11 : Spend Time With Your Kids

Spend time with your kids.  And if you don't have kids, then spend time with someone else's kids.  Children say the funniest things.  They are hilarious.  Even in my darkest days, my kids made me smile...laugh even.  I can say with complete honesty that my kids are what kept me going.  They are why I got out of bed.  They are why I showered.  Why I ate (even when I didn't feel hungry in the least.)  At my lowest moments, they made me feel loved and wanted and needed.  My younger son would look up and just beam at me.  It was the purest love that one could experience.  And the things that would come out of my two year old's mouth were just hilarious.  We were potty training, so the conversation tended to be somewhat centered around that.  (Mommy, the poopy is going to do a BIG jump into the potty.  Mommy, poopy's coming!  No, poopy's not coming.  Poopy is still in my butt)  The material is really endless here- How can you not laugh or in the very least crack a smile at that?  But it was the serious commentary that really warmed my heart.  I remember one day my husband (soon to be ex-husband) came over to take the boys for the day.  My older son turned to me as they were walking out the door, and said, "I'm going to miss Mommy."  That is what continues to keep me going.  I may never have pictured myself divorced and a single mom, but I will always be thankful for my two beautiful boys.  They are the best thing to ever happen to me.