Magical mixed in with the mundane

Do the stay at home moms out there ever get tired of the mundane, day to day, lonely monotony of motherhood? I sure do! I made the mistake of not scheduling any playdates for the first part of this week and found myself with two whole mornings completely open. Ok, I wasn't completely open, I still had to do laundry, clean the house, and entertain an almost two year old. But sometimes I dread those mornings because I feel like I'm on a treadmill to nowhere.

Make coffee, eat breakfast, try to feed daughter breakfast, make bed, pick up laundry, take shower, find activity for daughter during shower, get dressed, pick up toys, play babies with daughter, play babies some more with daughter, throw laundry in washer, go up and down stairs a couple times for more laundry, read book, read another, offer snack to daughter, daughter refuses said snack and throws tantrum etc. That is part of my "open morning" routine.

So, as I am lamenting this today, my daughter Grace finds multiple ways to melt my heart and show me that everything I'm doing is worthwhile. As we are sitting at dinner tonight, just me and her, she starts singing a song. It's not entirely clear to me at first, but then I hear the line "Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so." So after hearing that and then hearing her little voice respond with "wuv you" after I tell her that I love her before bedtime, I have to admit that all of my lament about the plight of the stay at home mom vanishes and I'm just proud to be a mommy.