I feel like I've been doing this stay at home mom gig for approximately forever. In reality, it's been about 4 years and 2 months- almost as long as my post college job at the newspaper.
I love everything there is to love about being a stay at home mom today. The sun is shining brilliantly, and the kids and I have had one of those magical days together where there is minimal fighting, tempers and anguish on all our parts'.
We're the three amigos, just as happy as can be.
We just got in from our after lunch walk. What a lovely time it was! We went around the front, back and side yards looking at all our usual items of interest- minty smelling leaves from the random peppermint plants we have growing, the mums, our scarecrow "Princess". We then ran up the hill into the side yard, the crunch of autumn leaves beneath our feet. It wasn't long before we were chasing each other with fistfuls of those leaves, and the rays of sunlight through the bare branches of the maple tree shone brightly on our jackets and smiles.
It was a great moment. I reveled in it and bookmarked it in my mind because I know that before long I won't have both of my kids around me, playing, at 1:30pm on a weekday afternoon.
They will be in school, and my full-time stay at home mom days will be over.
Today, I'm not ready for that time to come. Today, I love what I do.
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