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You Know You’re a Mom When…
Posted by JB on Tuesday Nov 18, 2008
…You are reading one of those books with the touch and feel pages. My son has one about trucks. It has actual black rubber for the wheels and hammered tin to represent the drum of a cement mixer. There is corrugated cardboard showing the side of a cargo van and sandpaper for a pile of sand spilling from a front-end-loader. As we sit reading it for the gajillionth time, I start filing my crooked and uneven fingernails on the the side of a fuel truck which took the place of my emery board. I even delay turning the pages to fix up a broken nail I received from hauling the stroller out of the van, snagging it on the picnic blanket, or catching it under the seat by the string from the kite we played with last week.
Yep, only a mom would ever do that.
Seems each and ever day I have to laugh at myself at the things I do. Some being the ones I swore when I became a mom I would never do. Others that I never even imagined I would, until I was already doing them. In this crazy, magical life of motherhood, we end up doing the insane, the silly, impossible and outrageous. Soapbox wants to hear about your “You know you are a mom when moments”. Leave a comment and tell us what made you laugh out loud and feel completely immersed in what only another mother could ever understand.
We’ll post each comment in an upcoming post of “You Know You’re a Mom When…”
Standing on my soapbox,
JB
November 19th, 2008 at 7:32 am
You know you’re a mom when…as you sit enjoying your lunch at Wendy’s with your two-year-old, smiling proudly because he is actually sitting in his chair and not screaming or sliding under the table, you suddenly stop chewing mid-chicken-nugget to gawk with the diners around you as he whips off his shoes and socks and without a word sticks his french fries between his toes, pulls his feet up to his mouth, and eats them one by one.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
You know you are a mom when …
You are not the least bit phased by changing diapers, spit ups, diaper rash, boogers or being pee’d on … it is just all in a days work.
You also know when you are a mom when your child is sick with even the slightest cough or cold and you would give your left arm to take their pain or discomfort away and deflect it onto yourself.
Even if it is just a day or two that they are feeling under the weather you long to see their bright smiles and crazy antics that go along with their normal routine.
I recognize coping with a toddler’s cold or flu is nothing when comparing to someone who has a sick child with a severe or terminal illness and to all those moms (and dads), I think of you when I am cleaning up a pool of vomit and remind myself that the flu will pass and all will be well again and this is not something that you have the luxury of saying.
When I read articles about sick children and even as I type this post there are tears streaming down my face thinking about what other families have to go through in these situations. This is not something anyone should have to experience nor would we wish upon our worst enemy because as mothers we all instinctively and above all else want our children to grow up healthy.
I know I am a mom because my heart can ache for families I do not even know other than reading about them in words on a page or a website and that is what makes us all a part of the worldwide community of mothers that I value and respect and care for so much.
This goes out to all the brave, courageous and incredible mothers I know.
Sue
November 19th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
You know you are a mom when…….
-you have to stick your fingers in your childs mouth to fish out the dirt, dog or cat kibble that they just stuffed in there
-being pee’d on doesn’t faze you
-you lick your finger to get a smudge off your childs face
-you build your wardrobe around your child (who wants to wear a nice silk blouse when you child has boogers and spit up as accessories)
-you can instantly identify your childs cry amongst a group of children
-you hate putting your little one to bed because you already miss them
Wendy
November 19th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
When I had a stuffy nose and could not smell and I held up my son’s hiney to his father’s face: “Here, smell his b***, does he need a diaper change?”
November 20th, 2008 at 9:32 am
I am still chuckling as I type this post, wishing that my little girl had a book with a “make-shift emery board” so that I could too file my nail that bends each time I type with my left index finger.
You know you are a mom when… your skin care regime consists of wiping down your face with an alcohol-free baby wipe before collapsing into bed. This is just after you have spent 25 minutes of bathing, moisturizing and primping your baby for bed!
You know you are a mom when…you collapse into bed and reflect on the day, wondering where the time went since it seems like nothing around the house got accomplished, you feel overwhelmed with gratitude. The day ends with the thoughts of being the luckiest person in the world.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
You know you’re a mom when the words your mother used to say to you come out of your mouth to your child. You think - did I just say that??
November 20th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
You know your a mom when you catch your self saying the strangest things that make perfect sense.
When your make up and hair become much less important than they used to be.
When you wake in the night at the slightest whimper.
When you become an incredible multi-tasker.
When “Night night, I love you Mom” are the sweetest words you have heard all day.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
You know you’re a mom when, in your head you think about things you need to do…but instead of “I need to” it’s “momma needs to”…
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
You know you’re a mom when you find yourself telling your 2 yr old not to try to feed the bun from her meatball sub to the straw in her cup of milk. Don’t ask ….