In honour of the fact that today is Mother's Day
You Know You're A Mom When...
Your feet stick to strawberry jam on the kitchen floor... and you don't care.
When the kids are fighting, you threaten to lock them in a room together and not let them out until someone's bleeding.
You can't find your cordless phone, so you ask a friend to call you, and you run around the house madly, following the sound until you locate the phone downstairs in the laundry basket.
Your idea of a good day is making it through without a child leaking bodily fluids on you.
Popsicles become a food staple.
Your favorite television show is a cartoon.
You're willing to kiss your child's boo-boo, regardless of what body part it happens to be on.
You're so desperate for adult conversation that you spillyour guts to the telemarketer that calls and HE hangs up on YOU!
Spit is your number one cleaning agent.
You buy cereal with marshmallows in it.
You count the sprinkles on each kid's cupcake to make sure they're equal.
You have time to shave only one leg at a time.
You hide in the bathroom to be alone.
Your kid throws up and you catch it.
You cling to the high moral ground on toy weapons; but your child chews his toast into the shape of a gun anyway.
You find yourself cutting your husband's sandwiches into cute shapes.
You're up each night until 11 PM vacuuming, dusting, wiping,washing, drying, loading, unloading, shopping, cooking,driving, flushing, ironing, sweeping, picking up, changing sheets, changing diapers, bathing, helping with homework, paying bills, budgeting, clipping coupons, folding clothes, putting children to bed, dragging them out of bed, brushing, chasing, buckling, feeding (them, NOT you), PLUS swinging, playing baseball, bike riding, pushing trucks, cuddling dolls,rollerblading, basketball, football, catch, bubbles, sprinklers, slides, nature walks, coloring, crafts, jumping-rope, PLUS raking, trimming, planting, edging, mowing, gardening, painting, and walking the dog.
You get up at5:30 AM and you have no time to eat, sleep, drink or go to the bathroom, and yet ... you still managed to gain 10 pounds.
4 comments:
I knew there'd come a day when I missed being stretched to the limits and exhausted. It brought out my best; resourcefulness and creativity - doing everything with little or no money. I miss it in a good way; glad it's all behind us.
Now, onto the next stage - the pre-teen and teen years. Oy vey.
Instead of diapers, all you have to worry about now are teenage pregnancies, drugs, religious cults, gangs and wrapping your car around a lamp post. Must be a relief...
Yeah, and instead of embarrassing myself, I embarrass them.
Finally you get to use those photos of them as babies naked and peeing in the bath, as revenge for all those sleepless nights and puke over your best clothes.
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