Working Mommy Wednesday

 


Share a blog or website that you’ve found meaningful and rewarding to visit (if it's Pinterest please share why this has become such a raging fad).

I don't know if it's meaningful, but there is one blog that makes me laugh every single time I visit.


http://themeanestmom.blogspot.com/

This thing is really funny, and probably the most normal-sounding mom stories on the Internet.

As for Pinterest, I really like looking at the pins of my friends. Then I pin things, but never go back to look at them. Maybe someday I will use it more/better.

Crying

What was the last thing your child cried about? Write a blog post about the problem in the voice of your child.






I don't know if it's the age in her life, or if she is just a teenager in a 4-year old's body, but my dear Anne Marie cries ALL THE TIME. Sometimes, it's totally legitimate:

From Emily Juggles

Other times, like this morning, it's not so much.Thomas was feeling particularly grumpy, and so he shouted, "SISTER, YOU ARE NOT IN THE CAR!"
I would like to write it from her perspective, as the prompt requests, but I have absolutely no insight into the 4-year old psyche. She knows her brother is sometimes a 2-year old ball of stark raving mad. Why does she care if he says she's not in the car? I will never know.

Working Mommy Wednesday

How do you carve out personal time for yourself?

The short answer is, I don't sleep. My kids usually aren't asleep until 10- by then, I want to do more, but what I end up doing is watching TV and checking e-mail, then sitting in a coma until about midnight or so, then collapsing until work. It's pretty lame, really.

Any ideas?

Working Mommy Wednesday- Holidays

The last quarter of the year is full of amazing holidays.  What is your favorite?  Halloween, Thanksgiving, Talk Like a Pirate Day or Christmas?

We love them all!  Anne Marie and I are so alike in that respect. Every time she hears an event advertised on the radio, the first thing out of her mouth is "Can we go?" She (and I) doesn't want to miss a thing. I'm a little crazy about it. It kind of freaks me out that I might not be able to take the kids to both our downtown trick-or-treat and the zoo trick or treat. And, although I complain about the fact that Anne Marie's t-ball and soccer land on the same night, I also get a small, min-rush from having to rush to make both.


For photos, however, Halloween beats out Christmas and Thanksgiving, hands-down. Thanksgiving always means pictures of people eating, and Christmas is often in pajamas with wild hair sitting near a tree. Here's some funny ones from last year:

From Halloween 2010

A duck and a butterfly. Here's Anne Marie, showing off her wings.

From Halloween 2010