Category: Mommy Tips

Being a mother of two young children, it gets hard sometimes to fix myself up and be like those elegant sexy moms that are well put together. If you have seen Sarah Jessica Parker’s movie I Don’t Know How She Does It
,  you can get an idea of how crazy life can be as a working mom trying to get everything done. If you notice, Parker’s character handles it all by always using a list. Being a mommy and juggling work, motherhood and womanhood can be challenging if you don’t have the right tools. Definitely a list makes things seem more manageable.

I found a good list of tips in eHow Family that we can follow as a starting point for avoiding those crazy days where everything seems overwhelming:

Daily To-Do List

• As many of us might have already experienced, sometimes we have in mind the things we want to get done for the day, but then other things come up. To avoid being pulled in all different directions, keep a notepad or electronic planner to list the to-dos for the day. You can divide the list into various lists like Home, Work and School.

Grocery/ Shopping List and Coupons

• To save time in the supermarket, have a shopping list prepared and a coupon wallet organized into proper sections. One thing I do is keep a notepad by the kitchen and write down items as I go running out, then the shopping list is already created for me.

• Create a weekly Meal Planner. Avoid having to run to the supermarket every time you cook by planning ahead a weekly meal planner.  Also, if you know tonight’s dinner is going to be a quick fix and not take the typical hour or more, you will have extra time to work on other things before it’s time to prepare dinner.

• Keep a List of upcoming birthdays, anniversaries or special events that you will need to buy gifts for and list suggested gifts along with a budget.

   

Organized Closet

• An organized closet makes it easy to access everyday apparel. I personally pick the clothes I’m going to wear the next morning and leave it all set-up in the valet by my bed. This cuts down my time spent getting ready and I can go get the kids ready and leave home early for school. You should have a section of prepared outfits for the entire week. Your closet should also be sorted so that all tops are on one end, bottoms should be next to tops, and dresses should be on the other end. Use a see-through shoe organizer to avoid opening box after box to find the right pair.

   

If you are a fan of Saturday Night Live, you’ve probably seen the skit of Mom Jeans that aired in April of 2003. This is a funny skit, but a true representation of some moms. When we become a mom we don’t realize that we slowly start forgetting about taking care of ourselves because we become so absorbed with taking care of our child. If we are a stay at home mom we have a higher tendency to wear the “mommy clothes” all day and dedicate our time to our children and the house, specially when you have small children. If you are a working mom, you have a better chance of not falling into this trap because you have to dress up for work and put on make up; but then when the weekend comes you might end up wearing the “mommy clothes”.

When I became a mom, I did get absorbed by the whole pressure of trying to be the perfect mother. I worked at the time, so my weekends were meant for me to spent 100% of my time getting to know my daughter and adopting this new role of motherhood. Without realizing it, I started to forget how to be a woman. I did dress up for work, but none of my regular clothes fit me because my body had changed too. I used to wear just dresses and some of my pregnancy clothes that to me didn’t scream pregnancy. I would still fix up my hair and put on make up, but I rarely fixed my nails. What happens to us when we see that cute baby face crying for our attention that we are even willing to skip taking a shower? Would we have done this for anyone else? Does our husbands have to give us the puppy eyes so we drop the mommy act and become the sexy wife?