tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38348256961097945322012-02-16T07:19:36.856-08:00Unkempt Mommynoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834825696109794532.post-56212552394899186142008-09-12T16:21:00.001-07:002008-09-21T09:16:17.545-07:00<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2263/2193159508_7d3747613f_m.jpg" align="left" hspace="20" /> <br />I am a 28 year old first time mommy to a beautiful, smart, and happy little girl named Scout, <a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2222/2186171428_4b8ba7266a.jpg">born</a> April 2007. I've been married to my hot computer nerd drummer (known as DH around here) for 7 years and have a wonderful life with him. Man, I love that guy. I feel super blessed to be able to stay home and take care of our kiddo while he brings home the bacon.<br /><br />I love to sing. LOVE it. It's my favorite thing to do in the whole world...well, besides being a wife and mommy. Luckily, I don't have to choose because I can sing AND be a wife and mommy all at the same time. I also play a little bit o' guitar. I'm no <a href="http://www.yngwie.org/">Yngwie Malmsteen</a>, but I know enough to get me by in the song writing department, which is alright by me. Now <span style="font-style: italic;">that</span> is a little tougher to do while being a wife and mommy because some little blonde-headed munchkin inevitably ends up banging on the strings while sticking crayons and hair clips in the sound hole of the guitar whenever I sit down to play. My budding musician.<br /><br />I'm interested in aspects of natural parenting, although we probably aren't the most natural family you've ever seen. (as evident by our occasional trips to <a href="http://www.krispykreme.com/">Krispie Kreme</a> and scads of cheap plastic toys covering our living room floor) We cloth diapered for 8 months and enjoyed it. Our little girl was exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life and is still nursing at a year and a half. I try to feed her whole, nutritious foods most of the time. She was worn in an <a href="http://www.ergobabycarrier.com/">Ergo</a> or a <a href="http://www.thebabywearer.com/articles/WhatTo/PouchesAndSlings.htm">ring sling</a> for the first year of her life (and still does ride in them occasionally). I do my best to give her tons of freedom to explore the world around her while giving her safe boundaries. She is almost always allowed to get as dirty as she wants. I believe in letting her splash around in mud puddles when it rains if the mood strikes her. I think that kids were made to get dirty.<br /><br />I live 900 miles from my entire family because I moved to DH's hometown 9 months after meeting him on the internet. We met through Yahoo Personals. Yeah. We're classy like that. We got married 6 months after I moved here. (Where's "here"? I suppose you'll have to keep guessing)I miss my family a ton, but this is where home is. We have a great church family here and feel like this is where we're needed the most.<br /><br />I guess that's me in a nutshell. A big nutshell, that holds a lot of words.<br /><br></br><br /><center><a href="http://www.makingaperson.com/">Back to Makingaperson.com</a></center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3834825696109794532-5621255239489918614?l=aboutmakingaperson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Unkempt Mommynoreply@blogger.com