Who am I?

 I'm not sure who I am writing to or why I seem to think that I can run a mom blog, but here we are. Welcome if you have somehow stumbled upon this page, I hope you stay awhile. Since you're here, I figure I should introduce myself. Hi, I'm Layla. I am 27 years old, a mom of two beautiful girls (Charlie 3 and Emma 4 months), and I'm married to a man I met when I was 11. 

When I first became a mom it's safe to say I was, uhhhh, unprepared. My boyfriend and I had been together for over a year and had known each other for a long time but had no plans of starting our family at that point. Pro tip: if you don't want to start a family, take precautions. Who knew? But no surprise, I ended up very pregnant. 

We lived in a rental home we could barely afford, I worked a job with excessive overtime, and my husband (boyfriend at the time) worked several different jobs trying to make ends meet. By the time we had Charlie, I was already certain I was failing at motherhood. 

When she arrived I just kept looking at mom blogs and posts from moms I knew. How were they keeping it together so well? How did they look so put together when I still had spit up in my hair from two days ago? I couldn't even remember to shower and feed myself yet there were moms out there with Pinterest homes, pristinely dressed children, and who looked like they were effortlessly put together. I felt more and more like a failure every time I saw these posts. 

Then through a lot of soul searching and after many, many tears, I quit trying to "keep up with the Joneses." I wanted my kids to be happy and in order to have happy kids, I needed to be a happy mom. I don't have to have my shit together (excuse my french but if you don't like it you're probably not gonna like my page) in order to be a good mom. 

Now that doesn't mean I don't enjoy a good Pinterest picture set up or get way too invested in the Elf on the Shelf. I absolutely do. I just learned to do it in my own way which usually consists of throwing things together last minute to make the magic happen for my kids. 

In the last several months I have had so many people tell me to start a mom blog because they don't know how I do all of the things I do. Secret is, neither do I, but I am willing to try and share the things I do in hopes of helping another mom make it through the day. 

So, come along with me and let's figure this out together. Moms support moms, amiright?

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