Friday, September 21, 2007

Max ridet (Max smiles)

Max is smiling A LOT lately. If he's awake when I leave in the morning to go to skooooooooool, he will usually give me at least half a dozen smiles and squeals. And then when we come home from the sitter's, he smiles again once we start goofing around. He's funny because most of the time when he smiles, he also laughs and squeals at the same time.

I really like it when he smiles and laughs in the morning before I leave. I hate leaving him in the morning, especially without even seeing him awake, so it is nice if he wakes up for a bit before I head off to brainwash, er, shape, the minds of youths.

It has been very hard for me to go to school in the mornings the past two weeks, even with those cute little smiles and squeals. There have been a couple of times where I have driven to work crying because I miss him already. I still need my job in order to be fully happy, but it is just hard to negotiate being a mother and a teacher. I know this is the same dilemma that every working mom goes through and it is not peculiar to me, but it is new to me, and I am trying to deal with it.

But for now, hopefully Max will continue to give me all sorts of smiles to help me get through that long and painful car ride every morning.

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