On being a boy-mom
We ‘boy moms’ get to know each other pretty quickly. Maybe that’s because we, more than most women, are always desperately seeking female companionship. We relate and we commiserate.
But I don’t mean to be negative?I love all of my little men! I am the Queen of the house. My husband bought me a pink cell phone. My oldest son bought me the pink poodle Webkin, which I registered and officially adopted through the Webkins site.
When you’re the mom of all boys, you learn to look at the toilet seat each time you visit the bathroom; quite often, little boys ‘miss their target’ and leave little puddles behind. Of course, occasionally I forget to check the seat and sit in one of those puddles (yuck).
I have gotten a real education about sports, as my boys are quite the little athletes. Growing up in a house full of women, I knew all about toe slippers and tutus. Now I’m making trips to Dick’s Sporting Goods for cleats, shin-guards, baseball underwear and cups (you know, to protect a boy’s most sensitive body part?).
I often think of my midwife’s saying, long before I ventured into being the mom of three boys. She’d say: ‘There’s a special place in heaven for the mom of three boys‘. Did she know that I was destined to have a three’
I am friendly with a woman who has four boys. The first time I was inside her house, I noticed a sign on her powder room door which read: ‘There’s a special bathroom in heaven for the mom of four boys‘. Moms like us need to stick together. We need to laugh together about the crazy stunts our boys come up with on a daily basis. We need to laugh at how clueless they are about our (their mothers?) anatomy, at least until a certain age.
When my middle son was about two, he was fascinated with the fact that I had to sit down to go ‘pee-pee’. He walked in on me in the potty once and watched me very closely. ‘Mom!,’ he exclaimed, ‘You pee out of your butt!’. Lovely, huh?
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Science-mom says...
Great one, Amy. I have 2 boys myself and loving it
That “special place” and “special bathroom” for mums like us are so lovely.
We were visiting a friend with 2 girls the other day and each time my boys use the bathroom, I ran to check. Just scared she wouldn’ understand