Slice of Mommy-Heaven

It honestly hurts to be away from this place so long. Today I'm back, no matter how long it's been or how short this post will be.  I'm grateful that today everything is not wrong. Today I have peace because I surrender the things I am not in control of, like my children's behavior.  I have calm.  And this I say is...

Today everything is wrong

How quickly my headspace has changed.  Today everything is wrong.  The kids are really bugging me. My 2-year-old son is on a whining and complaining bender.  My 6-year old needs my attention too, but I need some time today...

A Beautiful Mess

This is my beautiful mess.  No matter how hard I try to keep my vanity neat and tidy, it always ends up looking like a disaster.  It was clean yesterday and this is what it looks like today.  It can actually get a lot worse than this.

"A Beautiful Mess, Embrace your Story" is next year's theme for my MOPS (Mother's of Preschoolers) group, which is "the bomb" by the way-- but more on that later.  I love, love this phrase because it tells me...

Bloom where you are planted.

I spent my Mother's Day in urgent care, making sure my persistent cough hadn't progressed into pneumonia-- which it hadn't, thank God!  Not the most enjoyable way to spend the day, but despite the chest x-ray and nebulizer treatments, this may be my favorite Mother's Day yet...

Binge Stuff or Mom Stuff?

This whole blog thing is a tricky business.  I've never done it before, but somehow I feel like I have to be awesome and perfect at it right away.  One of the hardest parts for me...

Cake is a "hard limit" for me

I say that because it seems to be the one sugary delight that just sends me over the edge.  I have an unnatural love of it.  I love it so much, when I start eating...

I Want a Black-Belt in "Mommy"

A friend announced that her son just got his yellow belt in Karate and I felt myself getting jealous.  I thought, "Why in the world should I be jealous of that?"  Am I jealous because I want my son to try martial arts, and he has absolutely no interest?  Maybe.  But as I thought about it more, I realized that what I was really jealous of was...