I came across this Nanny Deprived Quiz.....I thought it was cute. Some of these are so true......ohhhh.......the things we do as mothers!
1) Have you ever eaten a random cheerio, puff, or pretzel just because you had nowhere else to put it?
2) Have you ever walked around with a half eaten cookie in your pocket?
3) Do you look forward to going to the doctor or dentist just so you can sit in the waiting room and read a magazine by yourself?
4) Have you ever used a public restroom while holding a child on your lap because there was nowhere else to put them?
5) Have you ever counted down the hours until bedtime?
6) Have you ever answered the door wearing "princess jewelry"?
7) Have you ever run out of batteries on PURPOSE?
8) Have you named your vacuum and consider it part of your family?
9) Do you ever have an audience and cheer section while exercising in the privacy of your own home?
10) Do you ever have to remind yourself that kids stories don’t count when people ask your favorite book?
11) Can you tell what time it is based on what kids show is on TV?
If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, you truly are nanny deprived.
Some quotes on mothers
"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard"
My life has gone from:
- High heels to sneakers
- Weekends in Key West to Weekends at Disney World
- Lipstick to Crayons
- Finding the perfect work pants to finding the perfect sweat pants
- Victoria's Secret to Hanes Her Way
- Partying all night to asleep by 10pm
- Dinner at Cheesecake Factory to dinner at McDonald's
- Neusua from hangovers to neusua from pregnancy
- Big Coach bags to little Coach bags ( can't give those up!)
- Jeep Wrangler to Mini-van
- Having a job to having a harder job
- Reading novels to reading picture books
- Shopping at Banana Republic to shopping at Carter's
My life has gone from good to great!
Mommy Chore Facts:
- Women average 2.2 hrs / day on chores, vs. 1.3 hrs / day for men.
- 88% of Laundry is done by moms, totaling 330 loads of laundry and 5,300 articles of clothing each year.
- The least favorite chore for moms is vacuuming the stairs.
- A baby has 7,300 diaper changes by it's 2nd birthday.
- Moms take 2 minutes, 5 seconds to change a diaper vs. 1 minute, 36 seconds for dads. For moms, this adds up to 3, 40-hour work weeks each year - just changing diapers!
- Preschoolers require mom's attention once every 4 minutes or 210 times a day.
- A preschooler's mom spends 2.7 hrs / day on primary childcare, vs 1.2 hours for dad.
Some surprising Mom facts- 82.5 million of moms in the U.S. - 2 Billion moms throughout the world.
- 4.3 Babies born each second!
- 82% of women aged 40-44 years old who are mothers. In 1976, 90% of women in that age group were mothers.
- 25 is the average age of new moms. In 1970 it was 21.
- 40% of all births are the mother's first.
- 4.0 Million is the number of women who have babies each year. Of this number, about 425,000 are teens aged 15-19, and more than 100,000 are age 40 or over.
- 35,000 births are attended by physicians, midwives or others that do not occur in hospitals.
- 2 is the average number of children that women today can expect to have in their lifetime.
- 3 is the average number of children that women in Utah and Alaska can expect to have in their lifetime.
- Only about 10% of women have four or more children today. In 1976, 36% of women had four or more children.
- 1 in 5 preschoolers are cared for in a day-care center while their mother works.
- August is the most popular Birth Month.
- Tuesday is the most popular day of the week in which to have a baby.
- The odds of a woman delivering twins is 1-in-32.
- 10 Million is the number of single mothers living with children under 18 years old. This number is up from 3 million in 1970.
- 105 Boys are born for every 100 Girls.
I decided to post a picture of my baby bump......I have had the baby bump since about 7 weeks and I am now almost 16 weeks along. The picture of my baby bump was when I was 14 weeks.....it keeps growing and growing. I feel like I am going to be huge this time! Here are just a few stats on my pregnancy so far:
