A Gift for You...The Mommy Quiz

This is my gift to all the mommies out there. Feel free to share this one with any other mommy you know. Someone has to write viral emails, right?

This is an easy quiz. You only have  to keep track of your "yes" answers. And even one "yes" means that you pass.






The Mommy Quiz

Have you ever…


Put a piece of priceless original art on your refrigerator?

Sewed clothing for a stuffed animal?

Decorated cupcakes after eleven o’clock at night?

Ironed a homework paper?

Catered a Blue and Gold banquet?

Spent time on your hands and knees looking for a matching Barbie shoe?

Written an important note in crayon?

Made anything out of pipe cleaners?

Stepped on a Lego?

Hidden chocolate?

Used a dryer sheet for something other than softening clothes?

Chauffered a group of people who totally ignored you?

Substituted tomato soup for something else in a recipe?

Returned clothing to a store because it wasn’t cool enough?

Made a Halloween costume out of a paper bag, a pillowcase or aluminum foil?

Picked nits?

Wished that you could be at two PTA meetings at the same time?

Decorated your Christmas tree with ornaments that had someone’s school picture on them?

Organized a game of Duck, Duck, Goose, Goose?

Washed dishes with laundry detergent?

Stayed up all night helping someone with a science fair project?

Gotten a lollipop stuck in your hair?

Read the same book five times in a row?

Repaired a backpack that really should have been replaced but couldn’t be because it had someone’s favorite character on it?

Lied when you were asked if you were too tired to help someone?

Folded a load of clothes that had more than seven unmatched socks?

Taken the one cookie that broke when you took a dozen of them off the cookie sheet?

Made a pie that you didn’t get to eat?

Truly enjoyed a second grade play?

Died a little inside when you heard someone yelling at their kid in the grocery store?

Cried during "The Little Mermaid" when Ariel's father says how much he will miss her?

Lost your heart to a snotty nose?

Grieved at a spelling bee?

Cheered for the wrong thing at a sporting event because you didn’t understand the rules?

Taken care of other sick people when you were sick yourself?

Put food coloring in milk?

Ridden a school bus in your best suit and heels?

Worn an article of clothing that was out of style so that someone else could have new clothes?

Known the difference between a T-Rex and an allosaurus?

Driven to Wal-Mart for one piece of poster board?

Made a costume depicting an obscure historical figure, a vegetable, or an amphibian?

Raided someone’s Halloween bag of candy while they were asleep?

Tried to explain a physics concept to a four-year-old?

Made dinner when what you really felt like doing was throwing up?

Played basketball, soccer, baseball or football in public in a dress or high heels or both?

Let someone win at Candyland?

Been thrilled when someone gave you a potholder?

Signed a school permission slip in the dark?

Been able at one time to identify any of the following: the four Teletubbies, the four Ninja Turtles, the four Power Rangers, the four New Kids on the Block, the four Bratz or the four Jonas Brothers?

Worked a fifteen-hour day with no pay or even thanks and felt grateful?


For every “yes," give yourself one star in your crown.Whether or not your little ones are underfoot or grown with little ones of their own, it’s probable that you spend a lot of your time doing things for other people with little thought for yourself. Many of the things you do go unrecognized and it is even possible that no one will ever thank you for them. But know this: you deserve the eternal gratitude of your family, your neighborhood and even your country. Because no one else can do what you do. And the Mommy job is and will always be the most important job in the world.