From Hip to Housewife…in two kids flat: On Aging and Momming and My Twenty Year Quest to lose the same Ten Pounds
I’m a forty-something NYC Mom who worries about aging, parenting, and whether or not the fact that I just got a bunion means that I’ll never ever be able to buy a pair of Blahniks…even if I could afford them, or walk in them.
After nearly 20 years of writing promos for tv (think coming attraction for tv shows), I stopped working outside of the home, and started obsessively blogging and tweeting — oh and momming my twins. I am the co-founder and Queen Bee of www.kidzvuz.com, a review site for tweens where the tweens do the reviewing. You can read me every Saturday on Travelingmom.com, where I am NY Traveling Mom – the NYC expert. And you can listen to me on Blogging Angels.com. It’s a weekly podcast where Beccarama, Selfish Mom, Coast to Coast Mom and I yak about social media, parenting, and how the two intertwine. (I’m Farrah, btw) I’m hoping that eventually, somebody with a big publishing house and an even bigger budget will stumble upon my site, and turn me into the straight, female housewife version of David Sedaris I know I am.
Read my blog if you’re sick of hearing how young you’re supposed to be. (And to find out what I’m doing to try to look as young as I possibly can.) Read my blog if you know that you’re not the perfect Mom, you never will be, and really think life would be boring if you were. Read my blog to make a virtual friend, to laugh, to commiserate, to feel oh so superior when I really really mess up.
Welcome to my blog. Welcome to my world. I hope you come back often.
Hello there. I felt compelled to read your blog, because, after all, it’s yours. However as I read it, I feel all the testosterone (and, mind you, I’ve got a considerable amount stashed) being siphoned away from my body.
The one concession I make to my spouse is to watch Grey’s Atatomy. I lose man energy watching this girly series as well, but I find your blog is even more efficient.
Nonetheless, I’ll visit your blog often, in lieu of a cold shower
-Eric
Love your blog, Nancy. I feel as if you’re talking to me on the sofa; that’s how natural and effortless the writing is. It’s also honest and very funny. Keep ‘em coming.
Hey! Just started my own blog and started scouting around the net in search of other blogs out there. Came across your post on NYC Moms Blog “Comments of Comments” and though, “Yikes! How awful!!” So, just wanted to say, sorry that happened…hopefully the troll has disappeared from your virtual space, and that in reading that few things I have, I can tell the awful person is wrong : ) Good luck, stay strong…and happy blogging.
NYCity Mama
Your blog is good.i like it
Nice site but i’d start up with the page with your photo (very beautiful and most engaging)
this is great nancy!!
great strategy for sanity
hope this/you gets picked up by a network
sanity also returns when the kids hit 18!
love your blogs.
i am a thirty-something mom to an 11 year old (though my press release is that i’m only 27. still fools a lot, believe me).
like you i express myself best through writing… it keeps me sane, too. i write about anything and everything, but i believe the mommy experience is the best experience of all.
hope to read more of your stuff. will include your link in my blogroll if you don’t mind
visit mine, too, if you get the chance.
cheers!
B