You Know You're a Mom When...

Yes, I have done this before...twice, actually.  Yet, somehow, there are a lot of things that you forget.  I think it's your brain's way of protecting itself.  It's not like the oh, it's been so long and I can't remember my best friend's phone number at their parent's house from when we were in 6th grade forgetting.  It's more like the did I remember to pull my shirt down after breastfeeding my baby and I'm in the grocery store kind of forgetting.  I really think that your brain just has to clean some of that stuff out!  I mean if you remembered everything all the time no one would be having kids ever again!  I mean seriously.  It's not even all of the hard/weird/crazy/horrible/terrible things that come with having a baby...it's also all of the emotional/crazy/weird/horrible/terrible things too.  Like crying like a baby every time your little one has to get shots or leaves the house with his father for more than a few hours or spends the night with grandma.  Or when you find yourself looking at pictures of your baby from the day before and crying about how fast they change/grow while they take a nap in your lap!  I mean, seriously, what is with the hormones?!


So...you know you're a Mom when...

1.  You have been pooped/peed on...or maybe both at the same time?
2.  You have, purposely, caught your child's throw up in your hand.
3.  You have eaten food out of your child's mouth because they no longer wanted it.
4.  All of your clothes are stained with pee/poop/spit up.
5.  All of your clothes, permanently, smell like spit up and you don't even notice.
6.  You have peed/pooped with a baby on your lap.
7.  You can shower yourself and your baby in less than 15 minutes.
8.  You only shave your ankles...and only once a month.
9.  Your hair is always in a ponytail.
10. You and your husband mainly fight about whose turn it is to change the baby's diaper.
11.  You spend more money on baby clothes/shoes than you do on yourself.  (Everything is cuter when it's that tiny!)
12.  You do laundry every day of the week and you have no clean clothes.  (Babies ruin a lot of clothes in one day!)
13.  You're a little jealous of your husband because he gets to go to work every day and actually interact with other adults/take a shower alone/go to the bathroom when he wants/do anything alone.
14.  You find yourself desperately commenting on every facebook post you can...because it's the closest adult interaction that you get!
15.  You have breastfeed/pumped in your car.
16.  You have all of the kid TV channels memorized and all of their theme songs.
17.  You don't know who Justin Bieber/One Direction is, but you know who Dora and Boots are.


*Edited to add:
18.  Maternity leggings are your favorite "pants".
19.  You have, willingly, dug poop, that was stuck, out of your baby's butt.  (Shout out to Jessie!)

They sure are cute though!!