Some days I feel like I suck at being a mother. Some days I feel like I’m ‘so-so’ at it. And then every once in a great while I have one of those euphoric days when after putting the boys to bed I walk/glide down the stairs thinking, “Man! I *ROCK* at being a mom!” (O.k., granted, those days are very few and far between… I could probably count on one hand the number of times in the past 2.5 years that I’ve had one of those days… but a girl’s gotta celebrate the small stuff, right?!). So, people, last night —- Last night was one of those nights.
I felt like a million bucks. ‘Why?’, you ask… Well, let me tell you why. But first, remember, like I said: a girl’s gotta celebrate the small stuff. And yes, this is really small. And sorta pathetic. But still. I rock. Sometimes.
Anyway, here is why yesterday I rocked at being a mom: Folks, its Dora Egg Hunt. Yes, Dora Egg Hunt people!!!
Rarely have I made a purchase so perfect as this. I bought it a few days ago because of the “Egg Hunt” theme — I wanted to get the boys all excited about Easter. But what really convinced me to buy it was that I read on the back that there was a “bonus episode”… a bonus episode called “Dora, La Musica”… and this is how it was described: “The towns-people are having a musical parade but when Senor Shush locks their musical instruments in a music box, Dora and Boots take their own parade to town. Help them find their instruments for their friends, stop Swiper and make great music!” Wow. Dora and Boots have a musical parade? The towns-people have instruments? Great music? “Hmmm…” I thought, “this will be PERFECT!!!” And perfect it was. Yes, perfect it was. We watched it last night for the first time. Both boys loved it. But Kyle especially — given his love of all things music — LOVED it. Like, loved it more than he’s ever loved anything before. Ever. Within a few minutes he caught on to the whole music theme and announced to us: “It is a marching band!” O.k., people — Dora *AND* a marching band?????!!!! It does not get any better than that for our sweet little Ky Ky. For precisely 24 minutes last night (the length of “Dora, La Musica”) I was The Coolest Mama Ever. And those 24 minutes easily made up for the entire previous 24 hours when I was, at least in my own mind, just doing ‘so-so’ at this whole Mom Thing. People, yesterday, I rocked at being a mother.
