By Sarah Hosseini of www.SarahHosseini.com We like our wine, and we like our Tar-Jay. (And our gender neutral toy aisles). Ya hurd me, muthas? I mean, tipsy at Target? Sounds like a day night out to me. Mothers everywhere rejoiced when news from the booze gods announced, “Target Set to […]
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Handle with Care: A Parent’s Fear About Growing Up
I sometimes take a picture of you because you’re just so adorable and amazing and beautiful. And sometimes I catch a hint of fragility in what the camera catches. Other times I see huge heaping mounds of it. Giant reserves of delicate. Like you’re a crystal chandelier in the shape […]
6 Ways Toddlers Ruin Your Life
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Eileen Turay of Liv and Leen I can’t always be positive, right? Every once in a while, I deserve to have a guilt-free vent session about the things my three-year-old does that are slowly killing me inside. In no particular order, here are the things I truly believe […]
Parenting Brady Style: Getting Schooled by Carol and Mike
By Jen Kehl of JenKehl.com I just got schooled. I guess I had to be here, in this place. This place of banging my head against the wall trying to parent a wacko/pyro 9 almost 10-year-old. I will start with this admission: I am a total hypocrite. I used to preach no […]
Hungover with Kids (Or Please, Please, Just Kill Me Now)
By Julie Watts of Mummy Spits the Dummy My husband and I had a rare night off for a friend’s wedding this weekend. Since our amazing babysitter (my Mum, unequivocal legend and child-whisperer extraordinaire) was available to stay overnight, we decided to make a weekend of it and spent nearly […]
A Letter to My Stay-at-Home Husband
Dear Husband, While sitting in the empty conference room and eating the pesto linguine you packed for my lunch, I think of your hands, so long calloused and cracked from working in the weekday weather, splintered and split like old leather, now seamlessly chopping garlic and stirring sauces, painting […]
Last Week’s 10 Most Hilarious Facebookers
If there’s one place I go to clear my mind and soak up the laughs, it’s Facebook. And there are quite a few Facehookers who make me smile. Here are last week’s 10 most hilarious Facebookers. Are you following these people? 1) Toddlers: the next biggest threat in organized crime. […]
When Baby is Sick, The WHOLE Family Pays
When your baby vomits for the first time, it’s scary. He’s obviously upset because this has never happened to him before. He’s in pain from the stomach cramps. Food is clearly going in the wrong direction. And there’s no end in sight. As parents, you are upset because there’s really […]