Back to blogging again

Alright here I go again. Haven't blogged in like 7 decades but I truly enjoy doing it and I think it's good for my brain so I am going to try to get going again. I spent a ridiculous stupid amount of time trying to renew my blog site because I had let it expire. That is what happens when you have a third kid and don't sleep for 10 or so months. I thought that I had paid to renew it (there's $10 I don't think I will ever see again) only to find out that I am pretty sure a Chinese company now owns bigmamataylor.com? I have no idea but I think my new blog website is https://thatbigmamataylor.blogspot.com so stay with me because I am a big dumb computer idiot baby who needs a drink every time I try to do anything more than check my email. However, I do want to get back into blogging because it brings me joy and I think if I don't start using my brain the theme song for Spongebob will get permanently stuck. Forever.

One thing I want to do with getting back up and blogging is post a little bit of fashion. I have zero clue what I am doing getting dressed every day, and I don't even know how to post a live instagram story. I am not a fashion blogger-but I do love shopping, clothes and I do love a bargain. I think I have a talent for finding a trend I like and finding that trend for the cheapest possible price online whether it be finding it on a cheap knockoff site or just waiting for a sale plus a promotion code plus a prayer.

I love the new developments of all these fashion bloggers that give me easy links to find fun new clothes. My bank and my budget do not like these so much but that's for another day. What I hope to dp is show you my outfits from time to time when I manage to escape my house in normal human clothes and tell you where I got my deals and steals, or what I am eyeing. This is in addition to all the blogs I plan to write about parenting advice. I've got oodles and frankly I am really good at it. This is my oldest child right before bed tonight. He told me that if I was pregnant (I am not) that he could use the baby zapper (weird gun thing he is holding) to grow the baby with fast lightening speed and also make it the strongest super power baby in the world. I told him I wasn't pregnant, and he ignored me and walked off and continued to stay dressed like that for 20 more minutes. I was intrigued with this whole grow the baby faster thing though because I love my babies but I do not love my pregnancies. Will circle back to this at a later date.

I've got what I like to call a highly functional mom body which means this: my bum and boobs aren't what they used to be but I like to eat healthy and my 3 kids keep me moving for roughly 19 hours of the day so things aren't that bad. I mean they could be worse. My boobs look you took a nice normal 14 year old's boobs and let a 20 pound weight hang on them for fun for like a month. I have to lay down to fit my bottom into all of my pants that have a button and I usually need a 2-7 minute break and a breather afterwards. Also it makes me sweaty to put on pants of any kind. At 3 months postpartum with each of my children I called my mom crying in a deep dark depression because I just had a butt that wouldn't stop growing. But each time, post each of my kids, my body did find it's happy point at about 9 months. That means 10 months of pregnancy, plus 9 months of post-partum recovery, I roughly spend 19 months not really loving my body. Horrible to say but that is the reality. 

It is true as I have gotten older I really just don't care as much and I appreciate what I do have more and worry less about how my arms look in a tank top. I've settled into this lower gravity version of me and I am thankful that I have been lucky enough to carry three beautiful kiddos and my body makes a normal amount of breast milk as long as I ask it to. Like I said, things could be worse.

So one thing that drives me crazy about most fashion blogs is that I feel it's unrealistic. First of all, if I ever wanted someone to take a picture of me I've got nothin'. My husband works crazy hours and I am pretty sure if I asked him to take a picture of me in a cute part of town in a new outfit every few days he would burst out laughing or ask me if I was feeling ok. That leaves my 6 year old as the only other option but if you saw the picture above you would agree he can't be trusted. So this is how it'll go down. I want to show what it's really like to be a mom getting dressed and how I've usually got 3 kids climbing all over me as I try to gently lay my sad droopy boobs into whatever one shoulder ruffle number is hot at the moment. So I am always going to try to post one picture of me really getting dressed in whatever clothes I really had on before with whatever slimy children are on top of me in my bathroom.

Saturday it was just my baby Emma Claire because my husband was with the Kids at a viewing of Boss Baby. Emma Claire and I went too and shared a chipolte burrito to start but we bolted when she fell asleep and I was pathetically sad because the movie is actually funny. Go see it!

So we ran home to change for a friend's BBQ (thanks for having us Megan!) and here is what I looked like at first, with a baby that was trying to eat my lotion as I attempted to put lots of dry shampoo in my hair.

And here is what I looked like 10 minutes later, and you can see Emma Claire's foot in the mirror there for proof that this is the same day hahaha. 

Below are my outfit details. It was a good functional classic mom outfit and it served it's purpose for a fun Saturday afternoon. I am enjoying that linen is coming back in right now because I have always loved it. I think it has a sweet airy British feel to it like I'm Princess Kate just breezing through the Farmer's Market in my perfectly rumpled linen button down. In reality I have baby food in my hair and I haven't showered in 3 days, but since linen is always rumpled, it's our little secret.

Top

This is a great, soft and generous fitting tank that I will wear all the time. It's nice with short shorts since it hangs loosely so you don't feel like a hoochie mom. It has washed really well and has a much more expensive look and feel than it's Merona Target price tag. Me likey.
Target White Tank

Shorts

The shorts were on sale on J. Crew on Saturday so if I had just posted yesterday I would have a link but they sold out! I actually got them in the store in California last week so I bet they are still in most stores. I love the flutter detail it adds just a fun little extra.

There are a couple more linen shorts I've had my eye on. I tried on Old Navy's linen shorts recently and loved how they fit. You can't beat Old Navy's pricing and constant coupons. Currently 40% off everything, no code needed. They don't even care when you're lazy. The pink color is really nice in person.
Old Navy Linen Shorts

I would probably never spend $70 on shorts unless I had a weird surplus of money (hello birthday in May) but if I did I am kind of obsessed with these precious Boden linen shorts, and especially in this stripey color.

Boden Linen Shorts

Shoes 

I got these awesome Tory Burch espadrilles at Nordstrom Rack in Thousand Oaks, California when she was visiting last week. They are really comfortable and I think I will wear them all the time. They weren't on the Nordstrom Rack site but I found a few others that I think are so cute.

I love these flower ones, they are hitting on so many trends. Not sure how fast one of my kids would throw up on them in all white, but somebody needs them :)

Tory Burch Flower Espadrille

I am crushing on these bow sneakers I keep seeing on all the blogs I follow. They seem to look cute with everything from shorts to pencil jeans to little dresses. I am liking them in the white leather. I may need them.

Nine West Bow Sneakers

Thanks for reading and sorry about the long break in the Big Mama world!

xo Big Mama