What Would Ma Do? She Would Put Family First!

Thanksgiving at YMCA Family Camp in Julian, CA

Some of you may be wondering why this blog has gone silent for a few weeks. I am here tonight to answer just that question!

First I am going to pose a question about "Ma". When things got crazy in Ma's life what do you think she did? When I say crazy I mean
Pa is out of town, the crops need extra love, the hens are having trouble laying, one of the horses has a hurt foot, the weather is extreme outside etc. That kind of thing. I am thinking Ma would focus on just getting through the major MUST HAPPEN tasks each day. During times like these she probably did not get much time to work on any of her special sewing projects.

Or if we are talking about Laura in the context of "Ma", any of her writing projects would go on hold during busy times. Laura did a lot of writing for in journals and for magazines before she ever wrote the Little House books. Writing was one of her loves. But I can bet that writing had to take a back burner sometimes when things got extra "crazy" in her life.

In my case extra "crazy" involves things like

What would Ma do? She would wear a dress!

What would Ma do? She would wear a dress ladies, that is exactly what she would do!. She wouldn't feel bad about it either, she wouldn't have to because all she owned were dresses. She would have been wearing a dress the day she gave birth and she would have been wearing a dress the day after she gave birth and all the days after that if you are counting. Ma wouldn't have to worry about any "skinny jeans" or any of the other small outfits all of us mom's are always agonizing over.

So ladies, please give yourself a break if you have recently birthed a child. I am not saying you should let yourself go and wear a burlap sack or one piece romper for the rest of your journey through motherhood but please just relax and enjoy your baby for the first year ok? It somehow magically gets easier after you hit the year mark, I promise, and you can trust me because I have done this 3 times.

Here is a picture of me in a comfy dress getting ready to go home from the hospital with baby number 3 about 1 year ago. Ma would be so proud!