If you're a friend or family member of mine, you have probably heard a lot of mundane stories about my exciting life as a stay-at-home mom. I'm sure all of you thought, "Boy, I wish she would write all those fabulous poop stories down in blog form so I could read them over and over again!" So here it is, for all the poop story fans. And the "You'll never believe what she ate today..." fans. And the "Yeah she ate it twice." stories. You see where I'm going. It's hypnotically exciting stuff.
Well, it is for me.
I realize that an average day in our house reads kind of like the starter fluff of a Sci-Fi Channel movie. You know, the opening scenes where the mom is making breakfast, feeding the cats (though here, that particular event occurs anywhere from 4 A.M. on, as the cats often find themselves wracked with a painful canned duck craving in the wee hours of the morning) and kissing the bleary-eyed husband good morning whilst handing him his cup of coffee and a chocolate croissant. Mmmmmm, chocolate croissants...........
Yeah, so anyway, there's the opening scene. The one -before- Frankenfish ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenfish ) jumps out of the water and eats everyone. Good times. And thankfully, most days Frankenfish never shows up. If he did, Alex (that's the aforementioned eater of all things strange) would eat him. In stick form. Mmm, Frankenfish sticks.
So, the real reason why I decided to start on this blog adventure was not because I wanted to spend a few months working really hard on it only to abandon the project because it turns out I don't have the stamina to maintain a blog, but because I thought I'd give my family and friends the option to read some of my stories about the daily joys/grind of raising a seedling family. Instead of calling them every five minutes with the latest naughty word repeated, cat litter ingested and bruise received.
Since I'm not just a mom (even if sometimes I forget I had a life pre-Alex) but also a horticulturist, I thought this would be a fun place to write about me keeping a bit of my professional life alive in my feeble attempts to live as a tree hugger. And maybe convince the next generation to hug trees too. Just not the ones with poison ivy on them......
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