May 6, 2011
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5 Minute Friday & Book Give-A-Way
I love the challenge of writing about a certain subject for 5 minutes that Gypsy Mama puts forth every week.
She assigns the subject, so I am going to follow along this Friday.
Here are the rules:
Throw caution (editing, revising, and worrying) to the winds and just write. Without wondering if it’s just right or not.
For five minutes flat. The rules are easy. - Write your heart out for five minutes and show us what you’ve got.
- Tell your readers you’re linking up here and invite them to play along.
- And most importantly, go visit, read, and encourage the fellow five-minuter who linked up right before you.
{Pretty please turn off word verification for the day to make this easier!}
(Except I don’t do the linking up part because I am a computer dummy.)
The subject today is –
“Motherhood Should Come with…”
GO
**A BIG, THICK, FAT manual. They would plop it on your bedside table at the hospital and it would have your child’s name on the cover and be specifically for them.
With an index and lots and lots of pages and advice. And then, whenever you had a problem with said child, you would just refer to the manual.
I realize that there are problems with this scenario, but if you had my personality, you would understand that reading out of a huge manual whenever I had a question about one of my children and just FOLLOWING that would be much easier for me than all of this ambiguity.
**Someone who would warn you ahead of time how hard parenting is. They would make you take these courses where you had to practice taking care of a baby. They would give you all of the down sides to it. You would be properly informed and warned. (There also may be less babies born if this were the case.) They would tell you how frustrated you might get some days and how many sleepless nights there would be.
(Kendall has taken to combing his hair into a mohawk most days. Then he uses a little gel to get it to stay that way. So darn cute!)
**Someone who would sit you down and tell you about all of the joys of mothering. Who would tell you how these kids will work their way DEEP down into your heart and how much you would hurt for them when they hurt. How you would love them with a love you didn’t even know you had.
At least then you would have all of the info and could make a wise decision, instead of just falling into motherhood like so many of us do. Head first.
**Two sets of hands, two sets of eyes, two mouths and the ability to be two places at once. Then, when two kids need something at the same time, or you have two ball games to be at, things wouldn’t be nearly so difficult.
**A nanny. For those days when you just CANNOT do it anymore.
**Oh, and also, a booklet that has these coupons in it, one for each month of your Mothering life, where you could just pull it out, wave it on the air, and you’d have the day off. Just like that!
STOP
There you have it…hurried and unedited and just whatever flowed out of my brain onto the paper.
If you leave a comment today, write about what you think “Mothering should come with…”
All commenters will be entered into my weekly drawing for a book of your choice from the list I have been posting (I will post it tomorrow when I announce the winner for this week) and I will send that out to you, along with a little something extra.
Love to all my peeps & have a FABULOUS FRIDAY!
Comments (20)
Hope you have a fabulous friday too and next week I may resort to multiple commenting like some other commenters do for winning ; ) even though you only count each entry once…it will still be fun to talk to them in their banter back and forth!
A personal massage therapist.
you said it all so well. I think motherhood should come with some heart protection, since your heart no longer lives inside your body.
I like that coupon for the day off idea! Not from the kids….but all the extra work that comes with it..laundry, cooking, cleaning….so I guess motherhood should come with a maid! =)
i am so with you on the manual bit! also, a unlimited amount of patience!!
A phone number and anytime you need direct phone call to God. I know prayer is one, BUT there are times could handle an out loud conversation- Between the both of us.
I can be loud, but He seems fairly quiet at times.
…. the ability to feel well-rested on never enough sleep. I kid you not, I am sure I wouldn’t need the manual if my brain actually still functioned the way it used to. I am sure I used to be good at problem solving and thinking through situations rationally instead of making on the fly decisions and hoping they will work.
I agree that motherhood should come with a day off– A break from the relentlessness of always and forever with never a moment of being completely off duty…knowing that the responsibility is always mine…
It should also come with one person–mother, sister, or friend who can answer questions and tell you it will be okay, who gets you on the bottomed-out days, and the ones that are rewarding beyond words. Most of all someone who keeps nudging you to the heart of God in all your mothering.If I’m at the next FFE, may I have a Q and A to answer blogging technical questions?? 
time alone.
…an extra dose of patience and grace!!
A complete and total day off occasionally, with no worries of babysitters, food, laundry or anything else of kid nature. -I am glad it comes with husbands who pull their share of the load.
I love your last idea of the coupon for a day off!! LOL that woud be great. Or a giant eraser to redo those “bad mothering ” moments we occasionally have.
….A housekeeper. I think I’d be a better Mom if this place would stay clean. Oh, but then we wouldn’t have the fun of working together….
I like the coupon book idea, with days off every once in a while!!
And yep, i think there would definitely be less children in the world would everyone know what all is included! I liked this 5- minute ramble!I think mothering should come with an UNENDING supply of patience and understanding. The ability to see each situation for exactly what it is, and not just to conclusions about what is or isn’t happening.
Mothering should come with bubble wrap, duct tape, ear plugs, and a bottle of magic pills that give you UNENDING energy and patience. Also every child should come with clothes that automatically grow with them and wash themselves Ohh I can dream… you didn’t mean for me to be realistic did you?
thank you for the introduction to Gypsy Mama’s website. that site ‘in(courage)” that she writes for is such a beautiful place to find such inspiration and such beautiful sharing of hearts between women.I am not a mother, but i have many friends who are mothers. from my observing them I think that one it would be wonderful to have a manual for a child….because so much of raising kids is using your intuition and some wisdom from others and hoping that you got it right (God willing) and two that father’s would realize that fathering is NOT babysitting or something they can do sometimes…but also a role that they have chosen to be part of and can make a huge influence on their kids lives…and come to a bit of an understanding of what being a ‘mom’ means…when so often I think they don’t quite get what it all involves.
MUCH wisdom and lots of patience and some nice quiet.. so I can relax and refresh myself to take off running again.. It seems the older they get the more whirlwind-ish they become!! and the greyer my hair gets!! @fredsyankeegal - yes, yes, yes.. A giant eraser to erase them bad momma moments..
A housekeeper would be ideal I have always been thankful for the joys…those sweet faces and all…they keep you going don’t they? I think I would be sweeter sometimes if not so overwhelmed. My days are wrapping up that way though, and it is true, you miss those little ones soooo much! Thankfully one just gave me a grandson!
i think mothering should come with the instant ability to keep in perspective all that is important when the kids are screaming and fighting and you feel like you’re about to come unglued. so generous this giveaway thing you keep doing!! happy weekending!
Mothering should come with . . . all the patience needed for any and every situation you will face as a parent that will thus enable to always keep your cool, be completely understanding of all sides of the equation, and be the type of parent that keeps your wits about you and can point your child to Jesus no matter how little or big the problem. It would also include the confidence needed to be in control of yourself and others and yet the tact to guide and love without derailing tender hearts and budding ambitions.