Because sometimes a girl needs more than fart jokes and belching contests
The Fifty Shades of Grey movie trailer came out yesterday giving fans a little taste of the leather-clad, satin-wrapped, steamy, sexy goodness to which they will be treated this Valentine’s Day. Within minutes of being released, the video was all over the internet. This film might be the biggest thing to hit the mommy market [Read more...]
Have you ever had to bite your tongue to keep from laughing when your kid says something accidentally dirty? Do you go ahead and make the “that’s what she said” joke only to be met with confused looks and impatient toddler toe-tapping. They must get their sense of humor from their father. If so, I’m [Read more...]
Today I’m lucky enough to have the highly lingual (she can speak five languages, people!) Olga from The European Mamma as my guest poster. Not only is she raising three children living away from her home country, she is also raising them to be trilingual. Can you imagine? I have a hard enough time understanding [Read more...]
I’ve decided you can tell how many kids a woman already has by how she announces her latest pregnancy. Is there anything more exciting, terrifying, life altering, or mind blowing than announcing your first pregnancy? I remember I was so eager to share the news that I could hardly wait for the pee to dry [Read more...]
Tampons might be the greatest invention of the 20th century: screw television, cars, the internet and iPhones. The ability to bid adieu to sweaty, diaper-like, sanitary napkins, and rejoin the active world with confidence even during that cursed week, is worth more than Google, Amazon, and Apple stock put together. For me, anyway. Before you [Read more...]
As parents we are all prepared for the inevitable first time our child befriends another child whose parents we absolutely can’t stand, but what do you do when the parents aren’t the problem? No matter how old or how close a friend is, there are only so many “Your kid bit my kid in the [Read more...]
I’ve always been a little absent-minded. Growing up I was something of a paradox: give me any list of information and I could memorize it verbatim in no time, but I nearly burned down my house on multiple occasions by leaving ovens, burners, space heaters and candles on for hours. Actually, I’m kind of a [Read more...]
The Fourth of July has always been one of my favorite holidays. Who doesn’t love staying up late on warm summer evenings and watching beautiful displays of light in the night sky? I never really stopped to think about the more traditional, patriotic, meaning of the holiday until I was an adult and married to [Read more...]
Did you know there are drive-through liquor stores? Yet, when my son runs out of diapers five minutes after my husband leaves for work I have to pack up both kids and go to the store. Of course, it’s not that simple. First I have to fashion a new diaper for the baby out of [Read more...]
You can lead a kid to fun, but you can’t make him play. Last week I took my three-year-old to the grocery store and let him do the shopping. I told him that whatever he put in the cart we’d buy and that when we got home he could cook it however he wanted: he [Read more...]
I spend a lot of time worrying that I’m a bad mother.Do I feed my kids healthy meals?Do I give them enough one-on-one attention.What will they be telling their therapists about me in twenty years?The internet is a wonderful tool for feeding these insecurities. When my youngest son was six weeks old, he got a minor [Read more...]
This morning I reached into our usually well-stocked diaper cupboard and cringed when I realized it was empty. There wasn’t even an old, slightly-too-small diaper hiding in the back that I could use in pinch. It was completely bare. Apparently I’m the Old Mother Hubbard of baby supplies. I stood there for a moment, [Read more...]
Today I’m lucky enough to have Meg, from Megsanity: Women, Psychology and Expletives, talking dirty for your entertainment. When I asked Meg to write something for me I told her that sex sells and to make us laugh. She took it one step further and wrote an amazingly funny and surprisingly insightful piece about sex [Read more...]
Photo Source: Event Prop Hire What do you do when your emotional baggage starts to affect your relationship with your own children? Well, if you’re like me you dump it out all over the internet and hope some homeless guy runs away with half of it. Ok, that metaphor might have gone astray. When I [Read more...]
It’s World Cup time again, and for those of you who don’t know (I’m looking at you, Americans), this is like the Olympics to the other 95% of the world. Soccer, or football, as it is rightly known, is sacred in many countries. Children play the sport in the streets as soon as they can [Read more...]