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retty lame excuse but not anymore now i get it i understand years ago i forgave you fully completely and have since then learned to love you though t s always difficult picking out a mothers day card for you because nearly every card i read at the hallmark store i have to put it down because the words in the card are not the truth i lived recently i ve been coming to realize how much of what i do as a mother came from your influence and example i just wanted to share these things with you on mother s day to thank you for the good that you did do because of you i am a runner i remember seeing you many times as i drove the bus home from school through my window i d spot you jogging along our old country road wearing your canary colored polyester warm up with thin black stripes down the sides of the arms and legs because of you i read to my children when i was little i laid on your bed at naptime as you red me stories like yurtle the turtle the pickle chiffon pie and petunia the silly goose as i got older you read books aloud as i sat behind you playing with your hair the hobbit amy s eyes and tennis shoes among the nephites were among my favorites because of you i cook healthy meals for my family each morning at breakfast there was hot food on our plate eggs and oatmeal were not my favorite but they are now my lunch consisted of a whole wheat sandwich an apple and a quarter for milk you never gave me fruit roll ups potato chips or pudding cups just the basics my body needed for a foundation of good health each night you cooked our meals from scratch and made sure we had a meat grain and vegetable on our plate with a large glass of milk to wash it down because of you i read daily from the scriptures one of my earliest memories of the scriptures was seeing you read from the pages of your old worn copy the black leather was weathered the pages were soft from being turned as you read intently reverently and frequently because of you i volunteer at my kids school i was always so proud when you would come to volunteer in my class in elementary school many of the kids would tell me how pretty my mom was and it made me proud having you there made me feel popular among my friends one time a kid was teasing me and another kid intervened and told them to leave me alone because i had a cool mom because of you my children take piano lessons we always had a piano in our home even though you couldn t afford to pay for lessons i learned by hearing you play that when i became a mother my children would take lessons and learn to play because of you i decorate my home you sewed curtains painted walls stuffed pillows and hung flower boxes with red geraniums from the outside windows of our old farm home on a limited budget you decorated our house and turned it into a home because of you i manage the money in our home how many times did i see you upstairs at that desk punching numbers into that silly adding machine amidst frequent groans as you balanced the checkbook when i m at my computer paying my bills online i remember you and smile because of you i am grateful for my dishwasher and dryer countless times i saw you hanging clothes on the clothesline outside and upstairs in the hallway along the bannister rail for years you washed dishes by hand in that old farmhouse sink cooped up in a tiny kitchen away from the rest of the house every load of laundry i throw in the dryer and every dish i place in the dishwasher i am grateful when i remember you because of you i am a mother you never earned a college degree or held a full time job whenever someone asked what you did you never hung your head but responded graciously i m a mother and now i do too posted by these small hours at 3 44 pm no comments what do you want to be when you grow up i had just spent the day in joseph s 2nd grade class helping to sort through hand drawn self portraits of what they want to be when they grow up they were adorable as i flipped through each one i couldn t help but smile at the diversity in each child s dream i ve known many of these kids for years and so it was fun to see them imagining themselves in future careers that seemed incredibly fitting even at this young age another observation i noted was that none of the little girls had said that they wanted to be a mother i found this very interesting and frankly a little sad it made me reflect upon our modern world realizing that being a mother and homemaker is truly becoming a lost art many people today don t view motherhood as an acceptable occupation simply because there is no monetary gain that same day lauren walked into the room with her toy phone wanting to have a pretend conversation pretend i m at college mama okay i said after a few exchanges back and forth i began to wonder about what she dreamed of being when she grew up given her girly nature i could imagine her saying that she wanted to do hair she loves using her pretend flat iron and hair dryer on anyone who will sit for her long enough so i asked her what do you want to be when you grow up lauren her reply came after a big sigh apparently i should have known the answer but i d never asked her before i want to be a mommy she said wrapping her little arms around my neck in a backwards hug her answer warmed my heart and reminded of a favorite poem that i heard years ago and although my little ones faces aren t quite so pudgy or smudgy anymore and they fight and bicker all the time i still would rather be a mother than anyone or anything on earth i d rather be a mother than anyone on earth bringing up a child or two of unpretentious birth i d rather tuck a little child all safe and sound in bed than twine a chain of diamonds about my carefree head i d rather wash a smudgy face with round bright baby eyes than paint the pageantry of fame or walk among the wise meredith gray posted by these small hours at 2 29 pm no comments wednesday september 18 2013 public display of affection something i don t want to forget saturday i dropped off jacob and joseph to their soccer game early so i could take lauren to her game which was scheduled at the same time just before pulling out of the parking lot i rolled my window down and yelled to them standing next to their team bye boys good luck on your game jacob yelled back first bye mom followed by joseph bye mom i love you mom i wondered for a minute if he had accidentally said i love you since he was standing next to a bunch of his friends my heart swelled anyway later that evening i brought it up when we were home joseph did you mean to say i love you mom in front of all your friends this afternoon or did it just slip out i hope they didn t tease you about it after i left amused they both smiled and said why would i should he be embarrassed about that you re our mom and we do love you i feel so grateful that the boys still tell me they love me every day hug me in public and aren t too cool to publicly display their affection i hope it will always be this way posted by these small hours at 5 32 am 1 comment sunday february 12 2012 fight or flight s ometimes jacob likes to pretend he s asleep and then scare us when we come to check on him just before we go to bed he s a night owl and often won t fall asleep until we do late last night i was taking our babysitter home when aaron had a great idea to get him back jacob had gone downstairs to use the bathroom so aaron quietly slipped into his bed and waited in the dark for him to return with the intent to scare him when jacob came back to his room he closed the door making it pitch black then proceeded to climb into his bed at that moment aaron jumped out from under the covers and growled a fearsome raarr jacob gasped then immediately started yelling and punching him as hard as he could after a few moments he realized it was aaron and sunk into his arms crying so i know it s really bad but i when aaron was retelling the story to me later that night we both had a heck of a laugh aside from scaring him to death we also learned some important lessons about jacob lesson 1 find other ways during the daytime to scare him because we probably scarred him for life i don t think he ll ever climb into his bed again without first checking to see if anyone is in it lesson 2 if there really is such a thing as the fight or flight instinct i know which one jacob has it kind of makes me proud that he didn t scream and run off he makes me so proud to be his mother my little man in the making posted by these small hours at 9 14 pm no comments thursday february 9 2012 taco time w hen the kids are cold i like roll them up in a warm blanket them carry them over to the couch to get cozy i frequently hear them say mama can your roll me up like a taco posted by these small hours at 4 05 am no comments wednesday february 8 2012 things lauren does that make me smile pose like this when i let her know i m going to take her picture i was trying out our new camera and wanted to test the lighting in this shot she was happy to oblige how she pronounces remember it sounds like b member mama b member when i was a little girl when i was 4 something she started saying only days after turning 5 the little songs she makes up when she is playing or doing things around the house then how she gets embarrassed then mad when you tell her you like her song the way she hops up and down with delight every time she gets excited she does this for a lot of things but i especially love it when she does this after seeing me put on something pretty especially if it s a new outfit it s how i know that i look really nice that she comes into our bed in the middle of the night at least 3 to 4 nights a week and always come over to her daddy s side of the bed one morning i asked her why she never came over to my side and she replied because daddy is always so nice and warm the sassy way that she talks back to her brothers and refuses to be bossed around the way she decorates her room with bouquets of artificial flowers purchased from the dollar store how quickly she can trash her room but at the same time how well she plays with her toys independently the grumpy face she makes when she doesn t like something someone has said or done posted by these small hours at 8 18 pm 2 comments teamates t he best part of saturdays soccer game was not the goals jacob scored it was when he actually passed the ball to his younger brother and then joseph passed it back oh and when joseph roughed up that dirty player on the other team who was twice his size that was pretty cool too he s feisty like his mama posted by these small hours at 8 07 pm 1 comment older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me these small hours i m a happily married mother of 4 doing my best to savor and survive these years of motherhood tending these young bright minds and helping them to grow and become all that they can be does not come without many moments of learning growing happiness and tears that is why i decided to start this blog it is my way of preserving some of these memories that may otherwise be forgotten in the day to day small hours of my life view my complete profile our seedlings jacob 10 rule follower confident leader strong hardwokring emotionally sensative intelligent thinker joseph 8 thoughtful affectionate boisterous quirky timid kind hearted observant imaginative deeply spiritual benjamin 7 quiet and reflective boldly assertive daring nature affectionate hugger gift giver critical thinker no nonsense little man lauren 5 little helper fairytale dreamer feminine nature story lover emotionally dramatic affectionate fiesty passionate imaginative blogs i follow mary thorley family circus 7 years ago tina we are family 9 years ago maggie mag gab 10 years ago the fire dawg blog 10 years ago courtney the browny bunch 12 years ago ari anna ryan johnson 12 years ago tiffany andrew the andrew family 13 years ago t n t family adventures 13 years ago shelleena everything endurance 13 years 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i asked joseph this morning if he would like a piece of fudge in his lunch he said i probably better not mom i m trying to get all greens in class behavior chart and sugar makes me hyper i m afraid i might do something crazy 12 11 jacob s response to my comment that we can t force daddy to eat his eggs for breakfast you could force him you re his wife 10 11 ben was waiting for me to put on a new dvd that i promised the boys they would like they were suspicious of the cover it had a man and a woman on the front okay mom we ll try it but if they kiss we are out of here 7 11 jacob s review after watching the wizard of oz for the first time too much singing and dancing around i wish they d just go where they re supposed to go already and quit singing and dancing about it 10 11 lauren was supposed to be cleaning her room but came downstairs to ask me if i would help her i told her that i thought she could do it on her own she started crying and said in an exasperated way but mommy jesus wants us to help people so you have to help me 4 11 joseph was sitting at the bar in the kitchen while i was wiping off the counters when i finished i threw the wet dishcloth across the room to land in the sink while it was mid air he yelled out fore 2 11 ben was watching the movie secretariat about a horse race during one of the opening scenes the heroine in the film was verbally putting her husband and brother in their place ben was watching this with great interest and finally blurted aloud she s like the grownup of the world 2 11 lauren and i were walking up the hill to visit our neighbor along the way we decided to pick some wild flowers and bring her a bouquet after we had some of each color she excitedly ran to a cluster of old dandelions that had gone to seed here mama let s pick her a wush flower i love her little names for things lauren pronounces wish wush it s so cute 8 24 10 ben and the boys were having ice cream one night after aaron served them up he left some out for himself and then l...