It's been awhile

It's a funny world that we live in. The world demands more time from us than it is willing to give us in a day.
Sunlight brings laundry, phone calls, cleaning the house, and errands. Kids lunches, hobbies, and giggles. We look forward to the evening, twilight, the hour that the kids settle down, the phone calls stop, and the house is tidy. The children go to bed, and you look around. The house is a right off, toys are strewn from end to end, the children have made sure to leave a reminder of the fun they had. The dishes from the supper you made in haste are piled up in the sink.
Sigh--another 4 hours and the house should be up to par. As you fall onto the couch to finally watch the last 5 minutes of that episode of your favorite show you have been wanting to watch all week. The calender that sits on the wall reminds you that it all starts again at 7am.
Sigh-the show is over, and made no sense, as you missed the majority and caught more commercials in that 5 minutes than show.
You sit yourself down on the toilet to hear your youngest say "I need to pee". You quickly finish as they run into the bathroom and collide with you getting up as they sit down.
Sigh-this is the life of a mom.
One I would never trade.
I am blessed that each day starts at 7am, and ends as the sun starts to rise again.
What I wouldn't trade for another 8 hours just to hear the giggles of my kids, to see the toys strewn from end to end, and to see the piles of dishes in the sink. It means that my day was successful, my children were happy, and well fed.
What more can a mom ask for?
What more indeed?