Marsha Maung:: Freelance graphic designer and writer

First, read this. It’s an excerpt from Sure Signs you’re the mother of boys by Sharon O’Donnell. I am quite picky about who I like as a writer and for me, Sharon O’Donnell has this way of writing that either touches you or tickles you. Everything that she writes about parenting and being a mother is so true that it makes you want to cry!

Excerpts from: Sure Signs You’re the Mother of Boys

by Sharon O’Donnell

• you find Power Ranger parts under your sofa. Sometimes your vacuum cleaner finds them first.

• your weekend schedule includes more total hours of little league sports than it does sleep

• they think PMS is the new Play Station video game system

• you have to chase down the playful family dog to retrieve your son’s jock strap

• the most romantic movie you’ve watched in the last five years is DieHard II

• you have to arrange two weeks ahead of time to take a bubble bath – and then must lock the door and scream “I’m in the tub – ask Dad!” every three minutes.

I not only find Power Ranger parts under the sofa, I find it in my underwear drawer, in the fridge in the wok and many other unimaginable places. And I have not been able to find the time to sit down to plan the next five minutes….a bath? Out of the question!! The only bath I get these days is in the condo pool. And I don’t think they allow red wine there….