I have had a terrible sore throat and have been feeling under the weather since Thurs. A trip to the GP has given me only limited relief. It is times like these I remember my Mother and what a thankless job she did. And how easy it is to work a whole day and feel like you have nothing to show for it. I often see her in a new light...by no means perfect (after all, who is?) but she got very little thanks for what she did and I often took her for-granted. Not any more!
Here is a piccie of my two sisters and I c1980. I am on the right. My parents were much younger than I was when they took the leap into parenthood. They faced the similar challenges and some that were quite different.
It is days like these, when I feel like I have not achieved a lot that I think of this poem:
What I Did Today
Author: unknown
Today I left some dishes dirty,
The bed got made around 3:30.
The diapers soaked a little longer,
The odor grew a little stronger.
The crumbs I spilled the day before
Are staring at me from the floor.
The fingerprints there on the wall
Will likely be there still next fall.
The dirty streaks on those windowpanes
Will still be there next time it rains.
Shame on you, you sit and say,
Just what did you do today?
I held a baby till she slept,
I held a toddler while he wept.
I played a game of hide and seek,
I squeezed a toy so it would squeak.
I pulled a wagon, sang a song,
Taught a child right from wrong.
What did I do this whole day through?
Not much that shows, I guess that's s true.
Unless you think that what I've done,
Might be important to someone
With deep green eyes and soft brown hair,
If that is true... I've done my share.
And then I realise that today I have achieved a lot, especially when it comes to those to do matter-my two little girls.
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