If you’ve ever walked into the store and seen a lovely lady fashionably clad in great jewelry and with a killer smile, then you’ve had the pleasure of meeting Kelly – co-owner/founder, mom of three, Martha Stewart, breastfeeding advocate, empowered childbirth champion, do-it-all. She always wears a smile despite how hectic her days become. Here, Kelly has documented a day in her very fashionable and crazy life.
Wake up at 5:30 am to try and keep the number of awake children under two, because if one more wakes up it is really going to be a long day.
Shower, dress and feed several people.
Prepare lunches and then get in car (warning: you should love your car, lots of time will be spent there)
Enter carpool line, drop-off your eight year old.
Park and go inside to pick up paperwork for PTA. Chat with outgoing PTA president who no doubt wants you to volunteer for one or nine things. (note: Yes I could have skipped one step by avoiding the carpool line but I can’t bring the child into the school because he is too cool for that and needs to be dropped off.)
Next stop: pediatrician for a well-visit. You hear about statistics and development; and then console a weeping six year old because she wanted to be told that her eyes needed glasses. Two out of the twelve children in her class have needed to get spectacles this last month, and she wants them, too.
Back to the car. Drop off six year old.
Head into work with The Baby. Work for a few hours, deal with questions, and products, phone calls and woes, and then…
Back to the car.
Pick up two children here, and then one there, and then off to one more stop for the day.
Come home. Laundry, dishes, homework, cook.
Back to the car (do you see why you should like your car?). Get the kids, the gear, the coats, the umbrellas, the seats, the drinks, snacks, money and keys all into the car in the rain.
Head to baseball diamond, cheer on your child and other people’s children with more intensity than you have ever summed up for a professional being paid 4.1 million dollars a year. You watch your child be so incredibly proud of himself, and his body, for what it can do. You see that amazing joy a team has when they have been modeled a life of sportsmanship and respect.
Back to the car, and when you get home, covered in dirt and rain, with frizzy hair, your little one, The Baby, sits down on the potty and <gasp> goes potty! You will cheer so loudly it will make her jump. After you tuck them all in that night you will sit down and write this blog post, because you hope, you pray that you will never forget this day and all of the amazement of it.
Thank you, Kelly, for doing all of the above and still being able to put a smile on each day for the wonderful customers of Bellani!
PS. When do you sleep?
I run 4 – 5 days per week. I have been stressing about the fact that I still can’t run 2 miles on pavement (the treadmill is completely different). With only 9 weeks left for training, which may sound like a lot to some, seems like tomorrow for me. I usually do between 3 and 4 miles at a time, varying between running and walking.
Kelly LaChance Guertin: I'm a lady with a cackle that can be heard in any room. If it comes to Pregnancy or Childbirth I have a real answer, from a mom who knows a little something about it. I have three children, The Boy, age 9; The Girl, age 7, and The Baby, just three years old!
