Things I didn't know before I became a mother:
1. How rare and precious 2 minutes alone in the bathroom could be.
2. The importance of a pocketful of rocks to a little boy.
3. Why my mother said things like because I said so; don't eat that; wash your hands and one, two, two and a half...
4. What the phrase "pick your battles" truly means.
5. Why restaurants give children crayons with a paper menu or ban children completely.
6. Immortality and the fear of death.
7. You can never successfully hide a cookie.
8. How french fries and ketchup can be considered a vegetable.
9. Fish sticks. And chicken nuggets.
10. Why Kleenex were invented when there are perfectly good shirt sleeves and pants already. (ok this one is a question I have since I became a mother.)
11. The reason Legos should be outlawed or require a tetanus shot.
12. The importance of coffee and/or wine in a mother's day.
13. The fun of finger paint and sidewalk chalk.
14. The meaning of mother's day.
Hahaaa... I came her from Kim's blog and I love your 'mother's day meanings'... especially the coffee/wine 'rule'... My son moved out now (he's almost 20, eeekk!) but I do remember him collecting benches, the lego, two-and-a-half and cookies... yep, it's the same all over the world! Warm greetings from the Netherlands!
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