Heidi's Hideaway (now with added class!)
Posted in Big Bad Mummy, Crafting, Everyday on Jun 28th, 2011
It’s been a roller coaster here the last couple of weeks. Work changes and turmoil (don’t worry, no firings or anything, just lots and lots of change in the air) along with personal busy-ness and, probably, delightful female hormones have thrown me off quite a lot, but I’m doing okay. Mostly.
Yesterday, on the [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy, Everyday on Jun 1st, 2011
See, the thing about NOT being on hormonal birth control is that now I know, when a bad day pops up its hideous head and I start to realize that I’m caught in the incoming tide, that the sadness and nonsensicalness (yes, I know that’s not a word, right? right?) and lazy give-it-all-up-because-you-fail-at-life-ness is [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy, Crafting, Everyday on May 24th, 2011
I’ve been struggling lately, in case my infrequent, depressed posts didn’t make that clear. It’s not that I’m perpetually unhappy; it’s that the black hole of despair seems to be so much closer than before and I have to work so hard not to get sucked in (yes, I have a therapist, although it’s [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy, Size acceptance, book reviews on May 6th, 2011
Dear JK Rowling:
The Harry Potter books have brought me much reading enjoyment over the years and, as we begin to read them to my four-year-old (who follows along eagerly with every word), they are bringing him much joy also.
But Joanne, why do you hate fat people?
As I read from one of the first (possibly [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy on Apr 13th, 2011
Before I start yet another whiny post, I want to thank those of you who so kindly comment on my other whiny posts! Your support means the world to me – it’s the reason I keep writing at all, truly. Thank you!
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I’ve been struggling with first-world problems this week. I can’t remember [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy, Size acceptance on Feb 9th, 2011
I work with a “business membership organization” and one of our recent upper-level members is, heaven help us, a bariatric surgery clinic.
Today they had a tour of our office and, as I was filling in for the receptionist during her lunch, I got to hear that “the childhood obesity epidemic in this country is out [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy, Everyday on Feb 6th, 2011
There’s been a chain of infrequent, unhappy posts on my blog, I’m realizing – I wish I could say this post would be magically different, that I have suddenly become one of those HILARIOUS bloggers who manages to turn even discouragement and despair into Happy!Fun!Times! but I’m just not.
I’ve been sick for over a week [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy on Oct 18th, 2010
Warning – this post contains potentially triggering descriptions of miscarriage, as well as of anti-abortion dead fetus posters.
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Despite feeling absolutely miserable, I headed out on Saturday morning to take my son to the park and then to lunch at Red Robin, which is attached to our closest mall. I had taken a sick day [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy on Oct 10th, 2010
I was reading this fantastic post by SpiltMilk, on the view that all children are sociopaths and one of the comments struck me particularly hard, namely, that there are “a lot of bloggers who do not have children” and, as I replied, there may be a lot of bloggers who do not have children but [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy on Jun 4th, 2010
My little boy is four today. Am I baking a cake? No. Is he getting the exact cake he wanted from Safeway (with Thomas, the Tank Engine on chocolate cake with fresh strawberries inside)? Yes. Did he get decorated cupcakes to take to daycare yesterday? No. Did he [...]
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