mamas

I was sent this via email from a friend and had to share it:

THE MAMA TEST

 I was out walking with my 4-year-old daughter. She picked up something off of the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that.  'Why?' my daughter asked.  'Because it's been on the ground; You don't know where it's been, it's dirty and probably has germs,' I replied.

At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked, 'Mama, how do you know all this stuff? you are so smart.'  I was thinking quickly and replied, 'All moms know this stuff..... It's on the Mama Test. You have to know it, or they don't let you be a Mama.'

 We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information.  'Oh.....I get it!' she beamed, 'So if you don't pass the test you have to be the dad.'  'Exactly,' I replied with a big smile on my face.






There are times when I feel this great sense of power, like that idea, "I am invincible.  I am woman."  Of course, most days, I laugh at what a preposterous thought that is, but there are days here and there that I feel like being a woman and a mother is an amazing thing.  My husband and I were watching a series of movies based on John Adams a month or more ago and there was a scene in it with Abigail Adams (John's wife) and daughter Nabby.  Nabby asks her mother why the boys, who are off doing things other than the daily chores, always get to do the fun stuff.  To which Abigail replies, "Because we let them."


I don't think I'll ever forget that line!  There is something intangibly valuable and wonderful about being a woman and mother.  Don't forget it!  :)