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Burned-Out Mother Seeks Personal Assistant
By Rhiannon Giles of rhiyaya.com I recently found myself standing in Target, unable to move. I stared intently at the boxes of pasta, trying to appear deep in thought on the relative merits of angel hair vs. rotini and hoping nobody noticed that I was no longer sure how to […]
Dear Kids, Excuse Me While I Stare at the Eclipse so I Don’t Have to Look at This Mess Anymore
By Rhiannon Giles of rhiyaya.com Kids, I’m super sorry I threatened to dismember every Barbie left on the floor, limb by awkwardly-bent limb. I totally regret my promises to have Zumba practice on top of all the shit in your room if you won’t clean it up. It’s just… I’m tired […]
Other Info Kushner Left Off His Security Clearance Forms
By MockMom Contributors White House adviser and suspected-vampire Jared Kushner reportedly updated his federal disclosure form several times to include more than 100 names on a list of foreign contacts after he’d already gained security clearance. Here is a list of other information that he conveniently forgot to add to […]
Alternative Names for the ‘World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017’
By MockMom Contributors Republicans have a name for their replacement healthcare legislation and, this is completely true, it’s called the ‘World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017’. Forget the fact that we’re barely three months into 2017, to claim it’s the “World’s Greatest” seems like something they plagiarized from a 3 […]
Trump’s Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up the Government
By Rhiannon Giles of rhiyaya.com I saw a tweet about some chick named Marie Kondo? Condo? I like condos, own a few of them myself. Kondo doesn’t sound Mexican. Aren’t all the housekeepers Mexican? I’m not racist. I’m just saying. Someone tell her to change her name. The tweet was about […]
Depressed Mother Views Meme, Flushes Antidepressants
I know better than to believe everything I read on the internet; unless it is shared on Facebook by that opinionated mom who always seems to end up at every mom-and-tot class with me. You know the one: her kids are named Kale and Chard and she is very […]
Disney Princesses: Where Are They Now?
By MockMom Contributors We caught up with your favorite Disney princesses to see what ‘Happily Ever After’ really looks like: Pocahontas Her children paint with all the colors of the wind. As usual, she has to clean it up. “Fuck craft time,” she whispers under her breath as she scrapes glitter-glue […]