Who am I?
Well, I am just your typical mother of 4. I spend my days calming tears and fears, hugging and kissing away boo boos and loving the most amazing little girls in the world, to me. I also work in my spare time. I decorate cakes at the local grocer. No, it isn't a career in my chosen field, but it is 8 hours a day playing in icing, making beautiful works of art, and putting smiles on the faces of people of every age. What a rewarding job I have. I work for Dillon's Grocery Store, and holding of Kroger companies. What makes my job great? Well I already told you, I get to do it in my spare time and I play with icing all day. Okay, there is more to it than that. I work with some of the most wonderful people. They make me laugh, they make me grateful, and they make me realize just how wonderful my world is. I am an incredibly lucky woman.
I wake each day, to jump into the shower and rush as fast as possible to clean myself before it is time to wake the children. The youngest is the first to rise, she has a bus to get on so she can go to preschool in the next town over. She is not always too thrilled at the prospect, but we manage most days just the same. The older three, well the oldest finally wakes herself to get ready, usually before I wake. My two middle beauties, I wake them as soon as I have managed to dress the youngest. Then it is a mad dash to beat her bus by having socks, shoes, book bag and coat ready when they honk. Off she goes with a kiss and a wave goodbye, and then it is on to getting the kindergartner ready for her day. She is my smiley child, not nearly as difficult and she wakes so chipper each morning. I need to learn to stop and smell her hair, because it seems some days she gets pushed aside for everyone else, and I just want her to know, I love her so very much. Once they are all off to school then it is my mad dash to finish getting ready for work. I have a lunch to fix, hair and makeup, and where the heck is my uniform? Whew, I am off to work and from here it is smooth sailing.
Who else is in my life you ask, on a daily basis? No one. I am a single mother of four and I am making it. There are days I wished I had someone, and then there are days I think, no he would just take my time away from them. Sometimes I think, maybe just a long term boyfriend, nothing more serious, so that he doesn't actually live with us, we just keep each other company from time to time and add to each others' lives without intruding on them. Alas, there is always time tomorrow to think about that, but today, I am happy right here.