A shout out for all you hardworking stay-at-home moms out there

You all deserve some R-E-S-P-E-C-T if you ask me. Taking care of kids all day is hard work! These last 3 days I had a little taste of what being a mom might be like. I knew it would be hard, but I guess I just had to experience it to really know. It makes me so angry that many people look down upon those who choose to stay home and take care of their kids rather than have a career and make lots of money. I think that anyone who has done both will probably tell you a job is ten times easier (unless your job is daycare or something). So THANKS mom for raising me and putting up with me. Love you! (i actually don't think my mom even reads my blog, she is nearly computer-illiterate).

Just in the past two days I have had to clean up vomit, change multiple pairs of clothing due to diaper disasters, drag a screaming child in and out of pre-school, haul two children and several bags (no need to go to the gym now, right) in and out of the car (in a rainstorm, of course) and up the pre-historic elevator in their 100-year-old building, and attempt to get them to eat something that isn't off of the floor.

Really, i'm not complaining (sounds similar though, right?). I'm just trying to get my point across. Moms really do deserve so much more credit then they get. I know that now. I am really so grateful that I am able to have this experience because I think it will give me a good idea of what I'm getting myself into when I decide to have kids (sometimes I forget that babies are hard work, not just cute fun toys that I get to play with) and it will also help me learn how to be a better mom before I even become one (hopefully!)

I honestly think my job would be much easier if we didn't live in a big city. If this were all taking place back home in Utah, life would be so much easier. First of all: in a house...no elevator or walking down all those stairs to get to the car that is parked who-knows-where on the busy street. Seriously, this is the hardest part of my day. And i especialy complain when its raining. Garages are SUCH a necessity. I will never be ungrateful for garages ever again. Also, driving a couple miles to take Ethan to school is unbelievable. Traffic was horrendous this morning, but luckily his dad usually takes him to school and I just pick him up. Today, however, I took him in the morning and got to experience rush hour traffic. yuck. nothing at all like utah. Speaking of driving...I am not too fond of driving, even in my own car in my own city. Here, I am driving someone else's car in a city i am unfamiliar with in which the streets must have been laid out by a crazy lunatic because I can't drive through town without getting lost or getting stuck on a one-way-street that takes me clear to Virginia (okay, that's an exageration). And whose bright idea was it to make the streets so dang narrow! I have to drive 5 mph just to make sure I'm not going to knock the other car's mirrors off. As quaint as Georgetown may be, the driving situation there is quite unpleasant.

Now that i've sufficiently vented, I'll tell you what I did today.
1. played with babies. talked about babies. Meredith loves babies and only babies.
2. put on pirate hats and listened to pirate music for about an hour
3. cleaned up vomit.

All of you with kids out there, what in the world do you do to entertain a one-year-old?? I'm running out of ideas and its only been two days.