Rambling Wednesdays + An Intro

So as I sit down to write this, I'm not even really sure what this post is going to be about. All I know is that I need to write. Writing is something that I love and used to do all the time but somehow in the past few years it's faded away and grown nearly obscure, except for journaling, and somehow even that is very limited. But I love writing and I think I need writing. I had a realization the other day about a few things going on in my life and I only really discovered it and was able to put into words how I was feeling by writing my feelings out! It seems silly maybe because so often when we're in high school and college we talk about how we have to go and write a paper and how terrible that is, but outside of boring academic papers, I enjoy writing. When I was in high school my friends and I would write and trade our stories with one another to edit and critique them. And honestly, even writing your stereotypical "boring" academic paper was relatively interesting to me.

As I said when I started, I'm really not sure what this post will be about but I do think I've decided on my post title: "Rambling Wednesdays" or now that I'm writing it out and thinking more, "Wordy Wednesdays." Lol. By the time you read this you'll know what I settled on.

Anyway, I suppose I feel like I've been gone from my blog for such a long time (I have only written 2 posts in the last 4-5 months and then it was a year before that!), that I feel like I should do an introduction or re-introduction of some type. So here goes!

As I hope you already know, my name is Bernadette Recznik, and I am married to my childhood sweetheart, Joel-Michael Recznik, hence the name of my blog "Becoming Mrs. Recznik." My husband calls me Bernadette or Babe or Sexy, but nearly everyone else calls me Bern or Minnie. Minnie, you ask? Let me explain. My husband's nickname is Mickey, which nearly everyone calls him and is less confusing for people who seem to think his real name is Joel. It isn't. He has two first names but I really don't know why that's so complicated! But I digress. Because his nickname is Mickey and he already has a sister named Bernadette, his family nicknamed me "Minnie" in order to help with the confusion of who you're addressing (with limited success lol but hey at least I have a fun nickname!).

I told you it would be a rambling post so why should my intro be any different? Lol. Continuing on, we have two small children, a girl and a boy, and before you ask, no, we're not done having kids; we're just getting started we hope!

Monica was born in May of 2016 and is currently 21 months old. She keeps us on our toes with all the new and exciting things she learns every day. She repeats EVERYTHING we say so we have to be especially careful when we're talking around her because she's the smartest little kid I've ever met. She is also funny and kind and stubborn (boy is she stubborn! Definitely our child ha ha).

Damien will be four months on Sunday and was born in October of 2017. He was an extremely fussy and picky baby (the complete opposite of Monica) and has only just turned a corner in life over the past month in becoming a relatively normal, non-super-awful-fussy child.

A few more facts about us before I let you have your free time back to do whatever it is you were doing before you stumbled across my little blog post.

My husband is a police officer where we live and he LOVES it. It is his dream job and I am so happy he is finally doing it, but more on that another time. I am crazy, madly in love with him and think he is the hottest man I know, which works out well for me because he thinks I'm the hottest woman he knows. #winning #i'llkeephim We have been married since July 4, 2015, which makes it three years this July. Time flies!

I am a stay at home mom with our babies, and while I LOVE not working, or rather not working at a job outside the home where I get paid (I miss getting paid haha), motherhood is not easy all the time. It is hard and painful and sad, but it is also fun and amazing and the best thing ever. LOTS more to come on the subject of motherhood in the future. In addition to being a stay at home mom, I have a photography business on the side: a) because I love photography b) because I love making money and c) I've always wanted to be my own boss and being able to make my own schedule works out quite well.

Let me think......Oh, we bought our first house this past May (2017) and we do random projects and updates as often as we can afford to! We redid the bathroom very soon after moving in and it's now my favorite room in the house. Not even joking.

I think my brain is slowing down for the evening because I just got distracted by a text message and I'm not totally sure what else I was going to add to this post! So I'll be signing out for the night, but hopefully not for as long as I previously have lol. Here's to hoping for at least a weekly monthly blog post.