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~Kris~
(always a young mommy at heart)
Blogging Mommy is… Jennifer
Her kiddo is… Hailey
Her location is… Montreal, Quebec, Canada
How old are you now and how old is/are your munchkin(s)? I turned 22 on August 9th, and my daughter was born on august 30th and that makes her 3 months old.
If you could describe your child in 3 words, what would they be? happy, intelligent and beautiful.
What’s an average day like for you these days? I wake up between 8 and 10 depending on when hailey starts tossing around. (she sleeps in my bed) We play for a little while in bed until she starts getting grumpy cause shes hungry. Then she eats, we play, she falls asleep and thats pretty much repeated all day with a bunch of diaper changes until its bed time. I try to get her to bed around 8:30 but that just about always fails. Usually she starts getting tired whiney around 9 and if i dont manage to get her to fall asleep quickly enough then she’s up and whiney until whenever she gets exhausted enough which is usually between 11 and 1am. Sometimes she wakes up for a quick feed around 5am but thats been happening less often now.
If you had a day all to yourself (kid-free & lottery-financed), how would you spend it? I’d go shopping in the morning and id probably end up buying more stuff for my daughter then myself. (i seriously cannot enter a store that has toys/baby clothes without getting her something) In the afternoon id go get a massage and facial with my mom and sister. Id take my whole family out for supper at a super nice restaurant, and then id rent out a movie theater so we can watch a movie at the theater without having to listen to ppl talk and cell phones go off. After that i’d probably want to go get my daughter as quick as possible because i have a hard time leaving her for a few hours, i dont think i could handle a whole day! (though i guess that might change when she gets a bit older)
What would you say your parenting style is like? So far, i think i’ve been pretty easy going. I go nuts though when random ppl touch her, i absolutly hate when a total stranger passes by and either touches her face or grabs her hands. (she just about is always sucking on her fingers) She’s been breast fed since she was a little over a day old. (i couldnt at the begining because of some meds i was on and i couldnt move my arms) She eats a bit of rice cereal every morning, i don’t necessarily believe that food should be put off until 6 months. She had just about all the signs that she was ready to eat at around 2 months old. (it gets pretty hard to breast feed her sometimes because she always wants to stop eating to chat & she doesn’t push the food out of her mouth with her tongue) She wears cloth diapers most of the time and i absolutly love them. The times she doesnt wear them is because i was too lazy/tired to wash them the previous day. I don’t believe in spankings in my opinion its too easy to get carried away, and also too easy to take it a step above just spanking. Hopefully she will be able to learn through positive reinforcement and time outs.
What do you feel you have enough of in life? What do you want more of? Less of? I definitly have enough love and support. I wish i could have a tiny bit more money and another baby someday. and sometimes i wish i had less responsibilities.
How “blended” is your family? Are you still with the dad(s) of your kid(s)? Who has whose last name in the family? I’m still with Haileys dad but he lives in the states and i live in canada so its pretty complicated. She has his last name.
What are some of your big pet peeves? People who drive like idiots and ppl who park on the sidewalk. seriously makes no sense to me that they think its okay for them to do that! oohh and ppl who are always late.
What are the most unique things about yourself? I seem to like complicated things. I put everyones feelings and needs before mine. and i have no more gallbladder!
And finally, what’s your writing/blogging history and style? Throughout most of highschool some friends and i had a blog. We’d make stories with pictures, write about our lives. Was lots of fun. I have a pretty bad writing style, i make a ton of run on sentances, use crappy punctuations, dont use capital letters, im probably a grammar freaks nightmare, sometimes i write stuff that makes no sense to anyone but me, but i get to blame all that on the fact that im french.
Blogging Mommy is… Mandi
Her kiddo(s) is/are… Braxton and Kolden
Her location is… Ontario Canada
How old are you now and how old is/are your munchkin(s)?
I’m 22 (July 4th 1986) Braxton is 3 and a half (April 5th 2005) and Kolden is 1 and a half (April 17th 2007)
If you could describe your child in 3 words, what would they be?
Braxton : Relaxed, funny and sweet
Kolden: Wild, cheeky, and loving
What’s an average day like for you these days?
Well I work from home doing child care and selling avon. I do this so that I am able to be at home with my children and to me thatsthe most important to me. An average day for us is me getting up around 6am to do a work out before the boys get up. Once there up our morning is filled with some nice relaxing time, while I try and get some work done either with avon stuff or computer stuff. Then afternoons are usually when we do our activities and crafts which we do a lot of. The days just kind of flows from there.
If you had a day all to yourself (kid-free & lottery-financed), how would you spend it?
Probably a day at the spa followed by some shopping and then a night out with my girls!!
What would you say your parenting style is like?
I try to use more positive reinforcements, however with two toddlers in our house we do have a lot of time outs, it’s just a way of life haha. My over all goal with the boys is to raise them to be great men and fathers!
What do you feel you have enough of in life? What do you want more of? Less of?
I’m pretty happy with my life right now. I mean ofcourse we could always have more money hahaha but were still young and starting out. Financially right now everything is ok, but it would be nice that in the future we could have more money to be able to do more things with the boys.
Another baby some day is in the cards, not any time soon. The boys keep me busy enough and plus after having two unplanned pregnancies it would be nice to be married some day and have it come then.
How “blended” is your family? Are you still with the dad(s) of your kid(s)? Who has whose last name in the family?
My family is VERY blended. I am the birth mother to both of my children, however they have different birth fathers and neither of them are involved in their life’s. Braxtons dad and I dated all through out highschool but when I became pregnant at 18 he left us and we havent seen him since Braxton was about 9 months old. Koldens dad and I only dated for a short time, but ended our relationship when I was around 10 weeks pregnant because he was very controlling. Like Braxtons dad he isn’t involved in his life. We are however very lucky to have my boyfriend Jay in our lives. Jay and I have been good friends for over 5 years and began our relationship a year ago. He’s the “dad” in my boys lifes and were very happy!
The boys both have my last name, and when Jay and I get married were hopping to work something out with hyphenated names… some how lol
What are some of your big pet peeves?
big pet peeves, hummmm. I don’t really know… I guess it’s when people try and stereotype people. That really bothers me!!
What are the most unique things about yourself?
Oh wow, well I don’t know whats unique about myself… I mean I know I’m not cut from any cookie cutter. Well hummm I’m not even supposed to be alive haha. When I was born the doctors told my parents they gave me a year to live since I had so many complications and I’m still here today and very healthy!!!
And finally, what’s your writing/blogging history and style?
I’ve blogged before, pretty much on and off since I was pregnant with Braxton. I stick to everyday life as well as my weight loss path. So if your a young mommie from a VERY blended family, have toddlers or like me trying to get your body back I hope I can entertain/inform you!!
Welcome to the YM blogs…
Society seems to have a lot to say about teen pregnancy and young moms. Well guess what? We have some things we’d like to say back!
We’re more than a stereotype. Young moms can be great moms. We’re intelligent, we love our kids and want the best for them! We’re motivated to finish our educations. We’re responsible and can manage a home with amazing efficiency. We may come from all backgrounds and walks of life, but aren’t limited to stay in them. We have the potential to mobilize our resources and become anything we want to be.
The YM blogs will start out as a collective blog with several authors. Some of us are younger, some are older. Some of us are American and some are Canadian. Some of us have partners and others are single moms. What we all have in common is that we are proud young mommies and we support each other!
We welcome comments and discussion in the YM Blogs, but please remember the YM Community Guidelines apply here as they do in any discussion area of the site (boards, groups, chats, etc.).
~Kris
28-yr-old married mom of 2 from Ottawa, ON
