Last week I had the most awesome delivery to my house, a new dishwasher. I was so excited about it and was bouncing off the walls. Our old dishwasher was horrible and made this sound like a cat was dying every time we used it, so I would run it during the night. Many times even that would wake me up because I was wondering what was going on, so I knew we needed to get a new one at some point.
So our tax refund arrived already and well we went for it. I did my shopping and ordered it online. It came, the hubby installed and we gleefully loaded it up with the first load. We turned it on and well the sound was music to our ears. It was so nice to finally have something that cleaned our dishes and not alarm our neighbors.
It got me thinking though- does this mean that I am old? I remember the days when my excitement was fueled by getting the latest CD of my favorite band. I would have to convince my mother to drive me to the mall or music store to purchase it. The excitement was overwhelming. I even hoofed it across my college campus in the dead of Wisconsin winter to go to Wally World to buy that one CD I had been waiting months for to come out and it was so worth it!
Now joy is in the form of new appliances or the three year old not pooping his pants that day. I get giddy with excitement to actually have a moment to go to the bathroom myself. I don't feel old though I might look old when I crawl out of bed each morning and can't stand straight up for about 15 minutes but still I feel about the same as I do when I was 16. Ojay the grey hairs I have is a sign I might be getting old too.
I can't imagine the day I order and have a new washer and dryer delivered. I might explode with excitement because next to the dishwasher, I hate those about as much though they don't make a huge racket. I am trying to convince my hubby that we need them but he knows that means we would have to redo the laundry room as well with some new cabinets and paint. He talked me down off that cliff and convinced me to wait some though he didn't actually say how long I needed to wait.
When I was younger, I thought how sad adults were to be excited about the simple things and than I became an adult with kids and realized the best things are those simple things. See my kids do normal every day stuff can be a blast. My daughter figuring out how to finally swim on her back or my son twirling like crazy during soccer practice because he is bored. Now those things are exciting!
These little pleasures of life is what makes our life's pleasurable. Seeing how the kids grow and experience all those things in life we already did. I can't wait to see how excited my daughter will be when she goes to see her favorite band for the first time, or even attempt that first driving experience.
Those are the things in life I want to experience and yes those big things they are awesome too like a new washer and dryer arriving in my house. I am plotting my ways to get it to come live here. I just need to decide what color I want them in!
Rebecca Benson is a League City stay at home mom who has lived here since 2003 when her husband took a job on the International Space Station program. She followed soon after working on the same program for nearly six years when she started staying home with the kids. Rebecca loves to craft, scrapbook, sew, and embrace motherhood. Rebecca has a blog called Mommiedom ((http://queenmommiedom.blogspot.com/) where she talks about all the things in her life not just those “confessions”.
