Hello,

Let me start this out by saying thank you for taking the time to visit the site and for exploring more about it. I really appreciate it. Welcome!

I created X from Austin as a way to connect and share. As a new mom, I was struggling with that all too familiar feeling of being lonely, but never alone, and I was searching for my identity. Where did it go? I wanted to share and listen, but I felt that social media wasn’t the best option for a positive, helpful, realistic outlet for me. Also, finding time with a new baby to meet up in person and have a meaningful conversation wasn’t really an option. In those free moments late at night, I would look online for stories from other moms. I found that the stories and experiences that other mothers shared in the written form were much more meaningful to me than the perfect picture of motherhood that I saw online, but never recognized in my own reality. I searched for those stories from other moms when I needed advice, when I needed to feel like I wasn’t the only one feeling a certain way, when I needed to hear an echo of what my actual day had been like. The beautiful photos of motherly perfection didn’t seem to portray the experiences many of my other mom friends were having either, and I thought, maybe it’s time to create an online space for us where we don’t feel the need to compete and compare to perfection, but to just connect. I was hoping to create a space where we could reach out, share, listen, and strive to just be better versions of ourselves. So here’s to not holding ourselves accountable to unrealistic expectations of perfection. Here’s to allowing ourselves to embrace it all, to see the flaws, to learn from the mistakes, and to accept the fact that we are human. Which is real.

Authentic stories and experiences are what I gravitated towards most and that is why I decided to write to you as X from Austin. I want the content to be the focus. Not my image. Yes, I am a mom. Yes, I am from Austin. Now, let’s chat!