Writer's Workshop

It is time for Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop.  If you want to join the fun, check her site right here.  The assignment I have chosen to accept is prompt #5 List 10 things you never knew until you were mom.

I was not blessed with motherly instincts.  I know I played with dolls, but they are not foremost in my mind as my favorite toys.  I never was really fond of kids as a young adult.  In fact, I swore up and down that I was never going to have children.  Why would I want them?  They were wild, loud, unruly and obnoxious.  But that was before I became a mom.  Before I became a mom I was going to be a career woman.  And if--and that was a huge IF--I did have kids, well the husband was going to stay home with them.  Come on, I was 19.

Then I found out I was pregnant with baby number one, and everything changed.  I learned many things, and continue to learn.  Here are 10...top ten?  Not sure about that, but ten....

10.  Baby poop can fly as far as three feet across a room if baby is positioned correctly.
9.  A baby can poop an entire outfit and somehow manage to only get a streak of poop on the diaper.
8.  I can stick my BARE HAND in the toilet without batting an eye
7.  kids really do hear everything. you. say...verbatim.
6.  Monster rocks work
5.  I can clean up puke fairly easily
4.  Certain words cause children from miles away to suddenly appear.  These words are:  Cookies, food, toys, money, cake, and park.
3.  I can clear a room fastest when I start washing dishes.
2.  Kids are the bestest playmates.
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And the number one thing I have learned....

I never knew, or rather, never understood the extent to which my love would go.  The fact, that I would lay down my life for any of them.  The fact that when they are sick, everything else stops until I know they are comfortable and taken care of. And even then, I am on 24 hour watch until they are healthy.  The fact that when they hurt it causes me ache like I never thought I could.  The fact that when they smile it makes my heart swell to the point I think it might actually burst.  The fact that when they make me laugh it's the best laugh I have.  The fact that their hugs make the worst day melt away.  And a good day especially sweet.

Those are just ten things I have learned since becoming a mom.To write everything I have learned thus far, would take too long.

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Picture of the Day

 

My cow socks...not to be confused with Emmy's monkey socks!