Chipper with children thread...

[crazymomof4]

My kids are my life! I cannot imagine living without any one of them.
I measure time by my kids. For example: If I want to know when such & such happened, I'll say, "Well, I was 2 months pregnant with ---, so it must have been the summer of 1996" or "DS was in kindergarten, so it was 1994." We have friends who were married a month before us in 5/85. They decided not to have children and we've had 4. I was speaking to my DH about how our lives are so different than these friends. How, for us, during the past 18 years (since I got preg. w/ DS #1) not one year has been anything like the next. One child was born, pregnant with the next, one learns to walk, talk, ride a bike, another is born, one starts school, etc, etc.. Our children have made life colorful, exciting, immensly richer and fuller. We were married for 4 years before our firstborn came, and to be honest, there is not much that stands out in my memory about those years. Yet, I vividly remember each year since. I cannot imagine looking back on my married life of 21 years and having them all run together like the first 4 seem to.

Last week my DD6 said, "I love you so so much Mommy that when I hug you I have to squeeze you very, very tight, because I love you so much!" That's the stuff that makes life worth living for me and I've been blessed to have hundreds, maybe thousands of moments like that!

A Mother’s Love

Before you were conceived,
I wanted you.
Before you were born,
I loved you.
Before you were here an hour,
I would die for you.

This is the miracle Of love

 

[tiff211]

As Austin Power said to Mini-Me " You complete me". I feel whole because of the family Dh and I have created. But to play devil's advocate, I think it's one of those things you don't know what you are missing if you don't have it. DD (who will be 1 on Friday) was a surprise. I had said I was done having kids and went thru slight depression when I found out she was coming. Now, when looks at me with those huge expressive eyes and says "mmmmmmmama" I completely melt and don't know how I called my life complete before she came.

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

So, anyway I'm off today as I work Tues-Sat. We always try to do something fun with my son on Mondays. We decide to go to the Rainforest Cafe today, more for the big fish tanks than the food. He can't get enough fish in his life.

My wife and I have a bit of a disagreement, and there's some tension in the front seat. I'm not at all afraid to say I was right. Partially because I was, but mostly because she doesn't read these boards. Then in the back seat we hear my son singing along with Stitch to Aloha Oe pretty loud and suddenly we're both smiling and holding hands for the rest of the drive.

 

[mickeyboat]

Life would stink if I didn't have a good excuse to eat macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets, to go to animated movies, to ready bedtime stories and to go to bed at 8 every night.

Besides that, I can't imagine life without having felt them move inside me, having watched them take their first breaths, take their first steps and say their first words. I can't imagine life without the perspective I have gained from being a parent - the world looks a whole lot different (both scary and wonderful) to me now. I can't imagine a life never experiencing the overwhelming love a person can feel for another human being.

Not, I'm not saying there aren't bad days....

Denae