The glass is half full,with sour grape juice...

Because I have been way too upbeat lately,,, here's a flashback to the former self's perspective...

Mother's Day, schmother's day...
Big deal, so you grew another human being,,, people have been doing that since the beginning of time... Today you will eat burned pancakes, undercooked bacon, and drink coffee that tastes like tar... All at about 6:30 in the morning cuz the critters are too excited to actually let you sleep in... You will get cards stuck together with glue and glitter (that will fall off at the slightest touch; you will still be finding that random speck stuck to your face at Christmas)... and you will still have to clean everything up later...

What do those of us who don't have children get to do today? We slept in until we couldn't sleep any longer. We still get to have someone make us breakfast,,, after a short drive, they are always glad to take our order and happy to make that Sausage McMuffin, to order, and the coffee is always HOT... We get to do whatever we want, laundry, go to the grocery store, clean... and the remote is always ours...

But for you... YOU actually grew another human being... 9 months of hibernation, and then went through what you had to go through to bring them into the world... You will sit up in bed, as the little feet run into the room to smother you with kisses and hugs and cards... You will gladly eat the burned pancakes, undercooked bacon, and tar like coffee,, because they tried so hard and are oh so excited to be doing this for you for a change... you won't even notice the mess in the kitchen... 6 months from now, you will look in the mirror and see a random piece of glitter stuck to your cheek, and you will realize it's the same color that was on your Mother's Day card, and you will smile,,, even though it will take you 5 minutes to actually remove it, and dispose of it in a manner that will ensure it won't show up again... As you clean that mess in the kitchen, you will be smiling to yourself about the effort they put in, even though it took three times as many dishes, utensils and broken eggs as when you do it...

But for me... My Sausage McMuffin was fantastic, just the way I like it,, hot with a little of the cheese stuck to the paper... My coffee was great, even though it was so hot I couldn't really taste my McFuffin to the fullest extent of its goodness... I will have the laundry mat to myself today, I will breeze through the grocery store with no wait in line... I will watch LifeTime all day if I want....

I would trade my hot McMuffin for a pesky piece if glitter any day... Even if I had to get up at 6:30 in the morning and eat burned pancakes to get it....