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A humbling moment today ...

Today I had the most adult conversation in a very long time. The reason ... I was volunteering at Vacation Bible School with our parish.

I was having this lovely conversation with a woman who has a daughter (same age as my #4) and a son. She was talking with me about activities, school, television. Somewhere during the conversation she realized I had not 3, but 5 daughters. I don't usually rattle that fact off to everyone. Many people who don't even know me that well, but know of me, just KNOW that I have 5 girls.

Of course I get the usual ...

"I don't know how you do it"
"Managing 5 other schedules ... WOW!"

I just say the same thing all the time ...

"my husband MADE ME have all these KIDS!" (just kidding)
NO REALLY, I just say "I only had one at a time and I just do the best I can"

Really, we all do the best we can. Some days are great and nearly everything happens the way I want it to. Other days are just nail biting, hair pulling, teeth gritting sort of days. Some days I feel all together whereas other days I just feel scattered and crazed.

Today was a day that I felt a little proud. I was volunteering, I had makeup on, and I was chatting about my wonderful life.

Today was also the day that I left the house and forgot to ZIP MY FLY!

I guess this was NOT my MOST perfect, all together sort of day.
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Shelly said…
Oh. My. Gosh! ya know, no one probably even noticed!

i did that in 10th grade. wearing white denim-ish pants. while passing a guy - not once, but 2 or 3 times - that i had a crush on. everytime i'd pass him, i'd giggle to my friend. little did i know....
8:13 PM
Christine said…
Hee Hee....that is great!!

Thanks for being real. I like the women who are not fake and really tell it like it is.
10:09 PM
Philippa said…
LOL! God has a sense of humor! I was impressed with managing to schedule 5 of them and volunteer and then managing make up on top. I feel proud if we all make it out the door with shoes on!
4:04 AM
Rob said…
HAHAHAHAHAHA - Fantastic. My wife did a post awhile back with a picture of the 2 different shoes she wore around all morning. Y'all are busy moms...stuff happens.
8:36 AM
Unknown said…
SO FUNNY,{E}!

{W}
3:11 PM
Anonymous said…
You are a sweetheart! Love this post!! You've summed up motherhood so well.
5:48 PM
Anonymous said…
That is too funny!. But, like The Pioneer Woman says, you were just keepin it real. :)
12:41 AM
Anonymous said…
Hee hee. I love getting asked "How do you do it?"

I don't know how I do it, I went insane after #3 and now I just franticailly bounce from one moment to the next.
1:05 PM
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