{"id":57597,"date":"2018-07-15T06:31:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T06:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xenodochial-archimedes.45-76-20-142.plesk.page\/mrbix12018x107x1enjoying-motherhood-right-where-i-am-htmlx1index\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T18:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:04:25","slug":"enjoying-motherhood-right-where-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/2018\/07\/enjoying-motherhood-right-where-i-am.html","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to Enjoying Motherhood Right Where I Am – Mrs. Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Motherhood is funny. You spend so many hours in the thick, muck of it. So many sleepless nights and endless dirty diapers. Thousands of books read and songs recited over and over again. Times when you can\u2019t even recognize yourself in the mirror because the sheer exhaustion has stolen your features. That 5 o clock witching hour lasts 1000 years in itself.<\/p>\n

Then one day you wake up and your little one is potty trained.<\/a> Can shower himself. Cleans his own room and helps you make dinner. You\u2019re dumbfounded because something in your brain tricked you and made you think that you would have an infant- then a toddler, for eternity. And this walking, talking, full of personality actual PERSON is staring back at you.<\/p>\n

How did this happen?<\/h5>\n

I now have actual HOURS to myself some days. Whether he\u2019s entertaining himself, reading to himself<\/em>, or at sports practice.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m no longer the mother to a baby, or a toddler, but a child- heading straight towards adolescence. I can\u2019t make the time slow down.<\/a> No matter how many times I squeeze my eyes shut and wish it to come to pass.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s growing more and more each day- he\u2019ll be taller than me before I know it. With each passing year the time speeds up. I\u2019ve always heard people say, \u201ccherish this, they grow up too fast.\u201d But did I listen?<\/p>\n

I had a colicky, sick baby. A rough round of terrible twos and then the dreaded three-nager. And now I have such a fun and pleasant 6 1\/2 year old. He\u2019s basically my favorite person on the planet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have I mentioned he also eats almost everything I give him? Props to those of you who told me he wouldn\u2019t be a picky eater forever. I seriously considered buying stock in frozen nuggets and boxed mac and cheese, because I thought that\u2019s all he would ever eat!<\/p>\n

Long gone are his chubby baby cheeks and dimpled thighs, and a little man is emerging. My Mother\u2019s heart aches each time I notice something different. The length of his fingers. How long his knobby-kneed legs are getting. The way he articulates his thoughts.<\/p>\n

So, unlike the early years, I pledge to enjoy the time we have NOW<\/strong>. Because before I know it, I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be slamming doors and rolling his eyes at me. Telling me not to hug him in public. {It hurts to even type that, by the way.} We\u2019ll try our best to raise him to be a good man, because it won\u2019t be much longer until we release him out into the world.<\/p>\n

I just really hope he still comes to visit his Mommy every now and again.<\/em><\/p>\n

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