I present to you, The 7 Secrets of a Super MaMa. A new superhero in our midst. You know who you are.
1. You are part zombie. How else would you explain your ability to sleep past 12 midnight, wake up at 3am, 5am, 7am on a daily basis and NOT die? Or kill someone? Like your hubby who sleeps earlier than you, wakes up past 12 noon and tells you he’s oh soooo tired. Sleep? What sleep?
2. You bend time. You make food, feed the baby, clean the dishes, play with the baby, put the baby to sleep, do the laundry, mop the floor, educate the baby, do groceries, make dinner… How do you even manage? Well you don’t, you bend time. Or you NEED help.
3. You are a shapeshifter. You put on 20kg and then you lose it all. Or most of it. Maybe some. You may not be able to wear your itsy bitsy polka dot bikini no more, but you wouldn’t mind if the waves consumed that bikini babe. Yes, eat her whole.
4. You rid the world of pestilence. If a lizard sneaks into your baby’s room, you may not know who it is or what it wants. If it’s looking for food, there is none. But what you do have is a very particular set of hormones; hormones you have acquired over more than 9 months. Hormones that make you a nightmare for pests. If the lizard gets out of the baby’s room, that will be the end of it. You will not look for it, you will not pursue it. But if the lizard does not leave, you will look for it, you will find it, and you will kill it.
5. You are a dream weaver. And your baby knows it. That’s why your baby needs YOU to sleep. No no, daddy won’t do. Only dream weavers can and you must be one.
6. You are divine. To err is human but you always forgive. Remember that strange old man who came up to you and said your baby girl is such a handsome boy? And when you told him your baby is a girl, he shook his head and vehemently argued that it CANNOT BE? Right.
7. You are grateful. Whenever you get time off to do your own thing…
Counting down to 2014! Celebrate!
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