They chose us?

Its 1 am and I open my eyes to see Eve sitting up staring groggely at the end table next to the bed. "shes wet." I think, I look on top of the end table but there are no diapers. Bob usually puts one there and there is none. I roll over and Bob is next to me, I nudge him and he wakes and sits up immediately glaring at me 'shes wet she needs a diaper' about ten minutes later he gets up and gets a diaper as Eve toss and turns and I go in and out of sleep. I change her, back to sleep. At about 6 am I wake to Talons knee in my stomach and Eve nursing. Rise and shine!
After running around dressing, brushing teeth and hair, eating, packing the diaper bag and running out the door half way backing out the driveway I realise i dont have my coupons. COUPONS! i gotta go get them. three and a half minutes later we are racing up the street to dear hubbys job. He kisses us all goodbye, (which makes Eve cry) and then we are off to our first stop at Aldis. the entire drive there Eve is saying Uh oh (she dropped a toy) and Hi (at the passing birds and dogs which im pretty sure she believes are her 'people') Talon asking me random questions and complaining that hes too hot and then five minutes later hes too cold. Then Eve found her carphone. I want that, he says. but its hers and shes been looking for it, look how happy she is! I counter. But I want it I want to be happy, not having that toy right now makes me sad. He stubbornly replies.  Now do I have the stop being selfish seeing other poeple happy should make you happy talk? would he even understand it? I turn the radio off and take a stab at it. by the time were turning into the grocery stores parking lot hes already onto the "ugh i hate this store" speal. I have a difficult child. He knows exactly what I expect from him and hell do the exact opposite. A few times I have heard people say, that our kids chose us. They pick us to be their parents before they are born. I always liked the way that sounded. If i believe that than I know that there is light at the end of this long tunnel of having a child who is stubborn,head strong, strong willed, contrary, just plain difficult. If he chose me than he knows that I will figure out how to mother him the way I should. Whatever it is that he needs to learn about life I can teach him, whatever patience he needs me to have, I will have it. so i remind myself of this as often as I can thru out each and every day. So we make it thru the grocery store, Talon talking ever bit of the way, Eve begging me for her mutli grain sunchips and my head spinning becuase I didnt have a chance to make out a list so I have to go off of my memory. HAH! Back home and lugging all the groceries in with one hand while carrying Eve with the other and trying not to let Aurora out becuase she is going thru that "im a big girl now and i gotta get outside and date' period of her life. all day like she "rowls" and "meeews" and bangs on the windows hoping for one of the stray cats to break her out of her jail cell. After getting all the groceries inside and put away, (the ones eve and talon didnt confiscate into a location i havent found yet) i feed the kids lunch and start to sweet the floors. (ill eat later) then im just about to lay Eve down for a nap, have talon do quiet time and sit down myself before having to go out again and the minute i sit down to nurse eve the phone rings. Everytime I either just sit down or go to the bathroom its the phone. I look outside my window see if anyone is watching me. Nope, just luck I suppose. I let the answering machine get it, its usually a telemarketer anyways. People that want me to go back to school. Really? I havent put enough of my life into school and they want me to go back? No thank you! After Eves nap we head back out to go to the second grocery store where I saved 36 dollars on my haul! yeah baby! The whole time eve and talon in the car cart Eve saying "ow" becuase talon keeps elbowing her inthe head and talon keeps complaining becuase her hand is on his wheel. We get home and I put in the third load of laundery for the day and start folding and putting away the other two. Play with the kids for a bit, vedge out on FB and back in the car to pick up bob the whole time Talon bothering me about trucks and pop tarts. back home, we heat up pizza in the oven, talk about our days and what we expect from the next day and Talon goes to use the bathroom to get ready for bed. the routine is pretty simple, go potty, wash hands, brush teeth and wash your face. He does it every nite. This nite he comes in and says ' i dropped the roll of toilet paper in the tiolet" yay i think. thankfully he took it out and threw it away. I go to use the bathroom and step into a puddle on the rug, i pick it up expecting it to be cat pee and sure enough, ZOE!! naughty cat!! I spent three days ripping the rug up in the back room so shell stop peeing on it. threw away the door mats becuase she was peeing on them, and now the bath mats??? What gives putter tat!? I love her but she is definitely going to be a barn cat when we move to the farm. Sorry Zoe, hope you like goats and pigs! Eve meets me in the bathroom and has a huge grin on her face, she has the look like she is about to do something so grand and monumental well never forget it. the same look she had when she started to say hello, and call talon 'tal tal' she put her little hand up at me and started to wave and as she walked away said 'bye!" lol Shes too much that little one, and thankfully she saved this newbie for when daddy was home so he can wittneess it too. Thanks little one!
At the end of the nite after the kids are in bed I am glad that my kids chose me. If the story is true, that is. As they sleep peacefully, I woudnt change anything about the day. So what if my skirt flew up showing my undies to the world in the parking lots of Giant? or that Talon told everyone in the check out line that I tooted? or that the day before Eve pulled my shirt up so she could nurse at the DMV then thru a fit when I coudnt nurse her. Love for your children is uncoditional, Whether they chose me or not, I know I chose them! And Ill take lots of more of them too!