When you choose to give up smoking because life is pulsating
When in a blink, you drop down get dirty scooping some poopie
When you allow yourself to be unglamorous - hair uncombed
When your time is not yours, sleep is a forgotten course
When you had to answer little questions in the middle of tv, a favorite book
When you’re yanked out of bed for the little one is wailing,
Or when the alarm failed to alarm and school bus is beeping
When it’s 4am and your hand is feeding and one foot is crib swinging
And you try hard to catch some sleep for in a few hours work would be knocking
When all you watch is cartoons over and over again. And again.
That you're suddenly a wiz in children's television
That you're suddenly a wiz in children's television
You’ve unlearnt how to cringe on spiders
You’re a big pillow during thunders
When you can’t wait to get out of the office and scurry your way home
When you choose to forego dessert and bring the sweet treat to your rabbits
When your walls are big canvasses, splattered with all colors
When you have chipped furniture, chairs with missing leg, broken vases,
Sagging bed from jumping sprees and innumerable dives
When you leave the lamp on to light the dark bedroom
And you are their superhero shooing larking creatures
When everyday you clean goo, their teeth were a cave with cobwebs to be brushed
When you’re one big paranoid over safety
And you disinfect like crazy
And you disinfect like crazy
When they bump on everything
And shniffles rule and you have to nurse each knick and every imaginable bruise
When you monitor temperature, flinch with the sound of cough,
Because you know when something's wrong and can tell right out
When they frolic in the water and swim until they’re blue
When your heart leaps out your chest as they sprint, somersault
cross the street, or say some darn thing
cross the street, or say some darn thing
When they ask permission to a pajama party
Or on the cellphone texting somebody
When you get front row seats on
When you get front row seats on
Little hands, tiny toes, missing tooth, sun-kissed soft hair, sparkling smiles,
Artworks, lost pencils, crayons, spilt milk, juice and crushed cookies.
When they draw you in squiggly lines with big eyes and love written all over it.
When you develop a third eye on your back with an acute sense of hearing for
sibbling squables;
When baby packing means bringing the whole house and yet you still forget a thing;
When you develop a third eye on your back with an acute sense of hearing for
sibbling squables;
When baby packing means bringing the whole house and yet you still forget a thing;
When lego parts are scattered asunder on the floor,
your lotions and colognes tumble from being a building,
And Barbie’s shoes had to be found, yes, right now.
And Barbie’s shoes had to be found, yes, right now.
Puzzle pieces on your dresser, toy cars in your bag, left-over oreo for your snacks
All the happy meals you can eat so the collection is complete.
When spiderman webs his way out on the roof, waiting breathtakingly for it
to web its way back. And it doesn’t. So you buy another.
When your vocabulary is constrained to “No!”, and all they say in turn is what else but, “No!”
Or favorite word is "waaiit"
When you run out of warnings, find yourself hoarse from counting
When it’s a battle of wills during bathe time, eating time, tv time and nap time.
When you sit through your countless PTAs, study the school handbook and spot loopholes,
write excuse letters, sign on reminders, sharpen pencils, prepare mock tests,
"what's for baon?" a fixture in your subconcious;
When it’s a battle of wills during bathe time, eating time, tv time and nap time.
When you sit through your countless PTAs, study the school handbook and spot loopholes,
write excuse letters, sign on reminders, sharpen pencils, prepare mock tests,
"what's for baon?" a fixture in your subconcious;
When you’re a cook, a nurse, doctor, police chief;
First teacher, ball catcher, magician, party planner;
A toy fixer, toy sorter, crappy toy instructions analyst;
A personal shopper, bag packer, a gluer, cutter, name tag labeler,
and a project maker;
A dance/sports/speech/financial/life coach, photographer and videographer;
A meat flaker, fish thorn finder, fruit slicer, candy peeler;
and a project maker;
A dance/sports/speech/financial/life coach, photographer and videographer;
A meat flaker, fish thorn finder, fruit slicer, candy peeler;
A storyteller, a fetcher, washer, janitor, a hair-stylist, a stitcher;
A shoe lacer, sweat wiper, speller, editor, gut reader;
A lie detector, and trouble-sniffer, spectator at mayhem;
A lie detector, and trouble-sniffer, spectator at mayhem;
A heart healer, a killjoy person, an ATM;
When you’re ask.com., the explainer, a tagalog-english translator, problem-solver;
A listener, an unpaid psychiatrist, best cheerleader, and the biggest superhero of all,
When you're all these rolled into one.
Then you have the world’s most amazing job.
Then you have the world’s most amazing job.
You are a mom.
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