Please welcome the newest blogger to join Hellobee, Mrs. Pencil!

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Who are the Pencils?

Mr. Pencil and I have been married for almost 7 years and we just had our first son on 4/1/14 at 14:01pm. (April Fools baby!) After doing lots of traveling and living in my favorite city for a few years (NYC), we decided to head back home to California and get ready to have a family of our own.

Mr Pencil and I are total opposites! He is a reserved, private person and is a man of few words. I love meeting new people, taking risks, and pretty much say everything that I’m thinking. He prefers to be the lone ranger and I’m always the loudest one, dancing on top of tables at the club. The things we share in common are our life values, religious background and our passion for the arts. Mr. Pencil is a singer/songwriter/musician and I dabble in a number of creative outlets and have my BA in the fine arts. As children we both grew up being “the artist” out of our classmates, so I thought that the pencil icon suited us well!

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Since our baby’s room is Winnie the Pooh themed, I hung this unfinished sketch of Eeyore and Tigger which represents Mr. Pencil and me in a comical way. I’m overly cheerful and optimistic and he’s the doom and gloom type. This was the first hanging piece of art in our baby’s room.


Another interesting thing that Mr. Pencil and I share is that we were never really “child friendly.” Neither of us had any experience or interest in taking care of kids, and we were just not one of those people that cooed over baby pictures. I never wanted to babysit or hold a baby. In fact, the very first diaper I ever changed was my son’s! We were both the youngest in our family and often found ourselves steering clear from young children at malls and subways. It’s not that we disliked children exactly; it’s just that we didn’t know what to do with them! Babies made me horribly uncomfortable, especially when words like “soft spots on the head” were mentioned. Clearly, we were totally unprepared when it came to taking care of an infant! I know you can’t really prepare for something like this, but no two people could have been any more lost! We had no maternal or paternal instinct and we are just learning as we go!

Before having Baby Pencil, I often found parenting books and information too overwhelming.  So other than what I’m reading right now on Hellobee, everything about parenting is brand new information to me!

As a blogger, I consider myself to be pretty shameless in the way I express my thoughts. My friends say that I tell it how it is with brutal honesty. No sugarcoating here! Pregnancy and motherhood shocked me because I just didn’t know what I was getting into. My life became full of so many surprises and twists. From my pregnancy until now, I went through a death in the family, a 1st screening test scare, postpartum depression and walked my sister through infertility and IVF drama.

I feel as though one year ago my life was so different in every single way. I won’t say it was better or worse, but now that my life has Baby Pencil in it, I can’t believe that life had SO much more in store for me! The heart has so much more room for love and there is so much more you can do in a day.

It’s only been 7 weeks since Baby Pencil entered this world but it has been the most eye opening, educating and outrageous 7 weeks of my life! I’m excited to share this journey with you, Hellobee world!