Mrs AOK, a Work in Progress: I Did it for Myself!

Since becoming a Mommy, there are tons of things I have stopped doing for myself... to do for others. Mainly the things I do, do are for my children. If I want to be completely honest, although, I joke about being the same Ol' G there are plenty of things I do not do, or have changed because I am a mommy.

I had my eldest daughter quite young. I still wanted to be young, but the other Mamas in my eldest daughter's classes were a little more buttoned-up and more mature in age.
I decided to be a little more buttoned-up, which in the process kind of stripped away who I was.
Here I was trying to hide tattoos, and thinking I should dress a certain way because other Moms were looking at me ~~and whispering.~~
Now, I don't care. So what, I have tattoos, and now for myself {which I know my mama is going to hate} I re-pierced my nose.

I love it. My husband loves it.

It was kind of freeing. I know that sounds weird, but when I use to have my nose pierced many moons ago, I lost my nose-ring and never redid it. Not because I was a Mama, because life went on. My first years of motherhood, in Texas, I was surrounded by family and friends who knew me, and knew what I was about>> no judgment. It was a different time.

Now, that I'm in my thirties, I don't want to live with regret. I don't want to go back to my twenties, but I do want to be ME. I want my kids to see>> Mama is happy with who she is, and I want them to feel the same. No judgements!

This post isn't just about the-time-I-went-to-pierce-my-nose in-my-thirties-at-a-random-Indian-salon-and-I-felt-all-freeing. I'm also linking-up with the lovely Lena B, and Through the Eyes of the Mrs.