What makes it all worth it for you?

My girls are hard, hard work - Maya is absolutely Feral Four (as in ran around the supermarket yelling 'bumhead, bumhead' coz my childless brother thought it was funny to teach her that)and the gremlins are just time consuming, but tonight I took them to the supermarket to do the groceries and I swear I had 12 people stop and tell me how beautiful my children are (mostly the gremlins, I pretended I didn't know lil miss 'bumhead' )

And it made me feel really good, like yeah it's hard work but it is absolutely worth it.

So what makes it worthwhile for you?

watching him while he sleeps

It makes it all worthwhile for me when my princess laughs hysterically at some silly noise I make, its the cutest sound ever!

For me when I pick my boy up from his carer after a crap day and work and comes racing to me at a million miles an hour...saying mum mum mum.
I don't often get to pick him up but it is just what I needed tonight.

amy wrote: For me when I pick my boy up from his carer after a crap day and work and comes racing to me at a million miles an hour...saying mum mum mum. I don't often get to pick him up but it is just what I needed tonight.

Same here! When she can't crawl fast enough to get to me when I pick her up from Mum's after work

And watching her grow and learn new things everyday, it just facinates me and I sit there and watch her in amazement and think "I made that" *wells up*

oh and her funny little sense of humour

the morning smiles when she wakes and i ask "are you waking up all pretty?" - her smiles then are HUGE I love them...

and when she decides to cuddle right in and put her arms out like she is giving me a big hug...and i get to sniff her head....yes really!!! it makes it real and wonderful....

Awwww, warm fuzzies.

My girls do the same Teresa - today I was encouraging Sienna to crawl forward to get a rattle and the look on her face when she finally got it, she was so proud of herself

Whenever she smiles and laughs...the cuddles...the other night when she fell asleep on me.

Ella has just started saying "I love you mummy, I love you daddy" every day. and "oooh I like you mummy". You can tell she really means it, she usually gives you a huge hug when she says it

Thank you Emma!!! I so need this right now. jake has developed the need to make Mum into a 5 syallble word and I haven't sleep properly in 4 days because Taine has an ear infection and is up all night!!!

it's worth it when jake says funny things - like walking out in my stillettos and my handbag saying "let;s go to the warehouse"
When he hugs Taine and pats him on the back (sometimes less pat and more smack) and says "Taine awight?", then as taine continues screaming, Jake looks at me and says "taine's happy mummy!"

For Taine, it's worth it when he grins cheekily and continues doing whats he's not supposed to, and I have to turn around so he does't see me laugh. and when he dances to his music....and when he takes a sip of water and says "ahhhh" - like it must have been so refresshing.