Can a woman be both once she's popped out a bundle of love?
This is not even one of those single Mama questions. Lordie knows I have zero time to get ready in the morning but is it possible to keep a streamlined girlie-ness when you have kids in your life? Okay I only have the one. But his Monkey-ness is not easy to keep wrangled when my morning routine includes more than just Wash 'n Go.
I can distinctly remember one date a few years ago when I wasn't sure I'd showered because I was beyond overwhelmed with my routine. Gross. But the honest truth. I sat there sipping my Mojito and wondering if I had actually showered...did I forget? Maybe but if it wasn't on the List 'O Stuff to Do it slipped my mind most days.
Pre-Monkey I would get up...shower, dry my long hair and then proceed to assemble the package of Me. Makeup. Hair. Ensemble. Now? Not so much. Take today for example. My hair is up...AGAIN. I'm wearing camo cargo pants that I used to wear with cute heels and now they are adorned with my ever prominent Chucks. Don't get me started on the sweater mess I've put together with random A-tank I found in the mangled underwear drawer. And it's a Friday which means I should have taken more time to get ready...Tuesdays and Thursdays I drop the Monkey at pre-k. Bah!
So to those of you who do manage to pull it off I ask...HOW THE HELL??
4 comments:
If I want to even come close to resembling a girl, I have to get up one hour before I wake my kids. In that one hour I will shower; make coffee; check emails,Twitter, FaceBook; dry hair; don make-up....etc.
My so called makeup is only my eyes...cant bother with anything else, and the clothes situation...money goes to the kids before it goes to me...le sigh...
See that's the hard part!! Getting up SO early and then YES the money does all go to the Monkey...I spend barely any cash on me for stuff to help me with my girliness.
I try to make myself feel girly with little things. I've recently started wearing scarves. They are an easy way to girl-up on my way out the door.
As the Monkey gets older, you'll have more time to yourself. My daughter has a morning list that she goes through and checks off everything as she gets it done, with little to no help from me. I promise it will get easier!
Good to know...because this morning I left the house with no mismatched socks and my shirt inside out. It makes me giggle daily but sometimes when I look in the mirror, I wonder where the girl went?
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