Unexpected Things About Motherhood

• Going to the bathroom with an audience. Privacy who?
  
  
• That it IS possible to be this sleep deprived and still function.
  
  
• Vacations are no longer a vacation. They are just very long trips away from home that require a lot of packing.
  
  
• You can still take shower with three small children in the shower at the same time.
  
  
• It is no longer possible to take telephone calls when the children are awake no matter how engrossed in a movie or tv show they seem.
  
  
• That the advice for training children are similar to the advice for training puppies. Strict reinforcement of simple rules. Don't give too many treats. Consistency.
  
  
• The frequent invitations to things like Pampered Chef parties, USBourne Book Parties, and other party sales. Not really my thing so I'm suprised it is so popular.
  
  
• How difficult it is to find a good babysitter that is reliable, pays attention to your children, AND cleans up after themselves and the kids. Where have all the industrious teenagers gone?
  
  
• Relationships would be held together by the tenuous string of technology through things like Instant Messaging, Facebook, and email.
  
  
• That children can't entertain themselves for very long and will turn to MOM to fill those long hours of boredom with any number of strange crafts and activities designed to stimulate, educate, or at very least, occupy their tiny hands and minds. Activities not limited to building a paper Millennium Falcon, a Paper Mache Death Star, a Space Shuttle out of cardboard, and more.

Image by Paula Mills at paulamills.blogspot.com.