Amazing

Alyssa has always been a demonstrative child. She just turned 3 years old but she has always been articulate and would readily say "I love you!" out of the blue.

I was giving her a bath today when she hugged me and said, "Mom, you are amazing!" Times like this affirm that my choice to be a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM) is the right one for me. :-)

My friend, Eliza, wrote on her blog, The Painter's Wife, about her thoughts on being an SAHM. I left this comment on her post:

"Someone once told me (when I decided to quit my job to be a SAHM to my first born) that I should have continued working and use my salary to pay for a good yaya. Huh? That didn’t make sense to me. Why should I pay someone to comfort my baby when she needed ME? For awhile, my greatest fear was that my baby would look for the yaya instead of me. Hehehe! Now, with 2 gradeschoolers, 1 toddler and a month old baby, I only have ONE really reliable yaya to help me. I’m still as hands on as ever and I don’t regret it. Sure, there are times when I need a break and feel crazy for trying to do everything. But when I hear my 9 year old tell me about her stories of the day, or my 7 year old laugh at a joke she heard, or my 3 year old tell me that she loves me or my 1 month old look at me as if I’m the only person in the world, then I know that it is all worth the insanity. "

Yes, they are worth the insanity.