I Hate Introductions

Just to be clear I really hate the first post in a blog.  It always seems to be an effort to explain the unexplainable what your blog is about, what your goals are blah blah blah...The truth is that this blog is much like my personality and the personalities of the women that have inspired it and there for is totally unexplainable except to say how it started.

I was happily trying to get pregnant with my second child and like many women turned to the internet for my list of questions.  I found a website called www.thebump.com.  At first it was fun and very informative but then I noticed that many of these women were using their anonymity and obscure usernames to be snarky and mean to other women.  I became very turned off and began to stop visiting the site as often.  Soon after I became pregnant I jumped to another section of The Bump and joined in with other women who were due with babies in June of 2012 but the same non-sense was happening there.  Someone opened up the idea of having a FaceBook page and I jumped at the thought.  Since then I haven't even looked back at The Bump except for the occasional post that makes us all laugh.  So a year has gone by and I have become so close with these women. We are adult enough to agree to disagree.  We share ideas and voice concerns about everything from husbands to jobs to kids and what to make for dinner.  We laugh together and have cried together.  The only thing that makes us different then women 50 years ago is the internet and thank God for it.  Life has become a hectic race to the finish line and in my lowly opinion women have stopped supporting each other.  How many women do you know who say " I don't have many girlfriends". Well, there are not less women in the world today than in 1950.

The saying " it takes a village to raise a child" did not come out of thin air.  Women very literally use to create small "villages" in which they communed, cried, laughed, shared ideas and recipes, tips and tricks and raised their children with the help of others who had done it before.  They passed their knowledge down from one generation to the next.  This is the way it should be.

So, I have written about many things in regards to our little FaceBook family and decided ( with the permission of my Internet girl friends) to start this blog in an effort to spread the sense of community that I have been so fortunate to experience. Welcome to Momville.....

***Warning...I love to write but I plain suck at grammar. Yes, I was educated in the great USA but I was far to busy talking to boys to pay attention in English with the exception of creative writing. So, sorry in advance. If you do see something that I am doing incorrectly feel free to let me know. Education doesn't stop at graduation and it takes a lot to offend me :) ****