It's been almost seven months since my last post in this blog but the stories haven't ended. Much has happened since last October and I thought it only made sense for me to keep sharing my "adventures in motherhood" with my family, friends, and strangers.
As I write this, Roman, my 21 pound, six and a half month old baby has managed to figure out how to open the drawers of my coffee table with his feet...or toes. I guess child-proofing the house from Baby MacGyver just got bumped up on my to-do list. In all, motherhood has been the most introspective, inspiring, worth-while, exhausting, emotional, unnerving experience of my life. If you choose to keep reading, you will see that while it hasn't always been fun, it's certainly one of the best blessings that I have ever received.
So what's next?
By the end of June 2011, I will make this blog private. Why you ask? First, although "MOFO" (my boss) is still a mofo, I don't want him to know how many times I came close to killing him during my pregnancy. Second, if I ever turn this blog into a book, I guess I need to keep my cash cow a little closer to the chest. Third, I want to focus more on writing on the crazy journey of motherhood in my new blog, "Breastmilk in a Martini Glass."
Why Breastmilk in a Martini Glass?
Motherhood can be nuts. Nuts. Nuts. Nuts. As someone who is a self proclaimed "shitty multi-tasker" there have been many days (as you will read) where I literally haven't had time to eat anything but chocolate chip cookies because my days are jammed packed from 5:00 am - 10:00 pm. To be fair, my sister would likely say the true source behind my action packed days is my anal retentiveness. And compulsiveness. Heck, I admit that I like things done my way. But for the most part, I have come to realize that in order to keep my sanity and sense of self (while being the best person that I can be for my family) I've had to let go of an unrealistic sense of what being the perfect wife, mother, or woman looked like. Motherhood is simply the most complicated balancing act anyone could experience and to find that balance, it takes letting go of our conventional ideas of what it means to be "perfect" and simply doing the best that we can -- even if that means that we end up serving the baby breastmilk in a martini glass or end up drinking a cocktail from a bottle. At the end of the day, as long as our families are provided for, who cares if the presentation is less than perfect?
Who's MommyJD (and the other writers on the blog)?
One of the best things that I've learned so far is that motherhood works much easier when you have a mental, physical, and spiritual support system. Husbands are wonderful. Parents are awesome. But sometimes you need a girlfriend who will give you unsolicited honest advice, be an ear to listen, give you a "Go Get 'Em Tiger" speech when you need it. I've been blessed with a handful of people who are all of the above and one of those people in particular, a friend who I will call 'MommyJD', became infamous during my pregnancy for sweeping in with the perfect tid-bit of random advice at the right time. For that reason, when the time came to create another blog I figured she was the perfect person to drag along for the ride.
I am suddenly surrounded by so many awesome women who are trying to navigate this thing called "motherhood" and my hope is that "Breastmilk in a Martini Glass" will be a safe haven for any woman who has a funny or inspirational story to tell (or even if you just need to vent). What I have learned is that sometimes it helps simply to know that you aren't the only one or the first person to experience a particular challenge. In that spirit, I hope that the stories that you read on "Breastmilk in a Martini Glass" make you think, smile, and laugh.
Though the blog is still "under construction", please feel free to take a peek at milkinamartiniglass.blogspot.com and see what MommyJD and I have been up to. If you are interested in writing an entry of your own, shoot us an email at milkinamartiniglass@gmail.com.
Yours Truly,
KWS
I am suddenly surrounded by so many awesome women who are trying to navigate this thing called "motherhood" and my hope is that "Breastmilk in a Martini Glass" will be a safe haven for any woman who has a funny or inspirational story to tell (or even if you just need to vent). What I have learned is that sometimes it helps simply to know that you aren't the only one or the first person to experience a particular challenge. In that spirit, I hope that the stories that you read on "Breastmilk in a Martini Glass" make you think, smile, and laugh.
Though the blog is still "under construction", please feel free to take a peek at milkinamartiniglass.blogspot.com and see what MommyJD and I have been up to. If you are interested in writing an entry of your own, shoot us an email at milkinamartiniglass@gmail.com.
Yours Truly,
KWS
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