The Story Behind The Name

Have I ever told you guys about how my blog went from Tiffany's Thoughts to The Momma Bear diaries, or "the MB diaries" as I usually refer to it?

I mean I know that I am obviously not the only Momma Bear, there are thousands or millions of us out there! So why am I the Momma Bear?

I actually all comes down to one moment and the funny thing is that I didn't even really come up with it. The hubs did. So what was this magical moment?

Well Sydney-aka Baby Bear  was about a year and a half old and we went to the playground at the mall. You know which one right? The one that is made of some rubber like material and has seats for the parents all around it to kind of make it so that there is only one small exit. These seats are there so that the parents can sit..AND WATCH their kids. It's supposed to be a safe little place for your child to play and get some energy out so that you can finish any shopping that you may want or need to do after they have played their little hearts out. Sydney LOVES these play grounds, and this specific story was one of the very first times that we ever took her to play at one.

Picture my (small for her age) little girl running around that little playground. There is this one little boy.. a very RUDE little boy. His mom is there watching him. I say watching very loosely because she hadn't looked at her son once the entire time we were there. While his mom is "watching"  him by chatting non stop with her friend her little boy was being a nightmare to my little girl that I was watching like a hawk! He was spitting in her face. He was pushing her. He was scaring her. I even got up and scorned him because obviously nobody else was going to.

There was one point that I was very tempted to grab the child by the hand and take him over to his mom and tell her my mind. Hubs was sitting there with me and could tell that I was about to explode! He looked over at me and said something along the lines of "Uh oh! Momma Bear is coming out" And he couldn't be more right. Instead of going over there and telling her what I thought about how not only was her little bot a SNOT and should have his butt busted for what he was doing, but that she was awful for being more into socializing than she was watching her own child. Trust me that would  NOT have gone well!

So instead we got our stuff together, threw some shoes on her and left the playground. Momma Bear stuck in my head for a while. Then one day I wanted to create a new design and the best one that I could think of was in the theme of Momma Bear and it was the first design that I added my little bear that I just brought back to my design. It was something that I felt truly described me as a person and a mom. I am not confrontational at all. I never have been. But mess with my family or my cub and you had better watch it. I will not take kindly to someone treating any of us badly.

Now you have it! I know it's silly, but this is the story of how the Momma Bear diaries is born!