Mommas got a new hobby

Recently I've discovered something about myself. I am boring. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fun girl with a very full life. I have a full time career, am married, raising two children, am very family involved, and have a long time love affair with chocolate. All of these things combined fill more than 24 hours each day, but none the less I am boring...or maybe I am bored.

I was sitting at lunch with a dear friend recently and came to the realization that I have allowed myself to fall into the mommy trap. My life revolves around the two most precious gifts God ever put on this earth. I rise and fall based on their whims as any mother would.

As our conversation turned to family, it hit me like a ton of bricks. My family members are doing more exciting things in life and are being paid to do them. One plays sports and teaches others to play them and gets paid. Another makes fun of life in front of an audience and pays the rent doing such. The last is a member of a dying breed of true warriors. I, on the other hand, spend my days talking about how exciting the potty will be to one princess and coaxing the other princess to just let go while screening the baby show.

So, as a great man once said...If you don't like your situation-Change it. (OK you got me...maybe a great man never said, but it fits, so let's go with it.)

In an attempt to do something for myself which will ultimately become a gift to my children
I've decided to start a blog. The direction is unclear at this moment. Of course it would be great to have my thoughts picked up by some national magazine for a regular column by "your average mom"...but as a great man that I actually know says a lot, "You got a better chance of sandpapering a tiger's ass." Right now I would like this to be an exercise in using my college degree to flex that 8 pound lump above my shoulders and perhaps journal my thoughts that someday my children will read and understand their mom.

I see a lot of things these days that I would love to express an opinion about. Facebook isn't always the place, but we'll see if this is. Follow me if you want to learn more about me. Don't follow me if you don't want. Either way, I'm having more fun now than I was 10 minutes ago.

Smunch Mommy