Cheryl is back with a Worst Mom Christmas Moment (ahh, so festive). So how far do the rest of you go to keep the Santa thing alive? I can safely say I've done all that Cheryl has and more (okay, maybe not more -- this is, after all, just a snapshot into her world). But [...]
Worst Moms Moment: I Swear I am Not a Kidnapper
August 19, 2013 – Posted in: Guilt, Life is Dangerous, Misunderstandings, No Good Deed, Worrying, Worst Mom MomentsWhen I read this Worst Moms Moment from Ginger at Spicey Mom, my heart dropped into my stomach. That's all I'm going to give you -- read for yourselves... ******** I am sure that every parent, from day one, imagines the worst case scenario of losing their child. Sickness, SIDS, accidents, kidnapping, you name it, [...]
Comic Relief: F-ing Shut Up
August 9, 2013 – Posted in: Illustrated by Me, Kid Friends, Mouths of Babes, Okay That's Funny, Worst Mom MomentsSo the kids, Newt and Elfie, are at a little camp this week, and today they came home with a story for which words could not do justice. I've been messing around with an app called Paper by Fifty Three on the iPad (I'm sure all of you cool people already know all about it -- I'm just [...]
If They Could Just Stay Little — How to Make a Memory
July 27, 2013 – Posted in: Elfie, Getting Older, Growing Up, Mouths of Babes, Parenting, Personal Insanity, Sappy Tammy, Worst Mom Moments"I'm having that feeling again." My 9-year-old daughter has her arms wrapped around my waist. One cheek is pressed against my stomach. I've just spent the last hour reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire to her and her brother, and now I'm trying to extricate myself from the area. She's gotten out of bed [...]
Worst Mom Moment: How to Ruin Your Kid’s Life
June 19, 2013 – Posted in: Cleaning, Complaining, Growing Up, Guest Blog, Mouths of Babes, Parenting, Punishments, The Kids are Killing Me, Worst Mom MomentsSo I've been saving this for a rainy day, and boy oh boy is it a good one. I'm stuck in our tent trailer, in Oregon, in the pouring rain. Do not even get me started... Anyway, the great and powerful Kelly DeBie of DeBie Hive sent this, oh, in winter. But you guys know [...]
How I Let My Dog Fall Out of the Car
June 11, 2013 – Posted in: Accidents, Dogs, Injuries, Jasper, Personal Insanity, This Is Supposed to be Fun, Worst Mom MomentsSo today, Jasper fell out of the car. Just to be clear, Jasper isn't our kid -- he's our one-year-old Lab/Finnish Lapphund. And we weren't going very fast. Fortunately, we were driving back from a walk in the woods on a small, paved service road. Jasper likes to stick his head out the window like [...]
Worst Mom Moment: Girl Scout Cookie Hell
February 27, 2013 – Posted in: Mouths of Babes, No Good Deed, Okay That's Funny, Poop, Potty Training, This Is Supposed to be Fun, Worst Mom MomentsMy daughter isn't in Girl Scouts, and I'm not gonna lie -- it's because I'm scared. Over the years, I've heard tale of cookie selling hell, and I feel like my adrenal glands are already shot as is. The last thing I need is people being pissed at me for being a bad Cookie Mom [...]
Worst Mom Moment: When Good Skiing Goes Bad
February 6, 2013 – Posted in: Losin' It, Parenting, This Is Supposed to be Fun, Worst Mom MomentsI'm so psyched (I know, I sound like a teenager from 1985, but I am indeed psyched) to be introducing you to Lindy. She's a mom from my neck of the woods, only she's one of the cool kids who gets to live in Tahoe (there I go with the high school thing again). Apparently [...]
“The Bath” — A Creative Writing Prompt with my Writerly Pals
January 4, 2013 – Posted in: Autism Recovery, Fiction, Newt's Story, Parenting, Personal Insanity, Stuff I Probably Shouldn't be Thinkin', Worst Mom Moments, WritingI'm not sure how I got myself into this, but some "friends" (and I use that term loosely because, honestly, what kind of real friends would subject me to this kind of pain), have included me in a weekly fiction writing group. Seriously though, I'm honored and touched to be part of this. These are [...]
When Good Nurses Go Bad — How Not to Give a Shot
December 19, 2012 – Posted in: Elfie, Injuries, Life is Dangerous, This is Supposed to be Helpful, Worst Mom MomentsI saw this picture in our local paper yesterday. I laughed it off, but think I may have had a bit of a PTSD panic attack. My guess is that this lady either watched Psycho or took some sort of anger management/pumpkin carving class right before she came to work. When Elfie was 4-years-old, I [...]
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