Like any girl I had a BIG dream! Married, 2 kids, a boy and a girl, big white house with a white picket fence, some kind of " Mom" car in the drive way. What girl doesn't dream of that??? So 20 years later I got my dream alright! I am happily married we have 4 amazing kids, 3 boys and 1 girls, and we have white house welll kind of, its dull white rock, and picket fence, try chain length fence LOL! No I am only kidding! I love my life but is it what I had planned? Kind of...
A trip into the Life of Shannon Reagor ( once known as Shannon full of energy, fashion savvy, sports car driving Price)
Well let's see where to begin..I am mom of 4 kids yes 4 KIDS omg! I get that a lot..people look at me like I am crazy or like I am kidding! What is wrong with having 4 kids, was it planned hmmm no..but that doesn't mean that I am not totally in love with them..I AM! I also stay at home and I know what your thinking, this girl is going to go on and on and about how perfect her house is and dinner on the table at 6, everyone caught up on teeth cleaning and haircuts, dogs always at the vet on time, LOL! HA! I wish and if you ever meet someone like send her my way! SAHM is a hard job, no I don't have my kids on some perfect schedule and well is dinner on the table at 6 most of the time. Is it home cooked?? well that's a whole different story! Yes I do take my kids to the dentist and it happens if and when I bribe them well enough, and I pry their hands from the walls and drag them to the car. Our dogs well they get there when they get there..once a year for sure! This blog isn't about hating on SAHM or boring you with my non so eventful life, its just about me and who Shannon blah blah blah Price is now:) I do my best as a mom, and a wife and sometimes there isn't a whole lot left for "just me". I think that once we make a decision to be a mom and wife we devote parts of ourselves to those choices. There are days where I think about the times I could sleep in bed all day and live in my one bedroom apartment, drive my mustang. Who doesn't think of the good old days! Would I go back? Heck yes!! for about a day...or two LOL! I have changed countless dirty diapers and have had numerous cold meals, and all for what. All for my kiddos to come running into my arms with smiles on the faces and tell me how awesome I am. There is nothing more rewarding! As for being a wife, well that was a hard one for me. I was a selfish person I will admit it and when you choose to be a wife or mom you have to be self less. I couldn't imagine being with a better guy. He is my best friend and in his own little ways he lets me know how much he appreciates me! Sometimes I dont' get the hints but eventually I'll catch on;) Like today he texted me I shaved my face clean for you...hmmm OKAY??? I kinda like you all rough looking but whatever ..thanks I guess?? Like I said he makes me feel special LOL! Apparently he shaved his face clean because he thought I found him more attractive all cleaned up??
Anyway, as for me and my life right now, do I have everything down as a mom?? I prob should since I have 4 of them ...should have a 1 and 4 chance of getting it right:)! No I don't have it down yet but I am working on it. I do what I can and I actually raise our kids a lot like Markus and I were raised, we were raised different but the same in some ways and so we try to raise our kids with a little bit of both of us, if that makes sense. Now I give in a lot easier than Markus and that's really how my mom was. Its funny I will catch myself saying something or doing something that I know my mom did or even Brenda ( mother in law) told me she used to do with Markus. Then in totally shock I will shake my head and whisper OMG I am her LOL;) Just kidding!!! Do I mess up, YES, who doesn't? Are my kids happy? Well hell they better be, we spoil the crap out of them, show them as much love as we possibly can, teach them to be polite and respectful kids!
Me now versus me then....clothes? Ha what clothes, you mean those yoga pants and tanks?? My hair??well let just say it's seen better days. Make up...what is that? Getting to pee by myself ...you mean its not normal for your two year to be right there with you??? I had no clue!! Now me then, sooooo different. Clothes well I did pretty well keeping up with current fashion and shopped at the mall! Could I throw 50 bucks down on a top walk away and not think twice? You freaking betcha!!! My hair, done every 4 weeks. Make up, everyday and loved me som MAC, going pee by myself oh how I miss those days:)
Ya know the more I think about it the more I realize that no matter what I can actually still have all of the me thens. I just need to bring Shannon, full of energy fashion savvy sports car driving Price back !! Well minus the sports car driving!!! That we will glady replace SUV driving LOL!!!
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I love this post. All to often we, moms, seem to lose our selves once we marry and become moms. Peeing by myself.... well I am just now getting to enjoy that, but only because I lock the door and then I listen to my littlest pound on it until I let her in or finish in lightning speed! lol.
ReplyDeleteI try so hard at the beginning of the week to do the basics, do my hair, put on makeup. This lasts about a day, Monday, then Tuesday everything is back to the way it is. Makeup is put on only if I'm leaving the house, and my hair... well lets just say pony tails are in right?
But whatever, pretty soon the kids will be older and more independent and my time will double each year and then I will look back and miss all the time they did want to spend with me. So for now I am sucking up all that time and the fashionista in me can sit on that back burner.