Brenda Parent // The Body Image Project // Review from Body Image Project on Vimeo.  “The words that play over and over in my head are ‘not enough’.” How do we overcome? The scar from a c-section, cellulite, stretch marks…everyone has something about their body that they feel is less than “ideal”.  Some may view these as badges of honor, earned from life’s challenging events, like the birth of a child. Others see them as unforgivable flaws in their appearance.  Our attitudes about imperfection can shape our daily and long-term quality of life.  So- what do we do?

I couldn't sleep last night, so I put on a pot of coffee and I baked a pecan pie.  From scratch.  Because that's how I roll.

  What does it take to fill the shoes of today’s Household CEO?

Apparently there’s a debate raging in the blogosphere, more specifically (God help us) the ‘Mommyblogosphere’ about ‘bad moms’ versus ‘good moms’ and how some bloggers are like pretending to be a ‘bad mom’ because ‘it’s cool,’ and they are almost ashamed to admit they are really a ‘good mom.’ Read more at www.pajamasandcoffee.com. P.S. I NEED A BLOGHER TICKET!!!And...if you have a moment, please vote for PajamasandCoffee for Funniest Blog at

As traditional publishing continues to experience lay-offs and lower ad revenue, the mommyblogger demographic has grown and flexed its opinion-leader muscles, as evidenced by the recent Mom 2.0 conference. People who weren't paying attention to us as writers a few years ago are scrutinizing us now. In fact, it seems we have our own Forrester report.

Months ago I found myself entirely too close to the epicenter of a heated blogging and marketing discussion. Coincidentally, it was a perfect storm of several bloggers being part of the same PR campaign - myself included - on top of being rejected from another campaign - me again! - for being too honest. Oh the irony of being accused of being a sell-out while simultaneously being told that my opinion and participation were no longer wanted because I was a little *too* truthful.

Last year when I spoke at BlogHer '08 in the Blogs to Books Redux panel, over half the room wanted to publish a book. I spoke about my journey with Sleep Is for the Weak, BlogHer's first book.  I talked about the project of pulling all those posts together, about editing them, about my excitement at seeing them in print.The story doesn't end there.  Next came selling the books.

Hubby is frantically studying for his grad school prep stuff and recently has been going to a friend’s house to be tutored in math. I decided to come along one morning to play with Kaiya and our friend’s little girl. So me in the girls were in one room, happily sticking stickers on each other and gobbing play-doh everywhere while they were in the other room, but just a few feet away. Friend- I hate it when people blog….(Hubby nervously looking over at me)… it’s like they just put up random thoughts…

 

Who Knew that toddlers can tell time and adding a clock to their bedroom can actually make them sleep later?

September 28 is Wor