When I became a mother 12 years ago, I truly thought I’d have all the answers to all the difficult questions and I’d be the wisest, happiest, most easy-going, keep-the-fun-flowing parent on this planet. Yes, I was one of those arrogant people who thought parenting couldn’t be all that hard. Boy, was I wrong! What I found out was that, while having children is indeed the most incredible blessing, it is also a train-wreck a lot of the time. I found myself on an emotional roller-coaster for which I was grossly unprepared, questioning many of my decisions and wondering how I could’ve been so naive to think I’d skate through it with relative ease. Ha!!

As time went on, I learned a lot, experienced intense joy, monumental pain
and a lot of other emotions in between but one thing I noticed was that I
wasn’t seeing or hearing enough about is that authentic motherhood experience
in any sort of media. Sure, I’d seen some movies and TV shows highlighting the
more realistic side of family life and I had close friends with whom I had
meaningful and comforting conversations, but I needed more. With the rise of
social media and even in print media, it just seemed like so many people were
only focused on the best parts of motherhood and family life, which left me
feeling somewhat alone in my struggles.

Fast-forward to the past year or so of my life as a mom, and I’m so encouraged to see so many women openly talking about their own struggles, along with the many joys of motherhood. I still, however, think we need so much more of that and I know I have a lot to contribute to the conversations. I love the feel-good stories and anecdotes as much as anyone but I also want to hear all about the messiness of families like mine. I want to share the transformative joy, the laughable moments, the embarrassing blunders, the heartbreak and all the things moms experience that force us to grow and adapt because at the end of the day, we are all the same in those ways. There is unity in motherhood and we are better when we lean on each other. We all need resources to which we can turn for a good laugh, some like-minded comfort, or to learn about something we never knew before that inadvertently makes us better parents and people in general. That’s why I started this blog and I hope you enjoy consuming it as much as I’m enjoying creating it’s content!