Robin

I'm a stay-at-home-mom, syndicated humor columnist and author. My kids keep me laughing and/or gagging every day. I started this blog to document our lives together and as a way to make other moms laugh and realize it REALLY is funny, when it's happening to someone other than YOU!

A Second Helping– of Hilarity

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Feb 212012

“MOMMA! I’m so hungwee! What’s for dinnah?” My three-year old, Sadie, whined. “Rice, fish and vegetables,” I said as I pulled the fish out of the oven. Sadie: I don’t WIKE fish! Me: Fine. Then it’s chicken. Sadie: WEALLY? I love chicken! Me: Then it’s your lucky night. Guess what? It’s your lucky night too. Today I published an e-book! A Second Helping: A Collection of Best-Loved Columns From Robin’s Chicksis a collection of 22 of my readers’ favorite newspaper columns. A Second Helping will be available on Kindle and Nook for only $1.99! Go read about why I should [Read more...]

Panther Power: Two Sisters, Two Stun Guns

Momma Drama

Feb 192012

Panther Power: Two Sisters, Two Stun Guns

I told all my FB peeps that once my new author page got to a certain number of likes that I would share my favorite essay that was cut from “Ketchup is a Vegetable.” My Boos helped me reach that goal so this is their reward. This essay was cut because it wasn’t about parenting but I love it so much. When I decided to publish it for my FB peeps, I had to dig it out of a folder and I laughed so hard I cried. At myself, but mostly at my sister. (If you enjoy the essay, please [Read more...]

“Ketchup is a Vegetable” for FREE!!

Ketchup Is A Vegetable

Feb 152012

Today ONLY “Ketchup is a Vegetable and Other Lies Moms Tell Themselves” will be free to download on Kindle to anyone who wants it! Check out the Women’s Literary Cafe to see the 42 other amazing books that are all offered for free TODAY ONLY! (Lord, I feel like a furniture salesman. HURRY, HURRY, HURRY!) If you’ve been wanting to read “Ketchup” but waiting for a little extra change in your pocket, here is your big chance! Download it and tell your friends!!

Crazy Clean

Newspaper Columns

Feb 082012

I’m not a particularly clean person. Don’t get me wrong, my kids always have clean clothes to wear, but they have to dig them out of a basket of folded clothes in the laundry room as opposed to removing them from their closet or drawers because I wash the clothes but don’t put them away. I leave breakfast dishes on the counter until dinner and I’ve developed a cleaning technique called Sweep-A-Meal-Later. SAML has saved moms across the country countless hours of frustration as we have all agreed to never attempt to sweep up fresh rice or soggy Cheerios off [Read more...]

Super Bowl (of Bacon)

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Feb 062012

Leaving Super Bowl party… Me: Who won? Hubs: I did. Me: You won the Super Bowl? Hubs: I won the office pool. Me: Oh. Who won the game? Hubs: The Giants. Me: Oh… who were they playing? I got what I went for: bacon dip, Fritos, beer and girl talk. Good times. Yay Giants?

In Which Joshilyn Jackson Comes to See ME! (Sorta.)

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Jan 302012

In October of last year I attended my first writer’s conference at my alma mater, Auburn University. I signed up for group classes when I registered for the conference. I signed up for a session taught by a writer friend and chose a couple of classes on writing memoirs, and truth in storytelling. But a few days before I left for the conference Kim, a writer friend, contacted me in a frenzy. She was green with jealousy that I would be able to hear Joshilyn Jackson speak. I believe my exact response was, “Who?” To which I received a virtual [Read more...]