By Samantha Wassel of Between the Monkey Bars Disclaimer: I admit that I’ve never raised a tween girl, so I’m not exactly an authority on the subject. However, the fact that I’m a full-grown woman now (all flat-chested, 5’3’’ of me), indicates that I was one at some point in my […]
By Gina Fenton of Extreme Mom Call me a prude and a party pooper (pun totally intended), but I don’t find the new trend of festively painting babies’ bottoms for holidays even a teeny bit cute. My moral compass registers NO pretty much immediately. Don’t get me wrong; baby bottoms […]
By Carrie Tinsley of Carrie On Y’all It’s the beginning of fall, and I just made a quickie trip to Hobby Lobby to pick up something for the elementary school’s county fair parade float. While this fool’s errand for a ride on a flatbed trailer behind a tractor is bad […]
By Rachel Whetstone of Increase and Spaghettify Remember Pac-man? I might be showing my age here. For those of you not alive in the 80s, it was an arcade game in which you maneuvered a starving yellow circle through a psychedelic maze of small dots. It was more entertaining than […]
By Jennifer Gregory of The Runaway Mama. “Can we do jokes in the morning, Mommy?” my six-year-old asked at bedtime. He wanted to climb into my bed the next morning and wake me up way too early with an arsenal of poorly executed knock knock jokes like he and his […]
By Tina Steele of The Tina Situation There are several women I can credit with shaping my values and beliefs throughout my life. My mother, who stayed at home to raise me, was obviously the most influential. Just a few years ago, I discovered writer Dorothy Parker and immediately identified […]
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Tina Steele of The Tina Situation About 10 years ago, I got myself a white girl weave. Not extensions – a weave. The difference is subtle, I’ll admit. This was around the time that celebrities were finally coming out of the beauty closet and admitting […]
By Eileen Turay of Liv & Leen It’s so easy to look at parents before you become one yourself and have 27,834 thoughts that start with, “When I’m a mom, I’ll never….” And then you become a mom, and you do _____, _____, and _____, proving yourself wrong 27,834 times. […]