I love being bored .

Last night I was just about to fall asleep , when my husband began reading an article from USA Today , to me . It was written by a woman from London , a mother of two boys , who felt being a mother was boring . Now , of course she is intitled to her opinion , and I am intitled to mine . She enjoyed being with other friends more than spending time with her boys . She felt changing diapers was overrated in motherhood . Reading a bedtime story simply wasn't her thing . She felt she was a "good enough mom." Good enough . Wow ! I can't believe a mother just wants to be good enough . What a priviledge to have a child . I remember changing our son's first diaper . I couldn't believe he was ours . I remember wanting to breast feed our children and felt so proud when I was able to figure it out . I have a degree that hangs on the wall in our den for nursing , but I am more proud of my motherhood accomplishments . I remember reading the same book to our daughter until she knew exactly where to turn the page at age 1 . Was I bored that I already knew the ending ? No . I was blessed . I loved every bath that I gave them . The sweet smell of Johnson's Baby Bath still gives my heart a tug when I smell it . I am humbled everyday while being a mother . I cherish the times I have done the right thing and I have cried when I failed . I have regretted I could not stay home everyday with my children when they were younger and I worried about what I was missing . Sure I have friends and have a life of my own but my children come first . Choose another activity other than the blessed gift of motherhood , I think not . Last night when I got home from a meeting , our son had arrived while we were gone , he had been at football practice . I sat down beside him to talk to him . I wanted to hear about school , football and anything else he wanted to tell me . He was writing about a paper about what he believes in for English . As I read his paper it occurred to me that everything he was writing I already knew about him , but you know what ? I wasn't bored at all even though I knew the ending was sitting next to me on the couch . Bored . I just can't wait to be a mom today . Who knows what adventure waits ahead ?