A mom’s love is like no other and my mother has showed many times that she will always be there for me and the rest of the family that need her. I felt as though she was always over my shoulder as a kid and I never had any breathing room. I moved out right after high school and got married very young. I chalked it up to being raised without a father, and so did she. However my marriage is still going strong we have had our ups and downs and mom has always been there as a shoulder to cry on. I always felt as though she was there I just didn’t want her so close. My brother has made a home in New York and of course my sister has made a life in Snyder. I on the other hand cannot seem to get out of my mom’s sight. I am the oldest and there for have always been there when she needed her shoulder to cry on. I am now twenty five and my husband and I along with our child live with my mom. She has never liked having a large house to herself and has always been a sucker for loud houses. When she is home all alone she says that her empty nest syndrome has gotten worse. We chose to move in because she was alone and it will take us a few years to save and buy our own house. However she has already started trying to get us to stay longer. Got to love her!

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So last night about 9 pm I started geeting some sharp pains. I tried to continue my night and work through them but they just kept getting stronger. I felt like something was wrong, although Im pregnant I cant deliver a baby at this stage soI was thinking the worst. My husband made me put everything away and take a hot bath but it wasnt working so we hopped in the car and flew to the hospital. When we got there fortunately there was only about four people ahead of me. I registered at the desk which took over an hour! They asked what my issue was and asked if I was pregnant. I told them I was in fact pregnant and then they asked did you have issues with the first pregnancy? I advised that I didn’t and they told me to have a seat. I sat and waited for over two hours to see a doctor in excrutiating pain. I had never felt like this before and was scared to death of the outcome. My husband was mad and constantly asking how long, all they would say was not much longer and they went back to talking about what they were doing for the holidays. Really so I could possibly have a really bad thing happening to my child and we are talking about the holiday weekend? They finally call me to the back were I sit for another hour before I ever get to see the doctor. Then the doctor comes in and he is absolutley hateful and talking to my husband and not me. The doctor walks out and orders the nurse to do a sonogram and to check the fetal heartbeat. Ok really so if my baby is in distress then it has been that way now for three hours. Im very upset and my blood pressure is elevated at some very high levels. They hook the machines up to me to listen to the baby and I hear the best sound all night. The rapid heartbeat of my child makes me feel so much better that all i can do is cry. When they start looking into the sonogram we notice that the baby is fine but i hhave a tear in the placenta. I ask what can be done for that and the doctor of the emergency room tells me they can do nothing that I have to speak to my doctor as soon as possible. Lucky for me I have an appointment this morning and we can find out what is really going on. I get ready to leave and the nurse apologizes for the long wait. I was so infuriated by the wait and the bedside manner of the doctor that I blatently told the nurse what I thought of the  facility. I would advise anyone that has to go to the hospital late night to be prepared for long waits and rude doctors.

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Another day another marriage woe. I really don’t understand how having dinner and laundry done by the time the husband gets home tells them we have been busy all day.  So as you can tell I didn’t have dinner done tonight and I didn’t have laundry done. My husband was more upset over dinner than anything else. He just looked at me like I hadn’t done anything all day but let me tell you the two year old that continuously runs around my legs keeps me more busy than any job that you could ever imagine. So he acts as though I have done nothing all day. I can’t handle the huffing and puffing so I send him to the store for diapers. During the mean time I start dinner, and to his surprise we are having breakfast for dinner. Ham and eggs it is. When he gets back from getting the diapers I have dinner started. Why is it that when you finally decide to do something then they look at you and say you didn’t have to do that. Really? I thought that is what you wanted was to do is cook dinner. I swear I’m so tired of husbands I could literally make mine sleep on the couch tonight. I hope that he soon learns that being a tay at home mom and wife isnt as fun and easy as he thinks. It wasnt because I wanted to stay home he thought it would be good while I was pregnant. Geeze men.

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It’s important for moms to get a break every now and again. Trying to balance between motherhood, work, and still having time for yourself is tough! How much time do you need to spend on each aspect of your life? Work is a necessity and takes up most of my time. I’m a mom as soon as I get home until I drop my daughter off at daycare in the morning.. When the weekend comes around, I love getting to spend quality time with her but I need a little me time as well. I live with my daughter and younger sister who’s 17. She doesn’t have her drivers license yet so I have to taxi her around everywhere and it can sometimes be a bit of a burden. Not only do I have a teenager and 8 month old in my household but I also have a dog and a cat who are handfulls themselves. If I’m not making a bottle or doing laundry, I’m cleaning out the litter box or sweeping. I swear there’s not enough time in the day to get it all done! Sometimes I feel like I’m going to go crazy so it’s nice to be able to get away from it all. For example, this is my first week working a full time job. I’d had plans to go see a friend and attend an event with her in Abilene. When I was hired, I didn’t think I was going to be able to make it but as it turns out, I can. My own mom thinks I’m a horrible person for wanting to go out of town instead of spending time with my child. Although she will be in perfectly good hands with my husband’s mom, she feels as though I’m ruining my daughter’s life by not spending these 24 hours with her. I’m 23 and have to make my own decisions but it’s hard sometimes! I value my mom’s opinion and don’t want her to think less of me but this mom needs some time to herself!

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My sister and her husband found out they are going to be having a baby in April. Common news, yay babies everyone loves them, but I am having a hard time explaining how excited I am. This is going to be the first baby that is… related to me. In a sense. I mean that as in, of all the babies I have encountered in my life I have either been too young to care, or too far away to get to see the baby at all. This is going to be the first baby in my life that is actually IN my life. I am going to be an aunt. It sounds so weird to me, being 23 and going to be an auntie, but I am so excited that I am already buying the baby things for next Halloween, because I know that he/she will be around 6 months old and I can’t wait to buy baby things. They still don’t know whether it will be a girl or a boy, so I am buying gender neutral things until I know for sure. I CAN NOT wait, but of course I have to. I’ve always been a weird type of baby person, I love them and they always love me, but I’m terrified of doing something wrong because I’m rarely around them. Soon enough though, soon enough and I’ll be able to hang out with the baby and dress the baby up and hold the baby and do all that other baby stuff that I’m just rambling on and on about. Auntie J. Sounds good to me. Hurry up April.

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Being a mom is hard work! Don’t get me wrong, I love my daughter with all my heart but wow! she’s a handful. When I was pregnant, all the women in my life would tell me what a joy she would be and how fast she would grow but no one ever tells you that life as you know it is about to permanently change! I guess I just wish I was a little better prepared. Not only do you still have to be responsible for yourself but now you’re in charge of a whole other human being. Talk about stressful… Then there’s the people in your life who assume that being a mom comes with being a woman and that it’s your “job” Seriously? It takes two to tango and the responsibilities should be split my friends! We definitely don’t live in 1955 anymore. Keeping a healthy household is hard, strenuous work and should not be only one person’s duty. There are so many things you have to worry about with a little one around. Baby-proofing for example. My house looks hideous because I recently had to put all of the decorations away. Now I have a bland living room and an 8 month old drooling all over my floor. As I said, being a mom is not too glamorous. It’s funny though, even at my most stressed moment, I wouldn’t trade being a mom for anything!

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