This is my first blog post! I am so excited to have you reading this. I am also excited to share with you all my future letters to you. I want to start out my blog by telling you about the night I tried to start my blog.
I was following along on a webinar on how to start a blog (how hard could it really be right?) I went to the site to buy my domain bluepress.com, It told me to enter in my blog name. So I tried the first one and went through the steps to make the payment. All the steps seemed pretty easy and the last thing I did was hit SUBMIT. No biggy right? I’m on my way! YES! But it came up on a page that said this name has been taken and someone else’s payment is processing. So I was like man someone took my name, that stinks. So I went back and chose another name and went through the process again. And the last page popped up and it said the same thing and I thought man that sticks what am I going to name my blog now? I also thought maybe there is a lot of activity because of the webinar I was using there were many people doing the same thing at the same time so I went back and did it again only to get the same page that someone else’s payment was being processed. Then it dawned on me IT WAS MY PAYMENT EACH TIME!!!! Oh no!!! I just payed this certain amount to start not one blog but 3 (Palm plant)!
Have you ever experienced “mom brain”? I sure have more times than not. I am always claiming “mom brain”. Maybe it’s a cop-out but hey it always is understood by other moms, especially. The time when your in the grocery store wandering around aimlessly only to realize a half hour has passed and you still haven’t gotten anything on your list. Maybe it is just your subconscious having a party because this time your husband took the kids so you could do the shopping alone. How about the other times when you have the kids and they are screaming down the aisle I want this I want that and you cave because your tired of being whined at for the hundredth time. Only to come home and realize you didn’t get anything off your list and EVERYTHING off your children’s list. (Yes they have a list too 1. Wear mom down to a breaking point, 2. Ask mom for everything unhealthy in the entire store. Check, check). Yes those times happen too. Is there ever a time I feel normal and not a perpetual fog on my brain? Well they have happened too. The time when my husband A and I went on an anniversary trip kid free! Yes THAT happened. The times I have such sweet moments with my kids. Yes the fog lifts once in awhile.
Here is a little about my family and my why I have started a blog.
Ten and a half years ago this journey of my marriage started. I married A whom I met in College. About a year after we got married we moved to the country where A runs our cattle operation. W was our first child, he is a born leader. Likes things done right and has a natural bent toward justice. His favorite things are playing with Legos, working with daddy, riding horse and riding around our land on the 4-wheeler. We then had our second son D. D loves being outside especially jumping on the trampoline. He is a natural mechanic. I had my stick blender break once and I give it to D and he fixed it. He is a little bit of a wild man and I have many stories to write about his adventures 🙂 Next We had yet another boy C. He is my sensitive guy. He loves snuggling and just sitting on the couch with me holding him. He loves any animal and even the wild farm cats break to him and start rubbing against him and purring. Two years later we had our daughter J. She is a free spirit and like things done her own way. She knows she is the princess and makes sure her brothers cave to her every whim. The other day W was riding her little 4-wheeler ride on toy and she hollered and hit him and he got off then she got on and hollered again and he began pushing her…Yikes! We sure have a strong will on our hands.
The reason I wanted to write a blog is for some real motherhood stories. Here is the dirty, nitty gritty hard stuff but also the joys that follow from getting into the hard stuff with your children and husband. It’s hard living with people and trying to get along with them all while teaching them to get along with each other. But I believe parents are in this together and we have to stick together to get through this tough thing we call parenting. I hope you will follow along on my journey and be encouraged as I share it. This blog is for anyone who is also making imperfect progress in life.
So back to the night I set up my blog…
After it dawned on me that I was the one making the payments for three blogs I called customer service immediately. The lady who answered was so understanding and helped me right away to get two of the blogs deleted and so Makingimperfectprogress was formed and here I am right now posting my first blog article.
Signing off from one woman to another.
Jenny Ren