I Smell A Smell....

...says my daughter as she comes downstairs this morning. I smell it too, as I cooked something in the crockpot overnight. I ask her "What do you smell?"
Excitedly she answers "Ice cream! And marshmallows!"
Hmmm, interesting....since I was cooking pork tenderloin with vidalia onions and roasted red pepper vinaigrette.....
Wasn't sure it was possible for the nose to have it's own imagination but leave it to my daughter to have that!

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Last night, there was a fly buzzing around her and she says "Shoo, fly!"
"Did you know there is a dessert called ShooFly Pie?" I ask her
Wide eyes and she replies "Does it have flies in it??"
"No" I laugh.
She thinks for a moment and then asks "Does it have shoes in it?"

More

That's how I've taken to describing Motherhood. It's "more". More, in every way, than I ever imagined it could be. More love, more joy, more rewarding, more fulfilling, more fun.....more difficult, more frustrating, more heartbreaking. Of course the positives BY FAR outweigh the negatives.
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My daughter is almost 5 years old and it is still, at times, surreal to me that I'm a parent. And a single parent at that. How did I get here? This was so not the plan for my life! I was to have the "perfect" marriage, the nice home, the 2 kids and a dog life. Not the chaotic comedy that has become my existence!! Hence, the Blog title....not like the brochure! This wasn't how life looked all those years ago when I tried to plan my future. But, you know, life has a funny way of throwing continuous curve balls at you until you surrender the attempts to plan what you want and simply accept the task of being grateful for what is.
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In both wonderful and challenging ways, my life is nothing like I thought it would be!