Mommy Moments

There is something about be able to blog when your mind is free to type. I have always loved to write. My best friend has always joked that I should write a biography of my life, but I tease her and say hopefully it is only half way over now...so it might be too early:-)

Sunday was one of those days when you have to stop and just enjoy the moment and forget everything around you. It was one of those Mommy moments when you look from a distance and say, Hey I want to be apart of that moment with him.

We live on a lake and it was one of the few days in the last few years where it actually was frozen over enough to skate on. I was in the house cleaning my kitchen. I love my new addition but (and I swore I would never say but) I am so tired of cleaning it. My house is now three stories and we mostly use two of them and I could clean for the rest of my life and never be caught up. I clean everyday and it really does keep me from enjoying life more. I don't like clutter and can't live with things unorganized. I'm not nuts about germs or obsessive compulsive, but I like a clean house. And especially now that my house is newer, it is beautiful when it's clean.

Anyway, I was cleaning my kitchen from 9 to 12 and my husband decided to take Matthew out on the lake with his sled to pull him around. I was happy because I just had to vacuum left and needed them out of the way. As I was vacuuming my living room, I glanced out the window and saw a few houses up a couple people, a small child around Matthew's age, and then I saw Matthew and my husband. The one guy with his daughter was skating around. My son was just playing with the snow on the ground. We hadn't bought him skates yet because we haven't had the use for them yet. I am in my sweats, no shower, and I'm like the heck with this cleaning!

I almost ran out in my sweats, but got a quick glance in the mirror and thought if I wind up staying out there longer than 2 minutes, I'm going to be embarrassed. So I threw on a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt and boots (don't have gloves) and headed out. I didn't bring my skates at first, because a few years ago I broke my left ankle and have 2 steel plates and 12 screws and I thought my ice skating days were over. I got down by the lake and Matthew ran up to me throwing snowballs at me. (That my husband provided for him)

After a few minutes more neighbors came out and one of them put on her skates and started off and it reminded me how much I used to love skating so much before I broke my ankle. I told her and she said..go get them and take it easy, if it hurts, take them off...so I ran home and brought back my skates. I wasn't as good as I used to be but I didn't think I would even be able to wear them and hold my foot on that one blade, let alone keep them on for an hour. My husband had some work to do, so he left Matthew with me and he started getting tired and cold and hungry so Mommy's playing had to end, but I'm so happy that I had the chance again to just be me. The little girl in me, the woman in me.

I'm also happy that I gave up cleaning to enjoy that moment of my son's first weekend on our lake, and to see him out there having so much fun. Those are the moments I live for.

Well, that 's all I have in me now, I don't want to overdue it because I could type for hours:-) lol

First Post..testing testing...yeah I did it!!!!!

Well, my first blog and how appropriate that my angel Matthew wakes up just when I need to type my blog! LOL I will have to do this at night time so I can brag about him better:-) I am just so happy to have a place to go to do this and I will check back in later!