We have all heard someone say it. The sarcastic, “mother of the year,” tossed in after an account of some mishap that led to a kid-tastrophe. Or maybe…
It is a hard thing for a lot of moms to admit out loud, but let’s be honest, shall we? We all have a favourite child. This may…
I recently took several middle school boys to the beach for a week. It was seven days full of complete grossness and insanity mixed with nonstop amusement. The…
This week one of my sons had an outpatient surgical procedure at a hospital. Over the course of the next four hours I must have been referred to directly as…
I was recently rearranging junk organizing the master bedroom closet that I share with my husband when I came across it. It was wedged between a Mardi Gras themed…
Today was a day. Today was one of THOSE days. One of those days that make you walk out of your baby chamber (house…), pause, take a very…
If the first year of motherhood is “tough,” the first few weeks of motherhood are fucking impossible. Between the sleep deprivation, leaky breasts, afterbirth, and lists of…
We decided to take the kids to a baseball game. Because this is ‘Merica and that’s what we’re supposed to do. Except I forgot I dislike baseball. And…
When I was pregnant, my doctor asked me if I planned to breastfeed. I thought about it for a few seconds and replied that I planned to try.…
The day after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968, a schoolteacher from Riceville, Iowa named Jane Elliot conducted an experiment with her third grade students. In an…