I Knew I Was a Mom When…

• When Spike started becoming less “household pet” and more “household vacuum cleaner”. -Courtney
• When me, as a total neat freak and germ aphobe was fine with sloppy open mouth kisses from my baby. Even welcomed them! -Emily
• When I realized that I spent more time inspecting baby poop in any given day (my baby has major food allergies) than I do on my hair and makeup. -Natalie (yep, this one is mine!)
• When I started calling my husband “Dad” instead of “Dave”. -Erin
• When I found boogers in two different places on my shirt. That two year old is a fast and sneaky one! -anonymous
• When I could find a baby sock, a toy car, two smashed packages of crackers, a lego man and a Flinstone’s vitamin but not my checkbook in my purse! -Rachel
• When I started referring to using the bathroom as going potty. -Robin
• When I realized I was singing Itsy Bitsy Spider up and down the aisles at the grocery store. In my pre-baby days you could NOT pay me to sing in front of strangers! -Stephanie
• When the other day I walked into the post office to mail some packages when my three year old pointed out to me that my shirt was inside out… My thought was that it was probably cleaner on that side anyway without all the sticky finger prints and splatters on it… -Marsha
• When I could so freely talk about poop with other women. -Tycie
• When I found a pacifier in the nursing bra I WAS WEARING in the checkout line at the grocery store. I was so sleep deprived the first few months! -Natalie (me again)
• When I can no longer count on one hand how many times my kids have opened the bathroom door on me in public places! Just when I get one trained to not do it the younger one decides it’s a good thing to do! -anonymous
• When my youngest crawled under my maternity dress at church to “look for the baby” and announced loudly and indignantly that there was most certainly no baby to be seen! -anonymous
• When I got bit more than one once in the hind-end while making dinner at the stove. Didn’t even see it coming! All the kids went through that phase unfortunately. -Jenny

What funny thing made you realize that you have been initiated into Mommyhood?