Motherhood

Text Message Thank You

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, by Leigh Anne

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“The people in our lives”

I love text messaging. As a mother of teenagers and young adults it comes in quite handy.

After a few lessons from my teenage daughter I have actually become quite good at it! I am a two finger texter!! My husband is a different story, he actually sent his very first text message not too along ago. We were all very proud.

But the thing I really love about text messaging is the connection it creates between my children and me.

They send me the normal text messages….

“I’m on my way home”

or a quick message to let me know where they are.

Then there are messages like the one I got the other day…

“I think I’m getting pink eye.” (high school daughter who was scheduled to have her picture taken that day!)

“I need 20 bucks for a test - can I put it on the credit card?” (sweet college boy)

I love messages like this….

“When you get home, come tuck me in” (this from my sweet 14 year old who still likes me to tuck her in each night!)

And that camera phone comes in handy too. One of my sweet college boys sent me a picture of his pantry in his apartment at school when I gave him a “mommy lecture” on eating healthy. Wanted to show me that he had bought some fresh fruit.

Then there was the picture of two ties and the accompanying text message asking me which tie matched his suit!

I love it when one of my sweet college boys texts me and asks me for a recipe.

But the other night I received one of those text messages that makes me know that it is all worth it - one that warms my mommy heart.

As any mother of teenagers knows - moments of appreciation and gratitude can be few and far between and I will take them when I can get them. Sometimes they come in the form of a text message.

The following text message arrived the other evening while I was cleaning up the kitchen….

“Thanks for being such a great mom.”

Usually those type of text messages are then followed by another one asking to put something on the credit card but this time it wasn’t…

“We threw a birthday part for my roommate today. I had no idea how stressful it is.”

Of course I picked up the phone and called sweet college boy. He then told me how much he appreciated me and had never realized how much work went into putting on a party. He had spent the day cleaning, shopping, preparing and then cleaning up again afterwards while the rest of his roommates sat around!

Finally - he gets it! I guess waiting 22 years was worth it!

Do you have a funny or favorite text message one of your children have sent to you?

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It doesn’t get easier - it only get’s different!

Tuesday, March 25, 2008, by Leigh Anne

After sharing with you my Easter Outfit Issue I thought I would share with you a few pictures of my girls in their “coordinating” Easter outfits. I posted these on my family blog this week but thought you might like to see them too.

When the kids were little I would get them all dressed in their matching/coordinating outfits and take their picture. I remember what a frustrating and sometimes exhausting ordeal it was as we would try to get them all to sit still, look at the camera and smile - all at the same time. With no digital photography you never knew until they came back from the developer if you got a good one or not!

I use to think - “When they are older this will be so much easier!” Well - I was wrong.

It’s a lie - it doesn’t get easier - it only gets different!

Here’s the proof!

Even mom got in on the act…

Thank goodness for digital photography and the ability you have to waste dozens of photos trying to get a good one.

Finally…….

Aren’t they cute!

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MOMMY-isms - stuff you’ve said and didn’t mean…and others you did.

Monday, February 25, 2008, by Leigh Anne

Last week I made a new blogging friend, Rhonda, over at Because Mom Said So. I love the name of her blog because it reminded me of all those MOMMY-isms I use, my mother used and if you are a mother - you probably use too!

You know what I mean - those statements you make to your kids when they are driving you crazy or you just don’t know what else to say.

If you were to ask my children what MOMMY-ism I am most famous for I have no doubts that all four of them would answer - “Life is not fair”. If any of my children dare to even whisper the words “That’s not fair!” (can you hear the whine) in my presence they know my answer before it’s even out of my mouth…

“Life is not fair!”

They have told me that they are going to engrave those words onto my tombstone!

I first heard those words - Life is not fair- not from my mother, but from my high school chemistry teacher Mr. Winston -back in the good old days, at Mary D. Bradford High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

My friend Hannah Kotz and I always sat in the front row of chemistry class. Often in answer to our response of “That’s not fair!”, although I have no idea what “wasn’t fair” about chemistry class, cute “old” Mr. Winston (he was probably in his mid-40’s!!) would say - ”When you were born - did a great big sign come down from heaven saying LIFE IS FAIR - no - LIFE IS NOT FAIR!”