Mommy Moments

I am so excited to start a new adventure in recording my family’s journey. Just as much, I am excited to reach out to other moms, who find themselves in the day to day chaos of surviving motherhood, wifehood, community, career, and trying to maintain some resemblance of ourselves. We need grace. And we need one another. I thought it was most fitting to begin in laughter. So, I shall first share some of my favorite mommy bloopers up to this point.

• Last Saturday night I got dressed, got the kids dressed, loaded them into the car, and drove across town to a birthday party. I had a gift. Granted, the gift was in a football gift bag for a 2 year old girl’s party and didn’t have a card. Nonetheless, it was kind of wrapped. I was on time. I was unstoppable. I walked into the YMCA and noticed someone was vaccuming. The lady at the counter gave me an odd glance and asked if she could help me. Draped in children, I asked where the party was and pity covered her face. She looked in the book and said the party was one week later. She felt so sorry for us, she offered to let my children play there for free for the remaining 30 minutes they were open. Oops.
• Last month, my preschooler’s class went to the pumpkin patch. His precious teacher sent me a picture of my son with his best friend. It was a sunny, sweet picture of two blonde beautiful boys holding pumpkins on a  hay ride. At that moment I noticed my son was wearing a Santa shirt. Oops.
• Four months after my second son was born I ventured into the chemistry closet at school to pump. It had been a crazy day. It was 2:30pm-my last pump of the day. I glanced down to make sure everything was going properly and thought, that’s strange. My pants were on backwards. The back pocket was on my abdomen. I had worn them that way all day. Oops.
• My most recent call to poison control: “Ma’am, we can send you a free magnet with our information on it to place in your house.”                           “No thank you, we already have three from previous calls.” Oops.
• Text from preschool teacher : Your son told another student to “wake his ass up” during nap time today. Oops.
• Sitting in the hospital room, naked, in labor with my third.  The nurse reentered expecting me to have on the hospital gown she left me with minutes before was stunned to see me still nude. I regretfully admitted that I had a Masters’ degree and had not the first idea how to put the gown on. Oops.
•  Took the boys into school during summer break. While standing in the principal’s office, the oldest pulled down his pants to pee, and the middle ate gummies off of the floor like a puppy. Cue my exit.

We need lots of laughter, lots of grace, and lots of God to survive in this house. Take a deep breath, Mommas. Breathe in all of that crazy. You are not alone. You are amazing. And no matter how messy it looks, it’s your beautiful mess.

❤️ Shalom