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Thursday, February 12, 2009

I Can Do This!

I am starting to feel more comfortable being a Stay at Home Mom. It took a few months, but I think we have most of the kinks ironed out.
When I first considered staying at home, I had this idealistic picture of things. Much like June Clever. House cleaned, Dinner on the Table, Clean well dresses kids, Make up and Hair done all in time for hubby to be home from work. Boy was I mistaken. It has taken a few months for me to get comfortable with the fact that things will not be this way and it is ok. I am home to be with my kids not to be the maid. Don't get me wrong, I pick up the house as the day goes, but be real when you have 2 kids that are home most of the day we are doing good just to clean up the messes we make not to mention the ones that already existed. We do have a rule about getting up and getting dressed in the morning, except for Monday's which are our Pajama and Laundry day. Dinner, this has been a hard one for me. I will always think that dinner as a family is extremely important. As a child we all sat down to dinner together and it was our family time. So I still strive to get dinner on the table by the time Frank gets home, but there are days that someone is hungry or sick and our schedule gets out of wack.
Hubby has been wonderful about this, I think he knew from the beginning it was not going to be the "June Clever" house when he got home.
We are however getting to do things we have never done before. We planted our first garden last night. Well we started the seeds last night. Lily is so excited. I am fully expecting the Jalapenos to be growing in the Petunias! It is so hard for little fingers to put those tiny seeds where they belong! We are also trying to be more "Green". I know this is the word of the year right. I do think it is important to leave the Earth better than we found it. I am not going to push my ideas on anyone, but we try as a family to recycle, use reusable bags and such and the newest is using cloth diapers. I know YUCK right, but you would be surprised how much like disposables they are. The only thing you have to do extra is wash them. Anyway, this is exciting to me (thanks Anna for talking me into it!). And they are too cute. We also go to story time every week and we are checking out books from the library. We have a play date once a week with our friends from Mother's Day Out. We also are going to Open Gym twice a month to get all our energy out.
So I am beginning to get more comfortable with my new role. Thanks to a few special friends who have adopted me and made me get out of my house. I don't think things would be the same without them.

4 comments:

  1. I know Leave It To Beaver was going to be out the window from the beginning. I get crazy when I have to watch the kiddos for an afternoon so the fact that you do it daily is huge! We woudl be lost without you babe. If I'm bringing home the bacon I'm glad you are their to fry it up and keep us going. Love you

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  2. I have no doubt that you "can do this." And I'll try very hard to keep my smart-aleck comments to myself and off your blog ;)

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  3. Cassey, you have a GREAT husband!! I am so glad you are staying home. I'm going to do everything possible to keep you home, if I have to cut your coupons myself, lol. It is hard but its so rewarding, even on the days when there are no naps and complete chaos. Because in the end, it was you who got to experience the meltdowns and were there to pick them up afterwards. I never imagined years ago as teenagers we would become great friends but here we are. How incredible!!

    Keep blogging for us, I'm nosey and like to know what everyone else is doing. Its always nice to hear that other households have crazy days as well.

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  4. I told you that you would love cloth dipes! So fun and definitely way cuter than disposables.

    Just think of all the fun moments that you are going to get to see being at home with your babies! Even on those hard days all it takes is one sweet smile!

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