This blog post has been zooming through the web world like a loose hogwarts snipe. I read it and found myself saying, “amen, sista!” all throughout. How perfectly she captured motherhood moments.
It also reminded me of a question I received from a dear friend just a few days ago, who a couple of years ago entered the world of twindom. A couple being the key word. She has now entered the lovely “2’s” phase – something that really does get exponential in the twins world. She asked one simple question: “How did you survive??”
And my response was pretty much just as simple, “I went into survival mode… and I seized the sleep moments!”
I have learned that this is my mommyhood point of reconnection. As in, re-connecting myself with some semblance of sanity. There really are moments during the thick of the day when I have thought the words, “someone in this house is not going to make it to tonight – it’s either one of the kids, or me!” and yet, each night as the ‘GO BACK TO BED’ cries die down, the giggling from the shared rooms settle down, and sweet silence coats the second level, I sometimes like to take a peak at their sweet sleeping faces. These are the times that I remember truly how sweet they are, and that in the end going through the trenches of mothering is really worth it.
These are the times when I can honestly and truly answer the older women’s warnings to “CHERISH THE MOMENTS NOW!” with a heartfelt, “thank you!” Because, for this brief moment in eternity, I get to have every person who is physically a part of me all together, within the walls of my own home. Those are the moments that I truly do wish for time to pause for a brief moment so that I can bask in it for one small second longer.
I don’t kid myself into thinking that tomorrow is going to be all ‘gleefully skipping through the meadows for a perfect family picnic’ but seizing the sleep moments truly does help me come back and regroup, and get ready to get up again to climb right back into the poppy diapers and tantrum territory.
So, to quote a phrase from momastary… “carry on, warrior, only 6 more hours to bed time!”
Seize the sleep!
