There's really nothing much to Mommyhood you wake up you feed the baby, the baby is happy and satisfied. Baby plays with toys and Mommy is happy baby is playing. Meanwhile, breakfast and then what? Play with baby, maybe do something around the house, maybe! a big round maybe! because who knows if I will even get around to it! I might get a shower in now and again and that is always nice and by now I am counting on somewhere in-between next year and the next 5 or 6 years in order to get a good shave in when I am found able to get a shower and shave somewhere in-between busy baby, loud busy baby noises and babbles and here Honey, you take the kid so I can see my legs for once. I might as well be Jane from Tarzan, except I am sure she found somewhere in the Jungle under a waterfall to wash her hair and get a good shave in and I am sure Tarzan appreciated it!!!!!
Anyway, by now I am also feeling fat and it doesn't help when an older lady from church notices I haven't lost the baby weight yet and points it out. Great! yes, I know, I've been thinking about that round belly of mine! When's a girl got time to work out???? I mean between waking up sometimes in the middle of the night and early mornings and play, play, play and a little house work, I'm loaded!!! to the top!! LOADED!! with just an agenda of Baby!! There is no real (ME!) time! So this is real life! My Mom and Dad -in-law are coming to visit and let me tell you I soon start spotting all the places in the house that need dusting, cleaning and fixing along with all those pesky Baby proofing areas you think you've covered and then realized that baby can now do all these extraordinary things!! ALL of Sudden!! out of the Blue!!! I mean no way!! who knew my baby could walk and climb over night??? Right when I think I have things covered or I have an actual plan of action for our day.
Every day is no ordinary day and so I have this to say to all Mom's Across the USA and around the world if your house is not a sparkly clean place from Morning until Night, you are Not alone! My House is never as perfect as I would like to imagine it is from the second I wake up to the moment my head hits the pillows. In my dreams I wake up and I make the bed first thing in the Morning before starting my day, why because if I don't I won't, and that's just life! I get up and the first thing in the Morning that really happens is that my baby needs my attention, diapers need to be changed and baby needs to be fed. Maybe after breakfast and nap we will both head back to Mommy and Daddy's room where I can now turn my attention to making the bed but first things first, baby always gets my first attentions.
Thanks to my Husband he has been taking certain days to attend to early Morning bottle feedings for baby. I got plenty of sleep this weekend and I think it will certainly pay off in the long week ahead. Anyway, I don't live a perfect life. I am no Magazine Model of what Mommyhood should like or what you might like it to look like or be. I'm just a Mommy on Mission to make it through the day in one piece of mind, heart and a happy spirit. No the house isn't a picture perfect clean together kind of house you might see on a Movie set but it is our Home and in our home life moves along at it's own pace and we like it.
I do make it my mission to tidy up at the end of the day and at the end of the day I am ready to hit the pillows and fall asleep. God is good all the time and all the time God is good. He get's me though the day every day all the time. There will be dishes that pile up and from time to time almost on an average of an every day life there will be dishes in the sink no matter what. I don't have someone who comes over and does the work for me or helps me out with my daily life as a Mom, it's just me. Our day is left to me and it's up to me to help us make it successfully through that day without too much stress and anxiety, though I do have to say, I have that one Neighbor who just loves to blast his music up loud. Not exactly the best ending to our day, but someday, I am sure his wife will want him to turn it down, they have kids.............
These days are special for who I have in my life, but there is nothing fancy about every day life as a mom. If your house ever gets dirty it just means you live in it and your doing life there. Don't stress. If you look like a Momma it's probably because you are one. I'm positive you'll find yourself again.
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Saturday, August 13, 2016
oh those lazy days of summer
Today, my wonderful Husband took me to beach and my mom watched our little baby. I am for sure sun burnt from the top of my head to the tip of my hands. I had normally!! worn Sunblock but today was a last second plan day date trip. I think we shall be making it to the beach every second we can plan to be there during the summer. I am burning from the sun though, I can say that for a fact. I fully did enjoy my walk on the beach though. Now that baby is on a bottle it is so much easier to get out and go about and I am fully enjoying this new season of being able to get out to the beach while we have Summer here to visit us one last Month of good cool water that is not too cold and not too hot, it's just right.
Summer in California sure does feel like it stays all year long, and really it does, in away. We always have happy Sunny Days here. Accept!!! We do have a good few months while there is too much Heat to deal with, so we have to have A.C. On most other days we have beautiful Sunny Day's with a nice cool breeze from off the beach and that (always) feels great. I do love it very much. I think we will be keeping this house for every and for always and on beach day vacations for a place close to home and close to the beach. It is so nice to be here.
I gathered a handful of seashells, I have collected any for a very long time. My sweet cousin Mandy is having twins!! and so I am sending her some Christmas in a box from California, she doesn't read my blog so she doesn't know what I am about to send her this year. A little Sandy Beach in a gift from me to her. The beach is my gift giving inspiration, a little bit of Heaven from me to my cousin. I can't wait to be putting this wonderful gift together for her.
These Summer days sure are fun and lazy and little bit lay back. We had lunch on the beach at one of my Most Favorite Mexican food places to eat. I had what I have been craving for a very long, long, time! a Breakfast Burrito!! You can't get this type of breakfast burrito anywhere else. It is just that good. The Sun is going down and now we are simply enjoying the Olympics are on and we enjoying the silence that comes with baby being fast asleep and relaxing after a long busy day. It certainly was a fun, enjoyable day. I really did like it. I couldn't have it any other way.
These Summer Day's are oh so lazy and yet so fun. We love our visits to the beach. Coming home is like having had a full day of nothing but lazy at the beach enjoying the waves, bringing home the sea shells and the sea sand, cleaning up the after mess as we track it through the house, enjoying ice-cream while it melts faster than we can eat it and then sitting back and relaxing with a movie or something we have recorded on the DVR. Oh these lazy days of summer we love it. But I am certainly in love with Fall and Can't!!!! wait for it to arrive for once. Fall, I am ready for you!!
Summer in California sure does feel like it stays all year long, and really it does, in away. We always have happy Sunny Days here. Accept!!! We do have a good few months while there is too much Heat to deal with, so we have to have A.C. On most other days we have beautiful Sunny Day's with a nice cool breeze from off the beach and that (always) feels great. I do love it very much. I think we will be keeping this house for every and for always and on beach day vacations for a place close to home and close to the beach. It is so nice to be here.
I gathered a handful of seashells, I have collected any for a very long time. My sweet cousin Mandy is having twins!! and so I am sending her some Christmas in a box from California, she doesn't read my blog so she doesn't know what I am about to send her this year. A little Sandy Beach in a gift from me to her. The beach is my gift giving inspiration, a little bit of Heaven from me to my cousin. I can't wait to be putting this wonderful gift together for her.
These Summer days sure are fun and lazy and little bit lay back. We had lunch on the beach at one of my Most Favorite Mexican food places to eat. I had what I have been craving for a very long, long, time! a Breakfast Burrito!! You can't get this type of breakfast burrito anywhere else. It is just that good. The Sun is going down and now we are simply enjoying the Olympics are on and we enjoying the silence that comes with baby being fast asleep and relaxing after a long busy day. It certainly was a fun, enjoyable day. I really did like it. I couldn't have it any other way.
These Summer Day's are oh so lazy and yet so fun. We love our visits to the beach. Coming home is like having had a full day of nothing but lazy at the beach enjoying the waves, bringing home the sea shells and the sea sand, cleaning up the after mess as we track it through the house, enjoying ice-cream while it melts faster than we can eat it and then sitting back and relaxing with a movie or something we have recorded on the DVR. Oh these lazy days of summer we love it. But I am certainly in love with Fall and Can't!!!! wait for it to arrive for once. Fall, I am ready for you!!
Friday, August 12, 2016
How to end your day after a busy day
My end of day notes: As a Mommy, I know Life can get too busy to clean up. I feel like I hardly have the time of day to clean the house let alone keep it that way. Why? because every time I turn around there is a mess! And why can I never, ever keep up with it? I am simply way to busy trying to spend time with my baby that I may never get back once it's gone. I grab a dish and then I eat out of it and then I put it in the sink and I walk away, also I am busy in the kitchen throughout the day or every other day, cooking, cleaning as I cook while I can try to do both or very process of putting together puree foods to be cooked, frozen and stored for baby. There is almost always something to do, something that keeps me on my toes and so, how do I manage? I don't I get my sleep, I spend time with my baby that I will never ever get back and guess what, dishes will away be there. So here I am to tell you, how to end your day after a very busy day.
Today, was a fairly easy day. It couldn't have gotten any better. I woke up, my Husband gave our baby the bottle for me on these days that he has off and I love it, I get a mini break and I love that too. He was so awesome to change the babies diaper today and that was great! I just loved! that! I got to get some sleep, and yes, there were still dishes to be done, because of course we don't have a working dish washer at ALL. BUT, BUT someday, we will, God will provide. Never despise small Beginnings. I got some dishes done and put away and then sent a good size trash bag full of items to the compost pile today that was a good start to our newly started compost that we have made. It's nothing fancy but it's a start, if we have success with it, we may find another spot to create a nice compost pile of our own to enjoy for our future Gardening needs. I got some peaches peeled and cut in half to be boiled for 9 min. Now we have peach puree more than we need to last us a little over 30 days if not two months. We shall see how long all these baby puree's last but I enjoyed putting it all together. I am feeling successful.
I had some left over Oranges and I have to say they were the perfect type of Oranges to be juiced. There were not very many left from what I had gotten from my Aunt Anita's Orange tree's and so I decided to juice what I had left over before they went bad. From what I had on hand I was able to juice at least 2 full cups. It was the best Orange juice we had ever had, let me just say, we will not be buying any more Orange Juice in this family. Nope, not any more. What's wrong with taking the time to juice things ourselves?? it's so rewarding! and oh so pure, right off the tree! and we loved it! Some things are simply not instant gratification. Most things are worth waiting for. Make it yourself. Make it pure. Make it simply sweet.
Now as for my end of the day now, I have had some really good ice cream to end my day. I think I served myself a little too much because it melted and got frothy before I had the chance to finish it all. As for how to end your day after a busy day, these are my 3 tips. You can wake up to a clean house, or at least a partly clean home, and you can wake up to a bottle ready to use and guess what beds can always be made too.
So, while I may not be able to accomplish the dishes in a day, or do my hair to save myself from looking like a Mom who's busy from the second she gets up to the second she goes to sleep there are few things I can do. For example, beds can be made!!! Yes, they can! At least during one baby nap time you can in fact make the bed. Be it first thing in the Morning, which is my first nap time or a lunch time nap, it is do able. If you absolutely cannot get your bed made bring the baby in the bed room with you, and place books and toys on the floor, items that your baby will love and be distracted with and then run around as fast as you can and make that bed. You can do it. I do it! I love a clean room and a cool room with the A.C on at the end of the day to come to at the end of my day. At least my bed is made and room is crisp and inviting and not a disaster zone like the rest of the house, right???
Kay, so that is the bed, idea. If your looking to wake up to a house that looks a little less then a war zone, make the bottle once the baby is in his or her crib and any other bottles you may need to fill for the night or next day and then store them away in the fridge. Next turn your attention to the baby bath tub, do a quick pick up. That can't be hard. Keep a hanging hamper where you toss all those dirty clothes or towels in, pick up bath toys and put up baby soap. Quick and easy. After you do a quick bath time clean up run around the living room and family room and do a quick round up/pick up of all toys put them all in one place together, don't busy yourself with categorizing and organizing anything just put stuff together where they were placed back into their homes. Anyway everything will be dragged out again when you wake up in the morning so no need to be a stickler.
Fold any blankets you have laying around and place them back on their spots on the couch. Fold or put away any extra small items of laundry and then deal with putting the laundry part away a little later. Toss any remaining dishes into sink and be done with your day. Now! if you are looking for any time to get your hair done, do it before bed and don't worry about styling it!!! it will look the way it will look anyway after a long day. And any how if you are looking to try and get some real shut eye getting up before the crack of dawn just isn't in the books any how so straighten and leave as is, simple yet nice. Mommyhood is no simple task. I simply tidy up before bed, fill bottles, do a quick bathroom clean up and make the bed during nap time. Life does not need to get more challenging than that. It's simple. Keep things easy and don't over do something that will always be there, years to come. And cleaning will always remain. Time with children does not. It's time sensitive the fact that it is temporary. So enjoy your day, love your baby and think about the small clean up before bed.
Today, was a fairly easy day. It couldn't have gotten any better. I woke up, my Husband gave our baby the bottle for me on these days that he has off and I love it, I get a mini break and I love that too. He was so awesome to change the babies diaper today and that was great! I just loved! that! I got to get some sleep, and yes, there were still dishes to be done, because of course we don't have a working dish washer at ALL. BUT, BUT someday, we will, God will provide. Never despise small Beginnings. I got some dishes done and put away and then sent a good size trash bag full of items to the compost pile today that was a good start to our newly started compost that we have made. It's nothing fancy but it's a start, if we have success with it, we may find another spot to create a nice compost pile of our own to enjoy for our future Gardening needs. I got some peaches peeled and cut in half to be boiled for 9 min. Now we have peach puree more than we need to last us a little over 30 days if not two months. We shall see how long all these baby puree's last but I enjoyed putting it all together. I am feeling successful.
I had some left over Oranges and I have to say they were the perfect type of Oranges to be juiced. There were not very many left from what I had gotten from my Aunt Anita's Orange tree's and so I decided to juice what I had left over before they went bad. From what I had on hand I was able to juice at least 2 full cups. It was the best Orange juice we had ever had, let me just say, we will not be buying any more Orange Juice in this family. Nope, not any more. What's wrong with taking the time to juice things ourselves?? it's so rewarding! and oh so pure, right off the tree! and we loved it! Some things are simply not instant gratification. Most things are worth waiting for. Make it yourself. Make it pure. Make it simply sweet.
Now as for my end of the day now, I have had some really good ice cream to end my day. I think I served myself a little too much because it melted and got frothy before I had the chance to finish it all. As for how to end your day after a busy day, these are my 3 tips. You can wake up to a clean house, or at least a partly clean home, and you can wake up to a bottle ready to use and guess what beds can always be made too.
So, while I may not be able to accomplish the dishes in a day, or do my hair to save myself from looking like a Mom who's busy from the second she gets up to the second she goes to sleep there are few things I can do. For example, beds can be made!!! Yes, they can! At least during one baby nap time you can in fact make the bed. Be it first thing in the Morning, which is my first nap time or a lunch time nap, it is do able. If you absolutely cannot get your bed made bring the baby in the bed room with you, and place books and toys on the floor, items that your baby will love and be distracted with and then run around as fast as you can and make that bed. You can do it. I do it! I love a clean room and a cool room with the A.C on at the end of the day to come to at the end of my day. At least my bed is made and room is crisp and inviting and not a disaster zone like the rest of the house, right???
Kay, so that is the bed, idea. If your looking to wake up to a house that looks a little less then a war zone, make the bottle once the baby is in his or her crib and any other bottles you may need to fill for the night or next day and then store them away in the fridge. Next turn your attention to the baby bath tub, do a quick pick up. That can't be hard. Keep a hanging hamper where you toss all those dirty clothes or towels in, pick up bath toys and put up baby soap. Quick and easy. After you do a quick bath time clean up run around the living room and family room and do a quick round up/pick up of all toys put them all in one place together, don't busy yourself with categorizing and organizing anything just put stuff together where they were placed back into their homes. Anyway everything will be dragged out again when you wake up in the morning so no need to be a stickler.
Fold any blankets you have laying around and place them back on their spots on the couch. Fold or put away any extra small items of laundry and then deal with putting the laundry part away a little later. Toss any remaining dishes into sink and be done with your day. Now! if you are looking for any time to get your hair done, do it before bed and don't worry about styling it!!! it will look the way it will look anyway after a long day. And any how if you are looking to try and get some real shut eye getting up before the crack of dawn just isn't in the books any how so straighten and leave as is, simple yet nice. Mommyhood is no simple task. I simply tidy up before bed, fill bottles, do a quick bathroom clean up and make the bed during nap time. Life does not need to get more challenging than that. It's simple. Keep things easy and don't over do something that will always be there, years to come. And cleaning will always remain. Time with children does not. It's time sensitive the fact that it is temporary. So enjoy your day, love your baby and think about the small clean up before bed.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
My oh so crazy life
Life is crazy but it's alright. Being a Full time Mommy is fun. The toys are almost always out. The DVD's are sprung out in front of the TV, there are toys in the Living room and there are toys in my Husbands pool room. Everywhere I look, there is something. There are messy bibs and there are piles of clothes to be washed in their hampers. There are unfolded blankets laying in their rightful places on the couch. There is a pile of peaches to be washed, peeled, sliced and diced and ready for cooking. There is a bag of unfinished Peanuts ready to be shucked at any time now and some veggies just waiting to be enjoyed by me.
By the end of the day there are clothes on the Bathroom floor and there are bathtub toys to be picked up and put away for my end of the day shower. There are baby towels to be rehung and dried for their next use before washing. Life is crazy, but it's alright. I am finally getting a whole nights sleep for once, or at least it seems. I have only been up at least once from time to time on occasion. Motherhood never sleeps or takes a break. I am full time 24/7.
If you have a messy house it's okay. That's life. There are lots of dishes to be put away and more dishes to do next. There is a wash and dry and wash and dry by hand cycle that I tend to repeat on a daily basis. It is on going it and it is only really me and baby and Husband when he is home. I am ready to get some type of baking done at some point but life it never stops, it just keeps on going.
Today for the first time in a long time I will have had the time of day to actually play with the dog while I have my baby who can now sit up and eat a meal sit on my lap as I throw the ball and it was successful. We all had a lot of fun and the baby well the baby found this play time with the dog quiet amusing. Life is simply this, a balance of continually juggling life and hoping you don't drop the ball, but you will. Life will happen and something will go undone and you will have realized today that one thing, just didn't get done and it will be okay and life will move on and you will have realized that life can go on even if there is a mess in each room of the house, it just proves that you are a real Human, living in your Home. What's a Home if you can't live life in it?
Today is Wednesday, and on Thursday Morning the trash man will have come and he will have gathered all the trash in the neighborhood and thank God the trash got out, at least, that, if, anything. Today is a beautiful afternoon and my Husband will be home soon and I will be glad for that. It will be 2 in and hour and so I suppose I will have made this time count by blogging about life so far. I will have made this time count by doing some around the house watering and in my dreams, I hope to at least get the trash out today and maybe water outside. Who knows what each hour brings or if the little one will wake sooner than the two hour nap time frame, that I would greatly appreciate. So for now, this is my very small contribution to a blog today, my thoughts on my oh so crazy busy life.
Perhaps one of these days, I shall slow down, I don't know, maybe when I am old.
By the end of the day there are clothes on the Bathroom floor and there are bathtub toys to be picked up and put away for my end of the day shower. There are baby towels to be rehung and dried for their next use before washing. Life is crazy, but it's alright. I am finally getting a whole nights sleep for once, or at least it seems. I have only been up at least once from time to time on occasion. Motherhood never sleeps or takes a break. I am full time 24/7.
If you have a messy house it's okay. That's life. There are lots of dishes to be put away and more dishes to do next. There is a wash and dry and wash and dry by hand cycle that I tend to repeat on a daily basis. It is on going it and it is only really me and baby and Husband when he is home. I am ready to get some type of baking done at some point but life it never stops, it just keeps on going.
Today for the first time in a long time I will have had the time of day to actually play with the dog while I have my baby who can now sit up and eat a meal sit on my lap as I throw the ball and it was successful. We all had a lot of fun and the baby well the baby found this play time with the dog quiet amusing. Life is simply this, a balance of continually juggling life and hoping you don't drop the ball, but you will. Life will happen and something will go undone and you will have realized today that one thing, just didn't get done and it will be okay and life will move on and you will have realized that life can go on even if there is a mess in each room of the house, it just proves that you are a real Human, living in your Home. What's a Home if you can't live life in it?
Today is Wednesday, and on Thursday Morning the trash man will have come and he will have gathered all the trash in the neighborhood and thank God the trash got out, at least, that, if, anything. Today is a beautiful afternoon and my Husband will be home soon and I will be glad for that. It will be 2 in and hour and so I suppose I will have made this time count by blogging about life so far. I will have made this time count by doing some around the house watering and in my dreams, I hope to at least get the trash out today and maybe water outside. Who knows what each hour brings or if the little one will wake sooner than the two hour nap time frame, that I would greatly appreciate. So for now, this is my very small contribution to a blog today, my thoughts on my oh so crazy busy life.
Perhaps one of these days, I shall slow down, I don't know, maybe when I am old.
Monday, August 8, 2016
My Mommy life
My Mommy life, it's going better than I ever really expected it to go. I couldn't have thought it would go this well for me. There have been some sleepless nights and some challenging times but my little baby is now 6 months and I can really say, I am enjoying it every step of the way to his growing up years. I am just now getting a full nights sleep and some naps in-between. Life is well, that's life. It's all wonderful. I am now no longer on Facebook, because, well, I have a life, one that is off of Facebook and of course I wasn't a vlog person on Youtube, at least not yet anyway. I had plans to be all over the map but after having a baby, well, my whole world changed. I'm sure you can imagine. To start, I've had very little time for myself or my writing but here I am now getting in some type of a blog. I hardly have time to fit that in as well. My whole world is Jam packed with baby 24/7 it seems like and so getting anytime between nap, sleep and baby is a bit of an every day challenge in order to write. But my heart never stops writing, I'm always thinking about the next best thing I will share next.
This morning it was a beautiful start. It actually felt like Fall to me for the very first time in a long Summer. Who knows if we will get more cool days like this in the month of Aug. By the early and late afternoons, it was feeling warm and muggy. But by 3:00 it was cooling down again and I was certainly thankful for that. I am loving today's perfect Fall feeling weather, it's great.
Mommyhood has been treating me with lots of love, it's great and I am really enjoying it. Excuse me for not writing with big words, I've been talking to a baby all day. All I got is simple words but they all make sense when I put them together. That's about as good as I got so far. All is well here and not being on Facebook has been a blessing. I am glad to be alone to our own little world in our own little family. Sometimes it's okay to remove yourself from the on going world of people and their on going lives that we watch every day. I will just say, that I am glad for real friends and real visitors anyway, rather then the ones that I can only view their lives from a far on.
Ever since this little one has arrived I have enjoyed life on a whole new level. Anyway who's to say Mommyhood has to be unfun? It's totally fun to be a Stay at Home wife and Mom. I love it! well, I always loved it. Being a first time mom, I had no idea what to expect. How could I? I could hardly know what to think it would actually be like. It's not like the pictures movies of course. It's more work, for sure, ten times more work but once I got the hang of this new life, everything started to look up.
Do you know who I am? I am the kind of person who says to herself, I want a clean house, because I have never kept a dirty room. I don't like disorganization. I just don't. Disorganization and I do not go together. We just don't belong. Every thing about me says, things must remain clean or at least semi decent. If there is on thing I don't like, it's a house that starts to smell a bit well, you know on the side of not so pleasant, I'm sure you have been there too, walking through the house or that certain room that just reminds you that rest of the house is dirty. Summer time is that time of year when everything around this house can get busy and very messy. There is the Beach and there is the Sand. You add those two thing together and you have got yourself a sea salt smelling home. Don't forget the BBq's and the left overs that for sure not everyone cleans in a day. We don't have a big household but you know when the family comes over the celebration gets big and clean up lasts a good week. Summer gets big and messy around here sometimes but that's okay too, I love it.
I don't so much mind the clean up because it gives me that something extra to do that I can be proud of. I love, love! more than anything to clean up the house before my Husband can come home from work. Yes, I do! I love for him to be able to kick off his shoes, come home relax and see a sit spotless home. Warm, comfortable and cozy clean. Well, he has the warm part down, and the comfortable, well, we could use some real good lazy boy's at some point but we have what God has blessed us with and we sure are thankful anyway. As for the cozy clean part, well, I have learned that while I can't make it a perfect place for him to come home to, at least the bed is made.
My first intention was to be able to juggle it all but now I can see, that honestly, I cannot! So okay, here's to a new life and a new start. I tried it and now I can see that a perfect home, although it was not his entire expectation, I sure did want to share my love this way with him. Now instead of holding myself hostage, I am setting myself free to get as much help as I can get, yes, I am now willing to let my Husband help me tackle all the little and big things in life. I can't do it alone and so , he is my biggest team mate.
Now I delegate the day's he is home early or off of work on the weekends to what I need help most on and giving myself time to shower and do my hair and take care of myself, including a nap. It's all wonderful and I am very much enjoying it all. I am loving these days. It was for a fact a very tough Summer. Sigh, :p I am so glad he can be home much, much earlier on some days and I am so proud of him. He works hard and goes to school full time and still has time to come home and be a dad. I don't think I could have done it. But of course, I am not him and that was not my calling, at all, though he is my inspiration for what success looks like. I am glad to have a Husband I can look up to and admire.
Now that I have discovered this much needed way of doing life, I am enjoying Motherhood that much more. I have also learned not to try and do everything all at once. I have officially given up on that. I used to try doing it all in one day, but it's nearly impossible to do and live a Happy Life and not be completely drained at the end of a day.
I am no longer Nursing and so, that helps a lot. I enjoyed it for a good 6 months but now I am ready to give the bottle and I am okay with that. I couldn't believe there would come an end to this amazing bond when I first began my Nursing journey. Now it has officially come to it's close. At first I was worried I would never be able to get up and pee when I needed to and now I am able to see, that yup, I am able to hand the baby off to Daddy and run! It's amazing!! It wasn't Jail after all! The things no one told me. :p I thought I would be hooked to the baby 24/7 with no breaks at all. I was starting to feel a tad sorry for myself. With Daddy home to help after work, I am quiet happy about all that. He gets time to bond with baby and I get time to sit on my bottom and write for a while!!! score! great things are happening.
I have even begun to over come my store life of buying all shelf made things. I guess it had to come to this, Process food or non process food. But here I am working on it, step by step. Baby steps, really. It all started with my Dad a few years ago getting really sick that's when he discovered, the oh so great Kombucha Tea. He is a very smart man, an artist really, but honestly he should have just became a Doctor, but who knows, maybe we would have never seen him because he would have been gone all the time. Instead he decided on a job helping others through elderly care.
Anyway, he began to make his own Kombucha tea from home after studying it for a good long while. before we knew it, he was better and even losing the little weight he had gained. He got himself trim, slim and healthy and then began to study nutrition, so that's how I got started in learning all about process foods, in which for me, I've been really good and then really bad. I've done really well with it and then I backslide right back into all my favorite foods. Because that is just life. You can only walk through a store so many times before something begins to actually call your name, and then once that starts, you can't escape the call. Don't even lie to yourself! you know you have had this happen to you too!
Come back around to today, I let myself go into all those favorite sinful foods, which I call food. They are food with a lot of really bad stuff in it. So for the love of living a healthier life, my little baby has encouraged me to get to it and start right with him. So I got this awesome gift! It's called the Baby Bullet!!!! and I love it!! I also got a Munchkin Puree!! and I love that even more so far! It's a tiny little food processer but it's the perfect processer for mashing food into baby goodness! yes!! AMEN!
Soooooo I've been doing a little food shopping of my own, and I love it! I've been visiting different Market places in my area and I am very much enjoying the Adventure of finding the next best price for fruits and veggies. It is kind of like a treasure hunt but it's a fun treasure hunt, you never know where the next best price for fruits and veggies will turn up a good grab. See!! I told you this Mommy thing isn't so bad! I bring my Mom or my Husband with me from time to time and that also makes it fun.
Some of fun things about shopping the Markets is finding good finds but also finding interesting and new things to enjoy and bring home as fun food or snack. This last trip I made was for some peanuts for Peanut Butter. Let me tell you that is the best stuff you can get for yourself if your a Mom. I've never discovered anything else in the world that could be so time consuming but yet oh so relaxing to bring home a bag of peanuts to shuck and then cream into some amazing Peanut Butter without all the Sugar. If you just can't have Peanut Butter without Sugar you can add Honey...Honey is a great Sugar in my opinion.
I also decided to stop buying myself Lemonade from the store. Nope, no way. I'm officially done with that. Especially if I can make it myself. So here we are making it ourselves both my Husband and I. Okay, so I shouldn't have gotten a 1.00 a Lemon at Save a lot when I could have gotten 4 for a few cents at the Market. I completely regret the buy but 11 lemons, went a long way!!!! 3 and 1/2 jugs of Juice!!! Pretty good save!!!! on that note, a far cry from a few $'s a jug at the store for a lemonade!!! yes! and we know exactly what is in our Lemonade! Real! sugar!!
I have been pureeing food for my baby and I will say, it had saved us SO much money for a whole entire ice cube tray full of baby puree to freeze, I now have sitting in our Freezer, two whole plastic tupperwear boxes full of food ready to thaw when ready to eat. Instead of grabbing from off the shelf at Walmart! I am saving and feeding my baby on basically cents. It's pretty good. So no more false sugars in our home, well, not exactly none at all we have had our cheats, but really, that's all that is, cheats, every so often hear and there.
My next endeavor, Homemade Yogurt. In the Winter, I will back to baking full time. Sourdough bread enough to make it for a good while. I have some Banana's sitting in the freezer ready for the winter baking, Banana Bread is set and ready to go. All my Baking happens in the Winter, that's how I like it. It's about time I prepare some Christmas cookie dough, I may need to make enough to last all Christmas for the Family. And of course, how could I ever escape those oh so yummy coffee cakes that my Dad- in-law makes...I must learn how to make that for my family too. Oh, of course he attempted to try and show me how to make it, I simply watched from a distance, the couch. I am now in regret hehehehehe. I now wish I had watched to make it. Now I really have to learn how to make it so that I can pass it down to my children and to their children's, children. I am all about passing the love of family and food down to my family for all generation.
At some point I would like to learn my Mom-in-law's Jam, it is soooooooo good! let me tell you! There is nothing better than her Homemade Jam made with love! and I for one intend to learn to make it, that too will be passed down. Can I tell you, I have learned how to make my Tia Cece's Homemade Friendship bread. I will be totally honest, it's basically easy to make Pound Cake and although it's not her word for word instructions on how to make it, I have made it, by simply looking it up, either way, I've made something she likes to make. That's the point I'm trying to make, every time I have made it, I think of her. I love my family, can you tell.
So if I had to bring all those wonderful meals together that people I love in my family have made, I would have to say, my Mom has made, Menudo. Not that I even know how to spell, that, but I am basically Welsh, so please don't ask me to spell that out correctly, ever, because I can't. I can't speak a lick of Spanish except for something basic and simple to get me through the day in case of an emergency. So there you have it. My mom has attempted to share the art of making some kind of Salsa from time to time, but I have to say, my Husband makes a better Guacamole better then store bought and so I don't watch to learn to make it, I've only just showed up to eat whatever has been placed in front of me. Tamales, that is exactly what I was thinking of. Have I learned to make those, um, no, not really but I am sure I could figure it out along the way if I looked it up, cheated a bit, and followed someone on Food Net Work. For now, I'm not really sure what I have taken away from my Mom but I can say, she makes Tamales for Christmas, the easy way. Not the long hard way that takes hours of time, but I am sure that would be something I wouldn't much mind to venture out on one of these years of my life.
My Dad, he's all about that pie baking. That I will take from him and run with. or that oh so yummy chocolate toffee!!! yes!! Those are things made of Heaven. I just love it. So this year, I will be saving money, making a little love in the Kitchen, NOT that kind of LOVE! I mean, making all these wonderful foods that have been made with love, happening in my Kitchen all over again to be passed down as the years come and go. These foods made with love and wonderful stories behind them will be baking in My Little Country Cottage near the big city by the ocean.
This morning it was a beautiful start. It actually felt like Fall to me for the very first time in a long Summer. Who knows if we will get more cool days like this in the month of Aug. By the early and late afternoons, it was feeling warm and muggy. But by 3:00 it was cooling down again and I was certainly thankful for that. I am loving today's perfect Fall feeling weather, it's great.
Mommyhood has been treating me with lots of love, it's great and I am really enjoying it. Excuse me for not writing with big words, I've been talking to a baby all day. All I got is simple words but they all make sense when I put them together. That's about as good as I got so far. All is well here and not being on Facebook has been a blessing. I am glad to be alone to our own little world in our own little family. Sometimes it's okay to remove yourself from the on going world of people and their on going lives that we watch every day. I will just say, that I am glad for real friends and real visitors anyway, rather then the ones that I can only view their lives from a far on.
Ever since this little one has arrived I have enjoyed life on a whole new level. Anyway who's to say Mommyhood has to be unfun? It's totally fun to be a Stay at Home wife and Mom. I love it! well, I always loved it. Being a first time mom, I had no idea what to expect. How could I? I could hardly know what to think it would actually be like. It's not like the pictures movies of course. It's more work, for sure, ten times more work but once I got the hang of this new life, everything started to look up.
Do you know who I am? I am the kind of person who says to herself, I want a clean house, because I have never kept a dirty room. I don't like disorganization. I just don't. Disorganization and I do not go together. We just don't belong. Every thing about me says, things must remain clean or at least semi decent. If there is on thing I don't like, it's a house that starts to smell a bit well, you know on the side of not so pleasant, I'm sure you have been there too, walking through the house or that certain room that just reminds you that rest of the house is dirty. Summer time is that time of year when everything around this house can get busy and very messy. There is the Beach and there is the Sand. You add those two thing together and you have got yourself a sea salt smelling home. Don't forget the BBq's and the left overs that for sure not everyone cleans in a day. We don't have a big household but you know when the family comes over the celebration gets big and clean up lasts a good week. Summer gets big and messy around here sometimes but that's okay too, I love it.
I don't so much mind the clean up because it gives me that something extra to do that I can be proud of. I love, love! more than anything to clean up the house before my Husband can come home from work. Yes, I do! I love for him to be able to kick off his shoes, come home relax and see a sit spotless home. Warm, comfortable and cozy clean. Well, he has the warm part down, and the comfortable, well, we could use some real good lazy boy's at some point but we have what God has blessed us with and we sure are thankful anyway. As for the cozy clean part, well, I have learned that while I can't make it a perfect place for him to come home to, at least the bed is made.
My first intention was to be able to juggle it all but now I can see, that honestly, I cannot! So okay, here's to a new life and a new start. I tried it and now I can see that a perfect home, although it was not his entire expectation, I sure did want to share my love this way with him. Now instead of holding myself hostage, I am setting myself free to get as much help as I can get, yes, I am now willing to let my Husband help me tackle all the little and big things in life. I can't do it alone and so , he is my biggest team mate.
Now I delegate the day's he is home early or off of work on the weekends to what I need help most on and giving myself time to shower and do my hair and take care of myself, including a nap. It's all wonderful and I am very much enjoying it all. I am loving these days. It was for a fact a very tough Summer. Sigh, :p I am so glad he can be home much, much earlier on some days and I am so proud of him. He works hard and goes to school full time and still has time to come home and be a dad. I don't think I could have done it. But of course, I am not him and that was not my calling, at all, though he is my inspiration for what success looks like. I am glad to have a Husband I can look up to and admire.
Now that I have discovered this much needed way of doing life, I am enjoying Motherhood that much more. I have also learned not to try and do everything all at once. I have officially given up on that. I used to try doing it all in one day, but it's nearly impossible to do and live a Happy Life and not be completely drained at the end of a day.
I am no longer Nursing and so, that helps a lot. I enjoyed it for a good 6 months but now I am ready to give the bottle and I am okay with that. I couldn't believe there would come an end to this amazing bond when I first began my Nursing journey. Now it has officially come to it's close. At first I was worried I would never be able to get up and pee when I needed to and now I am able to see, that yup, I am able to hand the baby off to Daddy and run! It's amazing!! It wasn't Jail after all! The things no one told me. :p I thought I would be hooked to the baby 24/7 with no breaks at all. I was starting to feel a tad sorry for myself. With Daddy home to help after work, I am quiet happy about all that. He gets time to bond with baby and I get time to sit on my bottom and write for a while!!! score! great things are happening.
I have even begun to over come my store life of buying all shelf made things. I guess it had to come to this, Process food or non process food. But here I am working on it, step by step. Baby steps, really. It all started with my Dad a few years ago getting really sick that's when he discovered, the oh so great Kombucha Tea. He is a very smart man, an artist really, but honestly he should have just became a Doctor, but who knows, maybe we would have never seen him because he would have been gone all the time. Instead he decided on a job helping others through elderly care.
Anyway, he began to make his own Kombucha tea from home after studying it for a good long while. before we knew it, he was better and even losing the little weight he had gained. He got himself trim, slim and healthy and then began to study nutrition, so that's how I got started in learning all about process foods, in which for me, I've been really good and then really bad. I've done really well with it and then I backslide right back into all my favorite foods. Because that is just life. You can only walk through a store so many times before something begins to actually call your name, and then once that starts, you can't escape the call. Don't even lie to yourself! you know you have had this happen to you too!
Come back around to today, I let myself go into all those favorite sinful foods, which I call food. They are food with a lot of really bad stuff in it. So for the love of living a healthier life, my little baby has encouraged me to get to it and start right with him. So I got this awesome gift! It's called the Baby Bullet!!!! and I love it!! I also got a Munchkin Puree!! and I love that even more so far! It's a tiny little food processer but it's the perfect processer for mashing food into baby goodness! yes!! AMEN!
Soooooo I've been doing a little food shopping of my own, and I love it! I've been visiting different Market places in my area and I am very much enjoying the Adventure of finding the next best price for fruits and veggies. It is kind of like a treasure hunt but it's a fun treasure hunt, you never know where the next best price for fruits and veggies will turn up a good grab. See!! I told you this Mommy thing isn't so bad! I bring my Mom or my Husband with me from time to time and that also makes it fun.
Some of fun things about shopping the Markets is finding good finds but also finding interesting and new things to enjoy and bring home as fun food or snack. This last trip I made was for some peanuts for Peanut Butter. Let me tell you that is the best stuff you can get for yourself if your a Mom. I've never discovered anything else in the world that could be so time consuming but yet oh so relaxing to bring home a bag of peanuts to shuck and then cream into some amazing Peanut Butter without all the Sugar. If you just can't have Peanut Butter without Sugar you can add Honey...Honey is a great Sugar in my opinion.
I also decided to stop buying myself Lemonade from the store. Nope, no way. I'm officially done with that. Especially if I can make it myself. So here we are making it ourselves both my Husband and I. Okay, so I shouldn't have gotten a 1.00 a Lemon at Save a lot when I could have gotten 4 for a few cents at the Market. I completely regret the buy but 11 lemons, went a long way!!!! 3 and 1/2 jugs of Juice!!! Pretty good save!!!! on that note, a far cry from a few $'s a jug at the store for a lemonade!!! yes! and we know exactly what is in our Lemonade! Real! sugar!!
I have been pureeing food for my baby and I will say, it had saved us SO much money for a whole entire ice cube tray full of baby puree to freeze, I now have sitting in our Freezer, two whole plastic tupperwear boxes full of food ready to thaw when ready to eat. Instead of grabbing from off the shelf at Walmart! I am saving and feeding my baby on basically cents. It's pretty good. So no more false sugars in our home, well, not exactly none at all we have had our cheats, but really, that's all that is, cheats, every so often hear and there.
My next endeavor, Homemade Yogurt. In the Winter, I will back to baking full time. Sourdough bread enough to make it for a good while. I have some Banana's sitting in the freezer ready for the winter baking, Banana Bread is set and ready to go. All my Baking happens in the Winter, that's how I like it. It's about time I prepare some Christmas cookie dough, I may need to make enough to last all Christmas for the Family. And of course, how could I ever escape those oh so yummy coffee cakes that my Dad- in-law makes...I must learn how to make that for my family too. Oh, of course he attempted to try and show me how to make it, I simply watched from a distance, the couch. I am now in regret hehehehehe. I now wish I had watched to make it. Now I really have to learn how to make it so that I can pass it down to my children and to their children's, children. I am all about passing the love of family and food down to my family for all generation.
At some point I would like to learn my Mom-in-law's Jam, it is soooooooo good! let me tell you! There is nothing better than her Homemade Jam made with love! and I for one intend to learn to make it, that too will be passed down. Can I tell you, I have learned how to make my Tia Cece's Homemade Friendship bread. I will be totally honest, it's basically easy to make Pound Cake and although it's not her word for word instructions on how to make it, I have made it, by simply looking it up, either way, I've made something she likes to make. That's the point I'm trying to make, every time I have made it, I think of her. I love my family, can you tell.
So if I had to bring all those wonderful meals together that people I love in my family have made, I would have to say, my Mom has made, Menudo. Not that I even know how to spell, that, but I am basically Welsh, so please don't ask me to spell that out correctly, ever, because I can't. I can't speak a lick of Spanish except for something basic and simple to get me through the day in case of an emergency. So there you have it. My mom has attempted to share the art of making some kind of Salsa from time to time, but I have to say, my Husband makes a better Guacamole better then store bought and so I don't watch to learn to make it, I've only just showed up to eat whatever has been placed in front of me. Tamales, that is exactly what I was thinking of. Have I learned to make those, um, no, not really but I am sure I could figure it out along the way if I looked it up, cheated a bit, and followed someone on Food Net Work. For now, I'm not really sure what I have taken away from my Mom but I can say, she makes Tamales for Christmas, the easy way. Not the long hard way that takes hours of time, but I am sure that would be something I wouldn't much mind to venture out on one of these years of my life.
My Dad, he's all about that pie baking. That I will take from him and run with. or that oh so yummy chocolate toffee!!! yes!! Those are things made of Heaven. I just love it. So this year, I will be saving money, making a little love in the Kitchen, NOT that kind of LOVE! I mean, making all these wonderful foods that have been made with love, happening in my Kitchen all over again to be passed down as the years come and go. These foods made with love and wonderful stories behind them will be baking in My Little Country Cottage near the big city by the ocean.
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