Mammy’s Got Talent

A recent post I came across on Insta (@irishmamabuys) was asking Mammies to share their talents; this got me thinking about my own talents; Pre and Post-Mammyhood; cos let’s face it, they are two different lives!

Pre-Mammy Talents;

• Sleeping In
• Ignoring laundry in the machine for days
• Cooking as little as possible
• Window Shopping
• Browsing
• Being Lazy (guilt free)
• Drinking!
• Hangovers that only lasted 1 day
• Going on holidays
• TV marathons (while staying awake!)

• Doing everything at the leisurely pace of my choice
• Ignoring dust & dirt (it was minimal anyways to be fair)

Mammy Talents;

• Doing housework with baby on hip
• Reciting poetry & songs while driving
• Breastfeeding while cooking
• Land speed record for chasing crawlers with a mystery mouthful
• Clocking up 15,000 steps without leaving the house
• Cooking proper dinners at least 5 days a week
• Making & sticking to shopping lists
• Sixth Sense for mischief
• Ability to predict the future (you’re going to fall!)
• Setting up production lines of laundry on the kitchen table
• Knowing where all the “lost” things are
• Making multiple dinners at one time
• Magic skill of hearing babies wake before they actually wake
• Making schedules & arranging anything & everything
• Memorising names of all characters of every show on RTEjr, Nick Jr, CBeebies, and Disney Jr
• Planning & catering for birthday parties
• Packing skills like no other (re-packing is another story)
• Translating toddler-speak
• Rage Cleaning

I could go on… the list is endless!

What Mammy Talents do you have that I missed? Be sure to let me know, maybe we could write a book!