What I Want to Tell Every New Parent

Meagan Francis of The Happiest Mom has asked me to contribute a guest post to her wonderful blog! I’m writing about what I’ve learned as a new(ish) mother:

To paraphrase Olympia Dukakis’s Rose Castorini from Moonstruck, “What I don’t know about parenting is a lot.”

Baguette was born in April 2010. Mr. Sandwich and I brought her home two days later, and as we opened the front door, I thought, “Why did they let me bring her home? I have no idea what to do.”

To read the rest of the post, visit The Happiest Mom.

Babble.com’s Top 100 Mom Bloggers

I’m sure I’m #101! Right? Right? Because I’ve been doing this for five whole months now, so surely I’m qualified. Overqualified, at that.

Seriously, while most of these are unfamiliar to me (I read a lot, but not 100-mom-blogs worth), I do follow quite a few of these–and they are excellent. This list looks like it provides something for everyone. Which ones would you particularly recommend? Here are the ones I like (so far):

The Bloggess
Dooce
The Happiest Mom
Free-Range Kids
Scary Mommy
Parentlode
Motherlode

Clearly I need to read more. A lot more. Curse you, lack of hours in the day! (Raises fist and shakes it at clock.)

And if you want to nominate a blog for 2012, here’s the form.