Isn't it time you got a pat on the back for a job well done?
Every two weeks or so, 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.
Please read this before you enter! What are we looking for?
We're NOT looking for Mother of the Year.
We ARE looking for a funny story or situation that sums up the occasional
craziness of 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 that).
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. Poop is fine, but really not necessary every single time.
(Check
out the awards archives for examples.)
Note: Unclaimed prizes will no longer be available after 90 days from contact from MommaSaid.net
Cindy Fellows of South Lyon, Michigan Cindy is hiding from her house.
Cindy is our latest winner of the Housewife Awards® for her This New House Horror.
Cindy and her husband had it all planned out. They would move to their new house before the baby was born, set up shop and live happily forever after.
But that was before the mold. And the leak. And the baby.
Cindy's family was supposed to close on their new home ten days before their baby was due. Considering their first baby, now a toddler, arrived early,
she and her husband knew they were in a race against time and her cervix.
Lucky for them, baby Cady arrived on her due date, after they'd had a chance to change the carpet in the living room, repair
the ceiling in the dining/living room, paint, remediate the mold in the basement and unpack a little bit.
All seemed to be going oh-so-smoothly, until the baby was a month-old, and they found mold under the flooring.
So Cindy moved into her parents' house with the kids, and Hubby stayed in a hotel near work -- for a MONTH, while the mold was being clean up. During that time, there
was a major water leak that affected their new house, requiring yet another clean-up. It wasn't until Father's Day that
they all moved back home: Mom, Dad, toddler and newborn.
Well, Cindy reports, "At that point, it was more like camping than being home:
closet doors were torn off due to the carpet and flooring being pulled up; the kids' rooms were filled with
items that had been relocated during the drying out process;
we had contractors and their tools coming and going through out the day;
and our kitchen was all pulled apart due to the mold remediation."
(Can I just say I like a woman who isn't afraid to use a semi-colon correctly?)
It was two months -- late July --
before everything was back to the way it had been before the water damage occurred.
Cindy adds, "The move out and the construction from the water damage meant that things that weren't unpacked got moved around,
so we still haven't found a lot of our stuff, including my non-maternity clothes. I just found my recipes and cookbooks - thank God!"
You're a good mom, Cindy! You win signed copies of all three of Jen Singer's Stop Second-Guessing Yourself guides to parenting,
plus a Housewife Award® certificate for the fridge.
plus a Housewife Award® certificate for the fridge.
You're a good mom, Cindy! You win signed copies of all three of Jen Singer's