Welcome to my blog

Due to the influence of a very sweet - no sweet is not the word, she doesn't come across sweet, but I know she's sweet inside.  When you meet her for the first time you would probably describe her as feisty.. so due to my young feisty friend's influence I have started my own blog.  Her blog is amazing, I love it - funny and real - letterstocherry.blogspot.com.  Anyway, it's because of her that I've decided to write my own blog - but - big BUT, it's not going to be about fashion and wonderful adventures that young single girls get to have.  My blog is about Motherhood, look don't get me wrong, I don't hate being a mom and I don't wish I was a young single girl again (ok sometimes I do), it's just that my life is a little different - ok a lot different to a young single funky fashionable blogger!

Different, but by no means boring.  Right now I'm trying to hide in cyberspace while I have one 6 year old playing Barbies in her room, a four year old watching AVATAR (??) She loves it, and the baby boy (18 months) who's driven me dilly the last 24 hours - finally asleep for his morning nap.

My house is a mess, I have a weekend full of visitors coming up and there is washing on the diningroom table, my bed is half made, at least the dishwasher is on, but there are still clothes in the tumble dryer and here I sit BLOGGING!!

I figure I can get the little mugwums to help me clean just now, but right now to preserve my sanity I'm going to blow off some internal steam before I explode!

I love being a mom so much, so totally rewarding - ok totally should not have made it into that sentence, it's somewhat rewarding some of the time!  This is just my selfishness talking, I would never ever give up my kids for anything, they are my life.  I love them involuntary - by that I mean, we breathe without thinking, I love them without thinking.  So whatever I blog about them or my life, it's never that I don't love them or wish I had a different life, it's just an online journal to help me through the day!

I went to see South Africa's very own "SuperGranny" the other night, was nice to hear her take on things and was very amusing hearing some of the stories people were telling in order to ask her a question... I figure my kids are not that bad then!  But I realised I feel like a child raising children, I sometimes feel so out of my depth.  It's no small task having kids to take care of, young people who will grow up to be adults one day and my task is to make sure they are well adapted - hell - I don't think I'm well adapted, it's like I'm learning as I'm teaching - it's hectic!  So I call myself the Un-Supermom - because in my mind a supermom is someone who has it all together, has life under control and is cruising looking for some poor soul to rescue from the depths of a kid pile on.

I couldn't think of anything worse, I barely make it out of my kid pile on's every evening - you know what I mean hey... kid pile on: - I typed a whole example but decided to delete it due to the very nature of the beast hee hee - I don't want to be too real that I become responsible for people not having kids... although we are over populated already ;) in short a kid pile on is normally in the late afternoon, when you need to get them bathed, fed and in bed, while making supper, tidying up and generally putting out little proverbial fires that are inevitable (kids fighting, baby trying to pull the coffee machine off the counter etc etc) They are just in your face, they want to help you cook, or want you to read a story while you are rolling out the dough for the tortillas you're making etc.  It's just full on, but by 8:00pm you've forgotten because they look like little angels fast asleep, like they come straight from heaven and you got to bed peaceful and fulfilled (and fooled) because when you get woken up early in the morning with "mom I'm hungry" "waaa waaa" "I don't want to" "It's too cold" blah blah blah - you remember that kid pile on's can happen anytime, anyplace!

But then you get your children coming up to you and with sparkly eyes telling you "I love you mommy, you're the best mommy in the world", your heart melts and you know that being a mom is what you are called to be and nothing and nobody can take that away from you..

Women are by nature Nurturing beings, we want to look after and love.  We want to sort out and keep organised.  We want to help.  Well I do at least... so being a mom, even with it's hard times is wonderful.  Every job has a downside.  Look at the gynae's - in fact I asked my gynae once (before he'd gone to work on me) why he decided to be a gynae - why out of all the jobs to choose did he choose this one (I had quite a bit of attitude too) but he took it gracefully and explained that he loved the obstetrics and he pointed out that every job has a downside - in this case - pap smears! :)

Anyway, hubby's home, need to look busy
Chat Soon
The Un-Supermom! (ps didn't have time to spell check - hope it makes sense too)