The Start
What's this? Another mommy blog? Is there room for one more? We'll see. I think so or I wouldn't be venturing into this. So who is this particular mommy and why do you care to read about her?
Good question. I am a 29 year old mother to two wee babes. A son who is almost 2.5 and a daughter who is almost 8 months. They are 21 months apart. I have been pregnant and/or breastfeeding since July 2003. Wow. That kind of says it all right there.
Anyway- I live outside Boston but as the epitome of urban flight, I rarely venture into the city proper. I am married to a handsome man who still cracks me up after 6 years of marriage. My family (as in Mom, Dad, and my sibling peeps) are as crazy as yours and maybe even crazier. Most days I am a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM) but I also run a small indie crafts business when not chasing babies. It is a hard balance to strike.
Oh- and I used to be cool.
That is probably the one thing that I wish more people knew about me. I haven't always been the gal with the clean house and polite kids. I never used to spend time on mastering quick bread recipes or sewing dress-up clothes. I used to smoke and drink and actually leave the house when it was dark. Often that would be my first outing of the day. I used to like music and movies and know a thing or two about a thing or two. For real.
So now I am reaching out into the blogosphere because I want to examine this mommy-ness I have and learn to integrate my old self with my new self. Maybe they will even like each other. I want to write again the way I did when I was twenty and bent over a notebook at 2am in a diner near South Station, wishing that my hand could move faster. I want to have that sense of self-examination that comes with the copious spilling of thoughts.
So now I guess I wait, and hope that the right words come. I am going to try to be honest about my life because, well, why not? That means that most things are fair game- my days, my nights, my past, my terrors and joys. So it goes.
Good question. I am a 29 year old mother to two wee babes. A son who is almost 2.5 and a daughter who is almost 8 months. They are 21 months apart. I have been pregnant and/or breastfeeding since July 2003. Wow. That kind of says it all right there.
Anyway- I live outside Boston but as the epitome of urban flight, I rarely venture into the city proper. I am married to a handsome man who still cracks me up after 6 years of marriage. My family (as in Mom, Dad, and my sibling peeps) are as crazy as yours and maybe even crazier. Most days I am a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM) but I also run a small indie crafts business when not chasing babies. It is a hard balance to strike.
Oh- and I used to be cool.
That is probably the one thing that I wish more people knew about me. I haven't always been the gal with the clean house and polite kids. I never used to spend time on mastering quick bread recipes or sewing dress-up clothes. I used to smoke and drink and actually leave the house when it was dark. Often that would be my first outing of the day. I used to like music and movies and know a thing or two about a thing or two. For real.
So now I am reaching out into the blogosphere because I want to examine this mommy-ness I have and learn to integrate my old self with my new self. Maybe they will even like each other. I want to write again the way I did when I was twenty and bent over a notebook at 2am in a diner near South Station, wishing that my hand could move faster. I want to have that sense of self-examination that comes with the copious spilling of thoughts.
So now I guess I wait, and hope that the right words come. I am going to try to be honest about my life because, well, why not? That means that most things are fair game- my days, my nights, my past, my terrors and joys. So it goes.
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