• The thought of adult interaction makes you salivate.

• You can go four days without a shower and no one in your house notices or cares.

• There are smiles when you serve peanut-butter (or in our house, sunflower-seed butter) and jelly for the third night in a row.

• The only time the other side of your bed gets used is when your kids climb in.

• Your son takes your hand or when your daughter says you look beautiful, can fill your heart in ways you didn’t think possible.

• You have a running tally in your head of how often the “fatherless” are mentioned in the Bible.

• You think you’re forgetting something if you’re not carrying at least two bags, have a toddler on your hip, a child by the hand, keys in your pocket, camera around your neck, and talking on the phone.

• Your Friday nights are now filled with exciting things like paying bills and folding laundry.

• You continually surprise yourself by how big of a mess you are willing to put up with just for a few moments of peace.

• What you consider a massage is letting your son roll his hot-wheels up and down your back.

• Your new heroes are Lois and Eunice (2 Timothy 1:5)

• You have never had so many strangers ask you if you need help.

• The crayon artwork on your walls is there for months because a) you just noticed it, and b) there are about 100 things more important on your to-do list.

• You are more thankful for your kids than ever before.

*These were written a little tongue-in-cheek, so please take them that way.  Also, I fully realize that most of these could apply to any mom…I just find them more intense as a single mom.