Writer's Workshop: Mommy University..I Have A Lifetime Until Graduation Day!

It's Writer's Workshop day at Mama Kat's. Head on over, check out the prompts and link up. It's fun. If you do it, let me know. I'll stop by and check you out!

Today I chose the prompt: List 10 things you never knew until you were a mom. Let's begin!

1) Every child you have will try and see if an entire roll of toilet paper will fit down the drain at once. Then, after you discover them giggling at the mess, you will get to stick your hand into the toilet to dig said mess from drain and plunge for what seems like hours. This is why it's a good thing to obsessively clean your toilets.

2) No matter how big your house is, there is never enough room for all the crap that comes with having a baby. Cribs, toys, strollers, clothes, dressers, decorations...They take over everything!! EVERYTHING!!!

3) Babies are magnets for strangers in the store. They are also magnets for older siblings. They will ask the one that knows how to talk about their little sister and brother. This will prompt the one that knows how to talk to look at you and ask why that, "Weird woman is talking to me."

4) It doesn't matter how much you clean and organize, your house will fall to ruins within seconds. You pick up a sock, it's replaced with six more. You throw away a broken crayon, it's replaced with 10 more. You clean paint off the fridge, your daughter draws a copy of Starry Night on your wall.

5) Breast pumps should have special labels for engorgement periods. They should be, I Can Deal With It, Wow That's Uncomfortable and OH GOD WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME!

6) Invest in wire cutters for birthdays and Christmas. We have a pair. It cuts down those valuable seconds when your kids are standing over you with that rabid new toy look in their eye. Just a snip here and a snap there and the toy is free.

7) If you buy toys throughout the year for birthdays and Christmas during sales and Clearance and stash them in your closet, your kids will find out. Your oldest will sneak in when you are in the closet looking for stuff and come quietly up behind you to casually ask, "What you doing?" while craning his neck to scan the closet.

8) Having a picnic with your kids on the living room floor is fun. Having your daughter steal half your food during said picnic isn't.

9) I always heard 'Sleep when the baby sleeps'. I thought, "Psh..I don't need to do that." Turns out, I did.

10) No matter how many kids you have, your heart will swell to amounts you never knew possible. It feels like it's going to burst whenever you look at them.