By Audrey Sanchez of Two Dogs, One Cat, And A Baby Moving is hard. It doesn’t matter if you’re stuffing your 2004 Volkswagen Jetta with the contents of your first apartment or if you’ve hired movers to load three bedrooms and two bathrooms worth of boxes into a twenty-six foot […]
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Why I Can’t Write About Paris
By Samantha Wassel of Between the Monkey Bars Our hearts are with Paris. Prayers for Paris. #PorteOuverte We’ve all heard about it by now, and still, I can’t write the words. I can’t write them because I can’t find them. They’re lost, floating around somewhere in a sea of sorrow and […]
Life Lessons From My Four-Year-Old And Former Self
By Andrea Rosas Howe of The Howe To Blog “Mommy, did God make Daddy funny because he wanted Daddy to be funny?” my daughter asked one day. “I suppose so.” Then, fishing for a compliment, I pressed further: “What did God make Mommy?” “Mad.” I wasn’t always mad! I used […]
Showerless Mama Drama
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Kristina Hammer of The Daily Rantings of an Angrivated Mom “I’m going to get in the shower.” “What about mine?” “Huh? You have three hours until you have to leave for work; you’ll have plenty of time. I haven’t had a shower since Monday because […]
Toilet (training) Humor
By Julie Watts of Mummy Spits the Dummy Well, it’s happening! Callooh, callay – my second and final baby is learning how to use the toilet. We’re finally going to be out of diapers FOREVER! Welcome to Dry Big-Girl-Pants Town, population: us. Huzzah! Let us proceed to donate all the unused […]
Moms, Are We Hurting Our Families By Sharing Their Lives Online?
By Kathryn Streeter of KathrynStreeter.com As bloggers, writers or social media mavens, we want to be remembered. Often apt personal anecdotes are the best way to connect with our followers and drive a post’s popularity. They help the mind wrap around and focus on an idea. But when it comes […]
The 5 Kids You Will Meet At Your Child’s Birthday Party
By Andrea Marlene of bumblebirdblog.com Well, I made it. “Birthday Season” at our house is finally over. Through either bad luck or poor timing, in the late summer through fall our family celebrates one birthday after another. The weekends are jam-packed with parties and the weekdays are full of planning and […]
Learning How to Drink, Parent, and Other Practical Applications of a Liberal Arts Degree
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Richard Black of The Unfit Father It’s not that I didn’t enjoy college. I probably enjoyed the experience quite a bit. I say “probably” because I don’t remember much from that time in my life. In addition to a thirst for knowledge, I also developed […]