Ciara C.

Pittsburgher. Type 1 diabetic. JCU class of 2017. It's actually pronounced KIRA. Opinions are my own.

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

Barista: “what’s your name?”
Me: KIRA
Barista scans Starbucks app: name comes up “Ciara”
Barista: oh shit, I put KIRA, I didn’t know it was Clara. I’m sorry Clara
Me: oh it’s okay - I’ll know it’s mine
Gets drink:

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

This happened to me last year when we were having our new couch delivered. Answered the door and the delivery guys go “is your mom here?”

I was also pregnant at the time so apparently not only did I not look old enough to be home alone, I also did not look like a mom myself 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

Murphy can open doors with his nose and every single time I am trying to put the baby down for a nap he thumps his way up the stairs and stands outside her bedroom door sniffing to see if I’m in there and I can see his shadow and I 100% feel like I am in some sort of horror movie

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

Ummm excuse me, no one told me that watching your child grow and develop will simultaneously fill you with indescribable pride and absolutely shayter your heart

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

I was also holding my 3-month-old daughter at this same mass, so maybe I should’ve felt old because of that. Ya know, a married mother of an infant with a mortgage and a dog. But no, hearing the high schoolers were in first grade when I was their age is what really did me in.

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

I went to a high school baccalaureate mass this morning for my SIL. The student giving the speech spoke about Christmas Day 2011, when she was gifted a digital camera. She said it was “the best gift for a 6 year old” SIX YEARS OLD IN 2011??!

I was in high school in 2011…

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

It’s amazing what comes back to you from your childhood once you’re a parent.

I haven’t heard “the farmer in the dell” since I was probably 7.

Yet I was just somehow able to spout off 5 verses of it and I’m pretty sure they were mostly correct.

Where the heck was that stored?

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

Murph was laying on our couch this evening with his tennis ball. Every time I walked back into the living room he had added another tennis ball to the couch. Ended the night with three tennis balls, an antler, and a rubber chew toy all up there, looking like the proudest dood

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

Because I am a ✨rule follower to my core✨ I missed out on a rare opportunity today.

They poured new sidewalks in front of our house. And I did NOT go write Rosie’s initials in the wet cement.

She can send me her therapy bill when she unpacks the trauma of this as an adult.

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

One time I pointed out that my friend got a Barbie from the tooth fairy but we only got $1 bills and my mom said that my friend had a different tooth fairy because she lived in a different school district and tooth fairies were assigned by the district you lived in / bus you rode

[Liz Charboneau @lizchar]

sitting in mass figuring out who would get hit if the lights fell

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

I love our old home and it’s original hardwood floors.

Except when I am tiptoeing trying to get ready for bed and the baby is already fast asleep in her bassinet in our room. That is when it is very apparent there isn’t a single floorboard that doesn’t creak at least a little

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

@EndOfDaysWoman We bought our house when I was pregnant and for months I would smell different smells and insist various things needed cleaned again (we had the air ducts done before we moved in and I swore they still stunk, etc). I’m now 11 weeks postpartum and don’t smell any of it anymore 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

I havent highlighted my hair since early October 2020. I had a couple of pretty big haircuts since then and have been letting my natural brown hair color grow out.

Imagine my surprise when Christian took a pic of me today and my hair looks like it’s full of blonde highlights…

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

Just packed up all of Rosie’s newborn clothes so if anyone needs me I’ll be sobbing uncontrollably for the rest of the afternoon 😭

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

POV: your house is run by these two

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

Like the good little Irish Catholic baby that she is, Rosie’s top lullaby songs are currently Lady of Knock (but JUST the chorus) and Danny Boy 💕☘️

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

@EndOfDaysWoman Rosie has multiple dresses (aka 2 backups in case she spits up on her dress before mass). She also had new Easter jammies to wear tonight.

I ventured into our guest room closet about 2 hours ago to see if there is anything stored away that I can wear tomorrow that isn’t leggings

[Ciara C. @CeeCee_1215]

In what can only be correctly identified as karma, my child both hates going to sleep at a reasonable hour at night AND is not a morning person.

She couldn’t have gotten at least ONE of Christian’s good sleep habits???

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

A 9 year-old girl lost her life trying to pull the fire alarm to warn other students in a mass shooting. Yet, a congressmen from her state the very next day said ‘there’s nothing you can do’ and basically said that’s why he home schools his kids. The 9 year old had more bravery.

[Nick Sciarappa @PappaSciarappa]

Hoax 911 calls claiming active shooter situations in school is terrorism.