JoansWange: Renee: You're a Great Mama!

This week A Cup of Jo posted this and It really resonated with me. I am always feeling like all the other moms around me have it together, never loose their cool, and are coasting through their parental responsibilities with few hiccups along the way. When I see these other parents I am always quietly thinking to myself..."how do they do it?" Take for instance my good friend Renee. Renee and I have been friends since meeting at Tribeca Pediatrics four years ago. She used to live two blocks away but has since moved to New Jersey where she just welcomed her second daughter in March. She is the most hands on and patient mother I know. The other day she sent me some photos of the girls from the Halloween Party she threw this past weekend. Wait...Hold on... She threw a party two days before she and her family were leaving on a three week international family vacation! No big deal! While most mothers would have been packing and organizing for the plants to be watered... Renee was decorating the entire house, designing and sewing her daughter's costume, and planning activities to keep the kids entertained! After she emailed me the photos, I sent her a note thanking her for being Martha Stewart with an edge and giving us mere mortal moms something to strive for! So Renee if your reading: You my friend are an amazing Mama!

...and as an added bonus here are some photos from the Spooky Party if you'd like to see!

Testing the costumes before we drove to New Jersey for the day.

Stella as a chicken...she surprisingly kept the hat on for the entire duration of the day (until I took it off as it got so hot).

How cute is this photo. When have you ever seen a squid, chicken, and ladybug in the same room? The ladybug is Renee's second baby...how cute is she! She was born with giant dimples!