10 things I learned being a MOM

To round up my learnings as a mom, here are the top 10 that I have learned. No doubt there are many more, but these are the top ones in my book!

1. You are always a bad mother. ALWAYS. According to someone or the other you will always be a bad mother who doesn't feed the kid right, dress the kid right, discipline enough or disciplines too much. Blah blah. Being a mom lays you open for judgement at all times whether you like it or not. Just ignore and walk this path. The only person who needs to agree with you is your partner and the less I say about the rest is best!
   
2. You will become an amazing story teller. From bed time stories to making up wild stories about why we cannot fly like dragons - you will tell them all!
   
3. You will never have enough clothes. Well this goes for all women whether they have kids or not. But especially after becoming a mom you will have 3 kinds of clothes. Clean ones, dirty ones, and 'I will fit into these someday' ones. And amongst all these, will be those 10 clothes that you will wear on rotation until they literally fall off! (Ok I might be exaggerating because if hubby reads this he will be like NO WAY!!)
   
4. You will suffer from memory loss. I don;t know why this is such a mom thing. I really do suffer from memory loss and guess what - it's normal. Right from ordering extra diapers and wipes everyday in a row for 3 days - to forgetting you have groceries and buying them again - I am guilty of it all. Don't know why but I have a feeling that 'bheje mein bhusa bhara hain' comes from a very honest mom!
   
5. You will NEVER have hot tea or coffee again. Or cold, cold drinks. Just never. You can sneak into the corners of the universe but hot or cold drinks will always lose their temperature before you have them. It's universal.
   
6. You will lose track of time all the time. It's actually like you glance at the clock its 8 am. Next you look up and it's 11! And you have no clue where you were in that time. Look at point number 4 for further details.
   
7. This one is for all the moms with potty trained kids. Whenever there are good clean toilets in sight, your kids will not go. They never feel like. The moment you are stuck in traffic with nothing else in sight - their little bladders are full.
   
8. Your kid will repeat the darndest things. So be careful about what you say. They won't repeat the spellings that you were teaching them. No Sir! Instead, they will surely repeat that mamma told daddy that aunty looked really fat and had cakey makeup on! This - yes they will.
   
9. The moment you want to eat - they want to go potty. Without fail. You can try varying your timings to suit their potty schedule, but it's pegged to our lunch and dinner times. Even if you eat your lunch at 4 in the evening - that particular day, they will go at 4!
   
10. You will still love it all. All these notwithstanding being a mom totally rocks my boat and I love it. Yes even though I have forgotten what cold coke and hot tea tastes like.

Mommy Dress Up

How many of us just wake up and throw on some old clothes and tie our hair in a bun? Well, if you are not one of them, then kudos to you, but 80% mommies do this. We need to wake up, change diapers (of the baby's obviously) and start on breakfast. If you are a nursing mommy, you NEED to eat. Like absolutely need to, want to.

And then there's coffee. Which for me personally is tea! I need to have my cup pf tea in the morning, just sitting for those 5 minutes without a toddler or actually anyone in my presence. You know those ads where they show people sitting together and having tea? yeah! Well, not my cup of tea. I hate to talk early in the morning before having tea.

And while I do try to get in a small workout, let's face it - it almost never happens. I am working out running between the bedroom and bathroom and kitchen. Now that my little one is in school, I need to prepare her tiffin box (a post for later) and I really cannot think straight during this personal rush hour.

To top this off, has anyone realized that kids are the s-l-o-w-e-s-t in the mornings? At 10 PM , they will run and scream and jump all over you, the bed, the sofa and the walls (gravity permitting!) But at 7 AM, s-l-o-w. Like deadly slow. The moment I hand a cup of milk over to my daughter, I swear I can waltz around and come back but the straw hasn't reached her mouth yet!!!

Well where am I getting? The fact that we all go through this. As a mom without any experience, i felt the worst in the mornings. i thought other mothers have their shit so well put together and here I am trying to comb Miss A's hair with one hand and make her wear socks with the other. But no sir, that's not the case. We all are living this now, and seriously we need a hug.

But on these very days, I think I have found what helps me. A well planned schedule and a lovely outfit. I prep for the tiffin the previous night and lay out my clothes for the morning. Never mind that it's just to drop off Miss A to school. But it really makes a difference when I don't wear yoga pants and actually wear better clothes. My outfit really makes me feel put together. Because when I look good, it's like half the battle won!

Here we go again!

Ok so contrary to what that sounds like, here we go again means I AM BLOGGING AGAIN..... and not I am pregnant again. Just to clear that bit!

Most of the last few years were spent with my lil Miss A who is now a super cute and sassy girl. And after putting off writing many many times in the past, I want to be back now. I always put this on the back burner, waiting for a milestone, but now I am back, and for good!

So many times, we put things off like this, waiting for a particular thing, a milestone, a divine intervention and what not. But recent events (I lost my beloved aunt) have taught me that it's now that we need to live in. I know it's not something new, but self realization is what hits you the most.

I am a compulsive planner, a list maker, and I have a book of lists of all my lists. Sounds silly much? But that's how I am and how I roll. I wasn't this organised, but parenting turned my brain into a mush puddle and now if I don't write it down, I might forget my own name as well. I love to plan the future with the same zeal as a General might plan his war time troops. I have my diary all written down (and seriously I need it) but really at times I feel the need to just relax. Stop and pause and have fun. And vent. Which is why this blog.

So I hope everyone enjoys a bit here (all of my 100 readers that is) and see you soon :)