Sunday Reflections 5/13/2012

Just a couple of quotes in honor of mother's day

One for humour:

You know you're a mom when ...

• Your feet stick to grape jelly on the kitchen floor...and you don't care.
• The kids are fighting and you threaten to lock them  in a room together and not let them out until someone's bleeding.
• You can't find your cordless phone, so you ask a friend to call you and you run around the house madly, following the sound  until you locate the phone downstairs in the laundry basket.
• Popsicles become a food staple.
• Your favorite television show is a cartoon.
• You're willing to kiss your child's boo-boo, regardless of what body part it happens to be on.
• Spit is your number one cleaning agent.
• You hide in the bathroom to be alone.
• Your kid throws up and you catch it. 
• You cling to the high moral ground on toy weapons; but your child chews his toast into the shape of a gun anyway.  
• You find yourself cutting your husband's sandwiches into cute shapes.
• You're up each night until 11 PM vacuuming, dusting, wiping, washing, drying, loading, unloading, shopping, cooking, driving, flushing, ironing, sweeping, picking up, changing sheets, changing diapers, bathing, helping with homework, paying bills, budgeting, clipping coupons, folding clothes, putting to bed, dragging out of bed, brushing, chasing, buckling, feeding (them, NOT you), PLUS swinging, playing baseball, bike riding, pushing trucks, cuddling dolls, rollerblading, basketball, football, catch, bubbles, sprinklers, slides, nature walks, coloring, crafts, jumping rope, PLUS raking, trimming, planting, edging, mowing, gardening, painting, and walking the dog.  You get up at 5:30 AM and you have no time to eat, sleep, drink or go to the bathroom, and yet...you still managed to gain 10 pounds. 

And one in all seriousness:

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan

Thanks to all the wonderful mothers and women in my life.  Happy mother's day!