The dressers in your children’s room is overflowing, but you can’t remember the last time you bought anything for yourself.
You learn the true feeling of inadequacy.
Instead of looking forward to the biggest summer blockbuster you are counting down the days to the next Pixar movie (review to come as soon as I’m allowed to post it).
You plan vacations to keep your kids entertained instead of keeping yourself entertained.
The only good thing about going out of town for work is that you don’t have watch the Disney channel. Or Nick. Or any other “kid” channel.
You cry more than you ever thought possible.
Waking up with feet in your back or hands in your face is the norm.
You say that you want your next car to be a minivan… and you mean it.
You worry almost every second of every day.
Multi-tasking takes on a whole new definition.
Laundry becomes a force to be reckoned with and not just a chore.
You put your dreams on hold… until you realize that going after yours teaches them how to go after theirs.
What do you think it’s like being a mom?
This post is being linked up with Mama Kat for Writer’s Workshop.
What a cute picture of the kids. I totally agree with the planning vacations for the kids versus your own wants. That’s why we’re going to Disney for our 10th anniversary, versus our planned trip to Sandals in the Bahamas.
I figure when the kids are older it will be easier to take those kinds of vacations.
This post was great! I also used the same prompt, and some of our points are the same (the tears, the laundry), lol!
I hardly ever cried before I had kids.
Mama once said that having children is like having your heart ripped out and thrown into oncoming traffic…every day. I don’t think she was too far off.
Your mama is/was a smart lady.
Couldn’t have said it better myself…especially the crying. Happy/Sad/Angry/Excited…I literally cry for every emotion now. The things they don’t tell you about before kids!
Oh I just love the last part about going after your dreams. I realized that after I had my son. I wanted him to know that his mama did something she loved (other than raise him), even if she doesn’t really know what that is yet.
This is a great list.
… you praise God for your king sized bed so that you can have some room to sleep! :-/
I never saw you in Cady until this picture. She looks so much like you here.
I think it’s the most amazing journey I’ve ever been on and I wouldn’t change a thing.