I’m a mom with a blog. Does this make me a mommy blogger now? Maybe. Does this mean I know what the heck I’m doing? Definitely not!
The truth is, being a mother while also being a 9-to-5 worker bee severely clashed with my desire to do nothing all day but binge watch Netflix until my eyelids stick to my eyeballs. To be fair, while there is a lot of Netflix happening in our home, my three year old has a monopoly on the remote and I caution anyone who dares convince him otherwise. So while all of you are raving about the coolest new grown up shows, I’m over here losing my mind watching Gigantosaurus and Transformers for the hundredth time. It’s okay, I’ll catch up on my shows during my bouts of insomnia when I’m wide awake from 1:00 AM to 4:00 AM (which is when I’m writing this post).
Now before you go thinking I’m lazy AF, I’m here to say that, well, you’re not completely wrong. But it’s a give and a take, right?
Sometimes I find that I’m a walking, talking oxymoron. An ambitious slacker, as I like to say. I've got my head in the clouds and my feet on the ground. Sure I’d love to be the type of strong-willed woman who goes for runs, reads a book, and journals all before 6:30 AM. But I also want to leave the curtains closed and sleep in while secretly dreading being woken up by my kid. (But the morning snuggles more than makes up for it.) I'm a wannabe home-school teacher, filling his days with enriching activities, book reading, and arts and crafts, but also look forward to leaving him with his iPad to watch Ryan’s Toys so I can watch this NBA game in peace.
And that’s what I envision the theme of this blog to be: growth, creativity, and personal development mixed in with the smaller, tender moments when we embrace presence and stillness.
“Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.” (Wait, did I just quote Thanos?! I must be crashing now. It’s is 5:30 AM now after all. Surely I can think of a better quote than that to leave you with...)
Ok, let’s try this again...
“Some days you eat salad and go to the gym, some days you eat a cupcake and refuse to put on pants. It’s called balance.”
Thanks for reading along. To learn more, head over to the ABOUT ME page. See you there!
P.S. Oh, and speaking of cupcakes, did I mention there’ll be desserts here? Lots and lots of desserts!