Monday, October 29, 2007

Bloup? Clog? Grog?

I've accepted an invitation to be a contributor to a group blog called Mid-Century Modern Moms. We are a group of moms of teens, many of us of 'advanced maternal age' who are battling with our kids, negotiating through the maze of college applications, and sighing with loneliness once our kids have moved out. We're an under-represented group in the blogosphere, but not for long.

We're done with the diapers and breastfeeding vs. bottles, but we still deal with parent-teacher conferences, homework, laundry, and a lot of other parental dilemmas.
The Terrible Twos have been replaced by Teen Attitude.
Diaper rash is now acne.
The "kids" have moved from formula to Mountain Dew.
Child care budgets have been shifted to college tuition.
Forget Disney Princesses for holiday gifts: we're dealing with iPods and laptops.

Sometimes I'll cross post a piece from Compost Happens, and sometimes you'll get fresh content from me or from the other contributors.
But what is a group blog, anyway? A grog? A bloup? A clog? Well, whatever it is, you can find us
here.
That is -- you can find me there after Monday Night Football. Go! Pack! Go!
(Update: Best. Overtime. Ever.)

Labels:

Digg! Stumble It! add to kirtsy

3 Comments:

Blogger Jill Urbane, The Mentor Mom said...

I never thought about the shift from toddlerhood to teenhood in these terms! Well said! Glad to hear that mommies with teen are going to be represented in the blogosphere. You go girl!

10/29/2007 8:16 PM  
Blogger Amy W said...

I like to read what I will be up against in future years...

10/30/2007 8:22 AM  
Blogger Sheila said...

Being 37 with a 10 year old and a 12 year old, I am fast becoming a Mid-Century Mom. I will hop on over and take a peek!

10/30/2007 11:02 AM  

Post a Comment

<< Home

Smile!

Search & Win

About 1 in 5 child deaths is due to injury. CDC Vital Signs www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns

Creative 

Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.

Copyright, 2003-2008 by OkayByMe. All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval without written permission from Daisy, the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. In other words, stealing is bad, and if you take what doesn't belong to you, it's YOUR karma and my lawyers you might deal with.