This post written by Sarah Cottrell was originally published by Scary Mommy and can be found here. Last night, I poured a stupidly hot bath, grabbed a new book and a glass of wine, slathered on a mud mask and jumped into six blissful minutes of me time before a child screamed for me from clear across […]
My mother-in-law once told me that trying to clean a house as a mother is like trying to clean in a hurricane: it’s kind of pointless. She was right. Cleaning my house these days requires several things: deep reserves of patience, bucket loads of energy, a severely short term memory (to instantly forget the frustration […]
[Tweet “The most honest babysitter checklist you will ever need”] I have never hired a babysitter. Occasionally, I will plead insanity and convince my mother-in-law to take my children for a few hours so that I can drag my poor exhausted husband out for a date night. This is a rare event for a variety […]
[Tweet “10 things to do in belfast, maine”] As a contributor to Scary Mommy, I write a lot about what it’s like to be a stay-at-home-mom in Maine. So when the editor asked me to consider writing up a piece on a local Maine town that could be included in their fabulous Travel Guide section […]
