Filed under: entertainment | Tags: book, Brett Paesel, Mommies Who Drink, motherhood
So I just finished this amazing book called Mommies Who Drink. It may be a little extreme for some of the ’super moms’ out there but it was right up my alley. I laughed out loud at several parts throughout the book. One can tell how into a book I am by how quickly I finished it. While raising my son, working part time, and dealing with a myriad of other things, I finished this book in under a week. I intend to quote a few passages from the book in the next several weeks, maybe so I can just remember the best parts without re reading the book.
I would highly recommend this book to any mother out there-I think the level of enjoyment that a non-mother would get out of it cannot compare to being a mother and reading this. It’s a very real account of motherhood, extremely enjoyable
Filed under: family, life, son | Tags: books, judging, Momzilla, motherhood, reading
I just finished reading Momzillas and enjoyed it quite a bit. I don’t have to deal with such uber moms on a regular basis but know how they can be. My favorite quote (however insightful it may be) was:
You can run but you can’t hide. Momzillas are everywhere. Some might compete about being thin, or having better dressed kids, but others compete about being cooler or a better breast feeder.
Ever since having E, I feel that I have judged other mothers less. Prior to his birth, I would always think, sometimes even say, all the things that I wouldn’t do that I had seen other mothers doing. After having E, I began to understand that you do what you must to get by and can see how mothers would do things that didn’t seem to make sense. I wish that I could say that with that realization I no longer judge. What?! Me no longer judging people? Something world changing would have to happen for me to stop judging, but I can say that I now judge mothers a whole lot less than I used to!
I guess the title of this post was to reflect on some mothers and the importance of image. I guess having a Bugaboo stroller is the ultimate waste for me to imagine. Don’t get me wrong-if I were given a Bugaboo, I would use it, and probably enjoy it. But I cannot even fathom spending almost 10 Benjamin’s on a stroller. Maybe because we don’t own a house yet, maybe because I’m all about the bargain hunting, but to spend such a large sum of money on a stroller is something I can never understand.
And apparently I did pretty well with the NBA teams-I missed only 6, not bad, not bad!
