A Simple Country Mouse

For anyone who needs it, here is my list of how to mom throughout the day. Enjoy! Step 1: Wake up to screaming children. Step 2: Groan while attempting to crawl out of bed hoping that today will be better than the last two weeks. Step 3: Grab children out of bed and begin to change diapers/pullups. Step 4: Discover that one is poopy and you have run out of wipes mid diaper change. Step 5: Scramble around attempting to grab wipes while wrangling a wiggling toddler and hoping against hope that poop doesn't get everywhere. Step 6: Finally get children changed and head downstairs to start coffee after you have soaked your hands in bleach for 1/2 an hour.  Step 7: Breakfast...Toast? Crap...where's that blasted jam you just bought. Butter? Drat...it's hard as a rock. Step 8: Make pot of coffee and wait until it's ice cold before drinking while doing dishes and refereeing impromptu wrestling matches between your children.  Step 9: Reheat coffee, and prompt...

I'd like to tell you a story. It's a pretty amazing one that has not just one, but two incredible heroes in it. Here goes. Once upon a time there was a young man who was dating a young woman. She was a little odd and was not the most faithful thing in the world, but still he liked her even with her brand of crazy. Out of no where she became pregnant. This young man knew that there was very little chance that baby was his, but he also knew that that little baby was going to be his no matter what. He chose to be the father either way. So he married the young woman, and soon the day was upon them and they welcomed a little baby girl into the world. She became his whole world and he would do anything to make sure that she was raised well and know without a shadow of a doubt that she was loved more than anything else. It wasn't long after that the young woman left. She couldn't handle being a mother and she was trying to hide a secret. Little did she know that the young ma...