From the category archives:

Rant

You may already be at 50/50

September 25, 2009

In a fit of “I want to get to 50/50 and have a perfectly balanced life in which I work 30 hours a week, my husband works 30 hours a week, and we’re totally sharing raising the kids and maintaining the house” I ordered Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by [...]

Tip #17: How not to bore your friends on social networks

September 23, 2009

Those kids. They say and do the darndest things. But if you publish notes about all of them as your Facebook or Twitter statuses, well, {yawn}. Good etiquette online and in real life requires recognition of a mixed company situation. Listen up, fellow breeders: you must embrace a new definition of mixed company: Parents and [...]

Celebrity Moms – They’re Not Just Like Us: Breastfeeding Edition

September 18, 2009

In the beginning, Whit and I both struggled a fair amount with breastfeeding before getting into the groove. We were told that if it hurt, we must be doing it wrong. Yeah yeah whatever. Now we believe that in the first few weeks, it hurts a fair amount even if you’re doing it right. But [...]

Celebrity Moms – They’re Not Just Like Us: Demi Moore Edition

July 30, 2009

They have matching mother-daughter mermaid like hair that is tamed by professionals. Here Demi Moore is shown with her daughter, Rumer (I think) Tallulah (thanks Stephanie!), sporting some very natural-looking hair that took hours to shape. I have crazy curly, frizzy hair that is unwashed and unkempt. If I’m extremely lucky, it will spontaneously twirl [...]

Frustrations of a working mom with sick kids

May 26, 2009

We made it through the Winter like champs. The boys didn’t get sick, I worked my part-time hours. Life as a working mom was as good as it gets (And by “good” I mean that I worked 25 to 30 hours outside of the home for a paying job where people say nice things once [...]

“Crowding out” or how I lost my baby fat finally!

April 14, 2009

Hey ladies (dudes, please look away), I lost 9 pounds and two inches from my waist in four months. And I’m not only proud of myself, I want to tell you exactly how I did it and then graph it for you. But first… let me remind you that this is not a site to [...]

The least relaxing massage ever

March 28, 2009

I had a massage today, one that I had planned for several weeks. After torturing myself on The South Beach Diet for 2 weeks, and then semi-torturing myself on a modified version of the diet for 2 more weeks, I had earned myself a reward. I look awesome, by the way, weighing in at my [...]

31 daily goals or one honking resolution?

January 1, 2009

Asha from Parenthacks.com asked this seemingly innocuous question via twitter (she’s @parenthacks if you want to follow her) yesterday: What if, instead of unrealistic resolutions, for Jan 09, we set 31 daily goals, 4 weekly goals, and 1 monthly goal? I already loved her, but this idea blew my mind. I was a little drunk [...]

Will you buy used gifts?

December 11, 2008

Just when I was planning to continue my series about shopping locally and buying used gifts, Angie beat me to it with her “will you buy used gifts?” post on BabyCheapskate. Well, thanks Angie! For large gifts and for small people, the consensus seems to be that it’s ok to shop on EBay, Craigs List, [...]

No on 8 – a Rookie Moms-endorsed vote

November 3, 2008

The purpose of this post to cheer for some folks and inspire you to vote along with us: 1- Isobel is a friend from my mom’s group, married to her partner Angela and raising a 4-year old daughter, who just got published on The Huffington Post today: For The Fourth Time, Yes I Do 2- [...]

Blogging BlogHer bloginess

July 12, 2008

Dear friends, We Rookie Moms try not to blog about blogging because we believe that our readers are more likely to be fellow mamas, not fellow bloggers, but since there are definitely a handful of savvy bloggers reading our site, I want to address an issue some of us may be facing this week. This [...]

Fashion Don’t: Fake High Heel Shoes For Babies

July 2, 2008

I have a very long and diverse list of blogs I slog through each morning looking for content, so I see strange unholy things on the internet all the time. However, this is the only thing in recent memory that actually, literally, made me gasp aloud in horror. These are soft faux leopard-print high heels [...]

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →