Hello! Welcome to my blog! I am an old/new stay at home mom, I have a baby girl… well she’s not really a baby anymore. She’s actually 8, so not really a baby at all. She has so much personality and is the queen of her own little world. I wanted to start this blog a little bit for other moms but mostly for me. This is my first time being a mom and although I’m eight years in to it each day I am faced with a whole new challenge and it almost feels like I’m starting over each day. I wanted to document the problems I have in hopes that I will read this in ten years and laugh. Let’s hope so at least.

The first thing I want to talk about, and probably the biggest thing I want to talk about is the toys my little girl plays with. Me and husband decided from day one of discovering I was pregnant was that we were not going to limit this child in any way. We were only going to support her in anything she wanted to do. When we agreed to do that I didn’t realize that would be so hard. You would think wanting to support your child would come naturally, but it just turns out it’s hard. My girl loves more than anything to play with “boy toys”. I’m talking nerf guns, batman, superman, dinosaurs, toy truck, tool sets, when you walk in to target she will go straight past the babies, princess dolls, anything pink and gets giddy about a new race car track. To get something straight me and husband feel that nothing is wrong with this. If she wants to play with a super hero doll instead of flight attended Barbie than I see no issue with this. I do how ever have an issue with other moms who look at my eight-year-old girls toy chest and get a strange look on their face. They don’t think it’s wrong pre-say but they definitely think it to be a bit odd. And that’s really what makes me mad. Because my little girl like “boy toys” that makes her odd. I really wish this didn’t bother me as much as it does. But it’s hard when you are planning play dates and you don’t want your little girl to get the idea that her toys are weird and then my association she is weird. It’s a issue I am learning fast is not going to go away quickly, it’s not something I can ignore either. This is something that I am dealing with so I figured I should document it to look back on. I don’t know why but maybe there are other moms dealing with this… at least I hope so.

I’m sorry for starting my first blog with a rant but I guess that’s what this is for. I promise to be more put together in the future but I had to start the blog somewhere!

xoxo,

Isabelle