The Mother Hood
The barren apocalyptic wasteland where I reside.
Parenting, step-parenting, co-parenting with a difficult ex, and the specific kind of exhaustion that comes with being the mother who does the work while nobody's watching. This category is not always easy reading, but it's always real.-
Vice Device
Stayed up too late reading, nearly missed the school bus, and sent my kid off without breakfast. The motherhood guilt of failures you cause yourself.
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I Need a Vacation from Their Summer Vacation
I may need a vacation from my kids and their Summer vacation.
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Mistaken Identity
As a new stay at home mother, late in the game, with kids that are of school age, it is not something that I have eased into. If anything, I am resisting the title due to the two types of SAHMs that seem to live in my area. The first faction are the pampered, college educated, apparently useless wives of men who make more than enough money to support their family. Their affluent lifestyle affords them big homes in a closed community, BMW SUV’s to shuttle their 2.5 children from soccer to dance, from dance to karate, then lastly to the tutoring service. They take yoga classes during the day,…
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RSA (aka Reluctant Step-Parents Anonymous)
I always said I would never date anyone who had been previously married, and although that one was somewhat negotiable, I thought I was totally firm about children from a previous relationship.
