Gratituesday: I Don’t Do Anything Around Here!

Our family has stayed pretty healthy during the past year. But this achy-fever-flu stuff that’s going around finally caught us. :(

It hit my husband and our boys one by one – then I caught it too. Boo. As each person took his turn, the rest of us stepped up to take care of all the day-to-day needs, doing what normally might not have been our job. (We’ve also watched way more Netflix than normal. Getting back to reality will be lovely, as I’ve caught myself holding onto items just in case I need to “take it back to the lab as evidence.”  Can it be that Mom watched too many detective shows while she had a fever??)

At this point, only the two youngest boys are still sick. The two oldest are over it now, but as high schoolers (one who is doing all college level courses) – they are also much busier. Do you know what this means?? This means that I had to switch out the laundry by myself today! It means that I had to help clean out the dishwasher! And this morning – I had to take out the bathroom trash.

Obviously, the statement “I don’t do anything around here” as my post title states, isn’t even a little bit true. But climbing up to the top bunk to put on clean sheets – a job I haven’t needed to do for a couple years now – made me realize how many simple household chores I’ve been able to hand off to our boys through the years. It made me appreciate them, and then it made me a little bit nostalgic. Oh my little boys. Your huge feet hang off the ends of these beds now… 

It’s funny what can make a mama’s mind take a trip down memory lane. I rather enjoyed putting clean sheets on all their beds today, savoring the memory of the days they got to choose between Blue’s Clues and Soccer Ball sheets. I’ll be thrilled to get these boys completely healthy again. But it was nice being able to serve my boys-turning-men today. They might be passing me up in height, weight, and tech ability  – but I’m still their mama.

Had they still been in the drawer, I may have been tempted to surprise one of them with Blue’s Clues sheets…

What are you thankful for this Gratituesday?