Dressed by Noon

While I'll be the first to say that blogging seems largely narcissistic, I've decided to add my voice to the din. As the mom of a six-week-old gorgeous little munchkin, I guess I'm looking for a way to connect with the world during my maternity leave. Staying home with baby is awesome, but isolating. Hence this little tether to the outside.

The name of this blog is an homage to my mom. About two weeks after IK was born my mom admitted that her goal when my brothers and I were kids was to be showered and dressed by noon on Wednesdays so she wouldn't have to greet the cloth diaper delivery guy in her PJ's. Now, mind you, my mom is a super hero. She worked as a nurse and a nurse practitioner, raised three great kids, cultivated a garden most summers, drove me to ballet and my older brother to soccer and my younger brother to music lessons, helped my dad rehab a 150 year old farm house, and she did it all without air conditioning. I'm not saying that I imagined that she got up in time to put on makeup for the 3 AM feeding, but it never really seemed hard for her to keep it all together.

So when I was struggling to adjust to motherhood in those early weeks it was a HUGE relief to hear that what-a-mom had struggled too. Now that IK and I are finding our way I maintain my mother's goal to be showered and dressed by noon. Sometimes I make it, sometimes I don't. There's no diaper delivery guy keep me honest, but it helps to have something to shoot for.