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At 39 I have found my first gray hair!! I guess I should consider myself lucky for making it this long without having to dye my hair....but it really makes the big 40 a reality!
And for some unknown reason, I refuse to pull it out. I kind of like that it is hidden and tucked away most of the time. Like my little secret ;)
I have attached a photo of it and as you can see it is a wild hair! It sticks right up and is goes every which direction!
Oh well. Cest le vie!
This working full-time and then rushing home to be a decent parent sucks! Don't get me wrong, I have a great job, one that I love, but it is a VERY busy job and being a mama is a VERY busy job! I don't know how to do it all and not feel guilty about something slipping between the cracks.
I have yet to put together Grace & Jake's baby books and they are 3years old!! WTF! And I haven't even started on Caroline's either! There truly is just not enough time in the day.
How do y'all out there get it all done?? My house is constantly a mess. There is always laundry to do and don't even get me started on cooking meals! I am running out of ideas of what to feed them (refer to my last post). And lately it has been easier to buy new clothes vs. washing the dirty ones! I can't believe I just admitted that!
So, Superwoman I am not and it is no wonder the cape is nowhere to be found!
Well I definitely won't be winning any 'mother of the year' awards with this one!!
Late yesterday around 4pm, Grace & I went to Target and of course the minute she knew we were going there, she immediately started asking for popcorn! So, as soon as we got in the store, we bee-lined it to the popcorn. She & I noshed on it while we shopped :)
Miraculously, we did not finish it all so I brought the remainder home for Jake. By this time it is now just about dinner time and throwing all sense of responsible parenting out the window, gave Jakey the rest to eat. By now, Jake & Grace have decided they want to play outside and of course are not hungry for a real dinner. So the next example of fine parenting I display is by giving them each a chocolate chip cookie for dessert ;) The only one in the house that got a decent meal was Caroline and that's only because she is too young for popcorn!
Honestly I don't normally feed my children this way, I typically cook every night of the week and last night I was tired and couldn't think of making another meal.
Let's just hope they remember this as one of those 'fun' times when Mama didn't make us eat the good stuff!
Not one of my finer parenting moments ;)
Yeah!! My blog design is done and I love it!
The Cutest Blog on the Block designed the whole thing and in a matter of days. And let me tell you, I have as much creativity as a gnat, so they really earned their money with me ;)
Now if only I knew what the hell to write about! ;)
I love my husband more.
In My Life, The Beatles
There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I can still recall
Some are dead and some are living
In My Life, I've loved them all
But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one that compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In My Life I love you more
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In My Life I love you more
In My Life I love you more
39 has become a BIG 'who-am-I' kind of year. Maybe it is the big 40 looming that is scaring the hell out of me, but all of a sudden things in my life are taking a new perspective.
A few months back, I was watching an episode of Oprah and saw an piece about Matt Logelin and how he lost his wife right after she gave birth to their beautiful baby girl, Madeline. On his blog he spoke of a woman named Heather Spohr who had just lost her precious baby girl. Ever since that day, her blog is the first thing I read when I open my eyes. There is something about her that has stirred something in me. I have never met her, yet I feel as though I am one of her closest friends. Her writing makes you feel like you are in her inner circle. I have cried millions of tears with her and for her. I laughed at the stories she shares about Maddie. She has forever changed my life. In some ways I know, and in others I feel like it has yet to be revealed.
So, how does this parlay in to my life? Wish I knew. What I do know is that I was meant to find her blog and it was meant to stir me. My soul is forever drawn to her and my heart will forever mourn her baby girl.
I know this probably sounds like a very disjointed conversation, and it is, but I guess this is what this blog will be all about. Random thoughts spilling on the computer.
So yes, there was quite a big gap from my last post....but I am back.
When I told James that I was going to start a blog he said, "what are you going to write about??...it would be a snorefest!". Now, if you know my husband, you would know that he did not mean this as cruel as it sounds. What he meant is, who would want to read about our day-to-day life? Good question.
He & I have always joked that we have become 'one of those people'. That being the kind of people when out with friends, associates, etc., all we have to talk about is our kids. We have 3 kids under 3 and they happily occupy all of our time and thoughts, and that's just the way we like it!
So who knows who will want to read a blog about a stressed working mother who is just trying to keep it all together.
Let the fun begin!
