Got Nothin'

Normally I'm running at the mouth...filled with inspirational wisdom, thought provoking prose, and eloquent verbiage...however today and yesterday and most likely tomorrow, I've got nothing. I think my brain is officially dead now. It's way too hot here in this desert. I know you must be disheartened, coming here for your daily dose of the metromom...well sorry.

So, I leave you with this question- if you could make any one of your worst pet peeves illegal, which would it be and why?

The Outfit Wars

Just about everyday I'll be out and about with the kiddos in tow, and I'll see one of those...you know...mom's. You know the kind...the ones driving the minivans. Their doors magically open and out pop three blond haired children of perfection. Their clothes, color coordinated, their hair coifed sleekly, complete with matching bows and walking hand in hand across the parking lot into the supermarket. I wonder what it would be like to have a little girl who let me dress her. The Girl has been picking out outfits since she was barely two. And she has an opinion about everything. She knows what shoes she wants to wear, and it's a fight most days for me to have any say so. I've tried the, here's three outfits, you chose one....this almost always turns into a full on scrap...she doesn't like my choices. It doesn't matter that its an outfit she loved three days ago...today she does NOT want to wear it. It does NOT match. It is NOT beautiful. So we've come to a quasi-agreement- some days she picks, some days I pick. Yesterday, she picked. Inspired by Eloise she selected an ensemble that got many looks...and it wasn't because people thought I was the soccer mom of the month...Some day her spunkiness is going to make a successful woman...(hopefully a bit better dressed than this:)

How can you love someone who leaves the seat up?

Warning: There may be sappiness ahead...Quick, run, get out now while you still can!

There are moments when I ask myself this question. How can ONE person make me so mad? How can ONE person know exactly the right buttons to push, and single handedly send me over the edge? How can someONE be all of those things and then bring home flowers unexpectedly (TWICE in one month???), or take the kids out to give me a break, or give an unsolicited hug (the BEST kind, by the way), or make me laugh so hard? This is the mystery of relationships.

The other day I overheard him telling The Girl, "You know some day when you get married, you should marry your very best friend. Did you know me and your mommy are best friends?"

To which she replied, "I'm not going to be married, I DO want my own kitchen and bathroom, just like mommy, but I don't want to get married, I don't want to say the words."

To which he replied, "Do you want me to build you a kitchen in your room?"

"Yeah!"
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I wanted to tell her, saying the words is scary, constantly putting the toilet seat down is annoying, but having a kitchen and bathroom is definitely not the highlight of marriage. Building a family, building a life with someone is tough work, sometimes it's dirty, sometimes its frustrating, but there's nothing like it. There's nothing more amazing that knowing someones faults, them knowing yours...and still finding love there...deeper and richer than you ever thought. I know, I know its easy to get jaded, to be cynical about marriage, because its so hard and so maddening at times...but when we get jaded and cynical we miss the moments, the things that make it all worthwhile.