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"Don't wish your days away."

"Don't wish your days away."

I was cleaning bottles and pump attachments in 2016 for the zillionth time. She was washing dishes. I was overtired, cranky, over-burdened with the minute annoying tasks of parenting a baby, completely unable to crack a smile at the time, she was being patient, wise, and non-judgemental. Because that's who she was, even when it was really hard and people really sucked. And as I finished what I was doing I said "ugh, I can't wait until this craziness is over, constantly pumpin

Share your story, grow with that vibe, that is how you’ll attract your tribe!

Share your story, grow with that vibe, that is how you’ll attract your tribe!

(My daughter is just slowly growing out of Dr. Seuss so cheesy rhymes come all too naturally, hahaha!) But seriously, if you’re on the spectrum of extroverted like I am, this mantra (or message behind it) saved my life when I became a new mom of 1, and then glaringly necessary when I became a new mom of 2 (cuz honestly its a whole new ball game with each additional blessing). When I was sinking and felt like someone was plugging the straw I was trying to breath from, I suppos

Me before him

Me before him

My husband often asks me, where I think I would be now if we never met. I know exactly - you're probably familiar with the show Sex in the City? I'd be Samantha Jones. He laughs when I say this but it's the truth. Before I met the hubby, I was done with men. And I don't mean done as a result of a bad break up (which I'd been through), or done playing the games (which I'd played), or done because I was emotionally spent (I wasn't), I'd just gotten to point in my life where I w

Are you about to lose your mind?

Are you about to lose your mind?

**I wrote this post over a year ago, but I still read it once and a while to remind myself of the message. Before a vacation with my hubby sans-children that I so badly needed, I was coming to the end of my rope sanity-wise. Between birthing my second babes in January (then promptly going back to work about one minute later), dealing with some very crazy post-birth health issues, having some more health issues in the fall, losing one of the most important women in my life, mo

I was ok...until I wasn't

I was ok...until I wasn't

Just over 6 months ago, we welcomed sweet little miss L into our family. She is a spitting image of me, and she looks so much like my Mom’s side of the family, especially my Nan. I had a really close and special relationship with my Nan, so seeing some of her in my daughter is amazing. It’s been incredible watching her grow and change so much over the past few months. She has completed our family, and I can’t imagine our life without her in it. For the first two weeks followi

My advice (for what it's worth)

My advice (for what it's worth)

My heart goes out to all of the new mamas in today’s world. Thanks to technology, there is just so much information readily available to expectant and new mothers and it all feels like it’s just too much. On one hand, the power of technology is great because we can all be more aware and more educated and are better able to self-advocate, but on the other hand, it can become an information overload. Everywhere you look you are bombarded with “how to”s and “what not to do’s”

Am I pregnant? Or just bloated and hangry?

Am I pregnant? Or just bloated and hangry?

As a few of my friends start the journey to motherhood and are trying to conceive or just have, the topic of “signs and symptoms of pregnancy” inevitably comes up. (So no dear readers, this mama isn't preggo for the third time! Although that would be interesting...) Here’s a list from babycenter.com of some pregnancy symptoms, I revisited for fun: Food aversions Mood swings Abdominal bloating Frequent urination Fatigue Sore breasts Light bleeding or spotting Nausea A missed p

The Bitter and the Sweet

The Bitter and the Sweet

I am a proud Military spouse, I am an adoptive parent, I am an infertility survivor, I am a 3x Gestational Surrogate, and this is my story…………. My journey to motherhood began in 2002, the year my husband and I were married. Right after our wedding we stop all prevention and started down a long and bumpy road. After six years of tracking cycles, taking temps, ultrasounds, medication, and intervention, we come to a cross roads. In August 2007, my husband received his first post

Embrace, don't Erase

Embrace, don't Erase

When you’re raising a high needs infant and toddler it’s so easy to feel caught up in all of the ways they make you feel. Tired, wait...exhausted, strained, stretched, tried, tested, angry, and frayed! All of it wrapped up in one. For the longest time I tried to understand what we were doing wrong to cause him to be so difficult but I have come to terms with that. There is nothing to judge, I feel no more shame for ‘making’ him the way he is. This is simply him and I have com

Bummed out

Bummed out

Is it just me, or have weekends gotten shorter?? I’ve been feeling pretty down in the dumps lately and I’m having trouble shaking it. I’ve been back to work for two weeks and my life has reached a new level of crazy town. It’s not bad. It’s not like we’ve had any major catastrophes. The kids all seem to be happy and adjusting well and, to be honest, barely even notice that I’m not around as often as I used to be. I, on the other hand, feel like I’m not doing a very good job,

Things new mommas need to know (that no one will tell you!)

Your bladder is going to be in seriously bad shape…if that baby comes out your vag…don’t be hard on yourself about it. It’s going to happen. Two days after I had my daughter my husband starting recounting my birth stories and was taking some liberties with the material. Well it was funny shit and I realized my bladder was a fucking mess when a 2 foot perimeter was saturated in piss and there was not a damn thing I could do about it…except grab for my newborn daughters spare b

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding

If you’re a mama reading this, you probably fit in to one of two categories; you had a wonderful experience with breastfeeding and you were sad when you had to wean your last baby off of the boob, or you had a horrible experience with breastfeeding and never want to think about another baby coming close to your boob again. I consider myself very lucky because I have actually experienced both of these polarized feelings towards breastfeeding and so I can understand and relate

The Mother of all New Year's Resolutions

The Mother of all New Year's Resolutions

It’s the incredible thing about the end of the year and this inevitable hopefulness that goes along with the seemingly blank slate that a brand new year brings. I’ve been that person who usually has the same goals come 01.01.__ they usually sound something like, eat healthier, get in better shape blah blah blah. I’ve taken some notes from great things I’ve read and heard this year from friends and it’s helped me to nail down what I’d like to achieve this year. Number 1 – I’d

Shameless

How many times have we heard a woman say “oh, I’ve given birth, I have no shame.” It’s true, right? I mean really, once a person has gotten thatclose to your vagina and helped a human, or just watched a human come out of it, there really is nothing else left to the imagination right? No. There really is nothing else that could put you out of your comfort zone anymore. So under the umbrella of this topic I have two stories that brought me personally WAY out of my comfort zone

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The little things

The little things

I have been feeling a little bummed the last couple of weeks. This happens sometimes with life. Both my kids were sick and so were us parents over the holidays on separate occasions, and the Christmas holidays is the week of the year that I really have “off”, so spending it just trying to get everyone healthy again was a bit of a bummer. One of my boys is going through the “no” stage with me, and it’s lonely over here with the mom guilt: guilt about yelling, guilt about bedti

Pregnancy Loss

Pregnancy Loss

Sadly, it seems like most women I know have had a pregnancy loss – whether early miscarriage, late miscarriage, or a loss at full-term. It seems to be something that happens far too often these days. Or maybe we’re just talking about it more. Before I had my daughter C, I wasn’t sure about wanting children…so when I got pregnant on the first attempt, I was in complete shock. After about 6 weeks, just when I was getting comfortable with the idea of being pregnant, I had a m

Find your people

Find your people

I love making new “mom friends” – aka other moms with kids around the same age as yours, that you just click with and can totally be yourself around. Calling it “mom friends” sounds a bit funny, I realize. I have one friend who laughs at me every time I use this phrase. When my daughter C was young, I used this term a lot to refer to new friends that I had met. Nowadays, it’s usually just called a “friend”. I digress. I’ve written a few other blog posts related to normal

Not to toot our own horn's or anything!

Not to toot our own horn's or anything!

So it’s Sunday afternoon, one son is with his grandpa and the other is asleep. This means I have sometime to reflect on Bad Moms Canada: what it is, what it was, and what it can become. When the blog was first born, the Bad Moms team had no idea of the reach it would have. Pre-blog, I remember nervously sending out an invite to my mom pals saying “hey, you wanna be part of a blog?” knowing full well that I did NOT have the time to run it on my own, and needed a big commitment

10 Tips for road tripping with the kiddos

10 Tips for road tripping with the kiddos

Yesterday I packed up kid 1 and kid 2 and headed to my parents for a working 2-night vacation while they visited with the grandfolk. Me, toddler, and baby piled into the car for the 3-hour drive and while it definitely was not my first rodeo, it was my first long drive with both ya-hoos since my youngest started to interact with my eldest (1 and 3 years old respectively). That’s the inside of my car. Remnants of the trip: used tissue, cap of a bottle, DVD case, makeup and cof

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