Moments

Being a mom/parent is really hard work and sometimes (today) I wonder why anybody would want to be a parent. A few weeks ago I watched a really horrible movie (so bad I won't admit to it), however, there was one really great part in it about being a parent. So the main guy just found out that his girlfriend was prego, he need to get away from it all and ended up at the playground(stupid place to go, I think). It was there that he met another dad and asked him what was so great about being a dad. He said, "Being a parent is like this, its bad, bad, bad, bad, bad and then there is one small moment when it is so wonderful, then it is bad again, bad, bad, bad, bad, then a small great, then bad......etc". How true is that!! The moments when my kids tell me that I made the best dinner that they have ever had in there WHOLE LIFE, or when they say a pray and thank Heavenly Father for their mommy, or when they take your face in their hands and with complete seriousness say " mommy I really like you!", or when they pick a weed and give it to you because mommies like flowers! Those moments make up for everything else, like when you have to put them in time out at 645am because they punched their brother in the face, or when you spend all week washing sheets because they have all been thrown up on at least twice. So those moments are really important. Now I was watching another show (it is no wonder my house is so messy-I should stop watching movies, huh?) about a mom who worked while the dad stayed home. They have one kid, who had a night mare and wanted to sleep in the parents bed. This, of course, turns out to be more then a one time thing. When the parents finally talk about how the dad doesn't like the kid sleeping the bed but the mom does...He says at night is the only time that I get to stop being a parent and just be me. The wife says, I work all day, I miss so much, at night with her in our bed is really the only time I get to be a parent. This of course made me think of all of those mom who work. They are missing all of those special moments that make being a parent worth it. They maybe getting they washing sheets part but not picking weed part. I am so thankful that I get to be a stay-home-and-enjoy-the-moments parent. I mean really how much longer am I going to make the best dinner they have ever had in their WHOLE LIFE!