MommyBrain: My life as an absentminded, disorganized, hot mess of a mother!

My mom's been in the hospital for over a month now. Currently in the situation she's in every sign points to her passing away shortly. There's a good chance my sister might end up reading this. She's pregnant and doesn't know all the details of my mom's situation so even though I tend to be an open book I'll leave out some details that I don't want her to read in case she gets upset. It's not easy trying to mourn a parent's impending passing while you're a parent yourself. So far I only broke down and cried one time. I'm back at work today but I ended up taking a half day Tuesday and I took the day off yesterday. When I visited Tuesday I sat at my mom's bedside and it's very unlikely that she was able to hear what I was telling her in the state she's in but I told her anything I wanted to say before she passes on and I cried my eyes out. Once I was done talking to her I hid in a bathroom and cried and sobbed some more until ...

I'm not sure whether to call this Maverick's birth story or my birth story. I guess you could look at it either way since I gave birth to him and he was born on that day. One of my friends asked me to share my birth story so almost 15 months after it happened I decided to write it for this blog. Thursday June 23, 2016 was supposed to be my last day at work before giving birth. I actually wanted to tough it out and stay working until I went into labor (which technically happened anyway) but my husband wanted me to take off in the 39th week. After much arguing I gave in and decided to have my last day on June 23. While I was getting ready for work in the morning I was going through Braxton Hicks but it was more painful and more frequent than it had been. I started having Braxton Hicks (false contractions) about a month before giving birth. Shawn thought it was real contractions and called my gynecologist and I was instructed to go into the office. "But today was suppos...

Been a long time since I've posted. I've been extremely busy dealing with motherhood and work but I decided to finally update and tell you about this morning which mimics many other semi-disastrous mornings where I have a mini freak out about how I'm going to get ready on time with Maverick and how miraculously I somehow get my shit together (even if it's half assed) and luckily make it to work on time. So this morning I ended up sleeping in until 6 by accident. I try my best to wake up at 5 but this morning when the alarm went off and I told Alexa to stop I ended up falling back to sleep. I immediately started freaking out because Maverick got clingy and I wasn't able to leave him in bed sleeping. I had to hold him while he was latched on and sleeping wondering how I was going to weigh myself, get dressed, get my make up on, my lunch bag together, eat breakfast, make coffee all while I mourned the chance of not getting to any of the dishes that are currently over...