“Vacationing” with kids

I’m really struggling with using the term “vacationing” to describe what my family and I are doing this week. Yes, we are at the beach in a resort area. Yes, we are participating in leisurely activities like swimming, playing on the beach and at the pool, going to bonfires on the beach, playing games and […]

5 Unconventional Sex-Ed Methods

A few weeks ago, after reading an article on Babble that featured a birthing doll, many of you had the same reaction I did…WTF? Not surprisingly, however, I got some feedback from a few of my free spirited Mom readers who were raving about this crocheted nightmare. It really got me thinking though…what was I […]

Professionally Imperfect

If you’re like me you go through great efforts to appear like you’re at least half put together and a functional member of society. In public, if a stranger saw me, and it wasn’t on an occasion where I had an insect in my shirt or an exploding bra, they might even think I was […]

Freaky leaky

Yesterday morning began like most others, and as we packed the kids and the car for a weekend trip to the beach there was no indication that something I had relied on for so many years would decide to fail me today. We stopped for gas and I grabbed a coffee to go for our […]

Hot Wheels

After a big response from my first workout video, I decided to go ahead and keep on with the fitness theme and do another. This latest embarrassment for your viewing pleasure features me and one of the hottest trends in women’s fitness…and I’m not even talking about my pants. Enjoy! So what did you think? […]

11 Inevitable Body Truths (for the Aging-Postpartum-NonExercising-Can’t-Afford-Plastic-Surgery-Mom)

The truth hurts. This is especially try when the truths I speak of are about what my body is now like after three kids and rapidly closing in on my 33rd birthday. Sure I could exercise, but I could also just as easily sit on my couch whining about my girth while shoveling down a […]

Summer Break(down)

Well, we’re here. The last day of school. My oldest son, Joey has officially finished Kindergarten! This comes with mixed emotions. On the one hand I can turn off the alarm. There will be no more hurrying to shower and make myself look like a functional member of society presentable for running kids to school. […]

Be afraid, be very afraid

A phobia is defined as an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something. Key words there being extreme and irrational. I’ve always been prone to make a big deal out of things, and a fair adjective to describe me would be dramatic. So when I say there are things in this world that […]

How to get rid of pet ants

I’ve defeated the pet ants I told you about in my last post. No, I didn’t find a solution to keeping the pests at bay like a new spray or trap, but I did use my superior intellect and cunning to keep Joey from attracting and nurturing pet ants. Some people might call what I’ve […]



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