Last night I was pondering how wonderful it is to watch my children grow and to see them learn new things. During General Conference we were reminded to cherish the stage of life that you are in - little girls don't stay little girls forever. And it's so fun to spend time with little girls.
We spent most of yesterday cleaning the house and getting ready for my mom to come visit. While cleaning, Carmen and I had a conversation that went like this -
C - What color is Oma? (that's my mom)
A - She's the same color as you.
C - But some people are black...
A - You mean their skin?
C- Yeah, and all over, even on their hair!
A- Oh yeah, they are called African Americans.
C- Why?
A -That's the way Heavenly Father made them.
C- But where is He?
A- In heaven?
C- Where's that?
A- Sigh....and the conversation went on and on
David has been out of town this week, and Saturdays alone are the worst!!! So, we decided to go to the store to buy some ice cream and Carmen wanted watermelon. She fell asleep on the way to the store, so I laid her in the cart to sleep while I shopped. I didn't think it would work, but it did. And I didn't have anywhere to put my groceries. Aliza kept throwing everything out that I asked her to hold. Anyway, I ended up at the cashier with a cart full of JUNK, which I often do when David is out of town...shame on me! Carmen was asleep on top of my purse, it was her pillow. She was very upset when I woke her up trying to carefully get my wallet out from under her. She didn't cry, but screamed all the way home because she wanted pretzels!!! But she did just barely fall asleep as we turned the corner to our house. I made the loop around the block to make sure she was really asleep.
I guess over all the screming, I hadn't heard Aliza. When I go to get her out of the car, I found that she had thrown up all over the car!!!! (which we happened to clean out just this morning) So I got her out and cleaned off. Got the groceries out of the car. Got the car seat out of the car and got sleeping Carmen out of the car. Inside, I stripped Aliza down to her diaper and got her some juice. I started putting the groceries away and found that the ice cream was melting quite a bit. I quickly stuffed it in the freezer and went to putting the other things way. When I opened the freezer again, out came the melting ice cream and splattered all over the floor. I cleaned that up and went to take the car seat apart to throw the cover in the washing machine...as I'm struggling in the garage with the car seat Carmen woke up and decided to get the pretzels herself. I found the empty bag by the fridge and the rest of the pretzels spilled all over the couch.
It's so great being a mom! And hopefully when my mom gets here she will realize the house was clean, but only lasted a few hours!!!
5 comments:
Yes, oh yes. I do remember days like that! Hope your weekends goes better! :) You mom knows that you would have a clean house for her...she had 2 little ones - so she knows! :)
I know days like that. You just think--what else could go wrong? And something else does. Benson threw up the other day too. He stuck his fingers down his throat---and up came his food---all over my carpet. Hopefully he learned to never do that again. You're so good to think about how great it is to be a mom, even when days are hard.
I don't know if you were there, but the week of family reunion Gavin puked twice in the car on the way to various events. We always showed up just smelling lovely. Awwww... fun. Been there. done that.
I am so "THERE" with you. It seems that every day turns out to be this way in some form or another. Luckily there are cute times that makes these other bad times forgettable.
wow, what a day! so many messes everyday. Marie throws up a bit because she tries to stuff all the food in her mouth that we tell her to eat (or else!) and then she gags herself. yuck. and the days without a husband are so much harder! but you're doing great and your girls are so cute. as always, wish we could see you more!
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