Everyone can tell you’re a mom when you’re out shopping. Here’s how: 1. Your purse is full of toys, diapers, sippy cups and goldfish. 2. You drive around for a long time in order to get a parking spot next to a cart corral. 3. You can stack your groceries […]
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You Know You Have Too Many Kids When…
1. You haven’t a clue what developmental milestone your youngest is at. In fact, all those books that tell you about developmental milestones have been destroyed by one rampaging toddler or another. Except for the one that is propping up the uneven leg of the coffee table. 2. You call […]
The Song of a Strong-Willed Child
By Audrey Sanchez of Two Dogs, One Cat, and a Baby “I dood it!” (I’ll do it) According to my mother, that was my first (and most frequently used) sentence. Twenty-eight years later and little has changed. Aren’t we all, to some degree, still our most spirited toddler selves? What […]
5 Reasons Cleaning Only Makes My House Messier
Honestly, I could just title this 3 reasons cleaning makes my house messier and just list my kids’ names, but clearly that wouldn’t be as interesting. Being a stay-at-home mom, you’d think I’d have enough time to keep my house in order, but with kids in the house, cleaning […]
How To Be a Cool Mom
The most important part of motherhood is how you look while doing it. Sure, we would like to imagine that the little people we are raising are going to turn out well, but how much control do we really have over that? For the purposes of this piece, I’m going […]
10 Agonizing Lies Mothers Tell to Excuse Their Child’s Behavior
Having a child is a tough job. You know, the whole getting pregnant, staying pregnant, morning sickness, weight gain and birthing experiences are quite taxing on a woman. Well, we ain’t seen nothing yet. Once that baby is out and you’re responsible for feeding it, bathing it, and clothing it, […]
20 Things I Never Imagined I Would Say As A Parent
Let’s be honest: We all said to ourselves that we weren’t going to be “those” parents — the ones with a whiny child at checkout, screaming over a Snickers bar or the type of parent who wields a child leash. We all said we wouldn’t be our own parents — […]
What Your Kid Really Means When They Say…
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] By Samantha Wassel of Between the Monkey Bars I love my kids fiercely. Truly, I do. I love them to the moon and back, and to Neptune’s known 14 moons and back, and to wherever the hell my sanity has escaped to and back. But as […]