You Know You're a Mom When...a mother's day exclusive

A glimpse of my Mother's Day weekend and a few other thoughts dealing with motherhood...

 

 

 

You Know You're a (tired) Mom When...

you wake up early in the morning with a bed full of kids and nothing could make you happier (except maybe a few more hours of sleep...don't these things come with a snooze button?!)

 

 

 

You Know You're a Mom (that hates shots) When...

You get snap happy with the phone cam and document the pain your child is in from their 2 month shots to keep you busy because all you want to do is cry along with them! 

 

 

and then you take a "selfie" with your crying baby and text it to your husband so he feels sorry for his little girl...(and mom that has to deal with that sad sad little girl)  .. Oh, and you think to yourself "I better take a picture of myself with my baby ...  just so we have one together...in case I ever kick the bucket she'll have one of the two of us" ...  the reason you don't have many of the two of you is because that little girl made you a taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad overweight and pics are NOT ALLOWED on most occasions...so you have to take 20 "selfies"before you find an angle that doesn't make you look like a heffer and is appropriate enough to send your husband. 

Double chin?  What Double chin?  (Thanks Reese and your strategically placed noggin)

 

 

You Know You're a Mom (who loves convenience) When...

You trade the wagon in for a Mini Van.  Yep.  We did.  Poke fun not.  Look at the pure joy if this passenger!  Shameless plug for my pal Lindsay McGrath here but we seriously had the best service ever.  I mean, we even got a green balloon!

 

 

You Know You're a (dieting) Mom When...

You take pics of your son eating ice cream.  Not because it's cute but because you are trying to distract yourself from wanting to yank that sucker right from your son's hand and scarf it down!

 

You Know You're a (hypochondriac) Mom (of a poster child for Ritalin) When...

Your 3.5 year old son runs a complete mile on the windiest day of the year and you have to call your dad to make sure it's okay for children that young to run so far or if their hearts may explode.  Hey.  It's a valid question!

 

You Know You're a (resourceful) Mom When...

You seek shelter from the wind at a soccer game in a bathroom. 

Also...

You Know You're a (seasoned) Mom When...

Your child flushes a public toilet, it sprays him in the face, and you catch it on camera... because let's face it.  You're a mom and you have your camera out and ready to take photos in situations such as that, right?!

 

Happy Mother's Day to all!

 

Love,

Lis