My name is Marisa. I'm just your average 44 year old mom of 2 trying to get through daily life and find joy in the crazy. I was writing posts on my social media about the real life things that are happening in my day. People said, "You should write a book" and my response to that was, " I don't even know where to start with that and it sounds like WAY too much work"… so let me start with a website where I can jot these anecdotes down. Just like everything else in my life, I don't know if I am killing it or fucking it up, likely you feel the same.

This is Me... showing up...being real...being messy and by being those things hopefully you will laugh and cry with me, relate to somethings and feel seen.

Quick recap of Me:

I am a Speech Pathologist in San Diego where I run a private practice. This is what (besides my family and friends) gives me the greatest joy. Find SPEECH and Kid related stuff at https://www.realmomslp.com/real mom slp

Flashback: I met my husband Ryan in high school more than 20 years ago and we got married in 2015. Enter fertility struggles and went like this: DIDN'T get pregnant, DID get pregnant...then lost the baby in the first trimester, D&C, depression, try again. Finally, about to give up, one stuck! (more on Dylan later). Tried for baby #2: same struggles as before. Feeling grateful and settled with one miracle baby then SURPRISE- pregnant with a healthy baby girl (AT 40 YEARS OLD!!!) Currently D is 6 and Ava is 2. So fertility drama morphed into mama drama and Real Shit in Momming was born. 

Currently I describe myself as : I am the grower and deliverer of tiny humans (also keeping them alive so far), Speech Pathologist, Maker of the lunches, Doer of the laundry and shopping, Self-taught chef, skilled at loading and unloading the dishwasher, master of instacart delivery ordering and all-around bad ass mom boss!