Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
It’s been a rough couple of weeks at my house. The second half of January saw my husband and I being hit from all sides emotionally, professionally, and physically. I usually muster up the enthusiasm to bounce back up and blaze on, but for the first time in my life, I haven’t had it in [...]
The house looks like someone picked it up and shook it. Deadline after deadline whizzes by my head, each one like a nuclear powered dragonfly armed with missiles. Emails sit unopened, telltale coffee rings adorn the countertop from when I frantically guzzled my almost-completely-cold coffee in one gulp just to get the caffeine in to [...]
I once gave an interview to a writerly friend about sex during pregnancy. I totally forgot about it until the wife of my husband’s work colleague came up to me and told me that she knew all about my sex life, she had read about it while at the doctor’s office. Yowza. But I think [...]
I live in a house with my husband, our five-year-old son, our three-year-old daughter and our four-month old baby and, I must admit, I can’t remember the last time I closed the bathroom door.* Last week on Jezebel, Tracey Moore wrote about bringing her two-year-old daughter into the bathroom with her and even letting her [...]
How is your Dare To Draw challenge going? If you haven’t read about Dare To Draw, The Bad Moms Club Dare Team Dares YOU and your child to Draw one picture every day for the next 30 days. Funds raised by your drawings will help support kids, parents and grandparents who are working to turn the [...]
“I’m thinking about buying an electric breast pump this time around since I had some trouble breastfeeding my first kid. It’s okay to buy a used one, isn’t it?” “Omg, no. I totally breastfed all five of my kids for three years each and I never, ever used a pump.” “Well, you see, I just [...]
The least shocking news of 2012 broke this week, with deep South, deep-fat fryin’ down-home cooking guru Paula Deen admitting that she has type-2 diabetes, something the rags have been dishing on for years. With signature recipes including Southern Fried Chicken, Cheese Biscuits, Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding and Paula’s Fried Butter Balls, as well as [...]
Have you heard about Dare to Draw? The Bad Moms Club Dare Team has taken the challenge and we would love for you to join us raise funds that will help support kids, parents and grandparents who are working to turn the tide of AIDS in Africa. Each day your child draws a picture, we get [...]
Being a photographer, I often read posts and articles on improving my craft, and one suggestion is to participate in a photo challenge. A lot of people to the 365 (or 366, in 2012) challenge, which is a photo a day for a year, and … no thanks. When I worked from home, I may [...]
This story tore my heart out and stomped it in to the living room floor. A 19 year old woman walked in to a Chicago area fire station on Monday carrying a six month old baby. Miserable and wretched, she handed her baby to the firefighters and told them she couldn’t care for her child [...]
Have you heard about — or better yet, joined in on the Dare to Draw? We would love for you to join The Bad Moms Club Dare Team and help us and our children support kids, parents and grandparents who are working to turn the tide of AIDS in Africa. All the details about the campaign and [...]
I had sort of put off writing this post because I hate the perfunctory ‘my baby isn’t a baby anymore and I feel sad’ birthday posts. But, my baby isn’t a baby anymore and I feel sad. My last baby turned six on Christmas Eve and because she is the third I know what six [...]
This Bad Mom has a hard time saying ‘no’ to an awesome dare and the latest one thrown my way is no exception. When the Bad Moms Club was asked to join the Dare to Draw campaign I knew we – me and my 6 year old — could do together because this dare involved one [...]
My family and I are on a ski vacation, less than an hour away from our home. We had discussed going somewhere HOT, but once we crunched the numbers for our family of five to get away, it worked out to one month’s salary. Mine and my husband’s salary combined. After a morning spent debating [...]
Today, my kid starts school. She’s two and a half. And she’s ready. She’s very, very, very ready. She watches and thinks and learns, her little brain working furiously behind her eyes as she stares fixatedly at me whenever I try to thwart her plans for world domination. It’s time. She needs more than I [...]
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