Our daughter writes a ?blog?. She started it about a year ago, after the birth of her daughter and our first grandchild. The whole process is a mystery to me, but I love her writing. This (daughter) was the girl that always looked sharp, never messy or dirty even while skydiving, scuba diving, rappelling down the cliff or hang-gliding. (Now you know why I have gray hair). This is a new entry she called the ?Circle of Life-Motherhood Edition?. I think she got it just right, and with Mother?s day approaching, it seemed appropriate to share.
Circle of Life - Motherhood Edition
I went to Walgreen's today. Ellie has a cold and I wanted to stock up on baby Tylenol before we head to my parents' tomorrow. (They didn't have dye-free! I was so mad because dye-free is the greatest development in children's medicine since who knows when.) Since I was there, I thought I would get my mom a Mother's Day card. (My parents live in the mountains so you can't get things like cards an baby Tylenol up there.) I start looking through the cards and there were several cards that looked promising. Most of them turned out to be too sappy or annoying so I kept looking until I found a simple on that I liked. As I was looking at the different cards, I was feeling a bit sappy myself. My mom and I have definitely come closer this year since Ellie was born. Actually, given what I know of motherhood now, it's probably just me that's come closer - I think she was always close. Anyway, I was thinking about how much fun it has been to get to know my mom in this totally new way when Ellie broke into my thoughts with a sneeze. I take a quick look at her nose and I see snot running. Unfortunately, it wasn't clear runny snot, but the gross yellowish stuff. Did I have a kleenex? Of course not - all that was back in the car because I was just running in. So, after a quick mental inventory of my purse contents, I wiped her nose on my shirt and then sort of covered the now-gross part of my shirt with my arm. I *hate* being messy and snot on my shirt is pretty high up there on my list of gross possibilities. But with Ellie, I don't care. Not even a little bit. That's not the sort of thing they put on Mother's Day cards but it should be.
Circle of Life - Motherhood Edition
I went to Walgreen's today. Ellie has a cold and I wanted to stock up on baby Tylenol before we head to my parents' tomorrow. (They didn't have dye-free! I was so mad because dye-free is the greatest development in children's medicine since who knows when.) Since I was there, I thought I would get my mom a Mother's Day card. (My parents live in the mountains so you can't get things like cards an baby Tylenol up there.) I start looking through the cards and there were several cards that looked promising. Most of them turned out to be too sappy or annoying so I kept looking until I found a simple on that I liked. As I was looking at the different cards, I was feeling a bit sappy myself. My mom and I have definitely come closer this year since Ellie was born. Actually, given what I know of motherhood now, it's probably just me that's come closer - I think she was always close. Anyway, I was thinking about how much fun it has been to get to know my mom in this totally new way when Ellie broke into my thoughts with a sneeze. I take a quick look at her nose and I see snot running. Unfortunately, it wasn't clear runny snot, but the gross yellowish stuff. Did I have a kleenex? Of course not - all that was back in the car because I was just running in. So, after a quick mental inventory of my purse contents, I wiped her nose on my shirt and then sort of covered the now-gross part of my shirt with my arm. I *hate* being messy and snot on my shirt is pretty high up there on my list of gross possibilities. But with Ellie, I don't care. Not even a little bit. That's not the sort of thing they put on Mother's Day cards but it should be.
Marguerite
