Teach Me How to Mommy

What a tease I am.... I can't even upload a picture because I don't have any memory left of my phone, but I do have a story!   (UPDATE EDIT:  I did take a picture of his shoes and emailed it to myself!) I spent the entirety of yesterday wishing I could be with Colin on his first real "big boy" adventure.  School Picture Day.  Yes, a one year old gets school pictures.   So, I picked out his outfit.. with options (Rachel Zoe taught me well), trusted Brian to get Colin dressed appropriately in said options, and left for work. All day I wondered how he did.. I thought about how the heck they were going to get my little boy, who won't even sit still in his car seat, to sit still long enough for a picture.  I wondered when I would get to see them, I wondered if he would mean mug the camera like he did when I took him to see Santa last year.  Essentially I was pre-occupied the entire day with "thoughts of Colin."  Also, I bought him ba...

Every Monday we will be posting a #momcrush.  We aren't revealing a change in sexual preference, rather announcing our admiration for real moms - moms who we love and want to be.  Moms who live more luxurious lives than us or moms who work their asses off and are just killing it every day. Our first one is dedicated to the Moms who birthed us.  Naturally, how could we start anywhere else? These women are amazing for many reasons.  One for her ability to run an a troop of insane pre-adolescent, boy-crazy girl scouts for like 10 years.  The other for her cooky dance and her constant nurturing. We love you both equally and exponentially. Thank you for loving our children as much as we do.  Thank you for making us capable mothers (even if we are still getting the hang of things).

If Friday was a picture, it would look like this. On Lucysmom.com I talked a lot about mom issues (work/life balance, mom guilt, pressures, stress...the list goes on and on and on).  I'll be doing that here too.  Over the last couple of months, so many issues have surfaced that I can't wait to talk about.   But before we go deep, can we just take a second to celebrate the joy that is Friday?   Cheers to small victories.  We made it through another week.  It's a new season.  It's beautiful out.  The stack of papers I brought home to grade weighs more like a rock than a boulder.   Life is good.

  Start:  7:29pm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Each Thursday I will be writing about some random thought of time!  Maybe it will be a #ThoughtsFromColin, maybe it will be a #ThrowbackThursday, it might be silly, sad, a comment of current events... but Thursdays are my time to sit back and get all these thoughts running through my head OUT! :)  I hope you enjoy.  Feel free to comment, share, or just read.  I appreciate you just taking the time to be here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everyone says there's never enough time in the day, and at this exact moment, that couldn't feel more true.  We pack our days full, every minute seems scheduled.  The stress settles on our shoulders... we balance, and maintain, but it feels like with one false move, ever...

When you plan a really fun event for your kids and you do everything in your power to make sure it is the most fun they have ever had.

 Friendship. Colleen and I have known each other our entire lives. There has been no milestone crossed that doesn't involve a snapshot in my mind of Colleen and I together in that moment.  If you know me, then you know Colleen. It is an easy friendship.  I don't have to pretend with her.  We know the depths of each others souls... There are no judgments, no forced laughs, no tears that haven't already been shed in front of each other.  Happy or Sad. Individually, we each have our own blogs and very organically we realized we should combine our efforts and start writing together.  I wish I could say I remember the moment that this beautiful realization occurred.  Qu i te honestly, it probably happened over the tops of our children's heads while we were chatting about the most recent What What Happens Live, and simultaneously coloring, doing a puzzle, and searching for a baby sock...    Once we had the spark, we talked abo...

The similarities between Amy and I are too many to mention.  They will slowly reveal themselves as this blog develops.  It may have something to do with the fact that we have known each other for over twenty years.  Her house was one of the few I was allowed to sleep over when I was young. Our families are intertwined and my love for her goes very deep.  She is an amazing woman, friend and mom. We have been talking about doing this (joint blog) for months.  We each had separate blogs and read each others.  We struggle with time (or lack thereof).  We are confronted with many of the same issues on a daily basis.  Teaching high schoolers and coming home to toddlers will do that to you.  Our husband's are hard-working, kind and faithful.  They've also proven themselves to be excellent fathers.  They also make us crazy.  We know this because we have an extensive text log to prove it.   I started Lucysmom.com as some so...