Motherhood

I think I've been gone for far too long now and it is about time I get my butt together and stop making excuses for the lack of post. I was trying hard to steer away from baby-talk on this blog, hoping it'll remain as my outlet for non-baby talk, but I'm slowly coming to terms with it - that the all-consuming title of "motherhood" has become the main topic of conversation these days. Let's face it, the only time I get to listen to any sort of music is when the babies are asleep in the car and I can finally turn off little D's Mini Maestro's CD and tune back into Triple J. Or when I've finally had enough of watching the same episode of Peppa Pig (which again, isn't very often as little D will not let me hear the end of it), that I can switch to Double J on my TV. The people that I catch up most often with these days are from my mothers' group, all of us seeking reassurance from one another that our babies are not the aliens we thought at one point or another.

If I am being completely honest about it, I do secretly enjoy that I have "motherhood", as a conversation starter. It's like a secret weapon for getting out of awkward moments. Unlike A, or my mum (it is a bit weird that my husband and my mum would fall under the same category, but anyhow), I can't just strike up a conversation with a complete stranger at the shops over.. tools, or how the West Coast are playing, or (for my mum's case) dig out people's life story in five minutes. I am not a social butterfly. So when it comes a time when I have to socialise with new people, "motherhood" becomes my saving grace. Even when people are not actually interested in knowing what's going on with your life as a mother or about your baby, questions like "how old are your babies?", "how is she sleeping?", "how is she feeding?", etc. will always start off a conversation. I'm not saying it's a particularly exciting topic of interest, especially for single people who are not at any point in their lives planning or hoping for a child, but it keeps the silence at bay.

And I guess a good example of  how "motherhood" is a good conversation starter, is this post. Before I had nothing to write about, and now, we have a post!

Now I'm going to kiss my two babies goodnight and head to bed.
Lovely evening everyone!
xx,
Mummy Chezz