Hi there!  I formerly blogged over at mamawhimsy.com... Well, I'm back but with a different name...
I got into the blogging world a few years back pretty heavily when I was mostly staying home with my newborn son, who is now almost 4!  I had started up an ETSY store which I still have. (Organized Whimsy) for organizational printables.  At the time, it was one of the reasons I wanted to start blogging, to help promote it.  I also didn't really have a lot of friends so I wanted to blog to "meet" like minded women and mamas.  I quit blogging on my other platform "Mama Whimsy" because a couple years back a lot of things changed for me and my little guy.  I am now a single mother and part of my blogging was of my "family", so I need a fresh start in the blogging world!  

I now have a little family of 2 and it's a happy little family.  It's not always easy, but I love being a mom!  I miss blogging and plugging in, so I'm back!

In this blog, my intentions are to be honest and real.  I want to share my craftiness, stories, humor, recipes, fashion, decor, lifestyle, etc.

So, now to explain the name.  This Bloomin Mama.  I think when we are younger and envision motherhood we have this little, teensy, tiny box that that ideal fits into not realizing that it is anything but what we thought it would be.  Whether the culprit be exhaustion, high expectations, lack of help, divorce, becoming a widow, etc.  There are so many "types" of us moms out there... Happily married moms, working moms, stay at home moms, single moms, widowed moms, and so on.  I think we evolve as mothers and motherhood is what we make it.  So, for me, motherhood started out as being in a marriage and having a "family" and now has evolved into single motherhood and I'm "bloomin'" in this phase.  I am a work in progress.  I'm choosing to embrace it instead of lay down and wallow in it.  I strive to find the positives in it instead of always feeling like we're missing something.  I love my son more than life and he deserves the best mother I can be.  He deserves the best childhood I can provide.  We are still a family, even if it is just the 2 of us.  He won't have what I had growing up with his biological parents, and while that makes me sad, that doesn't mean that I can't give him something just as great in a different way!  So, for now, I am a single mom who is bloomin', if you will, in and into my next phase of motherhood.  It is what I make it.  So, I am "This Bloomin' Mama"!  Join me on my journey :)