Applicant #69: Camery Turley

Camery Turley is a mom from Maple Valley.

My video application:

A bit about me:

I'm a wife, a mother, a friend, a volunteer, a runner, a reader, a traveler, and today, I'm the host mom for a playgroup of five energetic four-year-old girls!

In the space of about 8 years, I've been a newlywed, a new mom, a single mom, a single-working mom, and am now a newlywed stay-at-home mom! I know that life can be hard; but I also know that life is GOOD.

I love meeting new people and learning their life stories. I've learned that sometimes the most interesting people are the ones I thought I already knew. The Verity Mom opportunity appeals to me on so many levels, but I think the one I'm the most excited about is the chance to meet so many new people; to tell their stories, to teach them about Verity, and to learn together how we can be better mothers. 

My blog post:

Every morning Natalie crawls into my bed and we snuggle under the covers in silence for a few minutes. Then, without fail, she will ask me, “What did you dream about, mommy?” I tell her what I can remember and then I ask her if she remembers her dreams, and EVERY time she will recount (or make up) her dreams.

One morning I couldn’t remember even a remnant of a dream. In fact, I was so shocked at my lack of dream recollection, that it rendered my mommy imagination useless. I couldn’t even make up a dream.
So, I just decided to go with the truth. “Natalie, I don’t think I had any dreams last night.”

She didn’t miss a beat and said, “Mom, everyone has dreams. And sometimes the dreams you can’t remember are the goodest ones.”

There have been countless times during my four years of being a mother, when I have stopped and taken a mental snapshot of a moment in time: a colicky newborn who finally fell asleep in my arms, her first time playing in the ocean, or watching her try to keep up with a melting ice cream cone on a hot summer day, and I KNOW I couldn’t have possibly dreamed anything so wonderful.
But maybe I Natalie is right. Maybe I DID dream this, and maybe it’s just that I can’t remember. 

Camery