There's Nothing Better Than...

There's nothing better than...coming home from a stressful day at work to your house that you left a disaster this morning.  And knowing it will take easily four hours to clean it up.

There's nothing better than... remembering at 5:30 p.m. that you were the one who suggested everyone bring two meals to the family's weekend getaway that you are leaving for solo with the three kids for the four-hour car trip in the morning, and realizing you haven't gone to the grocery store.

There's nothing better than...realizing all of that when it's 2 degrees out, you are wearing high heeled boots, the ground is covered in sheets of ice, and you have all three kids with you.

There's nothing better than...looking at the clock and seeing 8:50 p.m. and not having eaten yet.

There's nothing better than...it being 8:50 p.m. and you also haven't started packing.

There's nothing better than...sitting down for the first time at 8:50 p.m.

There's nothing better than...getting ready to put the two oldest kids to bed and having the oldest one have a complete and total meltdown, sobbing, and in hysterics wailing, "All you do is work, work, work.  You never get to play with us.  All you want to do it work.  You love working and cleaning and that is all you love."

There's nothing better than...trying to reason with the hysterical 8-year-old while you, yourself are now feeling even more horrible about the job you are (or aren't) doing balancing it all.

There's nothing better than...knowing what he is talking about.

There's nothing better than...only having an two waking hours with your kids a day.

Yup, nothing better.