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The World According To Mom
badladies.blogspot.com - 4/3/2009
The World According To Mom
— badladies.blogspot.com — A few months ago, my friend David asked me if I thought that it would be possible to travel around the world via blog. "Like Around The World In 80 Days," he said, "but on the Internet. Around the world in 80 clicks . 80 mom-blogger clicks!" "I don't ... (more) The World According To Mom
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badladies.blogspot.com - 6/10/2009
The Bad Mother Manifesto
— badladies.blogspot.com — There is a spectre haunting the parenting community - the spectre of the Bad Mothe r...* My name is Catherine, and I am a bad mother. I ( mostly ) do not have my tongue in my cheek when I say that. I am a Bad Mother. I am a bad mother according to ... (more) The Bad Mother Manifesto
Comments vote down Chicky Chicky Baby found this 6/10/2009found this
badladies.blogspot.com - 9/2/2008
Lost Boy
— badladies.blogspot.com — His name was William Frederick Hunter, and she only saw him once. Once, from behind the window of the nursery. He was wrapped in a blue blanket, and he was oh so small. They asked her if she wanted to hold him, and she said no. Just as she had in the ... (more) Lost Boy
Comments vote down Suburban Turmoil found this 9/2/2008found this
badladies.blogspot.com - 10/27/2008
Hold The Mustard
— badladies.blogspot.com — I don't know at what point I realized that I was doomed to one of the worst public humiliations of my parenting experience, but it might have been when the elderly lady walked in on Jasper and I in the ladies' restroom at our local Kelsey's restaurant ... (more) Hold The Mustard
1 Comment vote down Motherhood Uncensored found this 10/27/2008found this
badladies.blogspot.com - 3/11/2009
They Shoot Wet Nurses, Don't They?
— badladies.blogspot.com — Her name was Laura. Her name was Laura, and I nursed her baby. We had met, initially, at breakfast and immediately hit it off. We sat down with our coffees and immediately got swept up in a conversation that ran the gamut from the advantages of ... (more) They Shoot Wet Nurses, Don't They?

Comments vote down Queen of Shake Shake found this 3/11/2009found this
Sings The Tune Without The Words
badladies.blogspot.com - 10/25/2008
Sings The Tune Without The Words
— badladies.blogspot.com — It's been four years since my nephew, Tanner, was diagnosed with the condition that will kill him . During that time - which moved slowly at first, the disease not seeming to have taken hold in his little body, until he began growing faster, and it ... (more) Sings The Tune Without The Words

1 Comment vote down Hotfessional found this 10/25/2008found this
Motrin Versus The Moms: When Painkillers Are Attacked, Everybody Loses
badladies.blogspot.com - 11/17/2008
Motrin Versus The Moms: When Painkillers Are Attacked, Everybody Loses
— badladies.blogspot.com — It's possible that you haven't seen or heard about MotrinGate , but I'll wager that if you haven't, it's because you have enough of a life to not be reading blogs or compulsively checking Twitter on a weekend. If you haven't heard about it - and you ... (more) Motrin Versus The Moms: When Painkillers Are Attacked, ...

Comments vote down Marketing Mommy found this 11/17/2008found this
badladies.blogspot.com - 2/12/2009
Who's The Dummy, Mummy?
— badladies.blogspot.com — Rachel Cooke thinks that I'm a dummy . Okay, maybe not me specifically , but women like me. Women who talk or write incessantly about their children and their experience as mothers. Women who, when asked how they're doing, launch into a extended ... (more) Who's The Dummy, Mummy?
Comments vote down Wired For Noise found this 2/12/2009found this
What Does A Body Good
badladies.blogspot.com - 3/5/2009
What Does A Body Good
— badladies.blogspot.com — This me, nine and half months post-partum: In which I reveal my muffin-top, my inability to properly clean mirrors, and the fact that my personal trainer is a Siamese cat. I'm okay with how I look. Sort of. I think. Some days are better than ... (more) What Does A Body Good

Comments vote down Catnip and Coffee found this 3/5/2009found this
badladies.blogspot.com - 9/12/2008
Under The Blanket
— badladies.blogspot.com — It was the kind of thing that would have outraged me, had it happened any other day, any other week. It was the kind of thing that would have had me out of my seat, demanding explanation. It was the kind of thing that I would have written letters ... (more) Under The Blanket
Comments vote down League of Maternal Justice found this 9/12/2008found this
badladies.blogspot.com - 9/19/2008
Forever Young
— badladies.blogspot.com — I've lost count of how many times in the last two and three-quarter years I've heard these words: they grow up so fast. I've heard it a lot. As of today, I've heard it a lot plus one. Today, I heard it again. A neighbor leaned over Jasper as I pushed ... (more) Forever Young
Comments vote down Laundry for Six found this 9/19/2008found this
badladies.blogspot.com - 11/23/2008
Because The Saying 'Where The Sun Don't Shine' Doesn't Apply When You're 3
— badladies.blogspot.com — Me: Why are you naked? Her: Because I need to go to the potty. Me: Why, then, are you just standing on the stairs? Her: Because the toilet makes my bum cold... (turns around to display cold bum) ... and there's a sunbeam here... (bends over and ... (more) Because The Saying 'Where The Sun Don't Shine' Doesn't ...
Comments vote down The Bean Blog found this 11/23/2008found this
The Invisible Boy
badladies.blogspot.com - 1/24/2009
The Invisible Boy
— badladies.blogspot.com — He wants to be invisible , she tells me. When we're out he clings to me and turns his face into my side and it's like he wants the the whole world to look in the other direction, away from him and his weakness and his wheelchair. She sighs. Your ... (more) The Invisible Boy
Comments vote down Hotfessional found this 1/24/2009found this
badladies.blogspot.com - 1/27/2009
The First Cut
— badladies.blogspot.com — thoughtful, funny and sincere. . . (more) The First Cut

Comments vote down peveteaux peveteaux posted 1/27/2009posted this
badladies.blogspot.com - 2/17/2009
The Amazing Survivor Race Challenge: Parenting Edition
— badladies.blogspot.com — Babies are hard on a marriage. It's sort of ironic, really, seeing as babies are so often understood (rightly or wrongly) to represent core bonds of a life partnership, but still: for every measure of centripetal force that they exert upon a ... (more) The Amazing Survivor Race Challenge: Parenting Edition
Comments vote down Marketing Mommy found this 2/17/2009found this
Good Girls (Don't) Wear Underpants
badladies.blogspot.com - 2/25/2009
Good Girls (Don't) Wear Underpants
— badladies.blogspot.com — My daughter is a nudist. She is an unrepentant clothes-doffing, underwear-eschewing, bum-baring, breeze-loving, parts-showing nudist. It's sort of awesome, but also a little disconcerting. She doesn't try to leave the house naked, although she has, ... (more) Good Girls (Don't) Wear Underpants
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badladies.blogspot.com - 9/29/2008
Endymion's Sleep
— badladies.blogspot.com — I have lost count of the numbers of days and nights it's been since I last had more than one hour of sleep at a stretch. Day and night have lost the crisp edges of their distinction: day blurs into night which blurs into day which blurs into night ... (more) Endymion's Sleep
Comments vote down In the Trenches of Mommyhood.... found this 9/29/2008found this
Blood And Tears
badladies.blogspot.com - 10/8/2008
Blood And Tears
— badladies.blogspot.com — Ordinarily, I faint at the sight of blood. Or I freak out. Or both. You would think that I would be all the more the likely to do both when the blood that I'm looking at has drenched the front of my little girl's shirt and puddled in the palms of her ... (more) Blood And Tears
Comments vote down She's Just Another Manic Mommy found this 10/8/2008found this
badladies.blogspot.com - 10/11/2008
Don't Let The Turkeys Get You Down
— badladies.blogspot.com — Today is Canadian Thanksgiving. I will be having sweet potato casserole and stuffing and mashed potatoes with gravy and lots and lots of pie and, also, Ativan, and then will sleep the sleep of the stuffed. And then I will face the week. And it will ... (more) Don't Let The Turkeys Get You Down
Comments vote down She's Just Another Manic Mommy found this 10/11/2008found this
badladies.blogspot.com - 10/30/2008
Mom At Work
— badladies.blogspot.com — You're never more aware of how much drudgery is involved in the work of mothering than when you're doing that work while suffering from a bad cold or flu or some such viral misery as makes your head pound and your lungs ache and your throat burn. You ... (more) Mom At Work

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