The Life of a Soccer Mom

As some of you know, yesterday I got the privilege of hanging out with 4 pretty awesome kids while their parents were out of town. I joked that I was living the life of a "soccer mom." Boy was I right!

I started off my adventures with Starbucks and headed to pick one of the kids up from school. Then it was homework time, picking up 2 of the kids from basketball practice, dropping one off, making a store run for smoothie mixings, getting home, some of the kids eating dinner, piling all the kids in the car, picking up the last kid from practice, going to the Redbox and picking out a movie and not having everyone be happy with the movie choice (democracy rules always and it was a 3-1 vote). We finally get home, the other kids eat dinner and finish homework. 3 of the 4 kids need showers. The movie finally goes in. Pheeww! Then we try to make smoothies without a blender. That was interesting. We had to settle with the food processor. It was comical for sure!

The kids make their lunches and get ready for bed, we pray, they go to bed and then tell me they need shirts for school tomorrow so I'm off to do laundry. Finally by 9:20, laundry is being done, all the kids are in bed and I'm off to clean and do the dishes. By 10 I am EXHAUSTED!

All this to say, this little experience confirmed that I want kids but definitely not right now! I have so much more respect for the moms I know. It's such a tiring but rewarding role that they play. I am very grateful that I get to see them "in action" and continually learn what it means to be a good mom.