I’m not saying these are exclusive to SBMs, heck, these are every mom things, but since SBMs don’t have an extra set of hands to, say, take out the garbage, fix “no signal” message on the TV (sheer instant panic), or change the battery for the house alarm, you might find yourself doing the following, a… little more often. So here it goes:
You know you are a Single Busy Mommy when you …
- Wipe the counter with your bare hand
- Eat what you kid didn’t eat on his or her plate over the sink
- Take personal pride when all of the glass (notice I didn’t say plastic) food containers are put away with their corresponding lid
- Misplace your coffee and glass of wine all over the house and find it days later
- The second you get home the hair goes up in a bun, the Hanes 100% cotton white tank goes on (you don’t wear polyester), stretch bike shorts, and a pair of flip flops
- Do 25 jumping jacks while the pasta is cooking
- Feel your only time “off” at home is when your kid is in bed or on the toilet
- As tired as you are, you hate to go to bed when your little one is down because this is your only “me” time
- Wake up tired since you were up late indulging in me time
- Think the best dessert is throwing a handful of roasted almonds (or macadamia nuts) in your mouth with an equal amount of semisweet chocolate chips (bakeless, bowl-less, and clean-up less, dessert. Any questions?)
- Say: “Did you brush your teeth, wash your face, brush your hair, make your bed?” every day since the first day of kindergarten, which is 365 x 6 (starting at kindergarten) in my case that would be in the neighborhood of 2,190 times
- You save a frog in the garage that the cat was playing with and to do so you had to move three huge bins of Xmas decorations, the golf clubs (yeah, I used to play golf), a shop vac, and reach into a bunch of spider webs and dust to get to it and then you carefully rinse it in the sink to get the dust off
- You set the frog down on your porch, crouching down hoping it will hop away and isn’t “broken” from the grab and rinse cycle
- Are thrilled when it hops away!
- Are expert at not bearing weight on the foot that just landed on a lego
- You can shower in 10 minutes flat
- You do a set of 25 squats when you dry your hair
- Dream about being able to fit in all of those clothes you are hanging onto that you used to wear
- Daydream about clean closets and laundry being done
- You loathe having to bring side dishes anywhere – aren’t I doing enough already?!
Just sayin’ …
—SBM
Single Busy Mommy 