Did you hear about Virginia and their safe haven law being abused when parents of teens dropped their bad teenagers off at an emergency room?
Well, I just read a hilarious blog post on Bern This, You Always Have Options about how Nebraska is willing to take any child for any reason from anywhere.

Is this a repeat mistake? You know, like when the United States and Australia was viewed as the “out-of-sight, out-of-mind” for the criminals and ex-cons of England? Remember how that got totally out of control and before long they were creating their own wild, wild west and …read more

I would probably use far more expletives around my children if my husband didn’t crap his pants every freaking time and correct me as if I am the “naughty” child and he the parent.

Susie-Do lets her kid say “oh shit,” my husband would flip his wig. Somehow her kid knows not to say it in public. Some people are very touchy about cussing or potty mouth.

Sometimes an expletive is just plain called for.

I’ve discovered that my self-censorship in my everyday life has resulted in my behaving as though I have curse-word turrets syndrome at my book club.

Because I can.

It’s like …read more

The last 24 hrs. . . .

ZAAAACK! I needed that cocoa!

Mama, my bum hurts.

Yeah, Cinnamon burns.

Zackary! I MADE that bread. Why would you smoosh your favorite bread in the carpet?

Zacky!! You didn’t eat any of those pills did you? Open your mouth!

Is that yours Zack? Daddy isn’t going to like you taking all his stuff off his shelf.

Didn’t I JUST tell you not to get up there and not to play with vitamins? We must be hard of learning today – you and me both!

A whole bottle of syrup Zack!

The Sharpie on his sister’s furniture was the. last. …read more

“Mrs. Clinton’s recent candidacy was a moment of reckoning for women of her generation, who treated her run as a mirror in which to examine their own lives. With Ms. Palin’s entry into the field, a younger generation of women have picked up that mirror, using her candidacy to address the question of just how demanding a job a mother with such intense family obligations should tackle.”

An interesting story in The New York Times, about what Sarah Palin represents to women: A New Twist in the Debate on Mothers.
Conservative women, who have traditionally criticized women for working, are super-excited about …read more

If you’re a regular reader of Blog Fabulous you’ve likely read a comment left by my friend Rebecca. She’s the lawyer with the progressive husband Brett, also a lawyer. She’s coincidentally the one who recommended Hanky Pank Thongs, which I reviewed today. Hopefully, she took my advice about Hanes mens briefs for post-partum comfort. Steal Brett’s britches!

Well, she gave birth to Anders last week, a boy. But, he had to go back to the hospital for jaundice.

They’re home now. Hopefully for good. He’s a healthy baby boy and I have no idea who much he weighed.

Congratulations Rebecca & Brett! We’ll …read more

I hear mothers talk about how sacrifice is “worth it” for their kids. I especially hear this if mother’s have given up something valuable – economic independence, dreams, ambitions, time, goals, careers, autonomy, hobbies, interests, etc.
When did I – as a human being – lose my inherent value? Was it when I stopped being the child so worthy of my mother’s sacrifice? Or was it when I became the mother, expected to sacrifice everything for my children, and then say, “it’s worth it?” Or was it when I turned 18 and stopped being a legal child?
I’m just …read more

Dear Kate Gosselin,

I’m a huge fan (I watch for you, not for the kids) and I think you really should be Time’s Person of the Year, as I suggested and you should win an Emmy because you’re have about the only show on TV I can still watch with my kids.

After the most recent cupcake episode where you very tensely said you didn’t want the kids to put the frosting on so they wouldn’t get dirty . . . well, I want to offer you a little advice about dirty kids. Not because I think you should be perfect – …read more

I was at a social event the other day and there was a New Mommy.

Anther woman, who’s youngest child is around 11 or so, says to New Mommy as she puts a itty-bitty blankie over the infant’s legs, You know you’re not supposed to keep them too warm, and she turned to me with a knowing grin and WINKED.

There was this moment when I thought, OMG! Is she screwing with New Mommy for FUN?

You know as a new mother it doesn’t matter where you go or who you surround yourself with, there are more experienced mothers there who will …read more

In the same vein as the Normal Breasts Gallery, which I wrote about earlier this week on both Blog Fabulous and Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me, we have The Shape of a Mother.

Both galleries are beautiful and artful acts of passive resistance to the media message “You’re not good enough.”

Real mothers have boldly photographed their own bodies and posted them on the website to document what mothers’ bodies really look like. They also share how they feel about these new Mommy Bodies.

This new type of media is revolutionary because it bonds women together in a way that’s difficult …read more

I’m in the middle of FEMININE MISTAKE, THE: ARE WE GIVING UP TOO MUCH?
Leslie Bennetts, the author brings up the idea that, as she puts is, motherhood is a Temp Job.
Being a mom is a temp job, and if you take that temp job and become completely dependent on your spouse, that makes you so vulnerable,” says Sylvia Law on page 100. The odds that your spouse will die or fall in love with a younger woman or have a midlife crisis are pretty good. Of course you can’t depend on a guy – just read the divorce statistics.
Motherhood is …read more