May 28, 2007 1:12 PM
You know you're a mommy when. . . . - part 2
Hi Barbara, (First, let me thank you for the books! I love them! And Anya (26 months old) really liked the idea that you signed the book to her and Abigail :)So funny you should post this "you know you're a mommy when" list. I had actually started a similar collaborative effort among a few of my mommy friends, and this is the list we came up with:
1. You use your hair-drier more often as a white noise machine to soothe an infant than you use it to actually dry your hair.
2. You find yourself wiping up poop, pee, vomit, tears, and breast milk all in the course of a 2-hour drive.
3. You have chased one child across a public area while simultaneously breastfeeding another.
4. You willingly and gladly catch your child's vomit in your hands to save the floor of a rental car, restaurant and/or friend's house.
5. You utter the words, "No, you may not flush your sister down the toilet like poo poo" in a crowded public restroom with no shame.
6. You realize you used to consider "luxury" to mean a fancy weekend getaway, and now you consider "luxury" to mean going #2 in the bathroom by yourself in peace.
7. When you use the phrase, "don't drink the bath water, it's yucky" on a daily basis.
8. When you rarely ever eat a meal without sharing most of it.
9. When you rarely eat a meal sitting down.
10. The last book you read was GOOD NIGHT MOON
11. The last feature film you watched was a cartoon
12. When you say to your child(ren), "Can you please go to bed now? Mommy is tired!”
13. You're genuinely excited to learn about a great new line of stain-removal products.
14. You can say every line in the Sesame Street video before the actors do because you've watched it 1,472 times.
15. You're involuntarily awakened at 4:30 am and you think, "I might as well stay up and get some work done."
16. You think nothing of it when a small child shoves pre-chewed food into your mouth.
17. Someone asks you the name of your youngest child and you're so tired that you have to think a minute before you can come up with the right answer.
18. Most of your emails are read and sent after 11 pm.
19. Your children's needs are the first thing you think of when you wake up, the last thing you think of when you go to sleep, and almost everything in between.
20. Nothing surprises you any more.
21. The only jewelry you are wearing is a teething ring around your wrist, which is only there because your wrist was the cleanest, most convenient place for you to put it as you walked out the door with the kids.
22. You are making dinner and think nothing of the fact that you have to retrieve your whisk from the upstairs bathroom where it has lately been used as a bath toy.
Thanks, Marisa! These are hilarious - but being a mom is hilarious when you look at it a certain way :)
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