JFF- What Have You Learned How to Do One-handed?

Here's one that might be new! While in China in 2003 to bring home my beautiful 9 month old girl (I'm a single/never-married woman), I learned to go to the bathroom while holding her! There were very few "western" toilets in some areas - mostly just holes in the ground - and when you've gotta go, you've gotta go. I didn't want to put her down on the ground and there was no one around I could ask. So I learned to hold her, squat, go, clean up and stand back up, all while holding a 15 pound squirming baby girl! After that, anything was possible with only one hand available!

Eat just about every meal.

Cook

Load the dishwasher.

Load the washing machine.

Transfer clothes from washer to dryer.

Turn pages of a book while cooking and holding the baby - not the safest, but what can I say. I was in school and really pressed for time.

Button another child's shirt.

Check the mail. (as in take it out of the box and open each piece, disposing of it accordingly).

Write checks.

Now that I think about it, I am not sure I do much with both hands at home.

Looking through the mail
Eating, at times
Putting my daughter's pants on while another hand trying to keep her still
Carrying a few bags of the groceries while a sleeping little girl is against my shoulder
Digging keys out of my purse to open the door while a sleeping little girl is against my shoulder
Typing on a keyboard
Texting
Driving, that is something I've always done

I'm sure there's more... I do random things with one hand

hahaha, love this. I think it would be a shorter list for me to say what I CAN'T do with 1 hand!!!!

I thought being a mom meant we HAD to do almost everything one handed because we are constantly multi-tasking!?? hahaha!!! Make beds, make lunch, load the dishwasher, use the bathroom...laundry, you name it, we've probably all done it! You won't really know WHAT to do w/ your hands when your kids no longer need you to feed them, change them or clean them up! ENJOY!

Breaest feeding a new born in one hand and rocking my 2 year old with the other.

I learned how to peel an orange one-handed while nursing my daughter. :-) And type one-handed (of course).

ROFL... I learned to do EVERYTHING with my right hand/arm/and the occasional leg and foot (prehensile toes help), holding a baby in my left arm. I've been holding a baby in my left arm since I was 10 years old. I can cook, clean (including doing dishes), type at about 50 wpm, read, write longhand (you need a paperweight), iron, dry my hair, open mail, get dressed, chop with the speed of a kung fu movie, all with a squirming baby or toddler or carseat in my left arm. (My left arm is STRONG).

This past February, I was deadlifting my 80lb sleeping son out of the jeep and my RIGHT collarbone dislocated. Doh. Then a week or two later I fell down and tore my right shoulder to bits (popped my collarbone back in though!!!). I'm waiting on the surgery. It's going to be tied to me after the surgery and I'm not even allowed to use my FINGERS for 6 weeks.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Wrong arm! I don't have the skill set with that arm!!!

Even just the limited movement I'm capable of has my house looking like a disaster. I'm trying to get my house spotless and cooking for a few weeks in the deep freezer before the surgery. ((Good think I have high pain tolerance, it's felt like a 2 day old sprain for months now)). No matter how hard I try and keep up, I just can't get ahead. Vex vex vex vex. I NEED my right arm back, darnit!

((Anyone wanna come over and help me clean my house?))