You know you're a Brevard County mom if:

Borrowed from Florida Today:

• Your kids could swim before they could talk.
• You're an admitted EdLine addict.
• You're a gentle, peace-loving woman, except when it comes to eradicating fire ants.
• You learned the hard sticky-stains-all-over-everything way not to put chocolate candy inside the plastic eggs for your Easter egg hunt.
• Your kids don't have a clue about Chuck E. Cheese, and you're glad.
• On the other hand, you really miss Fun Factory on U.S. 1.
• And you think the old play area at the zoo was better.
• Skate parks with vertical drops no longer scare you.
• Handling a jellyfish or Portuguese Man-of-War sting is second nature.
• But taking the kids to air shows gives you gray hairs.
• You're a stickler about the kids going to bed on time, except when there's a night shuttle launch.
• Climbing on the roof is forbidden at your house, except when there's a shuttle launch.
• You've lectured the teens about playing with the manatees in the river, because it's illegal and they'll get slapped with a fine.
• Black mold in the bathroom or creeping out of the air conditioning vents turns you into a Ninja warrioress.
• You've forgotten what the word "basement" means, but you think you need one for the kids to play in with all their stuff.
• You've spent a small fortune on children's sun block.
• Your idea of hell is driving on Palm Bay Road at rush hour with three kids in tow.
• Next time, you're not evacuating unless it's a Category 4.
• You know everything there is to know about lightning strikes, including how to hide from them on a totally flat, open soccer field.
• A mosquito on the wall with a two-inch wing span barely merits your notice because the lizards will get it eventually.
• Termites, however, top your list of perfidious beasts.
• You hate that Publix has such a grocery monopoly everywhere, but you like the lady in the bakery who gives free cookies to kids.
• You fantasize about seasons, leaves that change color in the fall, hills and snowstorms, but love wearing slides and open-toed shoes all year long.
• You're so over Disney.
• But you love Mr. Science.
• You brake for gopher tortoises, turtles and cranes.
• You've chaperoned 400 eighth-graders on a field trip to the King Center and no one gave you a medal.
• You've turned on the AC in December to make the house cold enough bake Christmas cookies and light a fire the fireplace.
• When the family's going somewhere special, you make sure the kids where their good baggies.
• You know where the kids are when they say they're at "Second Light" or "Picnic Tables."
• You've sneaked snacks and drinks for the kids into Space Coast Stadium ballgames.
• Your child's school resembles a trailer park because of all the portables.