You know it might be time to start trying to lose weight when the neighbor girl, who is over to your house to play with your children, asks you if you are having another baby. “Cause you look, like, 6 months pregnant”, she says. Gee thanks, neighbor girl. Come back any time.
You know it might be time to clean your floor when your 8 year old niece is over at your house to play and comments, “Look! I saw that sticker on your floor the last time I was here!” That sounds innocent enough, except the last time she was at your house was Thanksgiving!
You know it might be time to play with your children more often when you go outside together and you begin to play with them. Once they realize what you are doing, and that’s not sitting on the porch watching them, they look at you in amazement and your eldest says, “You mean you’re actually going to play with us?” Ouch! And your 3 year old so sweetly asks you, “Mommy, you know how to wun?”
You know it might be time to teach your eldest child how to whisper when you are sitting at the table, enjoying a nice meal at a church pot-luck, and she comes up to you and says with a loud voice, “Mama, I accidentally got some poopy in my undies. Is that okay?”