Fickle Fame
When I get out the camera and start pointing it at my son, I get smiles and giggles.
Love the Camera
One minute later, the fickle hand of fame comes up and it’s “Go away, you crazy Mama Paparazzi!”
Aden scowling at camera
~Life as Mom
9 Lessons I Have Learned as a Stay-at-Home Mom
Aden counting seashells
It has been a month since I have decided to be a stay-at-home mom and it has taken some getting used to. I’m learning daily what it means to be home and be creative at the same time. My inspiration has definitely been my son. Here are nine lessons from the past few weeks.
1. The overwhelming urge to live in jogging suits and sweats dominates my mornings. That is if I decided to get dressed.
2. If I don’t get dressed, invariably someone will come to the door with a package. Good encouragement to put my bra on.
3. I don’t like my life summed up as “Homemaker” on forms. REALLY don’t like it.
4. As I knew it would be, protecting my personal time is still my biggest challenge.
5. I’ve figured out that I have to limit washing the dishes to once a day or I’ll spend the whole day in the kitchen. (At least the dishes get washed a lot more often now than they did when I was working.)
6. I’m learning to relax and let go. The goal is to not replace one kind of stress with another. I’m concentrating on doing things that I love doing. Consequently, I feel my creativity is increasing.
7. Stick to the schedule. Laundry on Mondays. Dishes once a day. Keep naptimes consistent! Glass Bottle of wine by 5:00pm. Forgot to take photo of son again.
8. The children’s shows that demostrate nice ants coming to the picnics doesn’t reconcile in a 2-year old’s mind when Mommy is yelling, “GET AWAY FROM THERE! The (fire) ants (only kind in Florida) will bite and hurt you.”
9. There really is no quick explanation for the crazy woman yelling at her son because he is standing next to the “BAD” tree crawling with poisen ivy. “BAD TREE! BAD TREE!”
~Life as Mom
The Littlest Photographer
We gave Aden his first camera yesterday, an old 1 megapixel camera of Kevin’s. He loves it! He is so engaged with it and that was before he was even shown the pictures! His work is brilliant! I need to follow him around and take pictures of whatever he does! He loves taking pictures of all the things that he sees, from his shoes to rocks to his toys to grass!
- Aden with his first camera.
~Life as Mom
