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 […]
By Samantha Wassel of Between the Monkey Bars Our hearts are with Paris. Prayers for Paris. #PorteOuverte We’ve all heard about it by now, and still, I can’t write the words. I can’t write them because I can’t find them. They’re lost, floating around somewhere in a sea of sorrow and […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
By Diana Kane of Mama Needs A Cupcake This plan is similar to How to Potty Train in 3 Days, except you just tack on an additional 395 days. This may sound challenging, but with a can-do attitude, you are sure to be successful. This program was the perfect fit […]
By Samantha Wassel of Between the Monkey Bars Are you a mom or planning to become one? Do you have the internet? How about a TV? In-laws? Eyes? Ears? A pulse? If so, you probably know that no one, anywhere, has anything to say about how you’re choosing to raise your […]
By Kristina Hammer of The Daily Rantings of an Angrivated Mom Every so often, I stumble across people who are raising their kids, inadvertently, to turn out to be assholes. Not in the typical attention-starved/bought-love/no-rules kind of way. In the too-many-rules/smothered-love/attention-hogging kind of way. These kinds of parents don’t even consider […]