The joys of parenting

The joys of parenthood (I say that only half sarcastically because sometimes it actually is a joy). I love my kids, and would do anything for them, but parenting is hard. The good outweighs the bad, but it seems like bad days happen in 3's. I truly believe that saying that babies are cute because otherwise they would get eaten by their parents. 

Parenting is full of awesome moments, like the one pictured above. Those moments are great, those are the first hug kind of moments. They are the rocking your newborn sleeping baby in the morning with a cup of coffee. It's your kids cuddling in the bed together. It's your baby's first steps, or first words, or first crawl. It's that first "I love you Mommy". Parenthood is full of these awesome moments that will make you proud and fill you with overflowing joy. They are awesome and wonderful and they are what being a parent is all about.

These are the moments that make your life worth living. They are what every parents hopes for and more. Without these moments, no one would want to parents, because without them parenting is just the never ending tasks of wiping butts, cleaning up vomit, and being a referee to fights. Without them parenting would be all the bad and none of the good. Luckily these moments do exist, and these moments are better than anything else in the world. 

They make all the other stuff that goes along with being a parent worthwhile.

Those awesome moments are spaced out between these kind of moments. Moments of your child screaming because you dared to snap a photo of them. These are moments that happen multiple times a day, and just when you have had enough and you are ready to throw in the towel, one of those awesome moments will happen, and you will forget all about the bad moment. Your toddler may bounce up and down on the baby's head one minute and then give a slobbery kiss 5 minutes later (yes, I am speaking from experience on that one, it happened in this house). There will be the moments of the baby peeing all over your new clean outfit 5 minutes before you need to leave for work. You will be told by your toddler that you are the meanest mommy in the world because you told her she couldn't have candy for dinner. Your kids will fight over one specific pony, even though there are 3 others right next to them, because they both NEED that one specific pony. 

You will catch them shoving their heads in the toilet because "they wanted to take a shower". You will get screamed at for not letting them play with your iphone. There will tantrums in the grocery store because all the car carts are taken. You will break up about a million fights between children. These moments suck, they usually happen in 3's, when you are exhausted and you will think you are about to lose your mind, and then right in that moment, something great will  happen. That's when your 2 year old son will come up to you in his sister's tutu and do the duck face just to make you laugh. It will make you laugh, and it will take away all that exhaustion and frustration. Those are the moments to look forward to and to live for.

I hope everyone's day is filled with the awesome moments.