You know you're someone's mummy when - Wedding Forum

nikki · #1 (**permalink**) 10-11-2005, 05:41 PM

YOU KNOW YOU’RE SOMEONE’S MUMMY WHEN……

• All nouns suddenly end in Y, eg, Doggy, Milky, and are sometimes even so good you name them twice, as in “Do you want a drinky-drink?”
• You find yourself comforting your shopping trolley in Asda by pushing it gently back and forwards in the queue
• You look around a room strewn with toys, books and toast and think “Hmmm, reasonably tidy today”
• You know all the words and actions to “The Wheels on the Bus” and discover that there is more than one version of “Row Row Row Your Boat”
• You never leave home without a blob of a) porridge or b) something orange, staining at least one item of your clothing
• You sniff a child’s backside without vomiting
• Pubs are no longer a haven and refuge but somewhere with a ball pond and chicken nuggets on the menu
• You look at the woman with the screaming child in the shopping trolley and don’t think “Can’t she control that child?”
• You ARE the woman with the screaming child in the shopping trolley and no, you can’t
• The presenters of Cbeebies are your dearest friends
• A good night’s sleep is about four hours
• You begin to fantasize about someone chucking you £50 and saying, “Go and stay in that crappy Travelodge round the corner by yourself for the night”
• A night out is prepared for with the ruthlessness of a military operation
• Overpriced holiday resorts “with Kid’s Club!!” sound like a great deal

But on a serious note:
• You are a hostage to the overwhelming love and devotion you feel for the rest of your life. Congratulations!

Ang · #2 (**permalink**) 10-11-2005, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by nikki

You find yourself comforting your shopping trolley in Asda by pushing it gently back and forwards in the queue

That one reminds me of the time I'd gone to the shop on my own when Leanne was a baby. She was a baby that needed lots of jigging up and down iykwim. I'd only gone for a bag of sticks for the fire and I was stood talking to the woman in the shop jigging this bag of sticks about so much that she had to point out to me that they were sticks and not Leanne

bron · #3 (**permalink**) 10-11-2005, 06:12 PM

my mum talks about talking to empty pushchairs afterdropping me at playgroup (used to that is

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Is there another verse to row the boat?

mrs_cupotea · #4 (**permalink**) 11-11-2005, 05:31 AM

ha ha ha they are all so true.

Sunshine · #5 (**permalink**) 11-11-2005, 02:25 PM

Ha haaaa - we've perhaps got all that to come!

Mrs F · #6 (**permalink**) 11-11-2005, 05:02 PM

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Pubs are no longer a haven and refuge but somewhere with a ball pond and chicken nuggets on the menu

Ahhhhhh yes thank god for the Wacky Warehouse.

nikki · #7 (**permalink**) 12-11-2005, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by bron

my mum talks about talking to empty pushchairs afterdropping me at playgroup (used to that is

)
Is there another verse to row the boat?

Not really, but there is "Row row row your boat gently down the stream, if you see a crocodile don't forget to scream! AGHHHH!" which George LOVES.

weez · #8 (**permalink**) 12-11-2005, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by nikki

Not really, but there is "Row row row your boat gently down the stream, if you see a crocodile don't forget to scream! AGHHHH!" which George LOVES.

and of course, "row, row, row yoour boat gently down the river, if you see a polar bear, don't forget to shiver"

I have been known to talk to a shopping trolly while walking around homebase with my class from work, and I wasn't even a Mum yet.

louise xxx

weez · #9 (**permalink**) 12-11-2005, 02:27 PM

or even the black adder public school version, " row,row,row your boat gently down the stream, belt off, trousers down, isn't life a scream"

Kay · #10 (**permalink**) 12-11-2005, 02:30 PM

And then there is a 3rd verse:

"Row, row, row your boat gently down the nile, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, watch that crocodile, ...snap!"

bron · #11 (**permalink**) 12-11-2005, 04:22 PM

ok I usualy use that one anyway.
And also row row row the boar gently down the stream throw.. <insertname> overboard and listen to her/him scream

kirsty · #12 (**permalink**) 13-11-2005, 10:02 AM

• You begin to fantasize about someone chucking you £50 and saying, “Go and stay in that crappy Travelodge round the corner by yourself for the night”

THis was actually what i wanted for my birthday this year! DIdnt get it tho

Nicola B · #13 (**permalink**) 13-11-2005, 04:18 PM

Also
...underneath the stream, ha ha fooled you, its a submarine.
...gently down the bath, if you see an elephant, don't forget to laugh.
and quite a few other verses that escape me now.

And what I wouldn't give for four hours sleep a night at the moment.... (It will end soon though as I am implementing a Supernanny technique tonight!)

Nicola

Lady Rools · #14 (**permalink**) 23-11-2005, 05:37 PM

i love all those versions and your commentary too nikki. Remind me to search for this post when i have another baby. x

weez · #15 (**permalink**) 28-12-2005, 05:30 PM

I tknow that I am truly a little girls mother, now that i am beginning to think arranged marriage might be a good idea

6 months old and i'm already dreading her meeting "boys"

stack · #16 (**permalink**) 09-01-2006, 08:00 AM

cool never knew all those verses will sing them to mathew tonight