In the last few weeks I have received many requests from companies asking me to tell my faithful readers about their products. I’ve been asked to write about diapers, make-up, facial tissue, and cell phones. Somewhere along the line, in the last few weeks apparently, Redhead Ranting has become a Mommy Blog.

It’s not.

I’ll repeat that.

I am not a Mommy Blogger. In fact when I had business cards printed this week that is exactly what I printed on the back side of the card. Not A Mommy Blog.

Yes, I talk about my kids but that doesn’t make me a mommy blogger. I found myself somewhat offended by this new status.

I have no problem writing about things I like and certainly no problem at all writing about things I don’t like. I’m not going to write about diapers however. We’ve been out of diapers for at least four years.

Not that I am against writing about these products but for cryin’ out loud send me some of the product or click on my advertising page and pay me to schlep your product.

Just last week I talked about the iPad, the Pope and the winter Olympics. So I have no trouble writing about brand name things. However, if you want to request that I say something specific about your product, rather than make fun of it, it would behoove the publicly traded companies to compensate me for my time and my real estate. I’d be really interested in blogging about a Mercedes, I don’t care what class.

I’ve worked really hard to get people to my blog, I am hardly going to send them to another website without getting paid for it.

As for being a mommy blog, if I ever refer to my kids as DD or DS, or start calling my ex husbands Dex#1 or #2 would someone please shoot me and put me, and my readers, out of my misery?