Kim C. over at Life In A Shoe wrote a lovely post titled “Are you a fun mom?”  It’s a question I’ve pondered more since Brother entered the … uhm, terrific two’s.  His budding willfulness has prompted more raising of the voice, more rules and more times I’ve uttered the phrase, “Mommy needs some alone time now.”  But in between “Please don’t sit on the cat.” and “Stop hitting your Sister”  we do have fun.  We don our bathing suits in the middle of winter and ’swim’ around the house before settling on our ‘beach’ in the living room.  We make huge tents then sit inside reading stories by flashlight.  We spend the day making a dragon costume or 3 little pig puppets so we can surpise Daddy.  Around here there are only two rules about jumping on the bed.  “Be safe” and “Not after it’s made up”.  We fudge on the second one alot.

As fun as all of these activities are, I’m thinkin’ that what really makes a fun mom is flexibility.  We don’t typically take baths with our clothes on but when one child jumps in fully dressed and the other says, “Can I?”  You have a choice.  Stick to the norm or say, “Sure, why not.”