As I sat downstairs this morning at 4:45 a.m., I was thinking a lot about my Mother's Day. Logan is finally sleeping through the night (at 14 months!!!) but that means he wakes up for the day anywhere from 4:30-5:30 in the morning. I usually just make him cry for a while, in hopes he will fall back to sleep-but he usually does not. The doctor says he will just grow out of it and that for some reason his body is waking up that early. Anyway...I was thinking a lot about being a mom and why we do this. Why would anyone do this? Just as I was thinking this, Logan comes up and gives me a hug and a kiss and sits on my lap. That is why we do this. If I look at the big picture, as I should, being up at 4:45 a.m. is a small price to pay for something so special.
In a tribute to all the moms that might read this, here is a very funny list I found as well as a funny video I saw a long time ago that still makes me laugh. Thank you all for being such wonderful examples and being such great additions to my family's lives. Happy Mother's Day!
You Know You're A Mom When
1. Your feet stick to the kitchen floor..... and you don't care.
2. When the kids are fighting, you threaten to lock them in a room together and not let them out until someones bleeding.
3. 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.
4. You spend an entire week wearing sweats.
5. Your idea of a good day is making it through without a child leaking bodily fluids on you.
6. Popsicle's become a food staple.
7. Your favorite television show is a cartoon.
8. Peanut butter and jelly is eaten at least in one meal a day.
9. You're willing to kiss your child's boo-boo, regardless of what body part it happens to be on.
10. Your baby's pacifier falls on the floor and you give it back to her after you suck the dirt off of it because your too busy to wash it off.
11. Your kids make jokes about farting, burping, pooping, etc., and you think it's funny.
12. You're so desperate for adult conversation that you spill your guts to the telemarketer that calls and HE hangs up on YOU!
13. Spit is your number one cleaning agent.
14. You're up each night until 10 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 to bed, dragging 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 at 5:30 AM and you have no time to eat, sleep, drink or go to the bathroom, and yet ... you still managed to gain 10 pounds.
15. In your bathroom there is toothpaste on the light fixtures, water all over the floor, a dog drinking out of the toilet and body hair forming a union to protest unsafe working conditions.
16. You buy cereal with marshmallows in it.
17. The closest you get to gourmet cooking is making rice krispie bars.
18. You count the sprinkles on each kid's cupcake to make sure they're equal.
19. You have time to shave only one leg at a time.
20. You hide in the bathroom to be alone.
21. Your kid throws up and you catch it.
22. Someone else's kid throws up at a party. You keep eating.
23. You consider finger paints to be a controlled substance.
24. You cling to the high moral ground on toy weapons; your child chews his toast into the shape of a gun.
25. You find yourself cutting your husband's sandwiches into cute shapes.
2. When the kids are fighting, you threaten to lock them in a room together and not let them out until someones bleeding.
3. 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.
4. You spend an entire week wearing sweats.
5. Your idea of a good day is making it through without a child leaking bodily fluids on you.
6. Popsicle's become a food staple.
7. Your favorite television show is a cartoon.
8. Peanut butter and jelly is eaten at least in one meal a day.
9. You're willing to kiss your child's boo-boo, regardless of what body part it happens to be on.
10. Your baby's pacifier falls on the floor and you give it back to her after you suck the dirt off of it because your too busy to wash it off.
11. Your kids make jokes about farting, burping, pooping, etc., and you think it's funny.
12. You're so desperate for adult conversation that you spill your guts to the telemarketer that calls and HE hangs up on YOU!
13. Spit is your number one cleaning agent.
14. You're up each night until 10 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 to bed, dragging 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 at 5:30 AM and you have no time to eat, sleep, drink or go to the bathroom, and yet ... you still managed to gain 10 pounds.
15. In your bathroom there is toothpaste on the light fixtures, water all over the floor, a dog drinking out of the toilet and body hair forming a union to protest unsafe working conditions.
16. You buy cereal with marshmallows in it.
17. The closest you get to gourmet cooking is making rice krispie bars.
18. You count the sprinkles on each kid's cupcake to make sure they're equal.
19. You have time to shave only one leg at a time.
20. You hide in the bathroom to be alone.
21. Your kid throws up and you catch it.
22. Someone else's kid throws up at a party. You keep eating.
23. You consider finger paints to be a controlled substance.
24. You cling to the high moral ground on toy weapons; your child chews his toast into the shape of a gun.
25. You find yourself cutting your husband's sandwiches into cute shapes.
1 comments:
LOL This list is hilarious! I love #7 and 20! I totally go into the bathroom just to 'get away', but yet, they are always still there knocking on the door NEEDING me for something! I always need to remember to lock the door! I would also like to add: You know you're a mom when
Your husband lets you take a nap and your little girl comes in several times to tell you things that she could easily tell Daddy about, and you still feel rested after laying down for 20 minutes.
You have a laundry pile as tall as you!
You plan errands around naps, so that the kids can sleep when you get home, therefore giving you some quiet time after the trip.
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