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Every two weeks, MommaSaid awards one lucky mom for her daily duties as a mom.
The Housewife Awards recognize moms for the relentless, exhausting, incredible
and often amusing things they experience - and endure - daily.
OUR NEXT PRIZE
How Not to Look Old
Enter The Housewife Award® contest by August 4th for your chance to win
a line of clinically tested cosmeceutical treatment products with proven results from Sera Anti Aging and a copy of Charla Krupp's "How Not to Look Old,"
plus a Housewife Award® certificate for the fridge.
ENTER NOW
Please read this before you enter!
What are we looking for? We're not looking for Mother of the Year.
We're looking for a funny story or situation that sums up the occasional
craziness of at-home motherhood. We want to hear what you put up with on a
day-to-day basis, not that you're coming up with the cure for cancer while the
baby naps (though I would appreciate it).
PLEASE BE SPECIFIC. Don't tell us you cart four kids around in your
mini-van, clean floors and volunteer at school while taking night classes.
We're all doing that! Tell us a story of something that happened to you that
shows how exhausting and confounding motherhood can be. Humor is a plus. Check
out the awards archives for examples.
ENTER NOW! (Yes, you may nominate someone else.)
The Housewife Award® Archives
See all our past winners in the Housewife Awards® archives.
Click here for 2007-2008 winners.
OUR LATEST WINNERS
[Warning: A whole lotta poop ahead]
Annie Lawson of Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Got your keys, Annie?
Annie is our latest winner of the Housewife Awards® because of her No S*#), Sure Lock Moment.
Annie was three blocks from home when her son blurted, "I gotta go poo!" Annie told him to hold on. They'd be home in a few minutes.
Oh, but it wasn't just poo. It was the kind of stuff songs have been written about where children make farting noises between verses.
With the car in high gear, Annie prayed for no speeding tickets. At home, her son dashed to the bathroom. Phew! They made it!
Pleased with her Indy 500 driving and quick thinking, Annie started to unload her groceries. Soon though, her son shouted,
"Mom! I need you!"
On auto-pilot, Annie locked the car and went back into the house. What did he need? Toilet paper, which was in the trunk of her car.
She went back outside, only to discover she had inadvertently left her keys on the front seat and then LOCKED the car.
Suddenly, everything went in slow motion as Annie turned around to see her son coming outside.
"Noooooo. Don't. Close. The. Door," she yelled, but it was too late. Annie was locked out of her car and now the house, too.
She spent the next 20 minutes prying open her office window with a tiny spade. Annie says she learned an important lesson that day:
Paper towels work just as well.
You're a good mom, Annie. You
win a Nintendo DS Lite and Nintendo DS Lites and Crosswords DS,
plus a Housewife Award® certificate for the fridge.
Jaimee Starr of Springfield, Ohio
Annie's looking for her keys.
Jaimee is our latest winner of the Housewife Awards® because of her Honey-Would-You-Pick-Up Moment.
Jaimee had strep throat. All three of Jaimee's sons had strep throat. As if that wasn't enough, one of her sons was also constipated.
Oh, poo.
But Jaimee soldiered on. That night, her husband was supposed to play cards with his buddies, a rare occasion for the busy dad of three.
Without him, the group would have needed to cancel. So, Jaimee insisted that her honey go and have fun. Go on now. Really.
Though her throat burned and her kids were needy, Jamiee tried hard to be the self sufficient, sweet wife. But all that changed once Hubby was out the door.
Jaimee's son soon got himself stuck on the potty, trying desperately to, er, let the train out of the station, but to no avail.
He tried and tried and tried and tried until he was exhausted and still constipated. So Jaimee had to call her hubby home from his card game.
Only, Hubby had been driven to the game by a buddy. So, he had to ask his friend -- in front of all his poker pals -- to bring him to the store
to buy suppositories before driving him home. It's the kind of story men love to tell over and over for years to come. It's the story
about the night his son was full of it. Lucky guy.
In the end (pun entirely intended), Jaimee's son was trapped on the toilet for 35 minutes. He even had the seat imprint on his hiney.
Jaimee says, "My shiny moment of trying to be a good wife to my husband literally went down the tubes that night." Ah, but you tried.
You're a good mom, Jaimee. You
win a Nintendo DS Lite and Nintendo DS Lites and Crosswords DS, which I highly recommend that you share with Hubby, because he's a good dad, indeed.
Also, you get a Housewife Award® certificate for the fridge.
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