Manic Motherhood Blog

You know from time to time I get to use this blog to perform a great public service. Okay, maybe not a great public service, but a public service nonetheless. And what, you may ask is this public service I’m about to perform?

I’m about to tell you all about the…

A strange thing happened to me the other day. I opened my mailbox and discovered that aliens had taken over. Trust me, they’re in your mailbox too. In fact, you’ve probably already brought the aliens into your home—and you may have already recycled them.

Every fall, children across the planet do one thing: try out for sports teams. And once those kids make the team, ordinary parents, the kind that help with homework, kiss boo-boos, give advice to the lovelorn and in general are pretty nice people, morph into that dreaded creature known to…

So my wedding anniversary is coming up and that always makes me reflect on our marriage. I take an afternoon and think about what we’ve done in the previous year to keep the romance alive and what we should do in the coming year to preserve the beauty of our love forever. And then I…

I was once a healthy adult. Oh, sure, once in a great while I’d get a cold or the flu. But back in the day, it was rare for me to be under the weather. So rare, in fact, that I usually had to feign illness just to use up my sick days.

And then I…

I don’t know about you, but I have sweatshirt issues. Specifically, I have a child who owns several sweatshirts—all of which have disappeared. Now I ask you—where the heck are they? Are they on vacation? Is there a special “sweatshirt-only” resort in the South Pacific where all…

As a mom, I spend a lot of time answering questions on everything from “boogers are green—why don’t they count as a veggie” to “where do babies come from?” And frankly, I prefer to answer questions about boogers.

I didn’t think I’d be that way. I figured I was…