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As a working mom, I sometimes find myself wishing for a few more hours to each day. There just isn’t enough time to get from A to B sometimes and it drives me crazy. I catch myself thinking, “Maybe if I get up at 5 am, I’ll get one load of laundry done before having to get the troops ready for our day” and then I think… “5 am…girl, you’re crazy!” But there aren’t enough hours in the day, and when you’re having one of those days where everything is going wrong and all you want to do is cry, I like to drink a glass of wine and fantasize about my perfect mommy world instead of sacrificing my eye makeup with tears.
(Cue the cheesy fantasy dream land music.)
In my perfect mommy world, there would be drive thru “Mommy Marts”. These “Mommy Marts” would function like any drive thru fast food restaurant and have a menu of items for pick up. My ideal “Mommy Mart” would carry formula, diapers, wipes, diaper rash, cream, baby food, etc. Why a “Mommy Mart” you ask? You might be thinking “Geeze, she’s so lazy!” Well folks…my sweet angel child likes to fall asleep when we’re in the car and 99.9% wakes up the second the car stops. When she is enjoying sweet nap time, the last thing I want to do it wake her up to run into Kroger for some baby food or leave her in the car (because that’s illegal and just bad parenting)…A “Mommy Mart” would solve that issue. I can’t even imagine if I had multiple children…oy vey!
In my perfect mommy world, there would be people called “Mommy’s Angels” like Charlie’s Angels except not as attractive…I don’t need to feel insecure now. These ladies would swoop in as quick as they could reply to a text message and do whatever I needed them to do. Kind of like a personal assistant team for those not as fortunate as let’s say…Oprah. These ladies would know exactly how I like my laundry folded, exactly where I like my groceries put away, exactly how to rock my girl to sleep and exactly how to record all of my TV shows that somehow get recorded over by hockey, baseball or whatever sport season we’re in. They would make sure our home is always neat and all for $29.99 a month…with a $99 registration fee!
In my perfect mommy world, having babies would make your body better than it was before. There would be NO wider hips, stretch marks, leaking tatas, loss of sex drive, loss of memory, semi-permanent belly tire (if I worked out I’m sure it would go away but we’re fantasizing here!) or bald spots!! Why my body didn’t rebound the way Angelina Jolie’s did, I’ll never know…
But then, I snap out of it, look down at my pasty thighs and go wash bottles and re-wash the load of laundry that I forgot about two days prior and get clothes ready for the next day because I realize that this is my mommy world…and it’s perfect…chaos and ten post-pregnancy pounds included.
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Vanessa lives and works in Irving with her husband Matt and daughter Caroline. She spends her days as a Corporate Communications Manager and her nights as a full time mommy and story-teller. Motherhood was a big surprise but she is loving every minute of it!
Vanessa- I also wondered why my body didn’t rebound like Angelina’s!
love it, Vanessa! It’s hard to “just run in for one thing” anymore! I find I’ve been running to the grocery store and Target after she is in bed…which luckily is still at 7:30.
This is so sweet. The end got me 🙂
Can’t wait to be a mommy!
You know what they should also have? A babysitter-type service where someone comes to your house and just SITS THERE while your kids nap! If I could just leave to run errands solo while they nap… I could save SO MUCH TIME!!
oooh, i love your mommy mart and mommy’s angels ideas! but reality is pretty sweet too 🙂