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\"\"<\/a>As I was driving to dinner with the “girls” from my mom’s group, it hit me.\u00a0 I want to start a blog.\u00a0 Now, I’m not the type to freely weely go around and give advice, so the thought of writing a blog never seemed appealing.\u00a0 I also never really thought I would have anything interesting to write about\u2026( Great, I just lost half my readers).\u00a0 I’m just your average Joe but without the English skills and wittiness that make blogs exciting to read.\u00a0 I also tend to write like I talk which according to my high-school English teachers does not make for good writing.\u00a0 (Just lost the other half \u2013 come back! I take it all back, I\u2019m an amazing writer and studies show your life will improve if you read my blog!*) I also had to double check with the girls at dinner that it is in fact called a “blog” \u2013 which turns out actually stands for \u201cWeb Log\u201d \u2013 who knew? \u00a0Needless to say, up until 24 hours ago, I never picked up blogging.<\/p>\n

My life changed once I became a mother (Ummmmmm Duh?)\u00a0 I wouldn’t say my life got more interesting, but I became more vocal.\u00a0 I’m one of the first of our close friends to have a baby, and I found people asking me a lot of questions, and me telling them EVERYTHING.\u00a0 And I mean, everything.\u00a0 Normally, I’d say that I’m a listener more than a talker.\u00a0 In fact, my best friend of 15 + years, has always accused me of not telling her enough about my life.\u00a0 She would have to ask me the right question at the right time in order for me to tell her things (“oh ya, my sister-in-law is pregnant and she’s due in a week”, or “oh ya, we’re flying to Hawaii tomorrow, I didn’t tell you?’).\u00a0 And this is my best friend!\u00a0 I’m not sure what it was about motherhood, but it opened me up.\u00a0 Maybe it was the lack of knowledge of what it was really going to be and feel like, or maybe it’s the fact that it isn’t at all as glamorous as I thought it would be, but I felt compelled to share my story with others.\u00a0 Not that my story is unique, and by no means does my experience resemble anyone else’s, but I found that a lot of people didn’t talk about what they really felt and were going through post pregnancy.<\/p>\n

I feel that now is a good time to start the blog.\u00a0 My son, Kyle, is turning 15 months in a few days, and I had time to reflect on my first year with him.\u00a0 I’m also, \u201cunofficially\u201d, a stay-at-home mom (SAHM).\u00a0 \u201cUn\u201d because I’m just on an extended year leave of absence from my work, \u201cofficially\u201d because I\u2019m a mom that stays home.\u00a0\u00a0Also, a lot of my good friends are now either pregnant, just had a baby, or are trying, and a lot\u00a0have come and asked me questions about my experience.\u00a0 Instead of repeating myself, I thought,\u00a0“why not just open myself up completely” and here I am!<\/p>\n

On the 30 minute\u00a0drive to dinner and back home I thought long and hard about what I would call my blog.\u00a0 I came up with\u00a0“Motherhood and other stuff” and “Motherhood and other fantasies”.\u00a0 As my life\u00a0now revolves around my son, I figured most of my blogs would be about him, or how I am as a mother.\u00a0 But there is a small % of my life that does involve around\u00a0other things, and sometimes those things are funny\u00a0or interesting, so I figured I’d write about those as well.\u00a0 Hence, the two names I came up with after much deliberation.\u00a0 I was so excited to share the news of my idea for a blog with my husband.\u00a0 When I told him the two names that I had came up with\u00a0so far he said\u00a0“Why not call it ‘Mayahood'”.\u00a0 Damn my husband!\u00a0 Why is he so much more brilliant than me?\u00a0 And so, the name stuck.<\/p>\n

I guess I still don’t really expect people to read this, but maybe if one person does, and it helps that one person feel “normal” and “not alone” in this crazy world of parenthood, then I feel like I’ve helped in some way.<\/p>\n

Anywho \u2013 welcome to Mayahood!\u00a0 A blog about motherhood, adventures, stories, laughter, love and me writing like I\u2019m talking .\u00a0 I will try to make my stories enjoyable.\u00a0 Hopefully you will read my blogs.\u00a0 At least I know of one person who will (yes, my husband, but only because he’s my “editor”).<\/p>\n

*Studies yet to be conducted, this is my first blog remember?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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