Signs of Motherhood

Signs Of Motherhood

By Dianna Overholt

• A beautiful bouquet of weeds perches on your windowsill.
• Your service for sixteen contains seven plates and eleven bowls.
• Someone asks your age, and your mind blanks. But you can recall the minute when each child was born.
• After sharing your drinking glass, it resembles a miniature aquarium.
• Your dress doubles as a Kleenex box 
• Eating out is a hotdog roast.
• You don't want a dishwasher - you already have five!
• Your dryer seems to be a Bermuda Triangle for socks.
• You risk waking a sleeping baby just to kiss her soft little cheek.
• The display on your coffee table may include a dead mouse.
• "Can a moth burp?" is the sort of mind-stumping questions you face daily.
• You know how to sanitize a pacifier without turning on the faucet.
• After washing the kitchen floor, you keep returning just to admire it.
• Your diaper bag is your purse.
• You love the smell of your baby's neck.
• Smudgy handprints on windows are a form of art for your guests to enjoy.
• Being gone for a few hours makes you homesick.
• There are never enough Band-Aids in the cupboard.
• Mooing like a cow facilitates the opening of a little mouth at meal time.
• You wonder why it took you so long to comb your hair when you were a teenager.
• You're the only over heated person when the family sits down to Sunday dinner.
• After your children are sleeping, you return to their bedsides to kiss a soft cheek or stroke back some curls, and silently you thank the Lord for making you the richest woman alive. 

Taken from the inside of the back cover of the Spring 2009 edition of Keepers At Home.

Keepers At Home is a quarterly magazine published by Carlisle Press, Sugarcreek, OH.