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If you need a laugh this weekend, a time out from all the bad news about the economy, join my friends Nancy Witter and Karen Morgan and I for our own laughter stimulus package, Mama's Night Out, in Pennsylvania:

March 6, 2009
8:00 PM
Majestic Theatre
Gettysburg, PA

March 7, 2009
Sellersville Theater
Sellersville, PA

If you are a Hybrid Mom print subscriber you would have read in our Fall issue that I am expecting baby number 3, rather unexpectedly and unplanned! For those that aren't subscribers, I still want to hear from you. I need to know how each and every mom out there juggling 3 kids and EVERYTHING else we juggle - does it. We are all spread so thin and I had thought that I was as thin as I could be (of course not physically - but mentally)! I am amazed everyday from all of our Hybrid Mom readers that write in and tell us their stories and am inspired by them, which certainly helps fuel me and helps my thinning problem! I have another 18 weeks to go until this peanut comes out - please comment here and give me your uplifting words of wisdom. I need my momtourage now! THANKS!

How about this??  Instead of bailing out Wall Street why not just give the money directly to the American people?!  That's the kind of financial Viagra we could all use right now. Go ahead Mr. Bush, with your bad self, and stimulate my economic package already.  That sounds like a much better idea to me than giving more money to the Wall Streeters who lost it in the first place. 

In my position as the Consulting Group Director for Hybrid Mom Consulting Media group (www.hybridmom.com), I have interesting and rewarding challenges every single day. I am a work at home mom, but I am also responsible to an ever expanding network of other work at home moms who join our organization as consultants, providing freelance work to growing businesses, and our members, entrepreneurial moms who need assistance in promoting their products and services and helping their businesses grow. So, in a nutshell, my work at home work is to help other work at home moms work. And that, my friends, is a lot of work!

At Hybrid Mom, we are trying to hone and fine tune the delicate balance that is life for today's mother. We strive to provide innovative strategies to enrich the way moms work, play and live! The Hybrid Mom staff all work from their respective homes. Ninety nine percent of our members and consultants work from home. We all have children. We all have minds. We all have creativity, talent, gifts and wisdom to share with the world. And, unfortunately, we all have little miniature master manipulators that continue to make us feel guilty about the way we live our lives.

I think we can all agree that nothing builds a summer home for a therapist faster than favoring one child over another......

We have a family friend (let's call her Sara for now) whom we've known for years.  Our parents are friends therefore we see them at holidays and so forth.  She's definitely not a member of my Brooklyn Momtourage.  Let me make that very clear.  Last year, much to our dismay, she, her petulant husband and her two children moved three miles from us in Brooklyn. 

Sara most definitely favors her younger child and caters to that child to the detriment of all others and most importantly the older sibling.  It borders on co-dependency.  It so happens the catered-to child is a male.....who is much like her husband whom she caters to on an outrageous level as well....in fact it's Lifetime Movie Of The Week, forget-the-women's-liberation-movement, can-I-cut-your-meat-for-you??, I'm-not-really-hurt-it's-just-a-little-blood catering status.  The older, much ignored sibling is a sweet, considerate, little girl. 

This has been a topic of discussion for years because we spend every Hanukah/Christmas with them and god forbid the older child receives one gift more than the younger, the younger will throw a fit and the older child will have to give the gift back to Sara who then gives it to charity.  Sara merely has to say to her daughter, "Hand it over you're upsetting your brother," and the girl relinquishes the gift....always to the shock and amazement of everyone.  We all chime in with our annual, "What?!  Are you kidding me?"  But she ignores us.  And when her son throws these fits I don't know who I want to smack more him or her. 

I was up in Maine last week with my show MAMA'S NIGHT OUT (click on the link for a great performance clip). We were invited back to Deer Trees Theatre in Harrison for another sold out show, in fact they had to add 30 seats to accomodate the overflow....I'm bragging I know but I'm so proud of the ultimate momtourage - Mama's Night Out.  I'm really proud of our group and I couldn't be happier to be working with fellow funny moms and great friends Karen Morgan and Nancy Witter.

We have a blast when we're on the road.  First of all, it's usually only for 24 hours so we have to pack in days of partying (get the vodka) into one night.  We stay up late ranting, raving and laughing about the economony, politics, our neighbor's horrible children...till the wee hours of the morning.  I still love chatting with my single friends in the city but there's nothing like relating to fellow moms about motherhood, husbands, balancing career and family.....that's why we all need our own momtourages.  I couldn't be happier with mine.  What's yours like?

Hey there Funny Mom fans, if you want some really good belly laughs this weekend come out to see MAMA'S NIGHT OUT on Saturday, May 3rd, at 8:00PM at the Carlisle Theatre in Harrisburg, PA.  Get an early start to your Mother's Day celebration this year.  

MAMA'S NIGHT OUT is comedy by mothers for everyone so bring your husbands they'll enjoy it too.  MNIO is family friendly comedy but please leave the kids at home!