Having kids is great. You get to clean them, feed them, pay for them, and love them for a really long time. And kids are wonderful at building your self-esteem! Take the following stories, for instance: I was giving my 9-year-old son a hug and a kiss as he went to bed. Isn’t it amazing [Read More]
Heard and Seen Over the Weekend
As I mentioned on Friday, my husband had to work most of the weekend which meant I was flying solo with the kids. What can possibly happen when the Experienced Bad Mom is in charge for 3 days? Here are the highlights: Grocery Shopping I had to take the kids with me to do the [Read More]
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Fresh or Frozen? A 9-Year-Old Decides
We were watching a Domino’s pizza ad for their new deep dish pizza. It begins with their CEO, who looks with disgust at a frozen circle of dough. “You wanna know a dirty secret?” he asks. “A lot of pan pizzas start out with frozen dough.” Then the commercial cuts to a Domino’s chef. Who’s [Read More]
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Sewercide
We went to a trampoline place on Black Friday for some fun. One of the trampoline courts was for dodgeball and it listed the rule “No Suicides”. As my friend and I discussed what “No Suicides” meant in regards to Dodgeball, Will spoke up. “I know what suicide is,” he said. “In dodgeball?” I asked. [Read More]
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Kids Hear the Darndest Things
Have you seen Oswald? He’s a blue octopus with his own show on Nick Jr. Sydney was watching an episode recently about Oswald and his friend taking a wagon full of trash to the dump. “Let’s take this to the dump,” Oswald said cheerfully at one point. My 9-year-old son looked up from his DSi [Read More]
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Is that an iPhone 5?
Today’s story is courtesy of my husband. I love it when I’m not alone in my badness! This one’s for you, honey. My husband and son went on a Boy Scout camping trip last weekend. On the trip, they visited the lumberman’s monument. The monument is a “huge bronze memorial to Michigan’s lumbering era [that] [Read More]
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I Think I Know What That Is
On Friday, I shared this picture on my Facebook page: I can’t take credit for it (thankfully!), but I could totally see my 9-year-old doing the same thing on a spelling test. In the same vein, I’m sharing a story from Friday night. It was a beautiful fall evening in Michigan. My family was attending [Read More]
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Brown Braggin’
I appreciate the brave souls who, after reading my lunch post the other day, reached out to me and assured me that I am not the only one who does not send their kids to school with cranberry sauce and brie on cinnamon bread for lunch. (That sandwich concoction was suggested in September’s Parenting magazine.) [Read More]
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Teacher’s Pet?
My son enters 4th grade next Tuesday. In preparation, he filled out the “getting to know you” questionnaire he got from his new teacher. Of course, I had to take a peak. The following questions and answers from the questionnaire are true. Nothing has been changed to add humor — or correct his spelling. — [Read More]
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Welcome Scary Mommy Readers!
Today I’m guest posting about my most embarrassing pregnancy side effect, vulvar varicosities, at ScaryMommy.com. If you’re visiting from Scary Mommy, welcome! My name is Katy and I was christened the “Experienced Bad Mom” by my friend Angie after everything I did wrong with my first child, Will, I started doing wrong with my second [Read More]
