Top 25 Funny Moms: 2 of 9

What inspired you to start blogging?

I began blogging as a way to channel my frustration and funny after becoming a full-time, up-to-my-eyeballs mom. I found that bizarre and overwhelming things were happening every few hours, whether it be an explosive diaper disaster or a fashionable, albeit feral neighbor waking up my napping child with a raging Range Rover. I knew I needed to document my slow decline into parental insanity so someone could bear witness to my life of cringe-worthy chaos and spiraling spit takes.

 What are three distinctive features of your blog?

1. My voice is a bit scratchier than most other mom blogs. I see myself as a, crooked, unvarnished clown painting on the blogosphere's bathroom wall and you want to straighten it but you are too afraid to touch it.
2. I have a feature called "Emily Posts" in which I post quotes from a 1937 hardcover edition of Emily Post's Etiquette that could not be more irrelevant, insane and hilariously out of touch for the modern mom and woman.
3. I have a bi-monthly feature called STUFF CRUSH that lists the most random things that I really, really love as well as a section called Weekly Dose of Led Zeppelin for those who need their obscure, old school Zeppelin fix. And really, who doesn't?

 What are three adjectives that describe your blog?

1. Condescendingly self-deprecating
2. Honest
3. Hopefully hilarious

What are your three favorite posts?

1. Won't you be my neighbor?
   
2. The Chalice in the Palace has the Brew that is True
3. Rise and Shiv

What inspired you to start blogging?

I birthed three daughters in four years. The sound of my own voice while constantly talking to myself, due to lack of adult interaction, began to slowly drive me crazy. I began blogging so my husband wouldn't have to pay for therapy.

What are three distinctive features of your blog?

1. Funnies.
2. Food.
3. Faith.

What are three adjectives that describe your blog?

1. Engaging.
2. Honest.
3. Real.

What are your three favorite posts?

1. Ding Dong The Fish Are Dead
   
2. Effin Eggs
3. WARNING: Do NOT Take Me Seriously

What inspired you to start blogging?

Having worked for years as comedy writer for TV and Film, I thought that, during my time home with the kids, it would be fun to have a place to express my thoughts on motherhood. Also, someone told me that everyone who starts a blog gets a free cake. But that turned out to be a lie.

What are three distinctive features of your blog?

1. Well, there is the Snood. He is definitely unique, perhaps among human children, in his ability to bring terror and destruction wherever he goes while somehow remaining effortlessly adorable.
2. Then there is the Crink, who has a very distinctive head shape that my MIL likes to describe as "noble". Alternate word, "Large".
3. But hopefully most distinctive is the writing, which is funny while also being occasionally informative and somewhat poignant. I hope.

What are three adjectives that describe your blog?

1. Funny
2. Trenchant
3. Awesometastic (please note: not a real word)

What are your three favorite posts?

1. Are You Ready for Some Marital Strife
   
2. Make Mine Nerdy
3. The Outing