The Wordy Owl Syllabus

Remember the syllabus they handed out the first day of class in college to give you a guide as to what would be covered? I’ve decided to do that also since I couldn’t come up with a good tagline for my header. One of the first tips many professional bloggers give newbie’s, like myself, is to have a memorable phrase that sums up the tone and premise of what your blog is about and whether you will have topics that will interest the reader. Like my first post stated, I like to talk a lot, so for me to have to sum up my whole blog in about 5 words or less is like torture. So after days of trying to come up with something clever and witty to describe the type of blog this will be I decided to make a list of things we may discuss.

First, let me welcome you all to class. Please sit anywhere you like. Each of you should have a syllabus below that will give you an idea of what we will cover. I hope that you find topics that interest you and will become a participating member of the class. Please feel free to let me know any additional topics you would like to discuss and we’ll see what we can do.

·         Motherhood in general

·         Being a first time mom

·         Trying to conceive for a second time

·         Crazy and maybe not so crazy ways to try and conceive a girl

·         Explanation as to why it is “OK” to hope for a child of a certain sex

·         Tracking ovulation

·         Pregnancy

·         Raising a toddler

·         All the things nobody mentions regarding pregnancy, birth   and parenthood that would be really helpful to know in advance

·         Marriage

·         Becoming a stay at home mommy

·         Trying to still have a sense of self after becoming a wife and 
   mommy

·         Cooking and Recipes

·         Coupons and money saving deals

·         Rants and Raves on products, places and people

·         Anything else that happens to strike my fancy for the moment

Check 1, 2, 3........Is This Mic On?

I have thought about starting a blog for awhile now, but I never got around to it. Until now. So here I am writing my very first blog entry. I don’t have a clue what I’m doing and who knows if anyone will even care one little iota about anything I have to say. But at least it provides me an outlet and will prevent me from running and hiding in my closet when things get crazy. Also I am doing it so that one day my kids can look back and see all the crazy things they put me through.

I have been married for 5 years to my high school boyfriend, Jason, and we have a 2½ year old son together. My son has given me a whole new outlook on life and the day he was born I discovered what pure, unconditional, true love was all about. I can’t even describe the amount of love I have for that child, it’s seriously crazy! I’ve been known to be called a smothering mother and I admit it with no guilt. We are about to start the process of entering parenthood for the second and hopefully last time if all goes as planned (more on what that means in a later post).

I've been told all my life that I talk a lot and have a lot of opinions that I sometimes forget to filter. Actually that last part may not be true, I don’t forget to filter, I just think that its better to tell it like it is and a lot of people don’t like that, they like to be told what they want to hear not what they may need to hear and that’s just not my shtick . So, here it goes, I hope somebody out there enjoys this snapshot into my life!