I must be the maid.

It was one of those days today. You know, one of those days when at some point you find yourself begging (or bribing) your children to please just let you relax for 10mins. Just 10 mins! Is it really too much to ask? Maybe I'm being too greedy and should have just asked for 5. I'll try that tomorrow.

I'm 30 weeks today...yay. My feet are sore and I'm feeling this heat. I took the kids to a playgroup this morning- that was a lot of fun (for them). I came home with a head-ache, probably from standing around in the sun and being in the heat and starving a little. All I wanted to do when we got home was to sit for a while and feel the most I could feel from my almost dying air-conditioning unit. My two children had other plans. The demands started pouring out followed by my frustrations- "how could you possibly want another sandwich after all I've already fed you?!", "just play with another toy...","didn't I just clean that up?","do you need to go to the potty?","didn't I just take you to the potty?","who wanted the milk?","where did all those crumbs on the floor come from? I just swept!", "stop fighting, be nice...", "why am I cleaning this up again!?","why am I picking up this toy i've asked you a bunch of times to pick up?", "I really don't want to pick this up!", "Arrrg! Not another spill!",etc, etc.

Amongst all of that, El said something that brought a somewhat sad and somewhat amusing realisation (I'm still trying to figure out which one of the two it is). When I asked her for the 2nd time to pick up her drawings that had fallen off the fridge in order to get the small bowl of chips she wanted, she looked at me like it was such an unfair request and said "but mum, I'm not a maid."
It got me thinking. "Hmmm, right oh. I didn't realise that we had a maid around here. And if she's not it, who then is the maid?" Duh... I must be the maid. I sure felt like one today (and every other day for that matter).

So there you have it. Out of the mouths of babes... again. The funny thing is- and I don't mean funny "ha ha", but more like strange funny- is that I know I will miss this "maid" thing I've got going on one day, when they're all grown and out on their own...right? Right?????

In the meantime, let me leave you with some recent pics of the little princess that I currently work for...