Mommy Memos

This is my personal list of true and seriously funny things I've learned, thought and done from the moment I found out I was pregnant. Most of these are my thoughts but a few are quotes I have found in various places over the last couple of years...... I will start posting Mommy Memos from now on, maybe once or twice a week when Baylor gives me the need to so keep watching for them.

• your feet will never be the same.
• it wasn't until I had my 1st child that I truly understood how much my mother loved me.
• your motherly instinct kicks in before your child is even born.
• it's okay to check on your infant 15 times in 2 hours if you don't hear a peep while they are sleeping.
• the cry it out rule didn't work for me, but it may work for others.
• no matter where you are, when the air hits the wee wee, the boys gonna pee pee.
• you can never have too many bibs.
• i don't care how I dress now, as long as my kid looks cute.
• take in what advice you want and let the rest pass in one ear and out the other.
• patience really is a virtue.
• bath time is slippery.
• you will fall in love with your baby's smell.
• it's okay to turn away help; it's okay to ask for it too.
• i wonder why something that gets pooped, peed in and thrown away cost so incredibly much?
• spit up happens.
• know matter how many times I watch the birth video, I cry every time!
• pacifiers are soothing.... for the baby that is.
• you feel you never truly existed until your 1st child is born.
• people that say they "sleep like a baby" apparently don't have one.
• there are never enough hours in the day to get things done or spend with your child.
• i never thought i could see the cutest thing expel the grossest things.
• i found reasons to wake him up, just so I could hold him.
• the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world... w.r. wallace
• i kiss my child goodnight, every night.
• children are a blessing and a gift from the Lord... psalm 127:3.
• only a mother understands what a child does not say.
• you will never have to earn your child's love.
• the 1st day of daycare is tough. take plenty of tissue.
• i thought i did a lot of laundry before the baby came... ha!
• always trust your instinct.
• take out atleast 30 minutes for yourself each day; put yourself in time out :)
• let daddy help.
• just because they start "teething" doesn't mean they are "cutting teeth".
• never stick your finger in a child's mouth with teeth just to see how many he has; it's like being attacked by Jaws.
• every precious gift comes from above... james 1:17.