Being a mom means

-Roibois tea and cookies at quarter to one am because you forgot to eat at dinner time...
-Feeling all that pain in the back that comes from lifting those heavy little pestifer bundles of joy.
-Having to put leftovers away and hope they get eaten the next day
-Trying to remember if the strength to fold that massive pile of kids clothes is given to you by eating, sleeping or the both combined and realizing if you need both you're screwed because one is almost always missing. So the pile grows.
-Feeling dizzy often because of overdoing while feeling overall you haven't done enough because the house is still too messy for your likings.
-Feeling Tired, often
-Forgetting things, often
-Having looots of things to think of and remember
-Feeling tired, often
-Scrubbing every surface they soil with a scourer, vinegar and baking soda and then clean it again to get it off
-Washing the carpets more than you expected because they keep ignoring the no food in the livingroom policy inevitably making a mess while you don't watch for 5 minutes
-Sweeping and hoovering and sweeping and cleaning, picking up everything
-Trying to keep your cool when inside you are raging about all the disasters they make while you are solving one of them
-Running from one room to the other because all of a sudden it's too quiet and you know they are up to no good
-Forgetting the meaning of the words relax, sit down, in peace
-Forgetting what it means to have a warm meal, eaten slowly, savoured from the first to the last bit
-Hiding things higher and higher or cover every cupboard in locks
-Take away the chairs so they can't use them to climb
-Lock the bathroom so they can't play with the toilet brush and toilet rolls
-Scold, repeat
-Watching them sleep because they are so cute
-Lift them even if they break your back for how heavy they are
-Play with them even if you feel like sleeping
-Getting blown on your belly, have your nose pinched and tiny fingers pushed in your mouth to experiment what it's like
-Receive unexpected cuddles and kisses
-Looking at them when they smile or sleep and feeling your heart melt with love