Motherhood Uncensored

Catching up

I've been doing a fair bit of writing these days, as if this series and everything else I've got going on wasn't enough, and I wanted to share those with you. I guess I'm trying to fit everything in before I'm in the throes of babydom. Literally.

*I'm writing about our homeschooling journey and my first post is up here (I'm just over the moon about it). Next post will be why we're homeschooling, which a bunch of people have asked me about.

*Fellow blogger and all around awesome person Meagan Francis has featured me on her blog "The Happiest Mom" today. Admittedly, I was not always a happy mom, but do consider myself to be one now (read all about that), though I'm not yet a happy wife. Always something to work on, I suppose.

*Speaking of unhappy wife, I wrote this piece for my Sometimes Single Mom column when I was feeling a bit melancholy - hormones, illness, bla bla. Of course, I've already gotten someone bitching about my bitching, but thus is the life of an online writer, I suppose.

*Of all the pregnancy symptoms there are to loathe, there's one that I think rocks. You'll appreciate this whether you're currently pregnant or not.

*I'm sharing my thoughts about hand soap on video, which is a very brave thing (if I do say so myself) when you're 25 weeks pregnant. Note to self: The gray tank top doesn't do me any favors though maybe in the boobages department.

Edited: I'm actually 35 weeks, not 25 weeks. I'm also in denial, apparently, though this belly would say otherwise.

So tell me, what's interesting in your world? What are you writing about?

A match made in heaven. Or at least on the internets.

I've done the desperate diaper scavenge on more than one occasion. And I've wiped butts with the last half square on the toilet paper roll that most people would otherwise toss because I had completely run out.

You'd think as a mom of three who's often alone and doesn't have the luxury to just run to the store, I'd plan a little bit better.

But life, diapers, and toilet paper get away from me and all of a sudden I'm taping paper towels together.

So, it was one of those such days a few months back when I got an email asking to speak to me about my blog. I actually almost deleted the damn thing because I receive a fair amount of those emails and they generally end up being someone asking me to post a really hilarious YouTube video or share content about how my readers can save money on tire purchases.

Compelling stuff, really.

But I clicked over to the site in her signature and in big bold letters it said:

We'll make sure you never run out of toilet paper again!

And as you could guess, I had this sort of biblical writing on the wall type moment and I emailed her back.

A few conversations, a couple of emails, and a beta test later, I agreed to work with Alice.com and represent them at BlogHer 2009.

They agreed to not make me tattoo "Alice" on my ass and sing the song at BlogHer Karaoke.

Of course now you are probably singing the song in your head. At least it's better than Dora.

They even agreed not to make me take gratuitous photos of my cute baby with their cool logo-ed boxes and post them on my blog. I just did that on my very own.

They did agree to let me do fun red carpet-ish type interviews of bloggers during the conference.

And thus "Alice Uncensored" was born.

Cool, right?

I've already written about my love for Alice.com, a service that let's you order all your household products, like tampons, dental floss, even head and balls shampoo from the comfort of your home, all shipped free to your doorstep. 

You know a woman packed that, right?

And if you're curious, the prices are mostly better than anywhere else I would ever shop with three lovely squirmy squabbling children, and they've even got automatic coupons, which tells me that they're not trying to completely bank on the convenience factor which if you've ever gone grocery shopping with three children that you know that you'd pay a little extra for some freaking toilet paper because then you're not coming home with the "Shut them up" pack of gum and twizzlers and you're keeping just a little bit more of your sanity that you would have left at the deli counter.

And well best of all, I've yet to run out of toilet paper again.

So if you're going to BlogHer 2009, don't be surprised if I track your ass down to ask you some fun questions having to do with household products.

It's me you're talking about people - so just guess what kinds of questions I'll be asking.

I can guarantee it will not be "So, what's your favorite handsoap?"

And make sure to check out Alice.com. I wouldn't send you over there if I didn't love it. And what I really love about them is that they wouldn't want me to send you over there if I didn't love it either.

Read more about Alice.com and sign up for free. It's definitely worth trying. And really, no one with my butt should be wiping with paper towels. Also, they'll be doing some fun giveaways on Twitter so follow them.