Feeling Accomplished

I feel like I have accomplished a TON today.

What have I done you ask?

Well, wouldn't you like to know.... Kidding...

it might not be what you are thinking...

In fact, it's not what I would be thinking if one of my Mommy friends told me she was feeling "accomplished"

Today I woke and felt like crap... major surprise there. I called the clinic to make sure I didn't need to be seen and they said, "nope, come on in" So I did. I felt bad to. Bad for them, Bad for me, bad in general. I basically wasted both of our time. They told me that I had a bad cold and to watch it for other symptoms. So I've been a watchin' and so far nuttin'.

I then came home in just enough time to say goodbye to Joe and begin my day of "work" with the boys. It was about 9 and Luke was crawling all over while Jack was asking me over and over to play a game. I was delighted by this but just needed to eat something before I passed out from hunger. (Little dramatic but I was pretty hungry.... not in a yummy food sorta way though)

I made toast and we sat down to play a game of Candy Land. Naturally He won :). Then Luke went down for a rest and wouldn't you know instead of rushing to clean the mornings dishes, do the pie o' laundry that's ever a growin', or even make a bed, I decided that whatever my little 3 yr old boy wanted we would do. (with in reason mind you). And we did. Oh how we did. We played all of the new games he was given for his birthday, we wrestled, we danced, we tackled, we played cars, we even laughed till we almost peed. (Best kind of laugh IMHO).

Then he asked to "rest" which was music to my ears as I had finally worn off some of that never ending toddler energy. (keep in mind here that I'm no where near full steam at all and still trying to give him what I have left in my reserves) While letting him rest a little I checked the time to see it was now 11:15 and his little brother was waking. I ran up and changed the little man and began working on lunch. I delivered to Jack and Luke and threw something in my own mouth and then kind of cleaned up after us. ( I know, I know... I did clean a little)

To my surprise, I came down stairs 15 min later to find all of Jack's food eaten and his little eyes looking sleepy. I put him to bed and took Luke downstairs to play. Wouldn't you know that by the time Jack was up again, Luke still was going at a pretty good pace.

We later went to the park, played in the yard in our sandbox, made banana muffins/bread and homemade meatloaf dinner. All of this and at no time were both kids asleep or did my little feeties stop moving. I'm EXHAUSTED. But also ELATED. I never once regretted just playing with them today. I even thought (ok I swear it happened) that Luke said the word "Dance" when he and I were dancing in the basement...

Either way, my house may be a little (or a lot, who am I kidding) messier, and my body may be more tired then ever, but my heart is full to the brim.

It was a great day, an accomplished day.