Cherished Memory #503: You Are Such A @#$%^!
Cherished Memory #503 Scene Setting & Characters: One innocent Mommy, driving from point A, to B, to C, to (sigh)…on a Saturday morning with her then-six-year-old daughter in the car. ACTION! Kid: “Mom, you know Blah Blah, from my class? ’Blah blah says “X@!#XX!” all the time and so does So-and-So.” Mom: “Really? Oh my [...]
Training Bras and Booger Eating
You may remember me writing about kissing kids (and fainting mommies) not too long ago. And now, I know what you’re thinking. How could a training bra possibly be linked to eating boogers. Am I right? Of course I am. I’ll tell you how they’re related. Read on at your own risk. 1:12:00pm Mommy: Driving [...]
What Happens When Your Mommy’s Noisy…and You Tell Her So
Well if you enjoyed my post from a few days ago, “Mommy, Your Butt Just Ate that Cotton,” Cherished Memory number 407, you’ll probably also enjoy Cherished Memory #619 below… Main Characters: 1) One Daughter, age 9 2) One Mommy, age…what? 3) One Orzo puppy, age 8 months The Setting: In the car, right after school. [...]
Mommy Gets Schooled (Guest Post by Author Maggie Lamond Simone)
Hi Everyone: I am so honored today to have a guest post today written by Maggie Lamond Simone. Maggie is the author of the book From Beer to Maternity, which captures the wit and wisdom of her adventurous life as a late-blooming adult, and then wife, and then parent, and through it she shares the [...]
Mommy Musings, Quandaries, and GRRR Moments…
Hi All: The other day, as my daughter was transforming from stinky to sweet and back again, I started thinking about the craziness and the emotional highs and lows of motherhood…which is what led me to this post. Here is a collection of my musings, quandaries and, in authentically-me fashion, GRRR moments…feel free to add [...]
The Dating Misadventures of a Single Mom
It was a gorgeous summer Friday and I was leaving work on time no matter what. I had made plans to meet friends at a trendy bar to hear some local bands show their stuff. My stomach felt that excitement I remembered from my college days – when you just went out, feeling carefree, not [...]
Observations on how the world works, according to our kids…
I got to thinking about all of the cutie pie things my daughter has said to me over the last 6 or 7 years (not that her first year of girly gurples and tweets wasn’t cute, it just wasn’t coherent)….and I thought we should really have a section in the blog to record those tales [...]
Single mom and child showered with fairy dust!
I have just gotten over a week of being sick, sick, sick! (Basically I was as close to the flu as you can be without actually having the satisfaction of saying, “I have the flu”…which is actually not that satisfying…). In any case, a fairy sprinkled fairy dust in our household while I had the [...]
3 Single Mom Traps and How to Avoid Them
1) Always feel like you’re short on time? What happens when you are presented with one more thing to add to your TO DO list? If you are like the single working moms I know, you say something like this in your head: “hmm, I’ll just plan better and squeeze that in between task number [...]
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