Results tagged “momtourage” from Momtourage: Blogger Knows Best

 

  Need a time out from the kids and a few laughs, bring yourself and your girlfriends to see Mama's Night Out at the Hannaford Auditorium, Abromson Center, Portland, Maine on Friday, November 6th at 8:00pm.  Not only will you have a great time but you'll feel even better knowing your ticket purchase goes to support the Cancer Community Center of Maine.  We've been selling out theatres all over the country and we intend to do the same in Maine for the Cancer Community Center.  Look forward to seeing you there!!  The mamas of Mama's Night Out are my fellow momtourage....bring yours and introduce us to them.

 

My show Mama's Night Out is coming to New Jersey and New York this weekend just in time for Mother's Day - May 1 & May 2.  Give yourself and a fellow mama a time out with Mama's Night Out.  These ladies are my momtourage! ...And I promise none of us have the Swine Flu.  Here are all the details:
May 1, 2009, 8:00pm
South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC)
South Orange, New Jersey
Phone - Call 973.313.ARTS (2787) - This is a return engagement!
May 2, 2009, 8:30pm
Don't Tell Mamas
New York, NY
343 W 46th St
New York, NY 10036
(212) 757-0788

 

by Kris

One of the biggest surprises I experienced after having children was the drastic expansion of my community. Sure, I 'lost' a few single friends who were unwilling (or disinterested) in adapting to my new diaper-centric lifestyle. But I gained oh so many more people in a world that literally shrank to a ten block square. (I could see Manhattan from my window but visited it about twice during the first year of my son's life.)

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When I was 12 years old, my mother, younger sister and I briefly lived with my grandparents. I remember it working pretty well; my grandmother had looked after my sister and I regularly since we were born anyway. This was just what you might call a convenient consolidation of resources.

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How good does it feel when someone else takes over the cooking duties? Oklahoma mom Catherine Taylor recently turned her kitchen over to the experts--Top Chef contestant Tre Wilcox and local chef Joshua Richardson.

Why the celebration? Catherine won an essay contest sponsored by Momtourage.com that asked moms across America to write about their own Momtourages--who's in them, how they lend a hand, and why they're so important. In her essay, she wrote about the people who help her care for her five children. The list included her sister, her boyfriend and her best friend.

Read more about Catherine and watch a video about the amazing meal she and her Momtourage enjoyed, care of Tre and Joshua.

--Laura Motta
Producer, Momtourage.com

  My show Mama's Night Out is going to be in two of the coldest spots in the country this week.  Mama's Night Out is comedy by mothers for everyone.  If you're in need of a night out and you're near these theatres here's the ticket information:

Rosza Center For the Arts, Houghton, MI, 11/19;

Grand Theatre, ArtsBlock, Wausau, WI, 11/22

 

 

Just wanted to let you know that my show MAMA'S NIGHT OUT is coming to Minne-snowta this weekend for three shows!  MAMA'S NIGHT OUT (my momtourage) is comedy by mothers for everyone so you can definitely bring your husband.  Here's all the info:

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Drums to his own beat? Non-Conformist? Sullen? My son was never one of those babies who cooed when you smiled at him adoringly, rarely ever hammed it up for the camera. To the contrary, he has cultivated a pout when asked to "perform". And I can totally respect that. But would it hurt the kid to smile for posterity, on camera, just once, for Halloween?

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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!

5 days and counting. Sam starts Kindergarden on Tuesday and since the last day of Nursery in May it has been a roller-coaster of emotions for him (not wanting to leave his buddies to being excited about his new school), but mostly it's been up and down, left and right for me. And therein lies the tricky part, there is nothing I hate more than being a cliche.

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K-Fed has already received a Father of the Year award, so I guess I shouldn’t be shocked by our latest iVillage / Momtourage.com survey results.

 

Here they are, folks: When asked to choose the best babysitting prospect between Britney Spears, Jamie-Lynn Spears and Kevin Federline, K-Fed was the clear favorite of the three. More than five times as many moms chose his care-giving services over Britney’s.

 

Surprised? Maybe we shouldn’t be. Our survey suggests that moms have been through a lot when it comes to babysitter situations -- so maybe K-Fed is looking pretty good after some of the sitter scenarios they’ve encountered.

 

Consider the fact that 25% admitted to having a negative experience with a babysitter. Even worse, 1 in 10 reported that a babysitter had in some way mistreated their child.

 

If you’re struggling with a less-than-stellar sitter, give them some guidance and tell them what they need to know with the help of our Babysitter Cheat Sheet. Or gather some people you truly trust and start a babysitting co-op.  And check in with your Momtourage. It’s pretty likely that someone in your circle has sage advice to share -- and there’s nothing like support from the people you rely on most.

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. 

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My friend's son is sooooo tan.  In fact, Angelina Jolie called....she wants to adopt him.  I'm teasing.  I'm jealous actually.  I'm so fair I get moon burns for god's sake.

I wear sunscreen all year long on my face and in the summer I wear SPF 50 every day just to be on the safe side.  Believe me, my friend puts sunscreen on her son he's just got the benefit of Melanin in his system.  He's the ultimate Coppertone Baby.  He even makes Lily look pale and I thought she had a nice color.  Check out his tan line.....left photo.  I love kids with tan lines and opposing white cheeks.  That is just the cutest.  Brian is definitely a handsome little munchkin.

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Some choices are easy to make. For example, if you give me a choice between a cruise and a car trip, I'd pick the cruise. (OK, if you know me, you know that was an easy one!)

We tend to pick pleasure over pain, easy over hard, sweet over sour.

But when we asked people if they'd rather have a painful trip to the dentist than clean their own homes -- more than a quarter opted for the dentist. Additionally, more than 1 out of 10 would choose to be chewed out by their boss than take a bite out of household cleaning.

That's right -- pain (both physical and verbal) won out over dust mops and dirty dishes!

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Are you surprised? I am -- and at the same time, I'm not. While no one enjoys getting their teeth drilled, if you have to get it done, you do it -- and then it's done. Even if you visit your dentist as often as you ought to, the prospect of that visit doesn't loom every day -- like the meals that need to be cooked or the rug that needs to be vacuumed. Plus, when you go for a teeth cleaning, the dentist does all the work. All you have to do is show up. Cleaning a home wouldn't seem like such a burden if we were lucky enough to have someone to do it for us.

For all those who have similar issues, for anyone who'd prefer tending to a cavity than time with a cleaning rag -- our Momtourage showcase may be your salvation. At Momtourage.com, we’re looking for stories about your Momtourage -- who they are and how they help. When you share them, you can enter for a chance to win additional household help in the form of either a personal chef, babysitter or professional cleaner! Three Grand Prize Winners will also receive a special dinner, prepared by a contestant from Bravo's Top Chef program, to share with the people who help them get it all done -- their Momtourage members.

So if you hate to clean or cook -- or just need a sitter so you can get away from both tasks for awhile --this is your chance