Its insinuated that everything gets that little bit harder once you have a child, its pushed at us that we won’t achieve much in our childs first few years of being on this place we call Earth.
I’m here to tell you its completely untrue, Here are my top achievements since I had Little B
1. I wake up every single morning. My eyes may be glued shut & my body still aching form lack of sleep but I actually wake up people! Sound the alarm, let the whole village know!
I am awoken each morning by the alarm clock, it screams ‘WAKE UP MUMMY’. Oh wait no, I’m forced out of my lovely slumber by my now 2 year old son B.
Waking up is a killer when you have a child who wants to feed every 2 hours(that was when B was younger by the way!)
Sometimes I secretly felt like staying in bed all day BUT I manage to wake myself up!
Yay 1 mummy point.
2. I brush my hair every single morning. I know, it doesn’t seem like much but when you’ve had 3 hours of sleep & 6 hours of laying in bed with a cooing newborn its a massive achievement.
Many a time did I think of doing an Amy Winehouse & just going for the beehive never brushed hair look, but I powered on through with the help of my trusty Tangle Teezer. It may not have been clean hair, but my gosh it was smooth and knot free!
3. I eat at least once a day. Again it doesn’t seem like a huge deal but a certain child would only nap on me when he was a baby. OH & those naps lasted 2 hours a pop. Now he has me running after him like a fart in a trance so I eat as much as possible when I can.
4. Remembering to brush my teeth is an award worthy accomplishment. The few times I did forget I woke up in the night in cold sweats screaming ‘I forgot to brush my teeth!’.OKAY OKAY, I may have a slight compulsion when it comes to my teeth!
5. I will wear at least one item of clothing without a child related stain on it, now this wasn’t so easy when B was a baby as I usually was LITERALLY covered in poo but now he’s older I tend to just have a food stain or chocolate stain on one item of clothing haha. I count one stain as a victory!
6. I do a whole Tesco shop with my son, yep thats right, an entire Tesco shop!
I may have left out the fact that I keep my son on side by giving him treats & buying him certain things as we go around.
MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, some of those items get left on the shelves whilst he’s not watching but usually he’s more aware than I realise & clocks me sometimes. I usually get away with good snacks & some bubbles though.. oh & a surprise egg.
7. I’ve gone from swearing like a Sailor to casual ‘not sweary swears’. I am hugely proud of the change.
I decided to make up non-swearing swears, ‘you fluffy waffle’, ‘You eejit’ & whatever else pops into my head. A casual ‘arsehole’ or ‘knobhead’ will creep in sadly but I manage to disguise them with other less offensive ‘fluffy’ words.
Whilst he’s sleeping though, my sailor creeps back in. Bed time is Kayleigh swear time!
I hope I made you laugh, it made me giggle writing it!
Love Me x
Isn’t motherhood a barrel of laughs! It is lovely once you get your sleep back, you feel half sane at least!
I honestly don’t know how I coped sometimes!
Can totally relate to these but love being a parent even when we had the sleepiness nights
Haha I am impressed with your ability to not swear that is quite an accomplishment I have to say!
Haha, I’m nodding along with some of these! Even though my little one is only a month old – I can completely relate. X
Love this! I’m not a parent, but three of my friends have become first-time mums in the last year or so, and all of these sound familiar – numbers 1 and 7 in particular. Number 7 definitely resonates with me – I’m a pure potty mouth, and find it soooo hard not to swear around children, but I’m becoming fluent in mummy-swearing 😀
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Haa haa – this made me chuckle……I have a great range of fluffy swear words “Fiddle sticks”
I think you do amazingly well, a close friend of mine hasn’t seen a hairbrush in weeks lol x
hahah I look forward to achieving some of these as Lu gets older and give me a minute to actually find the hairbrush!
I can so relate to this post. I have gone through everything in this list and the toughest thing was to “stop swearing”. My daughter will be 2 and as they say it as ” terrible twos” I am actually working on my patience level. Great post!
I can understand this phase as I’ve gone through the same. Parenting is such a huge & responsible task.
Oh wow I have all this to come! Ree love30
the child related stain was funny. great post
Tee hee! I can relate. I’m all about celebrating wins – big and small!
Kat
Every one of those things is an accomplishment each day when you’re taking care of a little one 🙂
Haha! Something to look forward to 🙂
Haha love this. It may be harder at times but eventually its just life and you don’t know any different… I wouldn’t change it for the world and definitely celebrate the little things like a shower in total peace
Good for you. I know what you mean, I’m not a parent but I sometimes watch my baby sister and having to wake up when I don’t want to and making all kinds of different sacrifices, it can be real difficult. But it’s worth it 😉
Thanks for sharing this..Can’t become a mother and share each one of your achievements..
I am so looking forward to becoming a parent. That will be, by far, my biggest and best acheivement. It sounds like hard work, but it’s worth it.
There a quite some challenges. But it sounds like you’re doing great! For me the biggest challenge would be the sleeping (Or the lack of sleeping) and the swearing. It’s not that I swear all the time, but it just comes spontaneously haha. And sleep.. well i need it!
I can so relate to this. my youngens have all grown up now but at one stage I had 3 under 3yrs it was a struggle at times but challenges i love and that ine i conquered….and with the help of my (at that time) 12 n 10yr old. Im still debating whether i was just on autopilot or not lol
I don’t know how most Mommas can do everything like they are super heroes – they can juggle house chores plus the baby (one maybe two!) and yet they still feel great! I have full respect for these Mommas, can’t compare to anyone.
a funny but true life experience of parenthood
I agree with that ” PARENTS ARE SUPER HEROES”. Wish you 2 luck,
Parents should have a Cape of super heroes coz being one you tend to do million things at a time!
Kudos to all parents out there!
Ha ha ha! This is brilliant! We all should be oprous of achieving these! My son is 4.5 and I still sometimes forget to brush my hair until the afternoon and that’s after I’ve been out! Oops. Thanks for joining the #weekendblogshare
hahaha ! Had a good laugh but congratulations to you on the job well done ! Motherhood indeed is a difficult yet so rewarding an experience. Wish you more luck. 🙂
This made me laugh and giggle. I can imagine my wife who always talk about her experiences with our LO.
I should show this to someone I know who just had a baby, I think she would enjoy reading this. xx
I’d love that <3
Have you written this about me? Because it could totally be about me, haha. Apart from number 7. I still swear like a dirty ole sailor and really need to stop. Toby is picking up all sorts of words, he’s already said ‘Sugar Honey Ice Tea’ -eek! x
An amusing post – I enjoyed this one!
It is so hard to get around a supermarket sometimes isn’t it!