…you have 100 or more finger and toenails that you are responsible for clipping.
…you have the stretch marks and bladder control to show for your MLP (Many Long Pregnancies).
…there is sand in your bathtub.
…someone at the pool asks you if you run an in-home daycare, and you respond, “Yes, for my own children.”
…there is Play-Doh in your carpet.
…you can’t give anyone a ride anywhere because your car is full to the hilt with carseats.
…when your husband says, “I have a really sexy idea!” you secretly hope it has something to do with you sleeping in or him buying milk, because that sounds sexy to you.
…you may as well own stock in a diaper company.
…when talking about your children, you use fractions. “Well, half of them are sleeping,” or “Two fifths of them take swimming lessons,” because it’s simpler that way.
…there is a toddler on your kitchen table right now.
…when you do laundry, it’s about 8.2 seconds before there are enough size 2T pants and miniature underwear to already make another load.
…you can recognize the phrase, “Boy, you’ve sure got your hands full!” in twelve different languages.
…at will, you can still squirt milk out of your breasts, even though you haven’t nursed a baby in months. When you accidentally do it, you’re horrified. But you still think it’s kind of funny.
…you dream about Clifford the Big Red Dog.
…you don’t introduce your children to chocolate milk, because you know that once you do, making it is all you’d ever be asked to do.
…you lie awake at night thinking about how much peanut butter is left in the jar in the pantry.
…you own grubby sweatpants. And nice sweat pants. And maybe even church sweat pants.
…if you harvested all the dirt from under your children’s fingernails, you could plant a small garden.
…your fantasies include getting a permanent bladder catheter or at least a nice pack of Depends. For yourself.
…you’ve ever used a bunny rabbit hair tie in your own hair in a pinch.
…at the checkout at the grocery store, when stocking up for your family for the week, the clerk asks you, “You havin’ a party?” and you respond, “Yup, every day.”
…if you had a penny for the number of times you were asked “Are they all yours?” you could buy China. But you’d probably use the money instead to buy Desitin and baby shampoo.
…when you overhear another mother say to her child, “What, do you think I can just pull cheese out of my pocket?” you have to laugh. Because it’s funny. And because you’ve said something similar before.
…you commonly find small underwear, wet or dry, laying on the floor near the toilets of your home because someone didn’t want to go through the effort of putting it back on.
…your husband can get away with not mowing for longer than your neighbors can, because Many Small Feet trample the lawn down in your yard.
…your friends at church can’t remember which child of yours is which. And sometimes you can’t either.
…you’ve had to get over your dislike for worms, frogs, toads, mice, slugs, ants, snakes and beetles with claws.
…you’ve masted the art of pretending to be sleeping when you hear small footsteps coming into your room at 6 am.
…it’s not uncommon for you to look out your window and see at least two children of your streaking through the sprinklers in your backyard. When you thought they were reading library books in their rooms.
…you can’t hold all of your children in your arms at once, unless they are all piled on you on the couch, which happens on a nightly basis.
…when reading to your children at the library, other parents and children join you because they think it must be story time.
…you can touch your own nipples to your chin, or your bellybutton, whenever the mood strikes.
…you have so many babies, that when you hear one crying on the baby monitor, you don’t even know who it is until you go check.
…your oldest son embarrasses you by asking another mother, “So, you only have two children!?”
…your family goes through more than a gallon of milk a day. Sometimes two.
…you wish garbage pick-up day was twice a week.
…seeing nude youngsters on a wet trampoline doesn’t scare you at all.
…you are so accustomed to noise that when visiting a construction site, you wonder why everyone is wearing earplugs.
…there is more love in your heart than you could ever have imagined.
What about you? How else might you know that you’re a mother of MSC (Or One Small Child, or a Coupla’ Small Children)?
Do share!
You might have MSC if you…
…Find yourself humming a nursery rhyme or theme to a kids’ show while shopping for groceries.
…If everywhere yo go you look like a pack mule: car seat with child, diaper bag, bag of toys and books to keep child busy, bag of three sets of extra clothes for the potty training child and purse, Whew! It is exhausting just thinking about it!
…You get a sitter to get a much-needed date, go to the movies and the usher wakes you up three hours later. You have NO IDEA what the movie was about!
…You pick a church with good kids programs so that you can actually LISTEN to the message on Sunday morning!
Thank you for sharing this! Sometimes as moms we feel alone, and I can REALLY relate with a lot of this!
http://walkaschildren.blogspot.com/
You can’t leave the house in less than 15 minutes, because you have to search every room in the house for lost shoes then you must unknot and tie at least 3 pars!
*It takes two diaper bags AND a backpack filled with emergency clothing to go on an outing to the park.. (we have 6 kids ages 10-1)
….ah, I have 5 girls, and I can so relate! 11, 6, 3, 3, and 1….
…..when you name all the kids names before you get the right one! I have been guilty of saying ” the one in whatever color shirt they happen to be wearing”
……you know you have MSC when one reminds you to get them out of timeout!
…when you have to take a head count everytime you get into the van!
….when you are considering getting a 12 passanger van because you cannot take anyone extra with you!
Amen to the bathroom door comment. We have multiple potties in our bathroom, so we potty parties, natch.
Hilarious!!! I can relate to pretty much all of them! I have even reached over at McDonald’s and other various places to little girls/boys about my children’s size and told them to stop touching stuff right now, before realizing they weren’t my own!!! lol So funny! Thanks for the laugh.
I’ve been reading, just have been so very busy lately! lol
hahahaha! This is hilariously funny, and so very true! I hear the “you’ve got your hands full” comment at least twice whenever I’m out with my kids. My favorite response is, “do you want to babysit?”
I’ll add one: You might be the mother of MSC if you have to send your husband into the restaurant before unloading everyone from the car to determine if they have enough high chairs for you to use, and a table that will fit them all around it.
I am expecting #10 in October with my oldest having just turned 15. My mom had four of the kids the other day, so we decided to take the other five out to eat (a rare occurance for us). I had to crack up when two different people commented about what a huge family we had and wanted to know if I had actually given birth to all of them. I didn’t have the heart to tell them that half of my kids weren’t even there!!
When I registered at the hospital with my last pregnancy, the receptionist looked at my form and asked me if it was really correct and then proceeded to yell for all of her co-workers to come and look at me. They had never had a woman with seven kids already much less one expecting twins.
hehe, I love the underwear next to the toilet one… that is always one of my stops on the way to the laundry room
…When you serve your children breakfast along with empty bowls of pretend cereal for the MSA (many stuffed animals) that must be fed too.
…When your toddler’s tantrum at the grocery store doesn’t phase you or your older kids, but the people at the deli counter go into a panic offering cheese samples to try to help.
Awesome list I am forwarding to my husband! We are pg with #4 but not nearly as close in age as yours. (which equals slightly more sanity in my house!)
We occasionally squirt breast milk here as well — because it’s funny. And I still have a lot because L STILL nurses. See?
http://dagmarbleasdale.com/2010/06/nantucket-beach-wedding-and-breastfeeding-in-public/
Love this post
So true, so funny.
Dagmar
Dagmar’s momsense
@DagmarBleasdale
I am definitely a mother of MSC. I have 7 under the age of 7 (two sets of twins) and I can relate to just about every single thing you just listed. I would like to add though, when every piece of clothing you own has several spit-up stains on it and you really do not care. You should be experiencing this in a short while!
that is SO our family. I really enjoyed reading all of the comments too!
Oh this is perfect!! I laughed and cried and said yes to each and every one of these! I have 5 small children and wouldn’t trade any of this for the world. But I do get tired of answering the “are they all yours?” question. And my all time favorite (thank goodness little ears also have little eyes to keep them busy) “Do they all have the same father?” Heck, they are all 18 months apart and a few look like twins!!!!
for the “are they all yours” I always answer “nope, I walk around asking neighbor kids if they want to go shopping, what fun is it to just take a few…”
I have nine children (expecting #10) with two sets of twins under the age of 5- all with the same Daddy – and have had people ask me so many times if they are all mine and why the twins don’t look alike (fraternal, duh??) that I once got frustrated and told a lady that they look different because one belongs to my husband and the other my boyfriend. She got this horrified look and walked off. I think she was too dumb to know that was impossible.
Donna! You are a hoot! That is great! But I get asked if all my four girls have the same dad. There is NO DOUBT they are mine! Can we say, “Mini-me”?
Simply good stuff……….I live it everyday with my crew of four!
I used to call my daughters, small medium and large until small and medium both grew taller than large.
Now they’re thing 1, thing 2 and thing 3.
the catheter is TOTALLY a fantasy of mine too. when i am pregnant and awake in bladderful pain for the third time in one night i picture a lovely tube running from my bladder out the window behind our bed and watering the grass and me never having to get up once. it is literally my happy place to imagine this before laboriously hauling my bloated bulk off of our 1 foot tall ikea bed (“so cool!, i love how low it is!” stupid, skinny newlywed me!) to the potty. we can dream!
Oh, too funny you are!!! You would love the video on tim hawkin’s website called homeschool family, it’s a must watch!!! From one homeschoolin’ mama to another it’s what life is all about!!!! I only have three and I continually get, “you have your hands full.” Somedays I can laugh at that and some days I just want to say, “could you say something encouraging?” Mine are getting bigger and so I hear it a little less. But that was when we were still living in America. Two weeks ago we moved to Hungary and three kids is considered a BIG family here. I can’t understand much Hungarian yet, but their faces say it all!!!!! God bless your MSC and all the adventures you have in store as they continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ!!!
***when you go into the doctor for your first prenatal visit and the conversation goes something like this: “Mam, when was your last menstrual cycle?” Me: “Didn’t have one.” “Mam, I have to put something down here, when was your last cycle.” Me: “I didn’t have one.” “Mam, give me your last cycle.” Me: “I guess you’ll have to use the date of my last cycle from my previous child.” and, that is what I gave her! I finally said, “If I had had a cycle, I may not be here now because I would have known!” 2 children in 1 year, 11 1/2 months apart, and they had the same due date, just one year difference!
You know you are the mother of one small child when EVERYONE asks you when you will be having the next . . . (which for me is never).
I LOVE this!! As a mom of a 3 year old, 2 year old, and 3 month old, I can relate to almost all of these!
Had to laugh at the sweat pant comment. So many memories. My husband had so many comments about my sweat pants when my msc were small.
I’m so sad I didn’t realize that I haven’t been following you – how did that happen? I was and then I wasn’t.
Anyway, I may only have a FSC (few small children) but some of those are right on the money for us. Is it bad that the gallon of milk one isn’t far off?? We get our calcium LOL
I’m a “retired” mom now…but was a mom of MSC, now ranging in age from 20 to 28. I’ve gone down the list of kids, dogs and cats to finally just point and say “YOU!” I thought I’d retired from motherhood, but I was wrong! The big ones need mama just as much as the little ones (it just usually costs more). The memories you create today are the ones they’ll bring up when they’re grown…and they’ll feel sorry for all their friends that had the “straightlaced” parents!
You might be a mom to MSC when your daughter pukes on you in the doctors office and without skipping a beat you strip your shirt off and start rinsing it out in the sink, continue to keep your other 5 children happy even though 2 of them have puke on their shoes as well, wash the puking childs face off with a wet napkin, check inside your bra to see if any “chunks” landed in there (since your top is off anyways) pull the chunks out of bra, then notice you tennis shoes have some chunks inside as well, so rinse all those out in the sink, put shoes back on, put wet (white) shirt back on, all while your doctor is standing there in amazement saying “I dont know how you do it” and your reply is “you just do”. Walk out of the busy doctors office with your wet white shirt on and 6 kids in toe, and drive the 20 minutes back home with the faint smell of puke on everyone even though the windows are all open.
true story…yesterday.
… when you start referring to individual children as “whoever you are” instead of running down the list of names.
… when you defer a night of romance with your husband because you just know one of the little ones is still awake – or going to wake up… and you are right.
… when you forget what it is like to use toilet paper when it is still on the roll.
… when the sight of a young streaker in your front yard doesn’t phase you.
… when you can’t park a car in your two car garage because you need the room for everyone’s bicycles, strollers, and outdoor toys.
… when you and your spouse adopt an assembly-line approach to bath time.
… when you never have to make an excuse to get out of babysitting because they figure your life is an excuse.
… when your cheek is wet from all the kisses, and your neck is sore from all the hugs. (It’s a good kinda sore though!)
Your life is an excuse!
BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
http://walkaschildren.blogspot.com/
When you can’t remember your child’s last doctor’s appointment. When you call out several names before settling on the one that belongs to that particular child (and sometimes still getting it wrong). When you go to the store for unnecessary items and linger there, because that is your only quiet time. When you spend too long choosing a deodorant because you need one to withstand the rigors of lassoing multiple children to get them out of the house, getting them in their car seats, unloading them and keeping a mental count the whole time you are out to ensure none has wandered away, and finally counting out loud before loading them back in the car.
–it’s actually easier to keep a non-potty-trained toddler in underwear, or just shorts, while she’s running outside between baby pool and sandbox.
–while trying to zip through walmart, one drops their sucker on the floor, you pick it up and lick it and give it back to small child. at least it won’t have walmart’s germs on it, just yours.
–you dig through the dirty clothes basket to find something to wear.
–you really enjoy the teeny car that actually fits 3 car seats b/c it makes it easier to hand out snacks, pick up dropped doll, etc.
–you make extra plates while out to eat out of amazingly creative things. like steaknshake paper hats.
Had to do my own post, check it out,
http://teamdfun.blogspot.com/2010/06/you-know-youre-mom-of-msc.html
When you go to the bathroom and 4 small children all want to talk to you at the same time and only 3 of them are yours.
Ohhh my gosh I can sooo relate to almost all of those!!!! Great Post. Loved it.
You know your a mom when:
You put a bib on your husband without thinking twice.
Your van floor is covered with Cheerios, raisins, and kid’s meal toys.
You have a cupboard dedicated to sippy-cups, plastic plates, and plastic bowls–and it is never organized.
You actually peed in your child’s potty chair because your daughter was pooping and you knew it would take another 10 minutes…you’ve had to pee for an hour.
You randomly find toys in your underwear drawer, oven mitts, pots and pans, and pockets.
There are always little muddy shoes outside your back door.
You fantasize about being alone for 12 hours, and when you are, you can’t wait to see your kids again.
You know you had a life before children, but you don’t want to go back because there is so much love and joy in your heart.
“…you own grubby sweatpants. And nice sweat pants. And maybe even church sweat pants.”
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
“…you’ve ever used a bunny rabbit hair tie in your own hair in a pinch.”
amen 2 that sister
Too funny! I did a post on my blog “You know your a mommy when . . . ” before I even read this!
My husband did something sexy last night. He took all the girls to town and I had a whole hour to myself. =)
Totally sexy!!!!
That is completely HOT!
You are truly blessed – as are so many of the other women that have commented. I am a Grammy now, but enjoyed reading all of these comments and the wonderful reminder of years gone by.
~when you are in church greeting people for at least ten minutes, and when asked how your newest number five is doing you realize ……he is still sleeping in the car waiting to be carried in..TWO weeks in a row! (we have since established who is in charge of that job!) lol
yikes. That happened to a couple at our church a few years ago. It was summer and the baby died. I don’t want to scare you. It can happen to anyone.
How heartbreaking!
I’m the oldest of five and I used to love it when people would ask my dad if we were “all theirs”. He would respond, “Oh, this is only half of them. It’s way too crazy to take them all out in public at once!” What would really crack me up is that people would believe him! LOL
I am cracking up…this post is too funny!
I can totally relate to the chocolate milk b/c I held off giving my 2 year old the delicious drink and now I regret it cuz all day I hear “CHOCOLATE MILK?!?!?” My older two were not so obsessed with the drink like he is. Oh well…I love chocolate milk…I guess it is in his genes.
“…you can touch your own nipples to your chin, or your bellybutton, whenever the mood strikes.”
OMG! LOL! I’ve wondered if I could do something like that because of the sheer stretchiness but I don’t think mine are big enough! That was so hilarious and so true!!
Also-such a bummer that you don’t have trash day twice a week! We do but we don’t have any place to keep a trash can outdoors. Cloth diapering helps cut down on so much waist, doesn’t it?? That’s such a motivating factor for me!
Bahahaha!! I introduced my kids to chocolate milk. BIG BIG BIG MISTAKE. Don’t do it!!!!!!
I can relate to too many of these! I hate when I get the “you know what causes that” speech from some old man at the checkout line.
My best friend and I were at Lowe’s a couple of years back…there are now 8 MSC between the two of us, but at the time there were only 6. I had my two youngest in the double stroller and she had her two youngest in a double as well. The two oldest of the group were walking, and someone said “is your daycare on a field trip?”.
When people see my hubs and I with all 4 of our girls, we get some strange looks…but seriously, it’s not like there’s 30 kids trailing behind us! It’s only 4!!
We will be stocking up on toilet paper and feminie products for sure…maybe we should consider buying stock in Kotex!
…you drive a 15 passenger van as your family vehicle.
…you have to buy a new carseat for the baby because the carseat you had with you oldest has expired (yes, they expire).
….you assess if a shirt is public-worthy based on how obvious the spit up is on it.
….all the games in your house are missing at least 1 critical piece.
I could keep going, but I won’t. Because my MSC are begging to go outside.
Ha! I often find that I am watching Phineas & Ferb or the Backyardigans even when my sons aren’t in the den. Sometimes, my husband will change the channel & if it’s an episode I haven’t seen before, I tell him to change it back! I also know that I’m a mom to sons because I can name all of the trains/trucks, etc. from Thomas, and now I can almost name all of the Transformers!
Amen! Those are two shows that I can stand the kids watching! AND have you noticed on P & F that when Candace is trying to bust the boys that they play the wicked witch music from Wizard of Oz?
You know you are the mother of MSC when you talk about kids’ show episodes with other moms you have never met before!
http://walkaschildren.blogspot.com/
When your children comprise almost half of the Chidren’s Ministry at your church.
When you stop using their names and just give them numbers.
When ugent care knows you by name and greets your child with stickers, suckers, and hugs.
I took our MSC (4 of them age 1 to 7) to the playground but nixed their plan to play in the sandbox there (aka “giant litter box to wild animals”). Another 3 year old girl came over and said, “I’d like to play in the sandbox…” I told her it was up to HER mom – Her mom said, “Well, it does kinda seem like you’re in charge of everyone here…”
And I gauge my success at the grocery store by how many times people say, “Wow! You have YOUR hands full!” Less than 10 equals a successful trip!
You can carry on a 5, 6, or 7 part conversation without batting an eyelash. And still be talking to a good friend, who also has MSC, at the same time! They are the only ones that understand you’re not being rude or not paying attention!
This made me laugh so hard!! I have 4 kids too and totally relate!
Hi hi, very funny and so true!
You might be the mother of MSC if …
- you get that sexy feeling when you see your husband holding your youngest baby. When he says it’s the last one, you tell him how sexy he looks holding a baby and that he should have 6 more. He throws his head back and laughs.
- you go to the summer program at the library and you are the only one that has 3 children in tow that all belong to you;
- you are asked at the check out line at the grocery store if you are trying to have 19 kids like Michelle Duggar;
- people keep telling you how brave you are to have 4 children;
- your Mom keeps telling you about all the people that tell her how brave you are when she shares about her daughter that has 4 children under 7 y.o.
- you Dad keeps asking your husband when is he going to have a vasectomy;
- you don’t know where to put all the children’s clothing you are saving for the youngest ones.
- you are the last one to eat at meal times because you have to serve everyone and nurse the baby;
- you do laundry every day so you are always caught up;
- people ask if you would like to go shopping by yourself;
- you are wearing the same outfits for the last 2 years;
- you are always wearing nursing bras even when you are not nursing anymore;
- when you finally think you will be able to lose weight and get in shape, you get pregnant again;
- there is always a child sleeping between your husband and you. How the heck you keep making more babies, only God knows!!!!
- the shoe closet keeps getting smaller and smaller;
- there is so much more and I definitely agree with your post..so very funny.
FUUU–nnyyy!!
I have 4 boys and 1 girl (she’s the baby) and every single time I take them in public people ask me #1 if all of them are mine #2 if we are done now that we finally have a
girl. Why is it ok for people to ask such a personal question?? They’ve even gone so far to ask if I have my tubes tied or if my hubby is snipped. What the heck?
But I love the one about finding clothes around the toilet because that happens several times daily here!!
oh this made my night, thanks.
“….you can touch your own nipples to your chin, or your bellybutton, whenever the mood strikes.”
You had me rolling with this one! So funny! ; )
I’m just going to say I’m so over you Mc Mama, the squirting milk out of your breasts did it, i’ts just too much for me. There’s just some things I think you shouldn’t tell the whole world, famous blogger or not. The End
My husband’s male friend can lactate. Is that too much for you?
I have followed your blog and loved it for years; however, I have never commented. Yet, as the mother of 3 boys and a little girl myself, I found myself identifying with it in more ways than I care to admit!
Just today I knew I was the mother of 4 when…when I washed three loads of laundry that did not contain one shred that belonged to me…when I reached into my purse to take number for work and pulled out a pacifier, a latex glove smiley face, a hairbow, a lego creation, and a a spare pair of 4T underwear before I found a pen to take a number…when I fill an entire an entire load of dishes with nothing but sippy cups…when I do not bat an eye when I look out the window and see two of my sons peeing in the FRONT yard…when I do not bat an eye when I am in Target and turn around to see that my 2-year-old daughter is standing in the cart without her dress on (yes, this means she was sporting her backwards panties, Halloween socks and boots in June)…when I look in the rearview mirror on the way home from the post office and see the sweetest sleeping kiddos I have ever seen…
I laughed so hard and so loud at this that my husband looked amazed. haha. I thought, “at least I’m not alone…” I love it but really what has my life come to?:) So blessed to have many small children of my own!
…….If, when it’s just you and your husband, you don’t refer to the kids by their names….. you use their ages. “The 4 year old really needed a longer nap today. Too bad the 1 year old woke him up early…”
……when you can, without batting an eye, ask a child to, “Please take the Transformer out of your underwear.”
……When you’ve had to comfort a crying little boy because he just peed in his own eye.
…..When you know, by name, which one of DJ Lance’s friends are the least obnoxious.
…..When the funniest thing you’ve heard all day is Miss Spider’s child apologizing for being a “pain in the thorax”
I’m expecting #4, so I’m going to go with MSC. I’m going to add “If you have black permanent marker on any surface in your home” – because my 3 year old decided to draw on my coffee table last week, so now I do! I also have paint in the carpet on my stairs thanks to Miss almost two!
When you have to say “please leave your penis alone at the dinner table” and not a soul pauses, or chokes, or even cracks a smile. Well besides your lone daughter and she just rolls her eyes.
When you only daughter tries to convince God every night for a month to change the baby in your belly to a girl…”Dear God, this is me again. Remember I already have enough brothers and I really need a sister…please. I’ll never ask for toys again I promise, if you do this for me. Amen”
Then brother #4 comes home and she adores him anyway.
Kim
Tell your daughter that there is always hope. I had a boy and a girl and then five boys in a row. When #4 was identified as a boy at the ultrasound, she carried the video around that night at church and when people asked to see the pics, she said “It does not have a penis. It is not another boy” (imagine their shock at hearing that from a 4-year-old girl). I told her that God knew what is best for our family and we had to trust that he was right to be giving her another brother. She said that, if God knows everything, he should know that 2 brothers are enough for any little girl!. She finally did get her sister – #8 and #9 were fraternal twin girls, and we are expecting #10 which is supposed to be another girl!
Haha!! Had to laugh about the nipple one…..
Oh I LOVE it! What a joy-filled life we live. Couldn’t ask for more!
Ohhh goodness!! This made me laugh, and I don’t even have kids.
I’m SURE my mom could add much much more to this. She homeschooled all 4 of us, the youngest having Down Syndrome. “Make him stop looking at me!” “Why can’t we have chocolate chip pancakes for lunch?” “Maaaam, she said the s word! She told me to shut up!”
Apparently I had a habit of making the situation worse by eating things…like wallpaper and something off the floor of the ER.
Oh, gosh! With my genetics, I think I need to marry a saint to survive raising my future Baker’s Dozen
I love this! I have a 3, 2, and 1 year old and I grow weary of being asked if they are all mine and told “oh you have your hands full” or “boy you must be busy”.
One I would add though is….
….if you find yourself doing the happy dance because of having the longest number of months not pregnant since you have been married!
I remember your post about numbers and how many months you have been pregnant vs. married, and so on. I am finding myself there right now and get renewed when I read posts like this.
Thanks
Iv’e got some for MSB (many small boys)!
You might be the mother of MSB if
… would be the most popular kid amongst the boys in a first grade classroom because of how many gross/ funny to boys jokes you know
… you find yourself saying “Where is your shirt/ pants/ underwear/ all of the above?” multiple times in a half an hour
… when your third son was born and you told your older two it was another boy, your oldest said “what else would it be?”
Great post Mckmama! These were what I could come up with because I was so distracted by a shrieking one-year old, three-year old on the counter, and chasing a five-year old around the house in a quick game of “Batman and Joker!” Ah, the joys of motherhood!
J!
I don’t know if I am happy or sad to say that almost each and every one of those I can relate to! I have to say I’m most embarassed about the catheter, the breasts …both milk and length…and the underpants at the toilet! LORD if I could count how many pairs I wash a day…
Thanks for the truly amazing laugh today!
so funny! As a daycare worker and a babysitter of MSC (and midwife in trainign) I can relate… except for the milk squirting!
You sre soooooo funny! You have the cutest posts. And all the comments are hysterical!
When focused on an activity you are often interrupted by the thought “who’s biting me”
When strangers frequently start a conversation with “Do you know your child is…” and you just as frequently respond with “Ya, I’m aware.
When people tell you they can’t believe how calm you are and you secretly know you are just far to exhausted to be upset or stressed.
When you feel like making it 3 blocks from your house to grocery shop and back is huge accomplishment.
Relate! Relate! Relate! Relate! Oh, dear. I can relate!!!!
Haha! Who’s biting me!! Hahaha!
~you realize you’re still watching Yo Gabba Gabba, and you’re the only one awake.
Haha I’ve done that before except with “Handy Manny!”
What? I want to live in Sheet Rock Hills!
If you could fill a whole cereal box with the dropped cheerios in the back of you car! Love this post!
Oh that was so funny! Good job Mckmama
Well, not all my kids are small anymore (they range from 15 down to 6…with another on the way) but with 4 of them (soon to be 5) I would have to say……when you have to count to make sure you have all your kids with you AND if, when calling a child, you go through the roll call of all the kids names before you get the right one! lol.
Love this!
Thanks for making me smile!!!
My brother would add that “…you sing the songs from your child’s favorite cartoons while at work”.
I have three kids. You are a mother of MSC if you think that the meaning of sleeping in is being able to sleep until 6 am. Also, I constantly count my kids in public places….just to make sure one didn’t wander away.
This is hilarious!! Thanks for the good laugh!!
If only I got even a penny for every time I heard the phrase “Are they all yours?” I’d be rich! lol Or a penny for every time I heard the phrase “You trying for a boy?” when I was preggo with baby #5 and out with my 4 daughters!
ha ha. the nipples to the chin thing cracks me up. our second one is 14 mos old and still nursing…a lot! i hear ya sister.
I begged my hubby for a little “lift” once all the babies are born and well nursed. We’ve seen better days around here!
oh this was a hilarious post..I so relate to many of these thing and I laughed so hard that my MSC and husband (who are dancing and singing in the living room to the sound of Music) said whats so funny. So you are mom of many small children when you are celebrating your 4th anniversary at home coloring Star Wars pictures, getting a diaper for your little girls dolly all while singing to a movie an nursing the baby. Heart is so full, thanks for a reminder of the blessing of children seems like we have had almost a lifetime of blessing in such a short time (3 children), married 4 years ago today.