Too-pretty-to-stress-Tuesdays here a TPRM!

Because you are just too pretty to stress!

Comment or link up with what should be stressing you out and why you are too gorgeous to do it!

Me?

Well my hair is just too luxurious to worry about it constantly being ripped out by my 9 month old.

My skin is just too glowing to care that it looks like I just made out with Wolverine after I try to put my 2 year old down for nap time. 

My toes are just way too glorious to worry about what the other moms will say about my chipped polish when I roll up to my husband's ball game tonight in my flip flops. 

My eyes are just way too gorgeous to stress over the fact that my son tries to scratch them out if I don't turn on Kai Lan or the Wii fast enough.

My crafting skillz are just way too bad-a to even give a thought to the fact that no one wants to buy my stuff on Etsy. 

My new laptop is way to kick-a to mind my kids using it as a combination teething toy/ diving board.

What about you?

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I have been bestowed a great honor!

I have received my first bloggy award!!!



Thank you! Thank you! No need for all of the applause! Please, sit down. You're embarrassing me! :D
It's the Versatile Blogger Award!



The blogger who gave me this award is the wonderful and awesome mom behind Mother Knows Less, and she certainly knows a lot! She has an amazing blog and I consider her a true versatile blogger! She writes about everything from brushes with greatness, her wonderful children, funny thoughts and her musings on life. Her blog is colorful and filled with videos, poems and articles that are awesome! I encourage you to stop by and visit her often. I do! :)


The way this award works is you must:


a) Thank the person who gave you this award
b) Tell 7 things about yourself
c) nominate 15 newly discovered blogs to share this award!

So here are seven things about myself previously unknown to the bloggy-verse:

1. I can drive a stick shift car like nobody's business. (My husband said to tell you he said so! lol! :))
2. I make a mean jambalaya. (My husband said he's my husband and he didn't even know that before 3 days ago! haha! :))
3. I want to adopt a little girl one day.
4. It is a daily struggle to keep from biting my nails- yesterday I lost some battles, but today the war is being won!
5. My favorite book is 'The Short Stories of Ray Bradbury.' (one of them anyway :P)
6. I recently overcame my fear of flying and I cannot wait to explore the world!
7. My favorite movie is Back to the Future Part II and Michael J. Fox was my very first crush. Ooo la la! :D
*Bonus! (cause I love bonuses) My favorite Bible passage is Luke 11:1-13. <3

And here are 15 AWESOME blogs that I have recently discovered that I think definitely deserve this award, in no particular order (I wish I could choose you all because you all rock!):

1. He wears combat boots, I wear stilettos
2. The Bipolar Diva
3. Lipglossd Mom
4. Pregnant... with power tools
5. I Was Never The Girl Next Door
6. One Cramazing Life
7. Life in the Mom Lane
8. Mosquitos Suck, and other observations from a Minnesota mommy!
9. Punk Rock Parents
10. Me 'n my Monkeys!
11. Claire's Creations and Photography
12. freckles & dimples photography
13. 1000 Reasons I'm a Crap Mom
14. Crazy About My Baybah
15. The not-ever-still Life

I hope all of you lovelies will stop by and say hello to all of these superb and brilliant bloggers! Thanks again to Mother Knows Less!
<3tprm

Hello all you gorgeous punky moms!

I originally purchased the 'www.thepunkrockmom.com' domain (which I still own and am developing. That will one day be my main blogging site.) when I was pregnant with my first son in 2007.
I was still pretty young and REALLY freaked out about the prospect of becoming a mom. In my mind, I kept hearing "You are now a mom. All previous identities will cease to exist. You can now be nothing but a mom." This completely devastated me. I wanted to be a great mom, but I wanted to keep my identity, too.

So I sought out other punky or rock and roll moms online, certain there would be plenty out there to set my mind at rest; that you CAN be a mom and still keep your self.

However, I didn't find too many resources. There were a few blogs and a forum, but not the out pouring of punky support I was looking for. So I decided I would start a site to supplement what was already there. However, as life began to evolve, the plans to develop and launch my site quickly got set on the back burner. I'm sure all you moms know what I'm talking about as far as plans and kids go. ;)

I was disheartened to find plenty of places where moms were saying that they gave it all up and were now 100% mom, their old identity be dammed. Which I totally respect if that is the path you chose. It just wasn't what I felt like was for me.

So now I am in a place where I have the time and energy to finally bust out all of these ideas and stories that have been rambling around in my head!

And if you're a punky lady who is going to have a baby soon or has had one and is looking for a place to go and be lifted up and have your mommyhood and rocker-ness celebrated, you found the right place! But like I said, ALL mommies are welcome, no matter what path they may be on.

<3tprm

*Note*
Since I began searching for punky moms online in 2007, I have found that several great blogs have popped up and I want to share the links to those as well:


* Punk Rock Mommy This is a very inspirational and touching site of a punk rock mommy who lost her life too early to inflammatory breast cancer or IBC. The site is still up and even though they no longer update it, I encourage you to read it. It is beautiful and heartbreaking all at the same time. (Please remember to get regular breast exams so we'll stop losing mommies to this vicious disease!)

* Punk Rock Parents

* Diary of a Punk Rock Mama

* Punk Rock Momma

* Mommy Blogs (You can find punky moms and their blogs here.)

* Punky Moms (This is kind of a blog/ forum combo for punky moms. I found this forum during my search in 2007. Great site!)

There are a ton of other great punky mom sites out there! Let me know what your favorite punky or non-punky mommy blog is!