And yet another Mike Rowe Post/ Being a mom is a dirty job

I love watching Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. So I was thinking about all the Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe has gladly participated. I think I have experienced a few similar jobs as a mom.

1. Mike Rowe spends the day with biting animals such as alligators.

Marsha Loftis nurses a baby with a full mouth of teeth. Why would I want to do such a dangerous thing? I don’t know it seemed like the thing to do at the time. I wasn’t really expecting my breast nipple to be bitten from my body when a noise from the other room suddenly distracts my baby from her task at receiving nurishment. She suddenly turns her head and instead of letting go of my nipple she takes it toward the sound. Oh it hurt…but I am tough. I didn’t even say the dirty words that were running through my mind.

2. Mike Rowe seems to enjoy playing in poop or poo as he likes to call it.

Marsha Loftis has a few examples of playing in poo. I shall only list one. I was in the grocery store with a cranky toddler and a baby on my hip attempting to sooth said baby with a breast, stop the toddler from falling out of the cart and still retrieve the needed groceries off of the shelf. I make it all the way to the check out line. I’m almost to the front. I suddenly hear a grunt like no other grunt ever heard before. The people behind me heard the grunt. I still remember their “eewwwws” My nursing baby had just dropped a load of poo in her diaper and it proceeded to make it’s way out the diaper, all the way up my daughter’s back and down my arm. There was a moment of contemplation on what to do next. Did I leave my groceries and come back later. I think not. I finished through the check out line.

3. Mike Rowe is afraid of bugs. Let a couple of cockroaches run up his pants and watch him squil like a girl.

Marsha Loftis is not afraid of bugs. In fact a rather large spider came for a visit one day and instead of running away in fear I stopped to take a picture. Daughter number 3 tried to eat a wolly catepillar as a toddler. I removed it from her mouth with a finger sweep. number 1 son captured a praying mantis. For safe keeping he kept it in mom’s “wet ones” hand wipes. This thing was a good four inches long.

4. Mike Rowe has had several dirty jobs where he has assisted with animal reproduction.

Masha Loftis has actually given birth five times.

5. Mike Rowe vomits over the side of a boat at the site and stench of chopped up fish.

Marsha Loftis has slept with a sick child on her chest. In appreciation the child threw up on my chest. I never lost my cookies.

6. Mike Rowe has a great body.

Marsha Loftis has a great body. I’m a mom!