Mom Number Two!

Being home has been great! One of the fun adventures i experience everytime i come home now is a chance to play mom... It can be both fun and a little weird. For example: Mom is working on setting up the new router for the internet and was at a point where she couldn't stop. She calls me into the office, hands me a pen and asks if i could go take notes at Jacob's Curiculum Night at school.

(Whoa! Meet the teacher weirdness all over again! Remember this in '07? -http://birtchers.blogspot.com/2007/08/meet-teachers.html)

Ended up being weird as predicted. Ah well, i was able to help mom so it wasn't too terrible.
Then there is the "after i drop the kids off at school" phone calls- where someone (weston, faith, or jake) calls and asks me to bring them ______ (violins, lunches, homework, papers...) I've done it all. :)
It's really not bad at all, in fact i sort of get a kick out of it.

Jacob this morning called my cell phone and left a cute sincere message saying that he had left his homework binder at home and asked if i might be able to bring it by. (His homework is turned in once a week, Friday, and he didn't have it) Of course, that brought back several distinct memories when i was in the same situation and would just PRAY that mom would get my message.
So i immeadiately searched the house, found it, then grabbed some sneakers cuz i didn't have access to a car.

(Just picture me running back to the school with my sweats on and a backpack on my back with the homework binder in it, shouting in my mind, "I'm Coming Jake!!")

Then there is of course, the making sure the house is clean...
helping with homework...
an occassional dinner is prepared before our #1 mom get's home...
fulfilling our Relief Society duties...
dropping kiddos off for school, at friends, etc....
reading scriptures in the morning...
etc. etc. etc.

It's fun and i guess you could say good training for the future. It's just sometimes weird as when i'm sitting in a classroom full of parents squished into the tiny desk spaces, listening to the grade school teacher going off on parenting stuff, and all the while thinking... "I'm too young for this!"