moms are so great because....
- whenever they come over to baby-sit, they somehow find 12 minutes or so to wash all of your dishes. even when some of them look like this:
-if you ever (not that i ever would) happen to make a teensy, tiny, complaint involving your husband and the un-taken-out trash, they don't hold it against you. or him. forever at least.
-when you call them over at 3 AM for an emergency trip to the hospital (read: false labor) only to return a couple of hours later with half an ambien, they don't complain even though they may not even get back to sleep at all for the night.
-when you are going through The Worst Situation in your life, they don't fix it. they let God.
-they let you pay them back for a loan at the ridiculous rate of $5 a month.
-they teach your kid hymns like "trust and obey" and "holy, holy, holy". even if you hated singing them as a kid....and now have them repeated daily by your toddler....in a few octaves above the highest octave known to man.
-they are safe.
-they are patient.
-they discourage your gossiping.
-they make the best meatloaf ever and give you the recipe.
-they didn't give up on you even when your words to them were far less than kind.
-they didn't give up on you even when you failed miserably at college, thus wasting a sizable chunk of their money.
-they didn't give up on you.
-while puttering around the house cleaning things, or whipping up a batch of brownies, or waking up at 5 AM every day for quiet time w/ God, or not letting you get away with saying that a-word, or arguing behind closed doors, or spending SO MUCH TIME not getting divorced....they taught you a few little things about how to be a mom to your own children.
-Changed Woman
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