Motherhood is…
- Getting eight hours sleep… over the span of 5 days.
- Spending your evenings driving everyone around to all the things.
- Enjoying a gourmet meal of leftover nuggets and cold fries.
- Staying up far too late just to enjoy a quiet house.
- Finding poop where there shouldn’t be poop.
- Carrying fruit snacks and emergency underpants in your purse.
- Being the one your kid comes to for comfort, even if you’re the reason they are crying.
- Finding crumbs where there shouldn’t be crumbs.
- Having approximately 2,000 toddler selfies on your phone.
- Hearing phantom babies crying while you’re in the shower.
- Forgetting how to have a conversation with another adult.
- Arguing irrationally about the color of a bowl or the placement of a blanket.
- Finding Legos where there shouldn’t be Legos.
- Rolling your eyes so far back into your head that it actually hurts.
- Knowing the names and jobs of all the Paw Patrol pups.
- Fishing poop out of the bathtub.
- Finding socks where there shouldn’t be socks (also applicable to the “Marriage Is…” list).
- Driving a car full to the brim with wrappers, cups, crumbs, and Happy Meal toys.
- Experiencing joy, rage, frustration, pride, and resignation all in the space of 20 minutes.
- Worrying.
- Having in-depth conversations about snakes.
- Making empty threats.
- Enthusiastically demonstrating the deliciousness of vegetables.
- Finding rocks where there shouldn’t be rocks.
- Loving your kids so unbelievably hard while simultaneously wishing they would just be quiet and leave you alone for 5 whole minutes.
That’s motherhood to me at this moment in time. What is it to you?
