Poet Samantha Reynolds on how she has tricked herself into being a more present mother and also how she has used poetry as a way of documenting little moments. ------------------------------------------- 🖥 Find the MomCaveTV App on: Amazon Fire - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BH3JHQZS Apple TV - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/momcave/id6443647663 Android TV: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=quickcast.tv.mom_cave Roku - https://channelstore.roku.com/details/6f6be4b40df791dc95eb1ab5ee7b32d8 Binge Networks: https://www.bingenetworks.tv/channel/momcave-15052 Airy TV: https://live.airy.tv/Airy_TV_3/39_MomCaveTV ----------------------------------------- Visit www.bentlily.com  to see more of Samantha's Poetry  ------------------------------------------- Jen: Welcome to MomCave LIVE where we may have lost our minds, but we haven't lost our sense of humor. I am Jen and our guest today is Samantha Reynolds. And she's gonna pop on the camera any second. Hi, Samantha. Samantha Reynolds: Hello. Hi, Jen. Jen: Are you a SAM or Samantha? Samantha Reynolds: I'm totally a Sam. Yeah, I'll clean my room if you call me Samantha. Jen: Good. I want to be like, you know, casual. So I felt like Sam is much more than smart, casual. Cool. Okay, so. So if you don't know who Sam is, she goes by the nom de plume- Is that how you say it? The very fancy way of saying her writer's name.  Her name is Bent Lily on Instagram. And despite being a mom like the rest of us and having a real job and everything, Sam writes a poem every single day for how many years now? Samantha Reynolds: Well, I can count because my son's 12. So yeah, 12 years. Holy... Jen: Holy moly. Okay. That's there's so much to unpack there. And I can't wait to do it. Janice said hello from the Bronx. Hey, hello, Janice. If you have any questions for Sam, just pop them in the comments, and I will read them out loud. So, Sam, okay, tell me about when did poetry start? Samantha Reynolds: So I was given advice. I don't know if you remember this, but I was get advice when I was pregnant. Like this first year of you being a mom, and this first year of your new baby's life. It's so fleeting, like it's gonna fly by, before you know it, it'll be gone. And really,it might be hard, but like, really try to savor it. Because, you know, before you know it, you know, this little like infant phase will be over. And I was on deck for it. Like I'd you know, I've been reading, doing yoga. I was like, ready, I was like, I'm gonna meditate my way through this, I'm really going to be observing. Sorry, I'm-- Jen: I'm laughing at you after you.... Go on. Samantha Reynolds: And then you know, like it was it actually in some ways, it wasn't... He was a pretty good sleeper. ........ --Read the rest at: https://www.momcavetv.com/parenthood-poem-of-the-day -------------------------------------------