The last three or four times I was on vacation, I was pregnant, so I didn’t really care what I weighed or how imperfect my body was while I was at the beach in a bathing suit. But now I’m not pregnant, and I’m heavier than I’d like to be. Twenty years ago, I would […]
Archives for August 2015
A book review for moms like me: Here I Go Again
I used to be a really big reader. Then I had like a thousand kids in less than seven years, and reading a book that was more than twenty pages long whose pages weren’t made out of cardboard wasn’t really possible for me. By the time I made it to the end of the day […]
Another Lesson From North Carolina
You know how your husband will be gone traveling for work or just putting in long hours on the job and he’s never around and you’re feeling like a single parent and you’re exhausted and tired of doing everything yourself and you are just wishing for him to be home so you can have some […]
Dear Angela
Dear Angela, I thought it was time I address you personally. But first, let me catch up any people who are here for the first time… My husband and I are in a financial crisis. We are facing foreclosure on our home. It has been a very difficult few years where, just as it may […]
This is the beach. With kids.
8 a.m. “Mommy! Let’s go! I wanna go! Can we go?” “I just need to clean up a little and pack up our stuff, and then we can go.” 8 – 9:30 a.m. Tell kids to eat all their breakfast because we will not be eating something within the first 60 minutes of arrival at […]
Dear Not Your Average Mom: Have I fucked up my daughter for life?
Last night I received this message from a reader (shared with persmission): Tonight my husband & I had a fight. Non physical & no name calling, just loud & aggressive. This is so out of character for us but we both lost our shit. It was after my 3 year old was put to bed […]