RealMamaNoDrama

In case you haven't noticed I am unbalanced, mentally, physically, emotionally, you name it. I have no shame. You probably are too, you're probably just wiser than to blog about it. (boring! where's the entertainment value in that?) Truthfully up until now I have not had the desire to balance much, I have enjoyed my crazy, fun yet flighty, busy yet lazy, always doing something yet rarely completing anything unorganized self but man being unbalanced is exhausting. That's why I am working on balancing my life a little more. My husband and I have simplified our lives very much over the past year and it feels fantastic. I love being what I used to consider selfish (my definition for not trying to save the world and everyone in it every day all day) for once and really just focusing on us and our little family. Now that my priorities are in order I am working on balancing those things to fine tune my life a little more. As part of that effort Aaron and I have been work...

I am starting to think that the grass will always feel like it is greener on the other side, even when we’ve been there and realize that is stinks like manure.  Stay at home mom vs. working mother to me is one of the great debates, which is harder? Which would you rather? I have contemplated those questions many many times and I use the green grass analogy because as it stands now I think the working mother some times sits at her desk and thinks about the pros of the stay at home mom’s life and vice versa rather than the pros of their own situation. Not everyone will be able or want to experience both lifestyles to realize they both really have their own very distinct set of pros and cons. It’s been on my brain a lot lately because I wasn’t always a stay at home mom and the “honeymoon” phase is starting to wear off a bit. I am coming up on my one year anniversary of becoming a stay at home mom, to be exact June 4th was my last day of work and will be forever etched in my mind bec...

So just as I thought, I haven't exactly followed up with this blog but I am back and I will try. I started writing a lot about my family and motherhood right after I had my first child Dillon, however it never made it to any sort of an organized place like a blog because I was a new mom, so I jotted it down wherever and whenever the thoughts came to me. A perfect example of this is that I was just reading a book I have read before and enjoyed and found this on the back few blank pages..... "Incredibly blessed and child obsessed - my new mommy mantra!" It is such a strange phenomenon to feel like YOUR life begins again when you are no longer focused on your life at all! It is so weird to me that you start to see how blessed you are at the exact time that all the things you previously thought blessed your life don't matter at all anymore. I can honestly say that from here on out I may never get enough relaxation, sleep or time to myself & I may never be thin...