Jot it Down Tuesdays/When I Grow Up

First, let me just say that the blog button has been  fixed (I think). Someone tried to put it on their blog, and it didn't work. My trusty computer tech, Skyler, looked into it. The only thing that he could figure out was that something went awry when Blogger did their last updates. I believe he re-loaded the picture, and that seemed to work. Please feel free to let us know otherwise. Thanks. :)

Now, on to today's post (better late than never, right?). If you are not familiar with Jot it Down Tuesdays, here is the link to last week's: http://flattiredhomeschool.blogspot.com/2011/10/jot-it-down-tuesday.html

If you would like to participate, please link up your post with Just Write, at the EO: http://extraordinary-ordinary.net/

When I Grow Up

Have you ever wanted to tell someone that it's okay to just be a mom? That changing diapers, cleaning messes, potty training, and preparing 25 meals a day has lasting value? 

Have you ever wanted to tell yourself that? To believe it? 

All my life I wanted nothing more than to be a mom. While my friends would talk about what they wanted to be when they grew up, I would chime in some acceptable answers. But really...

...I just wanted to be a mom.

There is nothing that I would trade in all of this world for Tate's giggles at story time tonight. Or how proud I am to have Skyler, who can fix things that make absolutely no sense to me. Or to see Blayne pick up his light saber and battle it out, carefully, with those younger than him.

Just watching them learn, and play, and read, and tinker.

This, to me, is the education that I want, that I have, and that I hope to master. Rest assured, I will continue to make mistakes,

...but it's the best job for me.

I believe it.

(No paycheck required.)

Cheering you on & checking the fuel gauge,
Layla