If you lurk around this blog or our Facebook page, no doubt you've seen Kelly DeBie of DeBie Hive. When you get into her blog (which you should), you'll quickly find out that she and her family should have a punch card for the emergency room. In this Worst Mom Moment, unfortunately it's the mighty Kelly herself [...]
What Lies Beneath — Secrets of the Demon Child!
September 12, 2011 – Posted in: Food, Guilt, Illness, Punishments, Worst Mom MomentsMeet Rebecca from Just Another Blog. She says her now-6-year-old daughter doesn't appear to be scarred from this event. But will any of us really know what we've done until our kids hit their 20's and start ratting us out in therapy? Back when my daughter was only 2 1/2 years old, we ventured out [...]
Buck Up Little Skier
August 23, 2011 – Posted in: Elfie, Guilt, Illness, Sports, The Great Outdoors, This Is Supposed to be Fun, Worst Mom Giveaways, Worst Mom MomentsAs we approach the First Anniversary of World's Worst Moms, I thought it would be fun to throw in one of my own bad mother moments. Enjoy the pain.And if you haven't entered the Anniversary Giveaway Extravaganza yet, then get your butt over to the previous post before midnight on August 24th. Someone's going to [...]
The Girl who Cried Pancakes
June 3, 2011 – Posted in: Guilt, Illness, Lying, Puke, School, Worst Mom MomentsPhoto by Sue BauzysFor Kelly DeBie, who blogs at DeBie Hive, the title of World's Worst Mom isn't good enough. She's gone intergalactic. It's like the Miss Universe beauty pageant -- reigning supreme on just earth is not enough. But has anyone ever thought about what might pass for pretty 4,000 light years away? And [...]
Something to Believe In
March 7, 2011 – Posted in: Bright Side of Life, Chronic Pain, Complaining, Depression, Elfie, Family, Illness, Mouths of Babes, Newt, Personal Insanity, Sappy TammySo I've been sick for about ten days with some killer, government-created, genetically-modified supervirus that strolled over to my microbiology beach and kicked protoplasm in the face of my flu shot. To say this is getting me down would be an understatement. Those scenes from Beaches with Barbara Hershey lying around the house, barely able [...]
Arsenic and Old Face
February 28, 2011 – Posted in: Bright Side of Life, Cleaning, Complaining, Dogs, Family, Getting Older, Grown-up Friends, Illness, Momless, Personal InsanitySo today's my birthday. I'm 42. And I've been sick as a dog for four days.I'm trying to teeter toward falling off the happy side of this cliff. As I always tell my kids when they point out an alarmingly old person, "It's better than the alternative." So today I just keep telling myself, as [...]
G’day Wusses
February 26, 2011 – Posted in: Chronic Pain, Complaining, First World Problems, Illness, Nevada, Parenting, Personal Insanity, School, TravelSo, I'm sick. Not dying with the flu or even puking sick, but up at 3 a.m. because I can't really swallow or sleep sick. Which is great for writing. Not so good for anything else.I'm not a very good sick person. I sort of feel like I deal with enough physical irritation on a [...]
Once A Smartass. . .
September 2, 2010 – Posted in: Illness, Worst Mom MomentsThis set of vignettes comes to us from Squidnice, whom I'm sure we'll be hearing from often because she's the mother of two teenaged girls. I should note that when her youngest heard about the request, she actually said, “Why are you going to do that? You’re not that bad of a mom.” After reading [...]
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