Being a mom is by the far the toughest job. Many things have been written about how hard motherhood is and an equal amount has probably been written on how much moms love being moms. I am raising my hand to be counted.
Taelin has always been a funny kid when it has come to turning a year older. Every year, sometimes on her actually birthday, she makes some kind of declaration about what is going to be different now that she is turning a year older. It started when she was 3 and she decided that she wasn’t going to wait for me to get out of bed but that she could just get up when she wanted to. We didn’t have any kind of rule about that, waiting in bed, but before that she would always call “Mama…Mama…” until I got myself out of bed and went to her room. The change at 3 ended up resulting in a few terrifying instances of waking up by being poked in the eye or with her lurking over my face but she had decided and made it so. Continue Reading