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 [...]
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 [...]
I came from a home where I was spoiled rotten at Christmas. Auntie Kathy would send jammies, the other aunties would send toys and my Mom/Santa would buy so many presents that they came out a good five feet away from the tree. There were Cabbage Patch Kids and Barbie motorhomes and Pac-Man snow saucers, [...]
I had a two-day Professional Development course this week, which meant that I was in a city an hour away from home (learning boring accounting standards, and) in a room full of people I either did not know or had only seen at similar courses in the past. I ended up sitting at lunch with [...]
Barbie. One word that strikes fear in some Bad Moms hearts while for other Bad Moms it brings back a flood of fond memories of dress-up and make-believe. Who knew Barbie could be so complicated and controversial? Oh who am I kidding, she always has been that way. For a toy based on a German [...]
Did you know that as soon as that scalpel cut in to my abdomen to birth my daughter two years ago, her IQ dropped a total of 46 points? It’s true. She was also going to be born with a natural talent for the piano and a deft hand at sculpting, rivaling that of Michelangelo [...]
A story broke this week about a Toronto Daycare Caterer who allegedly lied about food sources, preparation standards, and generally pretty much everything involving the food she provided to 75 different childcare facilities around the Greater Toronto Area. After my initial horror from reading the story, I immediately called my child’s daycare — who provide [...]
I was reading The New Yorker Macleans People.com this weekend and found out that Brad and Angie are rethinking the whole marriage thing, because their kids are asking about it. I could care less whether Brad and Angelina ever get hitched or not, but in the article, Brad talks about how he and Jolie work [...]
I don’t know about you, but at my job, I get 20 paid vacation days and 5 paid sick days per calendar year. If I were still on mat leave or a stay-at-home mom, that number would be reduced drastically – like, to zero. So how many days off should our politicians get? How’d They [...]
A couple of months ago, I wrote this about the stuff that we love and why we love it: Here are some things that Jasper and Emilia love: crayons, art paper, paints, marshmallows, bubble wrap, trains, books, the iPhone, the iPad, video cameras, regular cameras, Toady, me, Kyle, the cats, skateboards, anything Disney, Scotch tape, [...]
I’m a mom, and a blogger, and I have business cards for my blogging activities. Cards are a basic requirement for blogging events and conference unless you like writing out your name and contact information dozens of times on scraps of paper with hopes that the person you give them to will remember who made [...]
There are many idiots in this world. This is something that bothers me greatly but here’s the thing, if the idiots weren’t around to remind us how idiotic thoughts breed like rabbits, we might become complacent. We also could run the risk of finding harmony and equality but you know, that’s too lofty a goal [...]
So by now you’ve heard all about TSA and their newest molestation search techniques in the name of safety. I have yet to have the displeasure of a TSA worker coping a feel and I don’t plan on experiencing anytime soon. Frankly when faced with the choice of being blasted with radiation versus getting molested [...]
You guys, I am a genius. I have solved parenting. I could probably put what I have figured out into a book and sell it for millions and millions of dollars, but instead I am giving it to you. For free. Because what’s the point of a Bad Moms Club if we can’t all share [...]
Toronto October 13 - 15