Just puttin' it out there...

I was sitting around on the lounge early one Sunday morning with my kids who were watching cartoons. I was on my IPad surfing the net looking for ideas on what to serve with grilled salmon for a lunch I was going to prepare the following Sunday for some friends that we're coming by.

This search lead me to a yummy salad made with lettuce and avocado on a  blog called:

'Dash and Bella - Cooking With Kids' written by Phyllis Grant.

I don't know about you but when I stumble across something interesting, funny, smart, clever and inspiring I start exploring.

I began reading the author's other posts thinking all the while thinking how amazing this women sounds, how we'll she writes, how I wish I could sit and chat with her over a coffee and one of her Dutch pancakes, how better she makes me feel about the many stuff ups I make being a parent and how I am going to try to be more 'present' for my kids - and less guilty!

I hope to do this a step at a time, starting with cooking more with my kids and trying to remember to enjoy the moment more with them rather than get caught up with all the 'chores' that have to happen before we get out the door.

I've been thinking a lot lately about how quickly my kids are growing up and how this parenting thing is so damn important, hard, guilt ridden, fun, tiring - and the list goes on.

And even though I complain about how tiring my life is at the moment with three small children, before I know it they will be all grown up and I will be craving for a visit from them while I sit in my big, quiet house - the one I currently am complaining that it isn't.

So, back to reading Dash & Bella's blog...the one post that struck a chord with me was 'I know a mama who'. It's a post of a mashing of comments by mothers about things they are proud of or not so proud of, secretly think about or want the whole world to know.

Please check it out, it immediately struck a chord with me. So much so that I thought I'd create a blog (who has the time - right?) and ask the world of mothers to contribute their thoughts. A safe place to 'air', a place that is free of judgement or therapy. Just a place to let it out.

So, here goes. I'm putting it out there. Let's see what happens...

I'll start first...

I know a mother who...has lied to her kids about the last piece of chocolate just so she could eat it!