Being a mom is SOOOOO rewarding

I just had to blog this day....
Shelby(10 and 9 months) wasn't happy with my attempts to help her with her math, and english homework...I wasn't able to correct and "do" her homework at the exact same, matching, identical, moment....and that was viewed as "not helping" or as most mothers will know from experience..."not giving them the answers so they don't have to use their precious little brain cells".
I gave her a dictionary to look up adverbs - which I had explained backwards, forwards, referenced, found examples of, and upside down explained...and I went to put Jake to bed (paul is out of town and will be till noon tomorrow...and then he and I leave at 2 for a weekend in Chicago)...(not that he would help the situation at all...not that he would even know that it was occuring....not that he would even realize he was in our home and not working....o.k. I do love my husband and he is wonderful....but it is always on us moms!)
o.k. this is getting long...and venting is good....so I put Jake to bed to come out and find out from Sadie(9) that Shelby is asleep..."because she didn't want to get in trouble"...of course I asked Sadie "in trouble for what?" of which she informs me that Shelby has left me a treat on our kitchen island...which is about triple what most kitchen islands are....I go downstairs to find a note to Shelby's teacher telling her that her mom is mean...and other choice, sweet and oh, so kind words...this paper is of course soaking in blue gatorade, sprinkles, raisins, water, a pen, a pencil, gummy bear vitamins and to top it off...barbeque sauce! (my best friend Gil said I should have it on a plate waiting for her for breakfast tomorrow morning...and she told me to take a picture of it...thanks Gil!)
I love being a mommy....my kids are the best....does anyone want to adopt!
I wasn't mad though...I actually was laughing....because we are going out of town tomorrow and the babysitter will have to dish out the punishment...I am so happy!