It's a mommy thing...

Its been said that you can really change as a person without even noticing..I personally thought this was alot of nonesense- till i've started noticing it happening to me.

I was the woman who woke up each day, went through the routine of getting ready and frittered my day away at work, who would wander through shoe stores lusting after the newest patent leather heels with the kind of desire an teenage boy has for the girl next door.

Then the day came that I breezed right past a sale of luxurious heeled boots in favor of finding a deal on a pair of trail shoes....that's when it hit me.
I had changed.

I now look at my closed full of heels and think...when am i going to wear those? My cashmere sweaters sit and mock me, after all I am not in a financial place where I can afford to dry clean them every time I get food/spit or other non-mentionables on them.

My hair which I once spent ages on, now gets thrown back in a ponytail or set in place by a cheap plastic hair band, hoping that today will be the day I manage to get it washed.

Leisurely 2 hours lunchs have been replaced with 3 min meals, often consumed standing, or eaten with one hand with child in the other. Thankfully cherry tomatos are one of my favorite things, as I seem to eat them by the bucketful.

Indeed life has changed, I can't sleep in, my legs getting shaved is a special event and I spend more time feeding everyone else,then I do myself.

But i'm happy. Quite honestly we are not wealthy and the struggle to figure out the demands of work and child care looms, but for now, I'll take my payment in smiles.