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.