“Today being a special, celebratory event for my munchkins, I probably could have (and maybe should have) dressed up a bit, or at least not looked so wrecked. But, I didn’t.”
‘Pardon my smell. This is how I attended my kids’ end-of-the-year school performance. Like a sweaty, hot mess.’
‘If people had hearts like dogs, we would be better humans.’
“We would take up space without guilt. We would love our people unconditionally. We would find and fill empty spaces in rooms and hearts. We would offer up nonjudgmental support.”
‘My 7-year-old daughter asked me to snuggle. ‘I can’t. Someone has to clean up dinner, and APPARENTLY that someone is me,’ I told her, quite matter of factly.’
“As I walked back in from handling the garbage, I overheard the conversation between my daughter and husband. ‘Mom won’t sit down.’ Those four words made me want to cry, and also irritated me.”
‘You say ‘Dance Mom’ like it’s a bad thing.’
“I couldn’t feel more grateful for what the art of dance has done for my daughter.”
‘We are forgetting about our boys and that’s not OK.’
“Article after article is about raising daughters, not sons. And, when I do come across an essay on raising sons, it’s about how and why we need to raise our boys with particular values for the sake of the females and daughters of the world. This is something I’m not entirely on board with.”
‘My son broke his arm yesterday, near his wrist. I am to blame. I told him he was fine. I lied.’
“‘BAM,’ ‘CRASH,’ he hit the ground. He hit the ground hard. I ‘got on him’ verbally for crying and being too dramatic.”
‘My daughter is my best friend, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.’
“I’m well aware that many parenting experts and the majority of the general public think it not wise to be your child’s friend. ‘You are their parent, not their friend,’ they say. What do I tell them? Nothing, because I don’t need them to approve of my parenting decisions.”
‘I like Mama’s milk and I cannot lie!’ Mom’s HILARIOUS take on ‘Baby Got Back’ is the breastfeeding anthem we all need
“My baby friends tried to warn me, but that milk you got makes (me so thirsty), ooh, you’ve got some smooth skin, you say you wanna fit in your old jeans?, Well, use me, use me, ’cause I’m breastfeedin’ groupie!”
‘It’s been a long day. She doesn’t feel good. She is exhausted. And, do you know what she needs from you? She needs you to HUG HER.’
“It is not lost on me that, for you, it has been a long day too. But, you asked for this. You wanted this. You must have known this is what it would be like. So, why are you complaining?”
‘I may carry the mental load, but YOU carry ME. That’s a realization I came to today.’
“Her kids are always so dirty; does she even bath them? Wow. She’s put on a few pounds. She looks like a mess; do you think she’s okay?”
