Last Sunday, as we were driving home from the in-laws and listening to the Cubs game on the radio. An ad came on about bringing Mom to the ballpark for Mother’s Day and Mike immediately looked in the review mirror and asked me what I would like for my first Mother’s Day.
First of all, thank God for whomever advertises this sort of thing during a baseball game. Otherwise, Mike would have been none the wiser. I take care of the gifts for our mom’s every year (and well, all other gifts…) and honestly, I don’t think he would have had a clue.
I love Mike to death but there is a reason that our anniversary is Valentine’s Day and my birthday is the 4th of July — but that still doesn’t mean that I receive stellar gifts. And honestly, I’m typically okay with this. When I want something, I buy it. Sometimes I ponder it for 3 years (like I did with my Canon XTi) and wish I had invested sooner but part of being a grown-up is realizing “Hey, I work. If I really want something, I’ll buy it for myself. It doesn’t have to be a holiday!”
My initial react to Mike’s question was “nothing.” It’s my typical answer.
After pondering for a few minutes, I responded, “a night where I don’t have to listen to Bo.”
It’s been over 5 months since I’ve had a total uninterrupted nights sleep. Most nights he gets up once for a feeding, which isn’t horrible, but even on nights when he sleeps through I still wake up worried about him. (I should also mention that Mike does not get up with him. Mike has to drive to work and I don’t want him to be tired on his drive. And even when I do want him to get up (on the weekends) and stick the paci back in it very rarely happens. Mike sleeps like the dead. Seriously, I think I could throw a party in the room and Mike would be none the wiser.)
This week I started thinking about all of the monetary gifts I’d love to have: a new laptop, Photoshop CS3, Wii Fit, an amazing new lens for my camera, a Fukudome Cubs shirt, the Juno Dvd, a Bose dock for my iPod, hardcover copies of the new Emily Giffin and Jennifer Weiner books, etc. (I have a bad case of the “I wants” huh? My wishlist of items for Bo is even longer!!) And then I realized, ya know, I obviously don’t NEED any of these things. If I needed it it would already be in my house! And if I really wanted it, then I’d buy it. Until then, it can stay on my wishlist!
And heaven knows, I already have the best Mother’s Day gift in the world… I wished for him for so long… 
but I still wouldn’t mind a night where I didn’t have to have a monitor in my ear!
What do you want this Mother’s Day? 
Your baby boy is adorable…and has a wonderful full head of hair! I am not a mother…a girlfriend to a boyfriend with kids…and I love them like my own…but I know what you mean in the department of getting what you really want for yourself. I like getting things too, but if I want it I just get it. But my boyfriend did buy a lovely Christmas Ipod gift for me!
Uninterrupted sleep is definitely on my list for mother’s day, but also a haircut. Mama needs one.
Hi Jamie its a great post!
Bo is so cute and adorable
I like all the photos.
Happy mothers day to you!
That is an adorable picture! I’d like a night of sleep too. Mine wakes up much more than once though.
Also I was wondering how the frozen avocado worked out? Did you have to scrape off a brown layer?
I wanted a child and now I have him. Other than that, I tend to get what I want when I want it.
A full night’s rest sounds wonderful!
I agree, a full nights rest would be wonderful. The babe sleeps all night now, but I still wake up a couple times, just waiting for him to get up. Maybe an hour in a hottub would be nice, too!