More Than Just Mom...

     Maybe it was a blonde moment, I don't know, but I didn't even think to post my guest post! I had written a post as a guest blogger on This Is Mommyhood, (which by the way, is a seriously awesome blog. Elle has a beautifully twisted sense of humor, much like myself, and I quite literally find myself laughing out loud while reading some of her posts! If you haven't checked her out yet, you really should! Go on... Go! I'll still be here when you get back.)

     Anyhoo, like I said, it hadn't even dawned on me to post my guest post on my blog... So, here it is. :D

    More Than Just Mom….

I’m the proud mama bear of two really kick ass kiddies, Michael 12 and Lucy 7. I’m the wife (and sometimes it seems, also the mother of) a 34 year old mechanic with a bottomless stomach and an incessant NEED to race on the dirt track every.. single.. Friday.. night.. I am the strong willed daughter of a strong willed mother- (who we LIVE with in my grammie’s old house, need I say more?) I am also a maid, a nurse, a short order cook and waitress, a free taxi service, a psychologist and a referee.
I embrace all of these roles, but have come to realize that there is one title that always gets left in the dust: ME. I was me before I had kids and surely starting a family doesn’t mean that I have to entirely give up my old self, does it? (DOES IT?!?) It is so easy to lose ourselves in the day to day grind that comes with being domesticated. We feel selfish for thinking about ourselves or our own wants and needs.
As someone who hasn’t left the house- other than to go grocery shopping- in 2 months, let me just say this… You know that saying “If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy?” While grammatically fucked, it is completely true! I know I can definitely feel my sanity slipping away… Errrr… what’s left of it, anyways.
So, maybe as a statement or perhaps just a reminder to myself, here I am in type:

• I drink my coffee (LOTS of coffee) black with sugar.
• I dye my hair often and all shades of the rainbow.
• I am tattooed and pierced and am quite happy this way.
• I desperately need to lose weight and am NOT happy this way.
• I too often allow myself to get treated like a doormat.
• I have a very dark sense of humor and it’s not my fault if YOU can’t take a joke.
• My mouth would make a trucker run to confession, but I’m working on that.
• Good manners are surprisingly important to me.
• I have HAD IT with this bully issue and my son’s school that does N O T H I N G about it!
• Screw me once, shame on you. Screw me twice, go to hell.
• I bake often, and always all from scratch.
• My family is my L I F E!

With all that said; tonight? I’m getting the hell out of dodge, going out for coffee with some friends where I will enjoy being…. well… ME. And then I will come home, re tuck my kiddies in, kiss their foreheads, wash my face off, go to sleep and wake up feeling renewed and ready to go. Because really, I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.