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Motherhood is a choice you make everyday to not run away or crawl into a ball

Remember how last Monday I was all basking in the morning glow of motherhood. Waxing on about the chirping birds, morning caves, and all that other ra-ra-ra being a mom rocks stuff? But isn’t it just like the Universe of Motherhood to pull the rug from under you when you’re prancing along learning letter & [...]

6 Must Have Items to Survive Pregnancy

 Like all smart bloggers my mind is always ablaze with topics to write about. Sike. But sometimes it is, more times its not & I’m sure my blog shows it. But I just keep writing. When ideas do hit me I write them down in Catch Note on my Droid. Sometimes it’s just quick titles or paragraphs [...]

Mornings

follow me on instagram The sun was breaking through the ugly vertical blinds that adorn my one bedroom window. I grimace as I think about the mess I know I left behind the night before. The laundry piling up, the toys under the sofa, under the table, strewn across the patio & the inevitable minutes [...]

Alcoholic Children

via  I haven’t complained lately on here about my woe is me pregnancy. If I have refresh my memory in the comments {obviously besides this post}. I do plenty of complaining IRL. This second pregnancy is certainly harder than the last. There’s the emotional issues to contend with. Crying while watching Friends, sobbing over remembering [...]

10 Lies Pregnant Women Tell Themselves

source    1. I’m going to workout my entire pregnancy. 2. I’m not going to gain as much weight as I did the last time around. 3. 7 weeks pregnant “I think I felt the baby move!” no bitch that was gas 4. I love my baby belly, I’m going to embrace the two piece [...]

Seeing Red

    When I was pregnant the first time obvs there was no paying attention to symptoms or aches or pains. It just was. The only time there was a scare was similar to the scare this time & we went to the hospital. If I can brutally honest here… I was hoping I was [...]

Where have I been?

Where has she been & who I am? That’s a secret I will certainly tell. You know you love me. XOXO Gossip Girl. I know you all hate it when you come over here to get a little dose of funny or snark & you’re all like “where the hell is she?” Usually my excuse is [...]

What makes you a good mother?

via pinterest Last week doing my daily Facebook rounds I saw Mama Knows It All send out that they chose to have a baby so they are choosing to be a good mom. Nothing wrong with that at all. Motherhood is much like marriage. You chose every day how you are going to interact with [...]

O.P.P.{K} aka Other Peoples Precious Kids

  I have meant to blog for sometime now about being a parent who does not like kids, but every time I tried it seemed to bomb well before paragraph 2. But today as I sat out on the sunny bench at the playground being a parent who doesn’t like kids came back to me. [...]

Silver Lining Parenting

via pinterest  I am only a little bit ashamed to say that the episode of Modern Family from last week where Lily drops the F bombs has happened in my own house a few gazillion times. It is completely my/our fault as we/I {but mostly me} cuss like Bible school students who have been more [...]