i shall heretofore create the Momlympics. the first event of the first momlympiad will be one-handed stuff. perhaps the one-handed relay, the one-handed slalom? i haven't thought of what i'll term the new game...that'll come later, tater.
so...here's what will qualify you for a medal in the one-handed event...feel free to add a task to the appropriate medal (limit it to stuff you've actually done)...altho...i maintain my right as creator of the momlympiad to edit your addition...
All events to be performed while holding a screaming, hungry, sleepy, and/or wet baby (oh...and the "child" to which I refer is not the child in your arms...it's one of your other chilluns):
Bronze Medal
giving another child a bath
pouring a cup of milk
wiping the counters
emptying the dishwasher
swiffering
Silver Medal
making a sandwich
kneading dough
folding laundry
changing a poopy pullup w/o spillage
Gold Medal
buttoning a child's shirt
making a bed
dressing yourself
putting on a child's socks
more later...that's all i could think of for now.
to sum:
1. should the momlympiad be a summer or winter game? perhaps neither...how about spring?
2. instead of medals, i think i'll hand out spa treatments and massages
3. 5...5 total hours slept in the last 24...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
What hasn't been done would be a shorter list!
ReplyDelete1. ITs a year-round event
2. Moms don't do that for themselves often enough.
3. Mine is almost 4mo old and I am in the same shape.
AND just to add to the list: Bowling (over a 100), playing tennis, skimming the pool, preparing an entire meal and setting the table and eating (a steak), ironing, paying bills, teaching school (that requires examples on a chalk board), icing a cake, all stages of laundry, getting splinters out, painting nails, bandaging booboos, brushing and fixing hair, and the list goes on...
Steph - hope you get some sleep soon!
Writing a letter to the spouse who deployed when Baby #4 was three weeks old!
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