Introduction

house·wife/ˈhousˌwīf/Noun A married woman whose main occupation is caring for her family, managing household affairs, and doing housework.

Is that all?

I'd first like to thank the world wide web for summing up a mothers duties into one sentence...clearly a mother, a REAL housewife did not write that definition.  If I could just add a few disclaimers to their definition it would be, "caring for her family"--even when they want nothing to do with you from 8-8 but midnight flu bug rolls around and duty calls; "managing the household affairs"--including but not limited to working a job, maybe two, and then coming home to your third job (the kids, husband and house); lastly "doing housework"--everything else no one else will do.

I'm sure all the mothers out there have dozens upon dozens of variations for that title, but we'll leave it at that for now, no sense in completely blowing the socks off our readers. 

Housewife is not only for the women these days either, there are plenty of "Househusbands" out there populating our parks, grocery stores, laundry rooms and school plays.

I'm the mother of two young kiddos.  A soon to be three year old little guy and a 1 year old daughter.  Will there be more kids, you might ask, "heck yes!", haha.  I love my kids and hope to overpopulate my house with them (not like Octomom or 18--maybe 19 kids and counting) I'm more of a 3 or 4 kid kind of mom. 

I'm not an experienced-expert of a mom, I am only as smart as WebMD.com and babycenter.com will allow me to be when it comes to parenting.  So why a blog you might ask?  What mom doesn't need to just get her feelings, frustrations, stories out and down on paper (electronic save the trees kind of paper)...this is a way for me to share my stories and frustrations with the rest of the average housewives and househusbands out there.  We're not wealthy, you don't see me on the next series of "Real Housewives of Orange County" or Beverly Hills, or Atlanta, New York, etc, etc.  Those are not REAL Housewives or Househusbands.

Will we cry, probably, will there be laughter, I hope so.  More importantly I'm hoping for some unity between us average mothers and fathers out there.  A chance to feel less "alone" in our feelings and stories.  We all have bad days, good days, and phenomenal days, why not share?

This is my story...I'm a mom.