Top 10 Hazards Of Being A Mom Blogger

Top 10 Hazards Of Being A Mom Blogger

1. Being called a "mom blogger."
2. Husband thinks you are neglecting him and the kids and makes remarks like "Enough with that blog thing already!"
3. You look at everything in terms of post potential—house catastrophes, male pattern baldness, dead hamsters.
4. Heart palpitations and sweaty palms when you can't come up with an idea for a post.
5. Kids? What kids?
6. Mother-in-law finds out you make jokes about her on the blog and wigs out. Dang! She knows how to read blogs?
7. Friends refuse to tell you things for fear they will turn up online. As if you would EVER tell that Fran is cheating on her husband!!!!!!
8 You pour your heart out in a post and get two comments. And one of them is from your mother-in-law. And she's mad.
9. Potential defamation suits from the kids down the road.
10. You tell me!


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Adventures at BlogHer, part 1

OK, I actually haven't yet had any adventures at the BlogHer conference because it's midnight and I just got here. My flight was delayed four, count them, four hours.

When you have four hours to kill at the airport, you start noticing things like: Women wear some really cheesy clothes. And why would you choose to wear five inch heels to walk around an airport? And...


...for $14.99, you can purchase the world's most ginormous size bag of M&M's. But then you might exceed the plane's weight limit.

So, after a long haul, I arrived at the Sheraton Twin Towers. One thing I've learned over the years from Dave, who's a seasoned business travel and a world-class mooch, is to ask for an upgrade. So I did. And I got one!


How excited am I to sleep in a king-size bed tonight with NO kids kicking me or waking up in the middle of the night to ask for water?!

Very.

I'll keep you posted on what goes down here!

Weekend update

OK, I am not sure what this means, but everyone who won an All The Bunnies book is a Jenn! (I decided to give away my own copy, so there's an extra one). The winners are:

Jenn from We Prayed For One...Blessed With Two

Jenn from Updates on Lewis Jack

Jenn from Jude: The Diary of a Baby and a Stroke

E-mail me your address at Love ThatMax@gmail.com, and I'll get them mailed. Note, I sent out all of your questions to the special needs planner, and will post the responses soon.

We've had a great weekend so far. I'd been sick all week (I didn't tell you but I got the damn flu, it wasn't the worst but it sure wasn't fun) and it was good to get out of the house. We went to the zoo and to the pool. Dave and I also saw Bruno. It was both incredibly offensive and hysterically funny. Be warned, do not see it if you tend to be easily offended. Or even not-so-easily offended!

This Thursday night, I'm going to the Blogher conference in Chicago! I'm excited to meet some other bloggers, pick up some blogging tips and, most of all, have an ENTIRE bed to myself. I'm just so easy to please.