Mommy Moments

Cooking with a toddler body wrapped around your legs, between you and the cabinet. Toddler is moaning, groaning, and crying to be picked up.

Listening for your preschooler to call from the potty "Done, Mommy".

Picking up the same toys/books strewn all over the floor multiple times a day.

Shaking your head at the sight of your kids' crooked pants...a true "Daddy dressed me" sign if there ever was one.

Catching drool dead-on in your mouth because you were flying baby above you on the couch.

Finding your Tupperware cabinet emptied all over the kitchen floor.

Having no privacy in the bathroom. And even if you closed and locked the door, toddler baby girl bangs and pulls and screams the whole time for you to let her in.

Playing Candy Land, Memory, Hide-n-Seek, Go Fish, horses, Big Bad Wolf, trains, kitchen, Legos, and puzzles.

Holding and doctoring stuffed animal loveys because your preschooler swears they are sick.

Putting toys and/or children in time-out.

Wiping toys, faces, hands, booties, counters, trays, walls, windows.

Hearing what a "great idea" it would be to watch Toy Story or Mulan or Peter Pan...again.

Being requested by a grinning and expectant preschooler to smell his feet.

Emptying a dishwasher full of plastic cups, straws, silverware, plates, and lids. And sometimes Mr. Potato Head parts.

Stepping on a plastic mushroom and a Buzz Lightyear as you get out of the shower.

Listening to a little boy hum "The Wheels on the Bus" while he plays XBOX.

Always keeping an eye out for that long, lost puzzle piece that disappeared months ago.

Grinning at how the girl always goes for the white crayon to color her white paper and how the boy always stacks the Candy Land cards with the candy cards on top before we play.

Hunting with a concerned preschooler for a missing peanut card from Candy Land, but secretly not wanting to find it on principle - he's got a peanut allergy, remember.

Pretending to gobble imaginary soup that baby girl is spoon feeding you after stirring and stirring the air in her bowl.

Trying in vain to keep a straight face when the kiddos accidentally toot.