I'm talking to you Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie so listen up. Stop making motherhood look so damn easy. Stop running around in your Uggs and your perfectly couiffed hair-dos because that is not what mothers look like. Real mothers have not showered in days, real mothers pick dried cereal off their sweat pants and think they can get another day or two worth of
I was going to write my annual Bitch About The Cold post but that has been done before and really nothing has changed. Except, I made it 14 more days before I started bitching publicly this year. Before we get into today's rant let me just say that I have always been and will remain on Team Jen. I have an ex husband
When I was a kid* I would ask my parents what they wanted for Christmas and without fail they always told me they wanted the hardest thing to get them. My father would always say "I just want you to be good" and my mother would say "anything". Both answers sucked. At the time the easiest one of those gifts to give would
Last week Kathy, from the Junk Drawer, got all kinds of media attention for her post about the loud Sun Chips bag. She made a video, months ago, about the bag and posted it on her site and YouTube. After a little self promotion the story was picked up by The Wall Street Journal, CNN and The Today Show. All the links are in the
Image via Wikipedia Last month I wrote a post about the worst Mother's Day gifts ever. I thought it only fair that I do the same thing with Father's Day but after talking to a few dads I realized I couldn't come up with five bad Father's Day gifts. It would seem that dads are happy with just about any gift you give them. They
Ever have one of those days (or weeks) when you can't think of anything worth writing about? I'm stuck in one of those right now. It seems everything that even resembles an idea is lame or just too much work. My daughter found a caterpillar last week and it's already built a cocoon but how do you get more than a sentence or two out
I usually mow my lawn on the weekends because that is when my neighbors on both sides of me mow their lawns. I do this because I don't want my lawn to look crappy when their's looks freshly cut. There is a certain rhythm to the neighborhood, lawn mowing is one of those things that is a dance (insert Lawn Mower Dance scene from She's
What do women want? Since time began men have been pulling their hair out trying to answer this question. If men could just figure out what women want their lives would be so much easier and peaceful. Unfortunately most men try to find the answer to this question by asking their buddies, usually single buddies. They never go to the source to find the answer
Why isn't there a book on middle aging? There is a book to explain to us where we come from, what happens during puberty, all sorts of books on when we start having sex, books about what to expect when we are expecting and books about what to expect before we die. Nothing in the middle. There is about 30 to 50 years of uncovered
I did not write this but I wish I had and I wish I had read it prior to Memorial Day weekend 1992. Thinking of having kids? Do this 11 step program first! Lesson 1 1. Go to the grocery store. 2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office. 3. Go home. 4. Pick up the paper. 5. Read it for
