Loving geeky things and being a mom.

 Isn't it amazing, being a mom? I truly believe it's the best thing that happened to me and I love my kids. But combining it with loving geeky things can give you some struggles from time to time. It's not that my kids mind their mom being geeky, but other people are really easy to judge.

Do I care so much about what other people are saying? Well not anymore but there was a time I did. A time where I believed that I just had to be a mom and keep away from the things I love outside being a mom. Because let's face it you can't be a good mom and also fangirl about let's say Supernatural and Jensen Ackles. You're a grown woman and you should act like one.

Well I found out for myself that they are wrong! I love being a geeky mom, my children learn all about dragons and wizzards and yes as my husband collects skulls they see them in the living room. They are okay with it, they don't know better and I love the fact that my kids grow up knowing about these things and accepting them.

My daughters although not having seen the movie The nightmare before christmas ( they are 1 and 3 ) they know who Sally and Jack are and the last time we visited Disney they both chose a little Sally pluche as their gift. Don't get me wrong if they'd chosen a princess I was just as happy. But the fact that they don't find Sally strange just makes me happy.

If I tell other moms I'm visiting a con dedicated to Supernatural, that I spent money on getting my picture taking with them and getting their autographs, they just look at me like: aren't you to old for this? And let me tell you: No! I'm not to old for this because you know what beside the fact that I love being a mom a also love being me, being the woman I was before I was a mom!

So are there any moms out there? Did or do you struggle with the same thing? Let me know in the comments.

Why this blog????

I was wondering the same thing tonight, there are so many blogs out there about geeky tings why should I start one?

I just wanted to share my adventures and what I encounter here in the Netherlands. Because being Geeky here is hard! We don't have a lot of shops to find our geeky stuff, we don't have a lot of tv series to watch on tv, I watch almost everything online and I just recently got into reading graphic novels. I haven't even read that much but I'm discovering them. My husband loves the Marvel movies but doens't read the comics. And this year we had our first Comic con in the Netherlands. It was one of the best weekends I ever had!

I'm not a young girl anymore, I'm a mom, I'm married, but it just took me some time to just embrace the fact that I love what I love.
As I told before I'm a huge Supernatural fan, years I've been silently watching the show and that was it. Since a year ( I'm serious ) I just decided to don't give a crap anymore and I bought my first Supernatural merchandise. ( Dean's Necklace for the people that want to know ). I went to my first Supernatural convention and joined a couple of groups on facebook.
So after enjoying all this in silence I decided to join in on the fun and start my own blog.

Maybe I'll find other Dutch geeks, maybe not the point is I just wanted to tell my story, tell the world that hey I'm a mom, I'm married but I still like the geeky stuff, I still like to fangirl about the latest episode of my favourite show, still like to dive into comic con for a whole weekend. And for the first time I don't feel embarrassed about it!

So that's why I started this blog and just decided it was my time to go out into the world and share my adventures.