You Know It's A Full Moon When...

1. The cows are mooing exceptionally loud behind your house.

2. Your car breaks down for the second time in five weeks. Did I mention it's a Honda? (My Fairy Godmother is REALLY letting me down on this one!)

3. Your 5 month old - who is usually an angel - refuses to sleep and insists on sucking on her paci upside down and then gets mad because it doesn't work right.

4. Easter decorations bring people to the point of irrational sensitivity, throwing plastic eggs and cloth bunnies, and breaking down in tears.

5. You find yourself craving country music when the severity of your aversion to it typically causes nausea and blurred vision.

6. As you fly down the interstate, your three year old begins to panic because she has to pee. Because the two year old is in the midst of a temper tantrum over cookies and your five month old is asleep, your most "rational" thought at the moment is to pull off the pending pee-er's underwear and stuff a too-small diaper under her butt and tell her to "go in there". All of this while you are still driving. (I mean, not that I have ever actually done that...)

7. Reading that there will be NO COUPONS in this Sunday's paper actually brings you to the brink of tears.

8. Your poop eating dog seems to have developed an uncanny ability to whine in tune with the music playing on the computer while you are blogging.

9. Your children appear to have been replaced by uncontrollable beasts who refuse to sleep even though they haven't had a nap and have been up since, oh, BEFORE DAWN!

10. All of this happens IN THE SAME DAY within a LESS THAN SIX HOUR TIME SPAN!

And now, The Mama is off to unwind with a glass of wine and a chocolate chip cookie.

Love, hugs, and blessings,
The Mama