By Audrey Sanchez of Two Dogs, One Cat, And A Baby Moving is hard. It doesn’t matter if you’re stuffing your 2004 Volkswagen Jetta with the contents of your first apartment or if you’ve hired movers to load three bedrooms and two bathrooms worth of boxes into a twenty-six foot […]
Parenting
Life Lessons From My Four-Year-Old And Former Self
By Andrea Rosas Howe of The Howe To Blog “Mommy, did God make Daddy funny because he wanted Daddy to be funny?” my daughter asked one day. “I suppose so.” Then, fishing for a compliment, I pressed further: “What did God make Mommy?” “Mad.” I wasn’t always mad! I used […]
Showerless Mama Drama
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Kristina Hammer of The Daily Rantings of an Angrivated Mom “I’m going to get in the shower.” “What about mine?” “Huh? You have three hours until you have to leave for work; you’ll have plenty of time. I haven’t had a shower since Monday because […]
Toilet (training) Humor
By Julie Watts of Mummy Spits the Dummy Well, it’s happening! Callooh, callay – my second and final baby is learning how to use the toilet. We’re finally going to be out of diapers FOREVER! Welcome to Dry Big-Girl-Pants Town, population: us. Huzzah! Let us proceed to donate all the unused […]
Dear Daycare, I’m Afraid You’ve Mistaken My Child
I wrote this letter to my daycare before realizing that the ‘teachers’ at daycare have magical powers to transform my little monster into an angel. In my mind, the child they described to me was clearly someone else’s. …………….. Dear Miss Emily, I’m so sorry to have taken so long […]
C’mon Zuckerberg; Help A Mommy Blogger Out!
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] Hey! Mom blogger here. Yea yea, I know what you’re thinking; there are a lot of us. There are. (You’re probably also thinking anyone can be a mom blogger, and you’re right; they can.) But we do a lot for our fellow community of moms and […]
Moms, Are We Hurting Our Families By Sharing Their Lives Online?
By Kathryn Streeter of KathrynStreeter.com As bloggers, writers or social media mavens, we want to be remembered. Often apt personal anecdotes are the best way to connect with our followers and drive a post’s popularity. They help the mind wrap around and focus on an idea. But when it comes […]
Hold Them. Be Present. Keep Enjoying the Now.
“Mommy, hold me!” he said as they walked out of the airport bathroom. She groaned and said, “Really!?” as she pulled up the happy, heavy three-year-old and walked away with him on her left hip. Though it appeared she conceded and lifted him up with hesitation, part of her deep […]