Nevergirl's

If there’s anything being mom to two girls has made me, it’s stalwart. Nothing ever surprised me anymore, not the fact that on my bookmarks you will find alongside sites on insurance advertising and whatnot kiddie staples like Nickjr.com and Y8.com. Or the fact that I’m almost always jolted awake at 4am by a 5-year-old who has nightmares in English. Or that I watch what my 5-year-old watches – under duress most of the time, I tell you – and actually enjoy it!

I’m sure motherhood has changed me in a lot of ways.

On Friday nights, I put on a floppy hat, grab a tote, and spend an hour or so marching about the living room, singing a Peter Pan track, “Following the Leader”.

On weekends, I resign myself to eating whatever the 5-year-old whips up as she “cooks” beside the hub. Thank goodness for my tum, she hasn’t come up with anything poisonous yet.

Every day, I fully expect to find toys in the bathroom sink, Play-doh in the laundry basket, and plastic dinner stoves and plates under the pillows.

So yes, stalwart would have to be the best adjective for the person motherhood has turned me into. I can clean up after poop, change nappies, endure tantrums, and stop my two daughters from killing each other without batting an eyelash.

If you ask me to come up with titles to describe just what it is I do at home, it would have to be these, in the following order: maid, nurse, barber, entertainer, jury, judge, personal shopper, executioner, referee, and warden.