Introduction
Hi everyone! Welcome to The Unsuspecting Parent. I am a wife and mom to two wonderful kids. Family has always been the most important part of my life. As I mentioned, I have two kids, both in college, so its been my first year at home alone. I have been a mom for over half my life. You would think that parenting for that many years would have prepared me for anything, but the world never disappoints and I am always found with my jaw on the floor. I am an Unsuspecting Parent.
In the Beginning
I wanted to start this website a couple years ago and just didn’t know where to start. I wanted to have a diary of anything and everything cool that I could share. A ‘collection’ of my happy life experiences, cool travel spots, tasty restaurants and decadent beauty finds was my plan. But with the pandemic hitting the US in 2020 our lives were all thrown into a period of uncertainty. The funding for my position of 20+ years was reduced. Naturally, I was left feeling very unsure of the future and what was in store.
What the #$@&*!!!
What now? As you can imagine – my ‘happy as a clam’, ‘birds singing’, ‘dancing barefoot in the forest’ life came to flat-tire halt in the middle of mid-morning traffic, with no spare tire in sight.
**Cue the mid-life crisis music. Where’s my pint of ice cream? Get that dog out of my spot on the couch!**
Time to deal with it. Delete. Start over. Rebuild.
So, I decided it was time to start over. Therefore, there was only one thing I could do. I decided to delete it all and start from scratch. Its been refreshing to look at the world from a different point of view. I figured writing it out would make me feel better. I wanted to write more about things like my family, travels, and other things that I am going through in my life.
Here we go!