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Venting Sessions

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Monthly Archives: October 2011

You’re still a good mother if…

31 Monday Oct 2011

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You give your kids non-organic snacks because they have umpteen after school activities that you need to drive them to and you don’t have time to go food shopping. The only things left in the cupboards are chemically filled snacks that you secretly eat anyway when no one is looking.

Respond and share if this applies to you!

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Share your Mean Mommy Moments!

28 Friday Oct 2011

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Holly Hunter in Home for the Holidays. I can so relate to running into girls from
high school looking like this!

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What was it like for you as a new mom?

26 Wednesday Oct 2011

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The second Sex and the City movie may not have been as good as the first, but I loved the part when Miranda and Charlotte vented on the challenges of motherhood (over cocktails, of course). Check out the clip!

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Venting and Vaginas

25 Tuesday Oct 2011

Posted by Jackie in General Mommentary, Mommy Musings

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I adore my husband. He is a great dad. When we moved back to Rhode Island eight years ago, I found myself barefoot and pregnant again, venting to him about every little thing nearly every single day. Something he said to me one day really put things into perspective. “Babe, I love you, but I don’t have a vagina.”  If you’ve ever met my husband, you’d understand his dry sense of humor. At the time, he meant well. He was encouraging me (for financial and emotional reasons) to go back to work a few months after the baby came, and get back to being Jackie. Upon hearing this, I consumed enough chocolate to feed a small village. It helped a little, but not a lot. I didn’t really know anyone in the neighborhood yet. My son was two years old. Not a calm, quiet boy. But an active toddler with spikey blond hair who didn’t understand why his mommy was restless. I had been working full-time for many years and was dumped into domesticity when I found out I was pregnant (mid-way through my job search). Most of my dearest friends were childless at the time and now lived 3,000 miles away in Seattle, WA. Think Carrie Bradshaw meets Old Navy. Ovens weren’t meant for cooking for these women, they were a place to store magazines. And meeting for after-work cocktails was a norm. I didn’t have the time or the patience to bother explaining what it was like to get up every three hours to feed a baby. Now many of them are mommies.  It didn’t take long for them to realize the inevitable – motherhood is freaking hard. After each baby was born, they would call and say, “Jackie, I don’t know how you did it! I had NO idea what you were going through!”

Now we’re all in the same raft, trying to stay afloat.

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The Switch

24 Monday Oct 2011

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Mr. Mom

20 Thursday Oct 2011

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Are you a working mom? I realize it’s an oxymoron. Being
a mom is work. And it’s the toughest
job around. But I’m talking about moms who also work out of the home. If you
just went back to work or have worked out of the home since the dawn of time,
work part-time or full-time, you too are a rock star. How do you balance the
insanity? Have you ever showed up at the office wearing two different shoes? With
deodorant on your skirt? Cleaning up the conference table like Terri Garr in
Mr. Mom?

I want to hear your side, your take, your story.  Please share!

(I used to tweeze my eyebrows in between traffic
lights. I heard a radio listener once complain about a “crazy lady”
doing this during the morning commute. I’m almost positive he was talking about
me!)

A clip from one of my favorite 80’s movies, Mr. Mom!

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Cluelessness

19 Wednesday Oct 2011

Posted by Jackie in General Mommentary, Little Links, Uncategorized

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When you become a new parent, you’re clueless. It’s an inevitable truth in life. I’ll never forget when we accidentally washed our new baby boy’s clothes in regular laundry detergent. Baby Calvin broke out all over, and was bawling louder than any other newborn in Seattle. I had already washed his new outfits in Dreft and his father was just trying to wash everything again to make sure it was extra clean. How was he to know, right? (It took me hours to put together the Diaper Genie for the first time. I was in tears, begging for my husband’s help. We were both about to throw the thing out the window of our one-bedroom apartment.) We were all clueless once. And maybe we still are clueless no matter what our kids’ ages? Speaking of clueless parents, this is a funny new show: Up All Night with Christina Applegate and Will Arnett. It’s a sitcom about…you guessed it, new (and clueless) parents! This show (and Modern Family and 30 Rock) are my temporary friends when the kids (and my husband) are fast asleep and I’m suffering from my O M goodness I’m-so-40-now-hormone-induced insomnia. Check it out.
You HAVE to watch this clip and tell me what you think.  Please share your favorite memory of being a clueless parent!

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Welcome to Venting Sessions

18 Tuesday Oct 2011

Posted by Jackie in General Mommentary, Mommy Musings

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Welcome to Venting Sessions

Some women train for a marathon or climb a mountain to escape the craziness of motherhood. I like to stress eat and vent with girlfriends. That’s why I’m launching this blog, Venting Sessions. To help other mothers feel like they’re not alone. Venting Sessions is a place moms can let it out and share our mommy ventings, experiences, jokes, whines, giggles and stories. (And swap fun recipes that fit into our hectic lives as opposed to unrealistic recipes that stress us out even more.)

I started this blog for mothers who aren’t afraid to admit that no matter how female relatives, friends, celebrities, talk show hosts and other women we look up to (but don’t know from Eve) make us feel, we know deep down that we aren’t perfect. And it’s OK. We are mothers. And holy schnikes, I know we didn’t start out this way. Many felt nauseous a few weeks after date night and months later ended up in the hospital wearing a maxi pad the size of Texas. (Holding a newborn that resembles ET’s little brother, of course.) God help us all. We love our kids. And they are so worth it. But for the love of Christina Applegate and Will Arnett, there’s nothing like venting with friends. From hosting a family reunion on three hours of sleep to dealing with other not-so-nice moms at the playground who have a knack for making the rest of us feel inadequate, venting to me is like a Dove Bar swimming in whipped cream. It’s how I get by. It’s how I keep going. Like free therapy, Venting Sessions is meant to be a place where moms can let it out without consequences. So swap those mommy stories, ventings, whines, giggles and easy recipes. Let your roots shine, girls. No perfect mommies allowed. (I’m psyched about launching this blog, but I can’t jump up and down too much. I haven’t been able to do this since having my second child. Please don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about.)

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