So much of motherhood is stressful. The baby pooped right as you were ready to head out the door, you forgot to pick up diapers and now your kid is sitting in a roll of paper towels while you run to the store. You snap at your partner because he decided the five minutes before dinnertime was [...]
Category Archives: HappyMom challenge
Challenge #9 – Pamper your feet
I don’t know what it is, but a good foot rub can almost be as good as an orgasm. (I said, almost.)
Afterward you have that same light, tingly sensation flowing throughout your lower half and that inexplicable, “Honey, can I make you some breakfast?” desire. Whenever my husband would give me a footrub (and damnit, [...]
Challenge #8 – Clean out your purse
Welcome to the Happy Mom challenge. For more on this series, click here.
My purse is a mess right now. Like, seriously. I can’t find anything, it takes me more than four seconds to hoist it up on my shoulder because it’s so heavy, but the worst part of all is that I can’t seem to stop [...]
Challenge #7 – Have a happy hour
I found myself in a rut last year, as moms sometimes do.
I would wake up, get my kids dressed, go to work, come home, make dinner, feed my kids, bathe my kids, read stories to my kids, tickle my kids, give my kids goodnight kisses, and then tuck my kids into bed. Then I’d go to [...]
Challenge #6 – Go to bed
Welcome to the #HappyMom challenge. For more information on the challenge, click here.
This is the flip side to yesterday’s challenge of starting the day before the kids wake up.
Today’s challenge is to give yourself permission to go to bed early. And I don’t mean like 11 p.m. early. I mean like put-the-kids-to-bed-and-then-get-your-butt-in-the-bed-too.
I’ve talked to soooo [...]
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