Hello to my fellow beautiful, stylish, overloaded, just barely hanging in there, working moms out there! Just like you I often start the day awoken by little balls of endless energy before I am ready... ...and just like you I often have to muster up energy at the end of the day to wrangle rogue toddlers for bedtime. I spend more time scraping dried mac n cheese off the kitchen floor than maintaining my manicure. I have stuck my finger in poop, examined poop intensely, and sniffed throughout the house for poopy offenders.
As unglamorous as motherhood can be, I am also a career-driven professional that has traveled the globe for business, an entrepreneurial mom who doesn’t sit on the sidelines in life, and also just a girl with real dreams of pretty little things and an amazing closet. I am chasing down my dreams while still uncovering what those dreams are. Some days I accomplish incredible feats in the workplace and other days I am simply doing well to make it to the office with two matching shoes! Through this blog, I hope to inspire, be inspired and share my journey along the way. So – let’s get to know one another! I live in Houston, Texas (born and raised). I’m 37 years old. But most people don’t believe that I’m that old. That used to be a curse when I was in my early 20’s and got side looks at every bar, but now that I’m in my late 30’s, I’m digging it. I’m a mommy to 7 month old Calum and 3 year old Gabrielle (I call her Ellie). I’m the youngest in my family and wasn’t around babies much growing up, which meant that I did NOT know what I was in store for with my first child. There was a HUGE learning curve for me, and I readily admit that I struggled integrating my newly acquired “mommy hat” with all the other hats I was wearing (wife, friend, daughter, career woman in a male-dominated field, household manager, wanna-be entrepreneur, and on and on). I studied History and Political Science in undergrad and have an MBA. I could live on a college campus and go to school every day. I love to learn. I went to Baylor University, Texas A&M and Rice University…them Texas learnings, y’all. I am the youngest of 4 kids. Per my google search, I suppose that means that I am an uncomplicated, self-centered, fun-loving attention seeker. Ok, yeah. I am an adventurer. I have been to 6 of the 7 continents (no Antarctica). I have been to over 30 countries in the world. I have worked in Singapore, Australia and Algeria. Current adventure is surviving a toddler and newborn. I have many, many, MANY shoes. And I am so hard on them! I enjoy being fashionable, stylish and dare I say sexy. Yet I’m still a tomboy at heart and have no time to sweat over scuff marks and pristine pumps. Therefore I mostly relegate myself to affordable footwear. But I have no problem lusting after manolos, jimmy choos and louboutins. Netflix and I have a dysfunctional relationship. I “binge watch” series on Netflix. “Binge watching” consists of turning on my new favorite series and sleeping through it. I just finished “binge watching” Stranger Things Season 1 and Narcos. Currently ”binge watching” Black Mirror. Which blogs inspired me to start HTX Mom? The Honeybee by Andee Layne, Cupcakes & Cashmere, Uptown With Elly Brown, Hello Fashion Blog, Champagne & Chanel, The Atlantic-Pacific and Cammeo Head to Toe. And on a sadder note, I used to read the Wellness Warrior blog by Jessica Ainscough. What a beautiful light of positivity in this world! But sadly she lost her battle with cancer at 29 years old in 2015. I do wish they would bring her blog back for all her inspirational posts. She inspired more people than she knew. Now tell me something about you! I want to get to know you, where you are from and what fills up your day!
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6/11/2017 04:00:23 pm
Aw Kim! I'm so proud of you for going after your dreams and so happy we can be an inspiration for each other! 😘
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