I think you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who thinks that I'm a prude. Even writing the phrase "hard pressed" makes me giggle at all the dirty jokes that could turn into. I have had jobs where knowing when and how to drop the "f bomb" was considered a core...
Recently the online parenting magazine Babble ran an article titled “Mom Confessions: I Chose Between My Kid and …” The article featured six mothers and one father discussing a crucial decision they made between going with their kids’ needs and another need (career,...
A friend of mine writes a blog called, Frugalista about extreme coupon clipping and other great money saving ideas. Last week she ran a contest and you could get extra entries by blogging about the money-saving activity she proposed. I never got around to entering,...
So often when we try to give advice we actually wind up spitting out truisms. More often than not though, these truisms fall on deaf ears because, at some level we all know that they aren’t actually true. 1.There’s No “I” in Team OK, technically, this is true, there...
I was watching Oprah at the gym today and she gave a new house to a family. The mom in the family had lost both arms and legs shortly after giving birth to her second child, the dad had just been laid off. I cried, but I was also a little annoyed. I was annoyed for...
I'm not a mommy blogger. I'm a mom, and I work on a blog for a living (it's a wedding blog). And I guess now I have my own personal blog, which you're reading. But still, I don't plan on blogging about my kids or my family. Don't get me wrong, I love them and they're...