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 […]
When I was 17-years-old, I tried to kill myself with a bottle of Tylenol, 4 Advil, and a 12-ounce can of Coke. I wrote a four page suicide letter in mint green “gel” ink — a note of explanations and apologies — folded it up, placed it in my right […]
I was chatting with a friend the other day about the first day of school when she told me that the mothers at her daughter’s school were crying at drop-off. Did you hear that? They were CRYING! “What?” I half-laughed/half-swallowed my tongue. “Should I assume they were tears of joy?” […]
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 […]
Okay, you big-breasted Berthas, you are right — looks like you do have it rough, with your fruitless quests for over-the-shoulder boulder holders and creepy stares from men (and women) at your below-the-neck region. But what about those of us on the other end of the spectrum? Yeah, we women over […]