This past weekend, my boys and I were in Pittsburgh for my sister’s wedding. We were all in the wedding and had such an amazing time–honestly one of the best family moments imaginable! The night before the wedding, being the Matron of Honor, I left the house after the rehearsal dinner, kissed my boys goodnight–and headed off with the bride and bridesmaids for some good ol’ fashioned GIRL TIME!
I can’t even express to you all how much I had been looking forward to this time–a moment away from my mom responsibilities–a moment for ME! We drank and indulged in some girl talk, and then got up the next morning and spent time at the salon getting all dolled up. It was such a fun time, but made me think about a few things.
I could probably rattle off the top of my head the last few times I’ve had a manicure, even though I was about to get yet another one. I kept pondering this concept as it intermixed in with a few articles that I had been reading about being a millennial mom and what that meant. The article introduced the concepts that millennial moms are more social, and more into themselves than generations past.
Could this be true of myself?
Whenever I hear stories about my mother’s childhood, it seems to me that my grandmother hired a babysitter multiple times a week in the evening just so she and my grandfather could be social and have time to themselves. This is something that my husband and I do maybe on a monthly basis, if we’re lucky. Therefore, the notion of giving a millennial mom being a negative connotation really bothers me, as I am very strategic about my time apart from my son and my husband. In fact, a day in my world is probably much less glamorous that many people of prior generations.
Being a Millennial Mom: A Real Day in The Life
I’m not going to bore you by taking you on a step by step journey throughout my entire day as you may have suspected, but my day–just like every other millennial mom’s day–is filled with LOTS. There is certainly an added pressure to do it all and be it all as a mom in modern day society. We are filled with a constant angst and need to fill our agendas to the brim, to plan literally everything for our families, while still maintaining ourselves–it honestly gets exhausting! So I say that if we want a little bit more phone time with our friends or decide to schedule an unexpected spa day–it doesn’t mean that we are full of ourselves. We are simply navigating through modern day motherhood the way that we know how.
So Millennial Mamas, what do you think? Are we more social than generations past? Maybe through social media, but I think that most of our socializing happens over the sand box, whether literal or essentially! Are we so very different? What do you think?
Fashionably Yours,
Allison
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