Fun Mom

I'm not like a "regular" mom, I'm a "cool" mom!

- Quote from Mean Girls (that movie is hilarious)

I was reading an article last week about how some famous mom blogs paint a perfect picture of their lives and kids and only blog about positive things that happen. And how other moms feel depressed when they read these blogs because they think that they will never be as good of a mom as them. I actually enjoy reading a few of those blogs though, it's entertaining reading about other people's lives.

I was thinking about this and being a good mom lately, because I have been purposely trying to be more of a fun mom lately. You know you're old when you have to purposely try and have fun. I feel like it wasn't that long ago when I was a teenager and only cared about having fun, but obviously it was a long time ago. No wonder kids always think their parents are so old and parents always think they're still young and fun.

I've already done my winter blues post so I'm not going to go there again, but I'll just say that I was really feeling it ever since we got back from Christmas. So finally when I couldn't even stand myself anymore I decided I was going to try and be fun!

So since it's supposed to get freezing cold again tomorrow I decided I would take the kids out to play today. We went for a walk in the sled and made snow angels.

We always walk down the street to this one spot where there is a big field and then a path through a forest. This rock is in the middle of the field and Jayna has named it the "sleeping rock". Every time we come here both kids have to lay down on it and pretend to sleep on it. I think Jayna could play on this rock for hours if I let her.

And then Kepler was begging to make a snowman. I didn't really want to make a snowman, I was ready to go inside. But the snow was perfect for it since it rained this morning, and usually the snow here is too dry to make snowmen. And I'm trying to have more fun with the kids, so we came home and made a snowman!

Kepler wanted to name him "Pop-pop" and Jayna wanted to name him "Pireze or Wendy" So we named him Pop-pop Wendy...poor snowman. (It looks a lot darker in these pictures than it was)

This may not seem like a big deal, but this is the first time I have ever built a snowman with my kids. Up until now Gibb has always been the one to do this with the kids. I just felt like it was more of a "dad" thing to do for some reason.

When Gibb got home from work and saw the snowman, he was so surprised. He didn't even think I made it, he thought we had friends over that made it. And that just proves my point that I really do need to keep trying to be more of a fun mom.