Our Story So Far...

Once upon a time, in a faraway land by the sea, there lived a family of bears. Papa Bear and Mama Bear had been happily married for 3 years, and in the summer of 2008 they had a baby who they called Little Bear. Now, Papa Bear was an artist and he worked from home creating amazing designs for Bear computer games. Mama Bear was still searching for what she wanted to do, but she knew it had to be creative -she liked dance and art and crafting and writing...and really, when you came down to it (she thought), wasn't Mama-hood the biggest act of creation you could possibly commit...if commit was the right word. Often she thought she should be committed for undertaking it...if that counted...har har har.

Little Bear grew bigger every day and started smiling and chewing on things and giving wide-mouthed, drooly baby kisses, and Mama Bear thought she should have been happy. After all, motherhood was something she'd dreamed of for 2 years before Little Bear came along. But now...well, she wasn't exactly depressed, but she found herself numbing out a lot. She did oddly disturbing things like listening to the same audiobook obsessively over and over again or checking Facebook continually when really she wanted to write something. She was cranky with Papa Bear for no reason, and when he tried to give her a break from Little Bear it didn't make her feel better...probably because she spent the time doing exactly the same things. So one morning Mama Bear said "ENOUGH!" She marched to her computer, but instead of visiting the Same Old Websites she went to Blogger and set up this blog. She promised herself that she would spend that audiobook/website time doing something creative for once, dammit!

Maybe a Mama's search for creativity isn't a very original story, but it is a very true one. Mama Bear doesn't know where it will lead, but what kind of adventure would it be if she did?

The End...or, rather, The Beginning...