I am the semi-neurotic mother of three kids, ages 18, 8 and 5. My oldest is off to college and my youngest just started school. I’ve been the single mom, divorced mom, married mom, young mom, old mom, career mom, and attends school-at-night mom. I’ve worked in the IT world for almost two decades, but still shy from programming cell phones. I have no free time, but when I do…I write or read or plan our next vacation or holler at whomever to give me some PEACE AND QUIET.
Words From the Wise
Tonight, while watching ‘House Hunters International’ (my new favorite show), my youngest daughter looked up at me with serious blue eyes:
“Momma”
“That’s my name, don’t wear it out!”
“Momma…”
“That’s my name, do-”
“MOMMA!!!!”
“What!?!!?!”
(sigh) “Momma, ”
(I bite my tongue)
“…what if you said or did something bad, wouldn’t it be great if you could rewind and start over?”
Well, YEAH! Like today, I would rewind back to before I got cranky and started hollering, or threatened spankings in the bathroom of the restaurant where we had breakfast, or the altercations when we got into at the aquarium, and the nagging that started when my older daughter had an asthma attack (“you shouldn’t have been running around so much!!”), or the hollering (due to crazy, hyper children and thus a spilled root beer) that commenced again once we returned home.
I would ab-so-TOOT-ly rewind today.
In fact, I would rewind a lot of my life as I never seem to do or say the right thing the first time around. My five year old is apparently much wiser than I.
If you had ‘do-overs’, what would they be?
