About Me

I am a 30 something (okay nearly 40) year old stay at home mom with two sons, ages 2 and 5. We live like most everyone else in our community. My husband goes to work every day, then be brings home the bacon and I burn it up for dinner. We have the usual problems and the usual solutions. I find myself choking on this day-to-day mediocrity. I love my children more than I can say and I honestly wanted to be a stay at home mom, right up until the moment I figured out what that meant.


What does it mean you ask? For me it has meant a complete and total loss of self, and freedom. I am at times little more than a child in my own home. I have no power and very little voice in all the major financial decisions of our life. My opinions are continuously overruled and overlooked. But I am still expected to be all adult like when it comes to cooking, cleaning, and driving. I work for no pay and I am expected to be happy with the random thank you. Most days I feel like I have disappeared completely.
This blog is my attempt to find me again. To be the me who is not a housewife and mom. To be Amy and not just The Mom

Now for the fun stuff about Amy:

· I have an irrational fear of Kevin Bacon and anthropomorphic art. The two are not really connected.

· I was born and raised in Georgia, but I live begrudgingly in Northern California where they throw away the turnip greens. WTF.

· I swear like a drunken sailor and yes I know exactly what to do with a drunken sailor

· My oldest son has some issues, but prefer not at to discuss them here as a sign of respect for his privacy. I prefer to say that in this house we kicked normal to the curb a long as time ago.

· I love to cook and I have a cooking blog. It is all prime and proper and filled with yummy goodness, but don't let that fool you. I sad fuck every goddamn time I burned myself.

· I cannot spell for shit. Suck.It.Up.

· My grammar is for shit, too. What part of grew up in Georgia did you not get?

· I loathe the judgmental natural of modern parenting and I assure you I could give a shit how you handle you kids. And I don't see why more people feel a need to make the actions of others their business.

· I have a militant cat.

· I am funny and I like to joke, but I have feelings. So don't be a bitch. Okay.