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.