Monday, February 24, 2014

Is this part of being a Mom or am I just crazy?



So, I find myself doing things that seem OCD to me.
And, sometimes I laugh at myself and think "Do other Moms do this?"
What do I mean?

Is it normal for a Mom to randomly check the bathrooms?
Why?
Someone probably didn't flush the toilet at some point today.
Or, someone probably used the toilet paper as streamers in the bathroom.
Or, there might be toothpaste all over.
Or, wet pull-ups casually tossed about instead of in the trash.
Or, if there is a child inside the bathroom and there is also great silence, then there is something happening that the child knows they are doing wrong.

What about the sniff check.
You find a mysterious smell and you track it down.
Why?
It could be a rotted half eaten banana stuffed behind some piece of furniture.
It could be a diaper or pull up stuffed in a vent (because someone wanted to hide the evidence).
It could be poop in a drawer all by itself (yes this happened).
It could be some other mysterious substance that has been there for who knows how long and we have no idea what it even is at this point.
If the smell is attached to a kid, yes, we even smell their bottoms.
Non parents are probably cringing at this- the smelling of a another human being's bottom.



Moms (and yes dads too) get all the dirty jobs:
diapers
boogers
throw up
diarrhea
snot (totally different from boogers)
poop
pee
You name it
All in the name of Love.

If you are a Mom, you have probably been:
Pooped on (I actually woke up one time surrounded in diarrhea from a sick baby- it was in my hair and everything)
Peed on (if you have boys, you know all about the challenges of changing diapers without getting wet)
Drooled on (kisses!)
Thrown up on (those unexpected throw ups are brutal)
Sneezed on
And more

But, if you are like this Mommy, you wouldn't have it any other way.

Does that mean that we are constantly searching the house like an investigator for the next "event" our children have brought into our lives? (Like the moms who have had to clean up the poop paint their little artist has left on the walls)
Yes it does.
Does that make us crazy?
Nah…. although any non-parents may think so
"What are you doing?"


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