Blog Friend Feature: My Crazy Busy Life

Sometimes, when you start reading someone's blog or talking to them on twitter, you just know: you'd so be IRL friends.  That is how I felt about this week's Blog Friend Feature: someone so easy to talk to and a real sweetheart....even if we both might occasionally have our moments when we aren't so sweet. Shhh, that's just between us.

I met Natalie from My Crazy Busy Life at Blissdom and I know that you will adore her as much as I do!

When I got the email from Shell asking me to be her newest BFF, I literally jumped for joy. I’ve been a fan of hers for awhile now and was lucky enough to meet her at Blissdom. She is one of th
e sweetest and nicest girls. Plus, she’s a ton of fun on the dance floor.


Like Shell, I’m also a mom of 3 and I thought I would share a few things I’ve learned along the way about the various stages of motherhood.


Baby 1: Rushing the Progress
With my first baby, I was young and inexperienced. I had no clue what I was doing, but I couldn’t wait for my sweet little boy to get bigger and older.

When would he crawl? Talk? Walk? I couldn’t wait for him to play sports, start school and be a big kid.


Baby 2: Ignorance is Bliss
Baby number two was not much different than baby one. They’re only two years apart so many of their infant and toddler phases are one big blur. I couldn’t wait for the new bundle of joy to sleep through the night, get potty trained, be able to play with his big brother. I wanted them both to share toys, read books and enjoy each other.


Baby 3: Slow & Steady Win the Race
This time, I was older and wiser- as wise as one can be at the ripe age of 26. By this point, I had been at the mommy game for 8 years and felt like I had FINALLY learned a thing or two about how to wrangle a baby.

Instead of wishing for time to speed up, I wanted to slow it down. When my daughter would wake in the middle of the night, I snuggled a sweet newborn. I dreaded the day she sat on her own because I knew it was the beginning of many milestones leading to her independence. When she started walking and talking, I cried because I knew it was only a matter of time before she would be starting school.

Like the two boys before her, my daughter reached all of the same milestones quickly: Crawling, walking, talking. The boys are now playing sports, going to school, best of friends and get along great (on most days).

Many of my friends are now starting their families and I hear them voice many of the same wishes I myself had in the beginning. I simply smile and remember how I couldn’t wait for my babies to be big kids and the difference a few years of experience made. I managed to go from wanting them to grow to wanting them stay little forever in such a short time. I learned to savor each moment. They change and grow in what seems like a blink of an eye.

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