Women play many roles in their lives, they are someone’s daughter, sister, neice, aunt, wife and mum. The last has been fairly new to me, I’ve spent the least amount of time being it, only 3 years in fact. So it’s a role that I should be least good at and the excuse I should use is that I’m still new at it. But really, I’ve been on the job for three years now and it still hasn’t hit me how life changing being a mum has been. It suddenly dawned on me this week how deeply I have jumped into the mum bandwagon when I was excited with the sunny weather just so that I can do the laundry and hang it outside. Here is how I know I am a mum:
- When I feel relieved that that my son has done a poo for the day
- When I get more excited on my son’s birthday than my own
- Toys sales gets me more excited than sales at my favourite stores like Mimco, Midas and Jigsaw.
- When I trick myself into thinking that the mash potatos or chips my son eats is a serving of vegies
- When I can’t remember the last time I read a book that had more words than pictures
- When I stop everything that I am doing and run to the window in excitement pointing to my son that there’s a rubbish truck on the road
- When going to the toilet alone gets me excited
- When I go out smelling like breastmilk, on my milk stained top and not realise it until it’s too late
- When I know the words to more nursery rhymes than the latest top 10 songs on the music charts
- When i find my fingers picking not just my nose, but that of my sons
- When saying, ‘Say Thank You’ and ‘Say Please’ is automatic
- When makeup and lipgloss in my handbag got replaced with emergency biscuits and Matchbox cars.
- When I kiss my son and give him cuddles when he’s got the flu, coughing and sneezing on me even though I am 26 weeks pregnant
Ahhh, that’s love, that’s being a mum!
