I walk quietly down the hallway, hoping my footsteps are quiet enough so that Olivia will not call for me.

"Mommy" (in that child-like, sing song voice)

Too late! As I make an about face and go into her room to tuck her in to bed for the 10th time (and this is only naptime- bedtime is worse) I am doing my breathing exercises so I can calmly tell her to GO TO BED!

This is just a little preview of my day to day life as a stay at home mom. Once a highly intelligent, motivated, working woman named RaeAnn I look in the mirror to see a sleepy-eyed, baby brained hot mess that used to be me and is only known as mom, ma, MOMMY!



I often go through the days talking to myself about my day, that is when I am not having a highly intelligent conversation with my 2 1/2 year old. This usually consists of answering the question "why" to the point that I start believing the made up answers I give her. Or I am babbling back and forth to my 7 month old. I think some of the stuff that goes on around here is pretty funny so I figured I would start a blog to share my stories and give myself an outlet.



Btw, this one entry took me 2 hours as I was continuously interrupted to tell my daughter to take a nap. In an effort to get 5 minutes to myself to finish writing I gave in and told her she could read books in bed instead of napping. I don't know why I thought that would give me a break because it turned into her calling me every 5 minutes, "mommy, I need more books, I need to pee, I need a snack..." and now little Liam is stirring from his nap....



until next time