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Maddie Forrester

Maddie Forrester
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Maddie is a recent transplant to the Northern Kentucky Area, where she moved last spring after a decade in Columbus, OH. She’s the mom of three kids: A son, born in 2009, and twin girls, born in 2011. This is as exhausting as it sounds. Luckily, she thrives on chaos. She balances the glamour of working full time with the rigors of first grade homework, playing dress-up, and moving mountains (both metaphorical mountains, and mountains of laundry). She had hobbies once, but doesn’t quite remember what they were. Now, when she gets a moment of free time, she uses it to catch up on her wine and/or sleep, usually in that order. She also loves to cooking, running, singing badly while playing her guitar even worse, and reading.

Double Permission

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There are many difficult things about having twins. The pregnancy and birth are automatically scarier, and frequently more complicated (I got off easy, but for the worry). The sleep deprivation is really so epic...

My Momming Mix-Tape

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Some songs are written about parenthood, but not many. When you’re rocking all night, hardly anyone means in a rocking chair, comforting a human who hasn’t yet figured out how to fart. That hasn’t stopped...

Normal Colored Shirts

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"Yes, we're going to send them." "Oh...Really?"  There’s a formula to a lot of writing about parenting decisions. It goes like this: The problem you’re facing; The solutions you considered; The outcome! Tied up in a...

What is the Opposite of a White Flag?

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I wrote a post a while back about my White Flags. It was a pretty normal post with a pretty normal list of standards I completely fail to meet: nutritional puritanism, mopping, sleep, personal...

Mom Guilt Practice 101

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My friend with a new baby told me she felt like a failure as a mother. Friends, I’m just going to come out and SAY it, and trust you’ll be forgiving for her mom-sin: She...

A Brief List of My White Flags

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Here’s a fun mental exercise for moms. Take a moment, right now, and try and peer back through the looking glass at yourself, pre-kids. For real. Draw a mental image of who THAT lady...

Ode to the Mom Who Has It All Together

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Last Saturday, I sat in a hot tub, drinking a chocolate martini with a handful of my nearest and dearest friends. This happened IN REAL LIFE. I wasn’t fantasizing. It really, really happened. To...

Dear Pregnant Lady

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The Almighty Internet is awash, dear swollen sisters, in advice about what not to say to you. Here’s an excellent guide from Parent’s Magazine, and a humorous one from from Babble. The advice is pretty good....

Breaking the Mold

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Like a lot of you, I was triggered by this post. So much so that I smacked my phone to the table and made a juvenile face at it, then stomped away (to my...

The Brutal Budget

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“You spend WAY too much on childcare.” Her voice is shrill, shocked, and judgmental. “We recommend that you spend no more than 15% of your take-home pay in that category.” This was a few years...