As moms, we do so much for our kids without even thinking. Yesterday, as I sat completely still for 20 minutes so that my oldest could draw my profile for art class (and also while my one-year-old used me as his own personal jungle gym), I reminisced about all the crazy things I have done for them.
I have made goofy faces on numerous occasions in the checkout line at the grocery store to entertain them. Of late, I have gone hungry at the dinner table because they are starving for seconds, thirds, and fourths. I have shaved my legs in the shower, standing with one knee to my chest, while balancing a toddler on my other hip to keep him from having a fit.
As for my portrait above, my younger son said, "Mom, your picture looks like a boy."
boy isn't that the truth!
ReplyDeleteMight I suggest something that really helped when mine were going through major growth spurts and eating me out of house and home? about an hour or so before dinner I started making smoothies. I make them out of frozen fruit and veggies, and yogurt and gave them each a glass to drink before dinner. this helps fill them up a little more, gets that extra dose of fruits & veggies in their diet and filled them up so that they were not so starving before dinner.
I too have a treasured portrait or two of me done by a very young Michaelangelo wannabe.
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