Indelible Ink: Motherhood Musings that Emerge from the Sleepless Haze

My husband, Jake, and I are parents to two boys a mere eighteen months apart. Motherhood has made edits on my life with indelible ink. I will never be the same.

I recall when I first became a mother, eight year ago now, I quipped that I was blissfully sleepless. 'Blissful' because I was experiencing the unparalleled euphoria that accompanies creating life and getting to know that child a little bit better everyday; 'sleepless' because, well, suffice it to say that whoever coined the phrase 'sleeps like a baby' was obviously never a parent.

And 'sleepless' has continued to be an apt description of my life. Not that I'm an insomniac. I'm not. But I seem to be in a state of constant motion; between Jake, my boys, work, school, life, and fun, there's never a dull moment.

I decided to record some of these stories for my two boys because they never tire of listening to tales about themselves, for myself because years from now I fear that story after story after story will scaffold on top of one another and I will not be able to remember these as clearly as I would like, and for others because I believe it's empowering and reassuring for other moms to know - you are not alone. ~CMM, June 2010