{"id":8133,"date":"2015-05-01T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=8133"},"modified":"2015-05-01T08:02:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T12:02:04","slug":"becoming-a-mommy-is-not-the-end-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/01\/becoming-a-mommy-is-not-the-end-of-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a Mommy is Not the End of Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sat at Sugarplum’s gymnastics the other day and overheard a few other mommies talking (no, I wasn’t eavesdropping, these women are LOUD!) \u00a0One of the mommies is expecting at Christmas time, her second. \u00a0Both of the other mommies already have two and started throwing every clich\u00e9 response you can image: You’ll never sleep again! \u00a0Two is twice as hard as one! \u00a0Be ready for the rivalry and acting out from your daughter! \u00a0You’ll have your hands full!<\/p>\n

You hear it a lot, all of the negative things about being a mommy. \u00a0About how your life will never be the same and often it’s made to seem like your life is about to END.<\/p>\n

But I’m here tell you, no PROMISE you, that in fact, becoming a mommy is not the end of your life. \u00a0And I won’t even be clich\u00e9 and say that it is really the beginning of your life. \u00a0It’s an extension of your life. \u00a0Really.<\/p>\n

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There are a lot of changes that happen when you become a mommy (whether for the first, second, third or more times) but the truth is, you’re still YOU. \u00a0And it’s still YOUR life. \u00a0Any life changes (apart from having a tiny little human to take care of), are your choice.<\/p>\n

A baby is not a life sentence, house arrest or 18 years without the chance\u00a0of parole. \u00a0Really, it’s what you make of it. \u00a0If you choose to be stuck at home, you will be. \u00a0If you choose to let your little ones run your life, they will.<\/p>\n

But you can also choose to continue your life as it was, just with a squishy little sidekick. \u00a0This is the choice hubby and I made and I could never even imagine it being different.<\/p>\n

We took Honeybun out to dinner when she was 6 days old. \u00a0I was out and about with her on my own within a few weeks (much to the appaul of the well-meaning old ladies at the post office who insisted NO baby should be out of the house before 6 weeks old as they poked and prodded her in my sling). \u00a0I started three new jobs when she was just 6 weeks old. \u00a0 And she was 10 weeks old when she accompanied hubby and I to The Melting Pot for our one year anniversary dinner.<\/p>\n

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Sugarplum was a mere 5 weeks old when we hopped on a plane with her and returned to Dublin and only 7 weeks when we took a ferry to Liverpool. \u00a0She visited 25 different countries before her 2nd birthday.<\/p>\n

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Doodle accompanied me when I returned to teaching ballet when he was 3 weeks old, attended his first dance performance at a month old and\u00a0went to Disney for the first with the family at only 2 months old.<\/p>\n

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Our children have never stopped us from living the life we wanted or even the life we lived before. \u00a0Either we take them with us when we do the things we want to our we find someone we trust to take care of them. \u00a0But they have never really stopped us from doing things we wanted to do.<\/p>\n

Becoming a mommy is not the end of your life, it’s just an expansion of it. \u00a0Having children opens your eyes to a whole new world. \u00a0You get to see things from a new perspective, their perspective. \u00a0You get to experience things as if for the first time again. \u00a0Having children should expand your world, not narrow it.<\/p>\n

It’s your life, make what you want of it…and bring the kids along for the ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sat at Sugarplum’s gymnastics the other day and overheard a few other mommies talking (no, I wasn’t eavesdropping, these women are LOUD!) \u00a0One of the mommies is expecting at Christmas time, her second. \u00a0Both of the other mommies already have two and started throwing every clich\u00e9 response you can image: You’ll never sleep again! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business","category-tiny-travellers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8160,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions\/8160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}