So I have started this book called “Confessions of a Scary
Mommy”. It’s hilarious! It's a woman writing about the topics of motherhood
but being brutally honest. She started off with a blog and let people anonymously
donate their comments on the subject as well. I’m not even a stay at home mom
but I can relate to most of the stories in the book. It makes me sad that I
didn’t write a book like this because truth be told- in real life the woman who
wrote the book probably was talked about behind her back and her very
opinionated views on child raising. But she wrote a book about these views (and
it is hilarious!) and now is making millions on it. I am jealous. I have the
exact same opinions but all I get is dirty looks and judgment from other moms
for actually speaking out loud my views. Oh well. She’s obviously smarter than
me- she deserves it J
Anyway, it does mention a lot of things that moms don’t want to talk about but
are totally true about raising kids. Raising children is not pretty 99.9% yet
some moms want to act like it is. So annoying. I used to envy those type of
women but now that I know that 100% of those women who pretend to have it
together are actually miserable- um, no thanks. I’d rather just be the wife/mother
that I am all the time rather than putting on some game face that doesn’t get
me anything except false envy. Yes I have yelled at people in the airport
security line for rolling their eyes and groaning at me for carrying my child
and trying to shove the stroller into the X-ray machine at the same time and
taking too long. It is extremely difficult to do by yourself. So I told those
people annoyed to either help or keep their comments to themselves. Yes, that
was me. I don’t care. People with no children occasionally need to be reminded
that they may not understand parenthood but they need to respect it. I could go
on and on about every subject in the book.
Bottom line- I agree with her point of view on life. The book is really
great and very well written. She’s a very entertaining writer. I would highly recommend it. At the very
least, read the summary of it on her blog- it’ll give you an idea of what it’s
about.
Other than that, life is busy. This pregnancy is miserable. I
don’t know if it’s because my mind knows it’s the last one or because it really
is miserable. I have had body aches like having the flu for about 4 days
straight now. But no other symptons- just the aches. Oh and I get migraines every day. It’s delightful. I’m counting
down the days for this one to be over….
Tristan is turning 3 next month and I can hardly believe it.
His vocabulary is incredible and he gets smarter every day. Caleb is going to
be 1 ½ next month and he’s actually talking now. Not full blown talking but 1
word at a time to express what he needs/wants. The only thing that makes me sad is that
he is so shy around new people. He has the greatest personality ever with us-
making faces to crack us up, being goofy, etc but when he’s around people that
he hasn’t been around at least 20+ times, he stays still and just watches. I
wish he would open up more because his personality is just so great and most
people don’t get to experience it. L
Oh and I’m pretty sure I have convinced Vincent to stain the
concrete downstairs and upstairs in the hallway instead of installing new
carpet or wood floors. I really, really, really did not want to pay to get
carpet or wood floors because I did not want to waste more money on this house.
Then I came across this blog of these people that stained the concrete in their
living room and it looks great and it’s a heck of a lot cheaper. For those of
you judging the whole concrete thing, it’s not what you think. Check out this
website that shows the living room that they did.
We are also trying to get Caleb to sleep in a toddler bed
soon. After he accomplishes that we are moving Caleb and Tristan into a room
together. I don’t know how that’s going to work out. I will post once it
happens because I’m sure it won’t be a smooth transition. J
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