New Year, New Blog, New Diatribe

Happy New Year readers! Here I am on my new, purple laptop, ready to ring in the new year with a new blog challenge. Recently I re-watched Julie and Julia and if you've never enjoyed this film it is about the Life of Julia Child and a blogger, Julie something or other, who blogs through the entire Julia Child cookbook in 365 days. In passing to my husband the chef, I said, you should do that, you should cook through her cookbook and I'll write about it. He then said "It would be much better if you cooked and wrote about it." I laughed as I firmly believe that I should never be left unattended in a kitchen. I can make a mean salad or sandwich but seriously people, no cooking for this mama.

But then I thought, okay okay, I could write every day but what about that would keep my focus and not just me being ridiculous. So I asked my Facebook followers and one suggestion of "Parenthood," and I thought...let's do this.

Now I use my work computer for everything and our desktop at home is ancient. So, I promised myself with a decent enough bonus, I'd get myself a proper writing tool. So now we're here on January 1st, 2019. 

I'm not a parenting expert. AT ALL. I'm no Jim Gaffigan with 5 kids, endless quips and great adventure. But here's the thing, I've found that I've had some experiences that others find as common ground and comfort. I've seen some things. And I've been around enough different kinds of parents, to know that our biggest strength as a whole is no one know's best. That song in Tangled "Mother know's best," is bullshit by the way. Also, her "mother" in that movie was completely selfish and terrible so what does that even tell us? Oh, Disney, yep that's how you know I'm a parent. 

So what I want for this year is to tell my ridiculous trials, tribulations and diatribes for you all to laugh, cry and relate to, and cut down on all the mom-shaming and judgement of the world of parenthood. EVERY FAMILY IS DIFFERENT. Everyone parents differently for what works for them so let's not get caught up in it all. Half of the things I added to my "I'd never do that as a parent list," I've done whether I like to admit it or not.

So I want to start all of this by telling every single parent follower of mine that you're doing great. Single mom? You're awesome! Co-parenting in one way or another? Keep up the good work. Single dad? You're wonderful. Two moms? Great! Two dads? Great! Grandparents parenting all over again? Awesome! Step parents? Great! And any other kind of parenting, you're kicking ass! Just keep it up!

So I'm not writing any of this to make anyone look or feel bad. In fact it's quite the opposite, I want to make you feel better because you can relate or because you are a better parent than 1! So 365 days and 365 entries about parenthood. Who's in?!? I'm mostly going to be using my Instagram for promotion but also a little Facebook. Comments are welcome and encouraged! I hope to hear from all my readers!

As I'm writing this my husband is making fart noises, my daughter is screaming asking to play on my computer, Friends is on Netflix and my recent luxury purchase of a robot-vac Eufy whom I've named Eufygenia Doubtfire is roaming around while my pug watches all of that go down.

This is after this morning I woke up my exhausted husband to get to the 10AM Mary Poppins showing because I'm cheap, or thrifty as I like to say, and between my husband being in and out of consciousness and my daughter being very much 5, it was kind of a ridiculous morning. You see every time I tried to purchase the tickets online, it wouldn't give me the matinee price which I called and confirmed was 4 dollars cheaper and was told we could get at the theater for that show time but they couldn't guarantee the seats. We showed up and still paid too much because apparently we went to see one step lower than IMAX? I told the manager I was misinformed (yes I'm that person also) and he didn't even care. Oh well. We were already there and dammit I wanted to see Mary Poppins concerned. 

My daughter who has been known to hold it under protest for 7 hours straight somehow peed 3 times in 90 minutes and then wished we were home "resting." She said this curled up with a sweatshirt and stuffed animal next to a huge bucket of popcorn. My husband was in and out of consciousness after having worked until about 3AM and I forced him up at 8:30AM because MARY POPPINS RETURNS!

So later I threw a sassy tantrum and my husband said "Okay we were able to make the show as a family so maybe that's what we should focus on instead, would you have had it another way?" My response? "Yeah I mean I would have preferred to go by myself! You guys were horrible!" My husband rolled his eyes and laughed and said "Maybe you can go see all the Disney movies first and we'll all go as a family after you've had your quiet time. You can go see Lion King first." I laughed and said, "Finally!"

I would at least take him to see Lion King with me. You know, nostalgia. 

So this is where I wind down my first post. I have spin in 90 minutes and my little one is insisting on hanging out in the KidsZone. So I'll try and relax a bit until then but no promises. Currently my daughter is watching me type, humming some very strange tune and talking about what my computer does. Until tomorrow readers. Happy New Year!