I am a 37-year-old writer just entering her second career as a SAHM (that’s Stay-at-Home-Mom, by the way, not the other thing). My family just returned to the United States after living in South Korea where my daughter was born. (More about our life there can be found here.)
Unfortunately, like so many people, I was a much better wife and mother before I actually, you know, got married and had a child.
Five years ago, when I moved in with the man who would become my husband. I swore I would do the “never go to bed angry/divide the housework 50-50/have a good work-life balance/rationally discuss all differences of opinion” thing. Bring home the bacon and fry it up in the pan.
When I got pregnant with our daughter, I added “use cloth diapers/breastfeed/attachment parent/ wear the baby/buy organic and free-range/make the baby food from scratch/use all nontoxic products/ make my own household cleaners/budget for college/always practice positive discipline” to my little list.
I did many of those things. But let’s just say it didn’t all go quite according to plan.
This blog is for all the mommas (and daddies) out there with baby slings and strollers, who read Sears and Weissbluth, care about the environment but bought a Swiffer mop because ‘you’ve only got 15 minutes and the damn floor needs to be cleaned already!’ (maybe that’s just me) and used a little Gerber backup for that organic, locally grown, ethically harvested, salt-free, non-processed homemade baby food.
This blog is about still trying my best but learning life’s questions can’t be all be answered in the pages of a book, and, as my husband likes to say, to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
