this little piggy...

It was a pretty exciting evening at our house - trimming toenails and fingernails!! Actually, the kids and I had a wonderful evening together. Piano lessons with Grandma, no homework, sleep in mommy and daddy's bed, no school for the next two days, watch a movie, eat Grandma's cookies, drink root beer for supper, and of course our mani/pedi sessions. I love nights when we are home together (sans Daddy this particular night). Nights where we don't do anything really special, but we make the regular things that we do special.

You might be a 2 year old (boy) if...

• *It's 8:30 am and you've already been spanked
• *You are reading a dump truck book for the 100th time
• *All of your cars and trucks are lined up in various places all over the house
• *You have chased your doggie until she runs away from you
• *You keep begging busy mama to sit down and read under the "tent" in the living room
• *You've told your bossy sisters "NO" 50 times since breakfast
• *You give your mama a kiss even though she spanked you
• *You keep asking "Where's Daddy" since he's your best friend

I was just thinking about it...

I thought that this was very interesting: In the current issue of the Oprah magazine, Oprah makes a list of the "things that she knows for sure". At number 17 of the 20 things she writes, "Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so." I agree with her, although I'm wondering how she knows? I could be wrong, but it seems to me that we should experience the things that we know "for sure" before we declare them so. I appreciate her empathy, however it would probably mean more coming from someone who really knows "for sure". It was just something that I was thinking about.