My kids are the best!

I have spent the last few days going on "daycations" with my kids.  There is nothing quite like some family time together to bond...in between sibling spats.  I know that as the kids get older and have their own lives, these moments will become few and far between.

In the process of going on these little day trips, I have made a startling discovery! Amidst all the worrying I do about them and all the stuff that we always get stuck in the middle of  to make life work, I sometimes forget this very important fact that I have realized anew....my kids are the best!!  They really are!! I am not saying that your kids aren't ok too...I applaud all the things that they have done and that we share with each other.  I am sure your kids who are at the top of their class, at the top of their sport, the lead in the play, the band, the orchestra are really wonderful people...but I am sorry to tell you....that my kids are the best!!

I have laughed with them and joked with them and explored with them and suffered sunburn with them and driven in torrential downpours with zero visibility with them these past few days....and I have stopped every once in a while to freeze moments in time...to listen to what they say and what they like and who they are....to listen to them laugh with each other...and sometimes fight. I often look at them..... and as they are talking and going through the act of being themselves....time stands still...I look past the moment and what is being said. I look past all the struggles and I see who they are deep down at their core.

They make me so very proud and for so many reasons that I am not able to adequately express to you...you are just going to have to take my word for it....my kids are the best!! They are all truly wonders and I can't even believe that I was blessed enough to get to be their mom!

"Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all."

~ Maggie Gallagher