- Your meticulously crafted birth plan made the actual day seem spontaneous and unplanned.
- Whenever you visit friends’ homes, you can’t resist the urge to secretly rearrange their silverware drawer while they’re occupied.
- Environmental activists may find themselves calling you for advice on sustainable tuna consumption.
- If you were offered a choice between a hook or a prosthetic limb after losing a hand, you’d opt for a label maker without hesitation.
- While some women indulge in crafting or knitting, your creative outlet is laminating.
- You’ve memorized the duration of every red light in your area, leaving you perplexed that Google Maps doesn’t provide this crucial detail. Doesn’t everyone want to save those precious seconds during the school run?
- Other moms might choose purses with compartments; you have wallets that contain additional wallets. Your bag-within-a-bag system is so intricate that the smallest bag is a tiny Ziploc holding just one Altoid.
- You cherish mother-daughter outings to the local office supply store, but often you prefer to go solo—after all, some spiritual practices thrive in solitude.
- Hannibal’s Alpine expedition required less gear than what you pack for a day at the beach.
- You have a strict travel rule: leave home with an empty fridge but never throw away food. Thus, you might find yourself dining on zucchini and peanut butter the night before your trip. It’s against your principles to discard a perfectly good dozen eggs, even if your kids think it’s odd that you have hardboiled eggs in your purse—secured in a special Ziploc.
- The men you’ve shared a home with now emerge from the shower, adjusting the curtain to prevent mildew, a testament to your lasting influence. While others are remembered for their fragrance or laughter, your exes recall you every time they align towels in perfect angles.
- One of your greatest joys is to “organize that”—be it the linen closet, pencil holder, or garage. You thrive on sorting, discarding, and reorganizing. While others retreat to yoga retreats, you find solace at the Container Store.
- You don’t have a junk drawer; instead, your “junk drawer” is meticulously organized with dividers, one even labeled “miscellaneous”—that’s as close to chaos as you’ll ever allow.
- You could easily sell copies of your beach packing list as a .jpeg on Etsy.
- An alphabetized spice rack is for amateurs; yours is cross-referenced by purchase date and frequency of use. You’ve even devised a motorized spice rack that rotates selections based on your customized sorting algorithm. Because surely, everyone needs that in their kitchen, right?
- Occasionally, someone in your household will place a spoon in the knife slot of the silverware organizer, leaving you to question the sanity of those you live with.
- Your husband once embraced a carefree “let’s just drive” philosophy, but after a night spent in a Cracker Barrel parking lot, he’s now a firm believer in your precise mileage calculations and hotel planning. These days, he just drives.
- Once the kids are tucked in for the night, you can accomplish more than most do all day. Those who are distracted by the Internet simply lack resilience.
- There are moments when you find yourself succumbing to distractions, and that can leave you feeling frustrated.
- The ratio of childcare needed to the amount of work you can complete is calculated with the same precision as NASA’s fuel-to-weight calculations for launching a space shuttle.
- Yes, you’re definitely on top of everything. You make the protagonist from Gone Girl look like a carefree free spirit.
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In summary, if you identify as a Type A mom, these quirky truths may resonate with you. Your meticulous nature shapes your parenting style, making everyday tasks an exercise in precision and organization.