You Know You're A Mom (or Dad) When....

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  • bigredhearts
    bigredhearts Posts: 428
    I became acutely aware of the amazing gift of being a mother when my son came home from Iraq after a year-long deployment and I got to see the man he had become.

    Aww - this is beautiful. I totally look forward to watching another person's personal growth way more since I became a mother. Thanks to you and your son for your sacrifice.

    :heart:
  • Allie_71
    Allie_71 Posts: 1,063 Member
    When you sit on, step on, slide on or trip over tiny little two prong lego pieces all over your house...

    Oh, and you have a giant 3,417 piece Death star lego thing on your coffee table. Sigh. Style magazine is gonna pass by house this year...again.

    :)
  • 1981simm
    1981simm Posts: 123 Member
    When your on the final resting pose of stress relieving yoga and your three year old sneak attacks and jumps on your stomache!!! That was rough
  • ccnjc4e
    ccnjc4e Posts: 142 Member
    I'm a step mum to two small boys. My "OMG I'm a mum" moments were:
    Unexpectedly pulling a small pair of thomas underwear out of my handbag
    Saying loudly "NO! Don't paint your penis!"


    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
    Don't paint your penis had me laughing..My hubby was like "OMG what is sooo funny?" Pretty sure I have said that.

    When you hold out your hand to catch your childs puke.
  • BreakinTheChains
    BreakinTheChains Posts: 381 Member
    When your friends are letting you listen to their voice mail because your 1 1/2 year old called them and left a message.
    Oh this is great.. happened many times with my now eight yr. old daughter .. LOL
  • 1981simm
    1981simm Posts: 123 Member
    when youre watching nick and your kid isnt even home!!

    YES!!!!

    And this one!!!
  • BreakinTheChains
    BreakinTheChains Posts: 381 Member
    When you find yourself telling your co-workers and random family and friends that YOU have to go POTTY !!!
  • dancin2011
    dancin2011 Posts: 92 Member

    narrate your whole day in the form of made up songs

    YES!! THIS! I am so glad I am not the only one!
  • BreakinTheChains
    BreakinTheChains Posts: 381 Member
    when youre watching nick and your kid isnt even home!!

    YES!!!!

    And this one!!!
    here too :)
  • kinkyslinky16
    kinkyslinky16 Posts: 1,469 Member
    This thread is my favorite!!! I can totally relate to everything everyone has already listed!! Never get actual songs stuck in my head.. No way!! It's more like the theme songs for SUPER WHY or WORD WORLD... lol.. Or the songs from his Leap Frog Scout dog.... I can recite word for word the movie Cars.. He eats our food even if he's just eaten his own plate... Our food always seems more appealing to him lol.. When he calls 911 and babbles... When you decide to film him playing in the bath because you never want to forget what he's like at this age, and then all of a sudden he starts peeing in the bathtub.. Not once, but twice... Priceless! =)

    And finally.. you know you're a mom when you never realized just how much you could love another human being until the first time you laid eyes on your child...


    I am mom to a 2 yr old boy, and we are going to be trying for another one soon!
  • RockaholicMama
    RockaholicMama Posts: 786 Member
    -when you are so happy to see poop, and have to share the fact with your partner.
  • wish21
    wish21 Posts: 602 Member
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  • awright32
    awright32 Posts: 1 Member
    When going to the bathroom for yourself becomes the buddy system and you have the ability to go with a child sitting on your lap.
  • Switty_Kitty
    Switty_Kitty Posts: 532 Member
    ....when you can't recall the last time you had a bowel movement without a knock on the door, company in the bathroom with you or trying to break up a fight by yelling while perched upon $h!tter.
  • AnneH1977
    AnneH1977 Posts: 86 Member
    When going to the bathroom for yourself becomes the buddy system and you have the ability to go with a child sitting on your lap.


    This, and said child is napping - and you don't wake him up.
    You write the check to the market in crayon.
    You tell your son not to lick his flip flop.
    You just wait up for baby to wake because its easier to stay up than to wake up.
    Your phone has slobber on the screen.
    You eat last, do your wash last, shower last and go to the bathroom last.
    You can speak to your husband using toddler words for things...and he understands what you said.
    You quote Spongebob episodes in regular conversation.
    Hordes of WalMart shoppers have seen what color bra you have on because someone wanted to nurse "NOW".
    You can't tell if that's grey hair or milk.
  • stainlessteel
    stainlessteel Posts: 44
    Funny topic cuz this just happend this morning

    when u wake up late for work hoping to get some cereal at least to eat and star busts fall out the box of wheaties and in to ur bowl of milk then u go to put ur shoes on and u find play pin balls in each shoe

    Or cookies in ur pockets
  • stainlessteel
    stainlessteel Posts: 44
    ....when you can't recall the last time you had a bowel movement without a knock on the door, company in the bathroom with you or trying to break up a fight by yelling while perched upon $h!tter.
    Edited by erinclarke77 on Sat 02/25/12 10:49 PM


    That's funny I can literally picture u doing all that on the bath room toylet


    Ps nice display pic lol
  • spskinny
    spskinny Posts: 96 Member
    - you have had numb lips from not washing your hands after applying teething medicine
    - for the same reason, you accidentally know what bordeauxs butt paste tastes like
    -you have been smacked in the nose/eyes region so many times you greet the white stars during the temporary black out as old friends
  • Josie_lifting_cats
    Josie_lifting_cats Posts: 949 Member
    - you have had numb lips from not washing your hands after applying teething medicine
    - for the same reason, you accidentally know what bordeauxs butt paste tastes like
    -you have been smacked in the nose/eyes region so many times you greet the white stars during the temporary black out as old friends

    I know what Butt Paste tastes like. And Target generic diaper cream, too. Yucky!
  • Char_marcus
    Char_marcus Posts: 141 Member
    when your kids go away for the weekend and its quiet, but you miss the noise !!
  • Mandarz
    Mandarz Posts: 50 Member
    Your emergency car kit contains a towel for drying playground equiptment
  • Patty1030
    Patty1030 Posts: 10 Member
    When you are on MFP on a Friday night in your PJ's instead of getting ready to go out!
  • Laceylala
    Laceylala Posts: 3,094 Member
    ...when you start looking forward to seeing kids movies at the movie theater. Because it gets you out of the house into a social environment with other people. Even if its a kids movie.
  • Laceylala
    Laceylala Posts: 3,094 Member
    -when you are so happy to see poop, and have to share the fact with your partner.

    LMFAO, this is so totally true.

    Add to that ...when you're daily conversations include "did you poop today?" because you have to keep track of those sorts of things.
  • Laceylala
    Laceylala Posts: 3,094 Member
    when youre watching nick and your kid isnt even home!!

    ....when you are watching a cartoon channel when your kid is in bed and you don't even realize its not grown up tv!!
  • KlassyKassi
    KlassyKassi Posts: 58 Member
    ...when you have learned to run on the treadmill while skillfully dodging the toys that are being tossed onto it by your kids, because they like they way they fly off the end.

    ...when your adult friend asks you to pass them a granola bar, and you open it for them before you hand it to them.

    ...when one of your most commonly used phrases is "don't put your mouth on that!"
    I swear that is all I ever say anymore. :)
  • kashmyre
    kashmyre Posts: 105 Member
    When the phone rings and you start singing the Wonder Pets theme song. The phone, the phone is ringing. Lol.

    Thank you. Now this is stuck in my head. My son is 6 and no longer watches it, but the song remains...
  • Peppychristian
    Peppychristian Posts: 157 Member
    Saw this on the FlyLady website and thought it would fit perfectly here!

    IF YOU GIVE A MOM A MUFFIN
    If you give a mom a muffin, she'll want a cup of coffee to go with it. She'll pour herself some. Her three-year-old will spill the coffee. She'll wipe it up. Wiping the floor, she will find dirty socks. She'll remember she has to do laundry. When she puts the laundry in the washer, she'll trip over boots and bump into the freezer. Bumping into the freezer will remind her... she has to plan supper. She will get out a pound of hamburger. She'll look for her cookbook. The cookbook is sitting under a pile of mail. She will see the phone bill, which is due tomorrow. She will look for her checkbook. The checkbook is in her purse that is being dumped out by her two-year-old. She'll smell something funny. She'll change the two-year-old. While she is changing the two-year-old the phone will ring. Her five-year-old will answer and hang up. She'll remember that she wants to phone a friend to come for coffee. Thinking of coffee will remind her that she was going to have a cup. She will pour herself some. And chances are, if she has a cup of coffee, her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.

    That is so my life as with so many other ones that have been shared.

    -When you have to move the pacifier, sucker, crayons, and toy car in your purse to get to your wallet.
    -When you count down the time to nap or bedtime so you can snack with out someone offering to help you or walk up to you and say "Aaahhh"
  • spskinny
    spskinny Posts: 96 Member
    You start bringing a change of clothes for your children, and yourself when you go out.
    You are afraid of anything brown being carried to you on a little finger
    All the toilet paper rolls in your house have been moved and place 6 feet up from little ones
    Your husband hasn't seen you with your hair down since your child was born
    Taking a shower twice a week starts to feel like a accomplishment instead of a problem
  • newbeetler
    newbeetler Posts: 197 Member
    When you get a call from the police checking you are ok because someone had made a 999 call from your house phone.

    This happened : Someone broke into the wife's car before Christmas and about 2 months later one of our twin daughters asked what the number was for the police. We told her if mummy or daddy was hurt and could not get to the phone she needed to call 999.

    When quizzed she told us she had called the police to ask if they had caught the person who stole our stuff.

    So sweet we could not be angry. Just had to explain it to her again :o)
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