All About Me – And Soon to Be About You Too!
Hey! Welcome aboard! So glad you are here.
Let me give you a little background so we can get properly acquainted because I have a feeling we are going to get along just fine.
I am a mom to three gorgeous girls. (They really are. I am biased but I am also right.) And I am an educator — which means I am basically a mom 24 hours a day AND a teacher the other 24 hours a day. Yes, I am aware that does not add up. Welcome to my life.
My two worlds intertwine constantly. The mom brain and the teacher brain live in the same head, and honestly? They talk to each other all the time. What I learn in the classroom comes home with me. What I figure out at home makes me better in the classroom. It is a whole thing. A good thing, mostly. A chaotic thing, always.
Here is the honest version of my life, since we are getting acquainted:
I have done the 2am nursing and the 6am alarm and the walking into work trying to look like a person who definitely slept. I have stood at the door in the morning feeling relieved to be leaving and guilty about feeling relieved, both at the exact same time. I have had days where I showed up brilliantly to everything and days where I barely showed up to anything.
I know the juggle. Not from reading about it -from living it, getting it wrong, figuring it out, and then having everything change and figuring it out all over again.
Because here is the thing nobody warns you about: parenting is a pendulum. The little years are hard in one way. Then it shifts. Then it gets hard in a completely different way. Then it shifts again. There is no finish line where you finally have it all figured out and the sooner I made peace with that, the more I actually started enjoying the ride.
Our house has no television. I know! But what we DO have is a whole lot of creativity, conversation, the occasional dramatic meltdown, and more boredom-busting ideas than you can shake a stick at. No screens means kids who have had to figure out how to entertain themselves and a mom who has had to figure out how to help them do that without losing her mind.
That is a big part of why this blog exists.
I have also learned a thing or two about boundaries (mine and theirs), about discipline (when it works and when it really does not), about when to be the strict mom and when to look the other way, and about how to tell the difference on any given Tuesday. I have learned what actually matters and what really does not — and yes, I know that makes me sound old, but I am choosing to call it wise.
Most importantly I have learned that every single ordinary day is a memory in the making. Every car ride, every dinner, every bedtime, every boring Wednesday afternoon. I want those memories to be good ones. Not perfect. Just good and warm and real.
So what will you find here?
Boredom busters that have been tested in my actual home by my actual children. Parenting tips and tricks from someone who has taught every age group and is raising them too. Real talk about the juggle — the exhaustion and the joy, the guilt and the laughter, the moments where everything goes sideways and the moments where everything is exactly right.
No perfection here. No highlight reels. Just a mom and a teacher sharing what she has learned, what she is still learning, and everything in between.
I mix my mommying with my teaching and I want to share it all with you!
Read on to see how I do it. Some days I love every minute of it. Some days I really do not. But I always show up and I am so glad you did too.
I would love to hear about YOUR day and your juggling. Share, inspire and yes, absolutely boast — you have earned it!
Happy Reading!