!
Yep, that about sums it up in a perfect, awesome Heather of the EO nutshell. LOOOOOOVE it. : )
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