By Carrie Tinsley of Carrie On, Y’all Hey, kids. Huddle up. In case you haven’t noticed, with the beginning of July, summer is now halfway over. It’s time for us to have a summer halftime speech, get our butts in gear, and complete all those goals we ambitiously laid out […]
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Dear Bennifer
Here is the deal: I can’t with you two breaking up. I don’t want to be insensitive or selfish, but why are you doing this to me? I’m trying so hard to figure out what I did to make things fall apart. Did I not go to enough of your […]
8 Things Working Moms Don’t Want to Hear
By Julie Borm of Everyday Happiness People have good intentions. At least I like to think so. But sometimes, when trying to find common ground, or just without realizing it, people can say things to working moms that aren’t what we want to hear. Like all moms, our worlds are […]
The House That Depression Built
By Kristina of The Daily Rantings of an Angrivated Mom Have you ever heard the saying, you are what you eat? Well, I’m living proof that you live in who you are, too. With that being said, one can presume correctly that, because my life is a gigantic black hole […]
I Still Need You: How My Marriage Survived Mommyhood
It isn’t going to bed alone that feels wrong — I am not above admitting that by the time Game of Thrones ends I am fucking tired. It is waking up alone that bothers me, especially in the middle of the night when I am tangled in our cheap Target […]
16 Stereotypes This SAHM Wants to Dispel
The following is a Sammiches and Psych Meds Featured Post. Featured Posts are intended to introduce readers to other writers we think they would love to follow. Please check out the post, visit the links in the writer’s bio, and be sure to click on the link to the writer’s […]
To the Couple Who Stared with Disgust at My Kids in Public
I saw you as we came in to the restaurant, my 7 and 4-year-olds bumping into the wait staff and crowding the already narrow walkway, my cranky 8-month-old whining for his bottle despite just having eaten before we left home. I saw your eyes turn toward one another, a knowing […]
You Do Not Make Me Happy
By Audrey Sanchez of Two Dogs, One Cat and a Baby My beloved, Prepare yourself. What I am about to say is not easy to hear. Others may not understand and many will question how a mother could say such a thing. I am not worried about the others, though. It is […]