Mom!!!

          Think of ALL the words you hear in a day... Please... Thanks.. But... Why?.. Yes.. No.. Whatever.. Or probably the most used of them all.. MOM! I swear, when you have kids, you are automatically deemed center of EVERYTHING. Yes, that sounds like a terrific place to be and CAN be in some instances.. However.. Not only are you the one who does everything in a fantastic way.. You are also the one who fixes, judges, decides, and has to reason EVERY THING THAT GOES WRONG! For example... I have two daughters.. I hear "Mom!" ALL THE TIME. I hear it the loudest when one of them is in a touchy mood and all the other one has to do is look at her wrong! Then it's "Mom!!!" Like I'm suppose to just take the other ones face off or something... No... I have to admit that a few of them I let float by like I don't hear them... But only a few and I can usually tell if they are the kinds that don't really NEED to be addressed...(Mom! She moved my doll over on the shelf!!!.. Mom! She's laughing!.. Mom! She blinked at me funny!) YEAH... Those are duds and I'm hoping that they will soon learn that those are NOTHING to be screaming MOM! about.. (Yes, I know the slim likelihood of that..) The ones that make me cringe are the ones where the M is normal and the OM is SUPER INTENSE. That lets me know that there is a bug around or dog pee on the floor... Something around those natures anyway. Then there's Mooooom.... Where the M is distinctly pronounced while the rest drags on and on... This is the "Why?" and "Do I have to?" and "Pleeeeaassse!!!!" version. This usually comes around after I had already said NO to something or tell them it's time to clean their room or go to bed.. In the past few days my "Mom!" situations have been to kill a spider, rescue a Barbie shoe from the dog, help clean up fruit punch on the carpet, tuck in bed for a second time, kiss a knee after it hits the floor, to hurry up my bathroom trip because it's my turn on a board game, to reach a juice from the top shelf, and to be aware that the dog is getting ready to pee on the floor.... Yeah.. It varies.. You also have the "Ask your mom." line that pops up every so often... The weird thing is that I only ever hear the ask your mom part! What they're about to ask me could be ANYTHING! Pretty much I have from where they are until they get to me (usually a matter of seconds...) to either figure it out or put on the right face. Because honestly that line can go a few different ways too.. "Ask your mom!" with a hint of agitation means.. He's had a rough day and has PROBABLY said NO a few times and the relentless children change what they ask for a little bit until they hear what they want... Or "Ask your mom..." where the mom kind of drags for a second.. THAT usually means they're wanting to get INTO something that would normally be saved for.. you guessed it.. MOM! Could be candy she left out on the counter or the last two Pepsi's in the fridge... There are a few more too. My instances with this are fewer thankfully but here they are from this week.. To get a doughnut from a box I just brought home before dinner, to play the Xbox for an HOUR, and to get into my nail polish. Not TOO bad... The Mom's definitely out weigh the ask your moms. The last "Mom" I got was this morning around 12:35am. It was very weak sounding while she was holding her stomach.. Yikes.. That's not one of my favorites at all and nothing good usually follows it! Luckily, Pepto helped that situation..  It's crazy though that ONE WORD can be said a HUNDRED different ways and you just KNOW what it means when you hear it.. Maybe it's just the motherly instincts or possibly because in eight years I've heard it probably 79,000 times.. No matter which.. It's not going anywhere! One of my favorite versions, and you may be with me too some days, is when you hear "Mom? Moooom? MOM!" That's when you're hiding with a snack or stay an extra minute in the bathroom and they can't ambush you. :) It doesn't happen very often but come on.. We all have seen those days.. ;) So to be clear..  It will usually be determined by the length, pitch and seriousness of the pronunciation..When you hear the word "Mom" be ready for any of the following things..
-To be asked for something - To find something - To help with something - To yell at someone - To come out from hiding - To look at something - To hear something - To fix something - To kill something - To clean something - To go somewhere - To bandage something - To cook something - To take away something - To start something - To end something - To hug someone - To kiss someone - To reach something - To put away something - To ignore something - and so on...
Ahh.. To be a mom... (If you have smaller children... count how many times you hear MOM in the next few days... C R A Z Y!) :)        -Super Mom