In my few short months of being a mother, I have learned these very valuable lessons.
- nice shirts are no longer part of your wardrobe
- almost all of your prayers are, "Dear Lord, please let him go to sleep!"
- 91.3, a station that plays static, is programmed on your car radio
- you bounce, rock, or sway back and forth when you don't have a child in your arms
- you can change a diaper in the pitch black night
- you're in mourning because you can no longer take a nap whenever you want
- you do your house cleaning at 10p.m.
- pee, poop, and spit up no longer phase you
- your diaper bag becomes your new purse
- the best thing in the world is a long, hot, uninterrupted shower
- you can no longer eat a meal with two hands
- you feel an instant connection to other mothers, even if they're strangers
- your dog only gets dry food now because you don't have time to mix in the wet food
- you can tell by the sound your child makes if the poop is going up their back
And last but not least...
- you truly put someone else's needs above your own!
Feel free to add any that I have missed or any I still have to learn!
5 comments:
Your right on all of those. I don't think that a mother can ever get quiet bath time. Someone is always in the bath with me. As they get older you will find that your CD sections has changed in your car and you are rocking out to Laurie Berkner and the Dirty Sock Funtime Band. You also find yourself singing the theme songs to all of the shows that the kids watch. Auntie Danielle
Awwww - ain't it great. When you are in your fifties, you still know the sound your child makes when "poop goes up their back!".
Mimi
Wow you have learned alot in such a short time and they are all soooooo true!!!!
The part about poop up the back made me laugh out loud.
oops. i posted as anonymous by accident.
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