Just Around The Corner

Emmy started singing a new tune a couple of weeks ago. It was one line she repeated over and over, “Just around the corner!”,”Just around the corner!”. I even began humming it, like a commercial jingle that you can’t get out of your head. The two of us walking around the house, “Just around the corner!” A few days in, I began to notice my older kids giggling every time they heard us singing. The giggles turned to whispers between the two of them. Finally they would just look at each other a burst into laughter whenever Emmy sang the song. I new it was cute, but this was ridiculous! I had to ask, “What is so funny?” My older daughter looked at me smiling, “That’s the song from the fourth grade video about puberty!” I was horrified. There Emmy was in Starbucks, the playground, the supermarket, singing what every child from the age of nine knows as “The Puberty Song”.

All About Emmymom

O.k. fellow bloggers,I'm new at this, blogging that is, so be kind. I'm a mother of three. Emmy is 4, Sabrina 10, and James 12. I went into motherhood with confidence. I was 24 and thought I knew exactly the kind of mother that I would be. I was going to be the coolest, most patient and understanding mother ever! They would grow up respectful, polite, neat and never judgmental of me. What happened? I'm nowhere near cool anymore, the house is a mess,and my patients went out the window years ago. Now I find myself navigating the world of parenthood blind. Each new day filled with challenges and lessons, taught more often from them to me. I no longer have a plan. I just hope that I will somehow do something right and that they will grow up healthy, strong and happy.