So, why'd you start blogging? The morning show host at Great Day Green Country asked me during the commercial break before my segment. It was only a two and half minute break, so I didn't have time to tell my whole "Why I Blog" story, so I said, "I needed to know I wasn't alone." Then I promised her the whole story on my blog. I'm a traffic-driver if nothing else.
So ... This is why I started blogging.
There are countless books that paint pretty
Norman Rockwell-like pictures of family life.
I’d read them all. I was prepared for anything and everything because I
had read all the books.
Then I woke up and discovered my child had painted a
Picasso on her wall during the night using nothing but her hands and her own
poopy diaper.
Do I clean her first or the wall first? Do I call poison control
in case she ingested her own waste? Do I take a picture and scrapbook it? Will
that scrapbook page be fodder for future therapy? Do I ignore the whole thing
and send her daddy in after her and let him deal?
The poop-on-the-wall fiasco was not covered in any of my
parenting books that were dog-eared, drooled on, and dropped beside my
bed. I assumed, at that time, that I had
been the only mother since Eve spawned Cain and Abel to ever have had this
poopy-wall episode as a part of her mothering repertoire. And I hung my head in shame. And exhaustion. More exhaustion than shame to be sure.
At my older child’s dance class that same week, I confessed that my baby had
smeared her poop on her wall. I was
looking for confirmation that I wasn’t raising Linda Blair. Today poop;
tomorrow pea soup. I was met with silence.
Then I caught one fellow mom’s eye. “My baby picked her nose and fed me the
booger. I ate it.” I snickered at her
after-nap snack choice.
Another mom confessed next, “When I’m taking a bath, I let
my baby play in the toilet so he’ll leave me the hell alone.” I laughed. Not at her, with her.
Finally, the snootiest of all moms in the waiting room said,
as she adjusted her Coach purse in her lap and examined her 83-karat diamond
wedding ring, “Ethan dumped his entire lunch from the table and then started
eating it off the floor. I didn’t stop
him.”
We all laughed our fool-heads off. That kind of parenting is not discussed in a single one of those parenting books. But it
should've been.
Why we choose to not share the funny, punny, quirky, and
inappropriate with each other more often is a mystery to me that probably has
to be archaic in nature. I’m sure we
don’t talk about our kids catching us having sex (and punching my butt to
boot!) for the same reason Lucy and Ricky had separate beds on TV. We like to
keep our stories clean.
So, I started to blog to share the insanity that is motherhood. I choose to share the funny, punny, quirky, and
inappropriate with my readers so that they will know, beyond the shadow of a
doubt, that it’s gonna be alright even when their child announces to the entire
dining room at the neighborhood bar and grill that her momma has hairy armpits.
I do not always keep my stories clean. I tell my stories as
they happened, often times leaving in details that make my mother scold me and
my mother-in-law ignore me. I tell my
stories with all their gory details. I tell them so that someone else can
relate and not feel so alone when her child punches her on her butt during an
entirely intimate smooshing. (C’mon.
Don’t tell me it hasn’t happened to you. But if it hasn’t happened to you, what
kind of lock is on your bedroom door, if you don’t mind my asking. I’m in the
market.)
But I tell my stories, ultimately, to make people
laugh.
And I wish someone had made me laugh when I was a brand new momma.
Today, I hope to make a brand new momma laugh--and giddy with all the bling I'm about to giveaway!
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