Have I mentioned lately how much I LOVE being a mom? The fact that my name officially went from "Jessica" to "Momma" doesn't phase me in the least bit. The fact that I went from spending my weekends hanging out with friends and drinking to jumping on the trampoline, making letters out of jello and taking my children to Sunday school never crosses my mind. I wash and fold a BAGILLION pink outfits every day and the only reason I'm awake at 3 a.m. now a days is to breastfeed. I spend all day every day speaking in three year old language and no, that's not a funky perfume you're smelling, that's the spit up that I'm constantly covered in ;) It may not seem glamorous to many women, but to me it is FABULOUS. My very wise mother (who raised five children) said something the other day that has really stuck with me. She said, "If I'd known how much free time I would have (after all the kids were grown), I wouldn't have minded being stuck at home for so many years." Our "babies" are only babies for a very short amount of time and then POOF!! They're gone. Once they start kindergarten, they're on to middle school and before you know it they're graduating from college and getting married. Yes, it gets stressful at times and some nights I feel like drinking an entire bottle of wine...but when my grandmother passed away recently I realized that when you die, all you leave behind is your legacy. She passed on to my mother the legacy of love and treasuring your family. And in turn my mother has passed that on to her daughters. Now, I am trying to live up to that and teach my daughters the legacy that was started with my grandmother's mother many years ago.
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