I am the Mom-Bomb: What's Up With the Name?

Welcome to the I am the Mom-Bomb.com Blog. In this first issue we will address some basic questions that should be asked of any blog:

1. Why did you decide to start this blog?

2. What is the blog going to be about?

3. What's up with the name?

4. Do you really think you are the "Mom-Bomb.com"?

Let's start by answering question #1. Easy answer: All my friends were getting a blog and I wanted one, too. Really. That's pretty much it.

#2. What am I going to blog about? Mostly my kids, our life and the projects and we do. A more appropriate name for this blog might have been, "Life for Idiots", because I feel like that's my basic skill level when it comes to teaching anything about life. So, maybe I should say it's going to be about the trials and errors of raising a child on the autism spectrum and her little sister. We will learn together as we go because as they say, "If you know one kid with autism, you know one kid with autism." Kids on the spectrum are all so very different and they forget to give us a roadmap when they give us their diagnosis. So, we try this, try that, have some fun as we go, and apparently write a blog about it. For future blogs, I plan on sharing some ideas that have helped tremendously with getting the girl-child as I will affectionately call her (we also have the fur-baby -although the girl-child will be quick to tell you that poodles have hair, not fur, and the Tooter-baby [yes, she will hate me for that name later in life]) to bathe herself and brush her teeth, two things I hope parents of atypical children do not take for granted because in our world, it's like climbing Mt. Everest at times. We have also done some fun Pinterest projects I want to share as well as some oh-so-yummy but easy treats.

3. What's up with the name? I am the mom.com was taken. The girl-child (as you will see she is extremely bright and witty) helped me come up with the name.

4. Do I really think I am the Mom-Bomb.com? Absolutely, not. As already indicated, I realize that I have no clue what I am doing the majority of the time. All I really know how to do is love my babies with all I have and "keep on swimming" which brings me to another main purpose of this blog: to remind us all that sometimes, even when you feel like a total L-7 weenie, confused and lost as all get-out, you still have to pull it together, pull your shoulders back, chin up, (maybe even look in the mirror all Stuart Smalley-like) and tell yourself, "I am the Mom-Bomb.com" (or something similar) and just do the best you can.

I am looking forward to sharing this adventure of life and all it's wackiness with you. Hopefully, you'll run across something you can use or atleast learn what I have: God always knows what we need. For me, it was a child who needed me just a little bit more. As I try to teach her, she daily teaches me more!

With my loves (thanks to Allyson Holliday for the photography!)