By Tracy Bennett For the last three years our family has raised 4H hogs for the county fair. What started out as a child activity has quickly become a much-anticipated family tradition. We are suburbanites who’ve graduated from bunny to barnyard, and we are a healthier, happier family for it. My friends tease me about…
Why I’m an Unapologetic, Angry Woman Right Now, and THAT’S OK
If there were ever a time in modern America when women needed a battle cry to unite us, it’s now. Under this presidency. In 2017. We are angry as we we watch the clock on our reproductive rights roll backwards. We are angry as our country’s elected leader makes a joke out of us. We…
New Motherhood and Social Media—A Bad Combo?
By Quenby Schuyler I would wager to say that just about anyone in any type of demographic has a love-hate relationship with social media. It is the quickest way to connect, and yet can oftentimes leave us feeling the most disconnected we have ever felt. From my own experience as a mother of a two-year-old, and…
Moms Do the Gross Things
By Heather Sadlemire We were sitting in the backyard on one of the first warm June nights when my 3-year-old presented me my “dinner” of plastic eggs and a washed out mold of spaghetti. Both were fresh out of the shed, which was haphazardly closed up over winter, so they were covered with a thin…
It’s Not Child Abuse. It’s Called Parenting.
By Amy Hunter of The Outnumbered Mother If you’ve glanced at a newspaper or a television or the internet in the past 20 years, you’ve realized that there are many people walking around who shouldn’t have children. Like, “maybe forced sterilization isn’t such a bad idea or an inhumane conclusion” sort of people. I watch…
“I Wish I Was Black,” I Said to My Father
“I wish I was black.” I was probably 12 years old or so when I said this, and I was 100% sincere. In that moment, looking out the window as the rural landscape of western New York flew past, barely undulating and never ending, I couldn’t have been more sincere. My life was basketball and…
The Foibles of Feeding: A Mother’s Table
By Colleen McCardell of Are We There Yet? It starts out ambitious. A fresh, crunchy endive and creamy Roquefort salad drizzled with a delicate mustard vinaigrette, perfectly complemented by grilled salmon steak, its crisp outside dissolving in salty pleasure on our tongues. At least, that’s what was in my head this morning, as I planned this…
What a FitBit Would Track if Moms Designed It
By Jamie Sumner of The Mom Gene I will never own a FitBit. It might destroy me. I have just enough OCD to view each day as an extension of the one before—a staircase descending to self-improvement hell. My nature runs contrary to continual data. After a month, I’d be Forrest Gump-ing it—running across country…
Tricks of the (Special Needs) Trade
By Jamie Sumner of The Mom Gene Last week I collectively spent three hours on the phone with the office of my son’s geneticist. It was over the space of four phone calls with an average hold time of twenty minutes each. This gave me plenty of time to think. It was a snafu on…
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