You Know You Are a Mother When…

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motherThere are certain truths that only mothers fully understand. We posed this question to our contributing team here at CMB: You know you are a mother when… Below is the compilation of their answers. We could love to hear yours in the comments section as well!


You know you are a mother when…

  1. You have been awake for 36 straight hours and are covered in vomit. And it is NOT because you went out and had an amazing time last night.
  2. You tell grown adults that you need to go potty.
  3. You care for someone more than you could ever imagine caring for yourself.
  4. You would rather catch barf with your bare hands than let it get on the carpet.
  5. You look around and everyone has been bathed and is wearing clean clothes except you.
  6. You leave the indoor playground with a screaming child in your arms and you aren’t even embarrassed. Instead you are proud that you held your ground and followed through on the consequence calmly.
  7. You’ve been pooped, peed, and vomited upon in the span of 15 minutes.
  8. You know precisely where all the tiny Lego / Polly Pocket / Imaginext / Playmobil pieces are and to which set they belong, but cannot find your car keys.
  9. A shower actually becomes a mini-vacation.
  10. You find yourself singing along happily to The Wheels on the Bus on your ipod while driving in your car before you remember the kids aren’t with you.
  11. You have to gently push a kid’s body back to be able to get up off the toilet.
  12. You reach towards the child who is throwing up instead of running away… and it doesn’t even have to be your kid.
  13. You parent almost exclusively in Daniel Tiger songs.
  14. Shopping target alone is a vacation
  15. It’s totally normal to hear “wipe my butt” several times a day.
  16. You sit in your car for an hour and a half while it’s parked in the garage because your kid is napping in his car seat and you don’t want to take him out and wake him up.
  17. Your kiddo sleeps through the night and you wake up in a panic and run to their room certain they must not have made it through the night only to find them sound asleep. (Or so we have heard).
  18. You want to punch Caillou in his stupid face.
  19. You have songs like The Wheels on the Bus and All About That Base on your ipod because they make the rugrats happy even though it’s like listening to fingernails on the chalkboard to you.
  20. You keep trying to think of answers to this question, and they all include vomit.

Now it’s your turn; You know you are a mother when…

1 COMMENT

  1. Another vomit one! You know you are a mother when you hold your shirt out to catch your child’s vomit to save hours of carpet scrubbing later…

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