1. bug and the sweet banana
Jennifer, the editor- turned-stay-at- home mom behind Bug and the Sweet Banana, takes a comical, touching, and even occasionally irreverent look at parenting her two little ones. A wonderful read.
2. Momastery
I chose “Momastery” because a monastery is a sacred place, apart from the world, where a seeker retreats to figure out what matters and catch glimpses of God. That’s exactly what motherhood is like to me. It's also exactly like being slowly pecked to death by merciless chickens.
3. Flourish in Progress
Follow Elizabeth, a stay-at-home mom, as she "chronicles a year outside the mall." For her 30th Birthday Project, she gives up shopping for an ENTIRE YEAR. She also has a meltdown over an accordion file folder at Target in front of small children. These things may be related. Often hilarious, sometimes inappropriate, her humorous recountings of her daily misadventures are honest and relatable.
4. Jen's List
Jen's List has become the must-read, go-to blog for moms in the greater Los Angeles area who want to read about kids events, parenting advice, reader tips about great schools, and much much more-all in the category of information moms can really use! Jennifer Levinson has 5 boys under the age of 10 (one son and 2 sets of twin boys). Imagine that!!!
5. The Lumberjack's Wife
Her husband is really an electrician who loves to hunt and her four kids are really angels. Sometimes, though, insanity strikes and that's when the best blog posts happen! Join Taylor on her adventures in ruralville, homeschooling her kids and trying to figure out how to make elk edible.
7. Girl to Mom
...Trying to Become a Grown Up Before My Kid Does. Girl to Mom is Heidi Ferrer, serving up shameful confessions and silliness daily. Heidi is a screen and TV writer along with being a new Blogger/Vlogger and her 3 year old son Bex has a potentially fatal form of scoliosis. Her blog follows their journey.
8. The Bearded Iris
Iris writes from the ‘burbs of Atlanta where the stay at home moms play to win. She's a SAHM with three kids whose a practicing Cafeteria Catholic with a sincere love for Jesus and boxed wine. Her blog is a great mix of very funny stories and thoughtful observations (not to mention great tips on Tuesdays). Love her!!
10. By Word of Mouth
By Word of Mouth, because all the best stuff is passed along ... take my 'word' for it!
Wife to One, Mom to Two, Zookeeper to many - enjoy the ride with a Liberal Christian Homeschooling Mom in a Right Wing Christian world, married to a Gourmet Cooking Atheist and living in the plastically enhanced world of Sunny South Florida!
Never a dull moment!
11. Short Fat Dictator
Hilarious blog featuring weekly posts on the adventures of a mom and her rambunctious kid known as the Snood.
12. Portrait of An Adoption
Portrait of An Adoption is an internationally-followed blog written by Carrie Goldman and Candice Warltier. The blog focuses on issues related to adoption and parenting. Over 100,000 people have read Goldman's recent blog posts about her daughter Katie, the Star Wars girl.
13. [i] LoveLife
As her blog says, "Kal Barteski is an artist who paints, designs, photographs, and writes stuff. She's an award- winning illustrator and graphic designer, dog-walker, mom, poet, and, in her spare time, she drinks way too much coffee. She's loving life and keeping things fresh by blogging daily and staying inspired." Such an inspiration.
15. A Bloggy Mom
She is the founder of www.BloggyMoms.com community and provides a lot of information and resources. Funny as well
16. The Artful Parent
Parenting to encourage creative expression, imagination, joyfulness, and a love of learning.
Lots of art ideas, cooking ideas, and fabulous photographs as examples.
17. Musings of a Musician's Wife
As she says it herself...
"Holding down the fort, at home, alone with 4 awesome kids, while my rockstar husband travels the globe as a touring musician. Sound glamorous? I spend most of my time feeding and caring for our infant twins, chasing our 3 and 5 year old around while trying to keep the house clean and barely finding time for a shower! This is my day to day life..."
18. The Woman Formerly Known as Beautiful
This mom is flat out hilarious. She's chronicling her second pregnancy and each entry starts with her gestational time. Some quotes: "When you're pregnant you can smell a fart on the moon." "I've been searching for mommy friends like a red-assed baboon during mating season." She's a find.
19. VodkaMom
VodkaMom, kindergarten teacher, mother of three, and martini aficionado, turns the absurdities of life into hysterical, heartwarming prose. Vodkamom touches and tickles anyone who has ever had or been a kid. She's bravely honest and brutally candid while somehow remaining anonymous. But most importantly, VodkaMom can make you laugh until milk comes out your nose.
20. Tales of an Unlikely Mother
Darlena is a 28-year-old former television journalist who found herself staying home suddenly with her two-year-old twins. Their trials, tribulations, stories and advice herein, not just on parenting, but on life. If she can do it, so can you.
21. Jenna's Journey
I'm nominating my five favorite blogs and this is #1!!!
I've followed this blog for a couple of years now. Jenna went through infertility like so many of us and now she has two beautiful boys one of which was really sick when he was born. She has a really sarcastic sense of humor and is one of the most real bloggers I follow!
22. Expecting Models
Expecting Models Blog is a platform where moms and moms to be can share their experiences during pregnancy and motherhood. Our c
23. Mommy Shorts
Ilana uses clever, self-deprecating humor to fearlessly stroll through life in NYC as both a career woman and a new mom who never pretends to get it exactly right. Her hilarious posts, which are laced with pop culture references, stories from childhood and the occasional dig at her husband, in addition to her awesome baby videos make Mommy Shorts totally addictive.
24. Write Mind Open Heart
She writes, meditates and loves limericks. Her passions run from de-freakifying open adoption and noticing perfect moments. When Parenting magazine says you must read her blog, well you sit down and do it. Plus I am pretty sure her aura is a pretty shade of Lavender.
25. in these small moments
An amazing blogger NOT to be missed, Nichole is a beautiful and talented writer who can paint vivid pictures and stories with her words. She celebrates life's small moments and the love and joy that having a family bring to her life. You will laugh, cry, and hug your family closer.
26. Highly Irritable
Can't describe her as well as she probably could. A single mom, two kids, graduate study, and she's living in Canada. She's the perfect writer to laugh with-- reminds me of Amy Storch and Alice Bradley... good stuff and should definitely be part of your list!
27. Bedtimes Are for Suckers
Written from a 4 year-old's POV, this blog is edgy, hilarious comedy that's sure to make you want to spread the word.
29. Pretty All True
Kris is freeking insane and uniquely dysfunctional. EVERY DAY, she makes me laugh out loud (snort), feel the heat (swoon), or marvel at how she survived the madness of her awful upbringing. I'd say she's Dave Barry with a vagina, but she's way more than that. Be clear on one thing. Although Kris writes about her life and family she is NOT a mommy blogger. But she can write like a mother.
30. blue milk
Blog on feminist motherhood, insightful, thought-provoking, funny
31. MommyMoi
After a year of motherhood, Brooke started MommyMoi to find herself "in the land of Elmo." She ended up finding a community of moms and non-moms alike who love her sweet, witty posts about transitioning from life as an NYC editor to suburban mom/freelance writer. Equal parts adorable baby videos and though-provoking lifestyle trend pieces, it's the perfect read to kick off your day.
32. Chalk Farm Home
This mom of three is quickly developing a following. Her tales of living with Stage 4 breast cancer while juggling an interior design business and a baby are witty, inspiring and will make you laugh and cry. The pages are full of beautiful photography and lots of interior design resources.
33. Peaceful Parenting
Dr Momma is an amazing, intelligent, and informative mother. She's a lactivist, intactivist, attachment parenting, groovy mama!
37. mama is comic
the hilarious almost daily comics about life as an attachment parenting, breastfeeding, homebirthing mom. It includes social commentary and a dash of superhero-ish antics
38. Facing Forty Upside Down
This blog is a fabulous and uplifting exploration of the critical time when mommy-hood meets mid-life. Patty Chang Anker blogs about learning things she never got around to learning as a kid now that she's hurtling into middle age. Hilarity and humiliation are sure to follow. Join the fun!
39. Me, My Guys, & My Stumbles Through Parenthood
Natasha's journey into motherhood began when she was only 17 and all odds were seemingly against her. 14 years later she's still married to the father of her two teen boys and teaches writing at the local university. Her hilarious stories share what occurs in a home full of testosterone while she tries to keep her sanity in a house full of ball-scratching, farting, burping and raised toilet seats.
40. OnceAMother
OnceAMother's blog was started as a grief blog after the author lost her first child, Peyton, at just 28 days old. She writes about grief, her battles with secondary infertility, and her life as a new mom to healthy infant twins. It is an honest account of one woman's grieving process, and her journey to hope and joy after loss.
41. Dear Delilah, Fine and Fair
Beautifully expressed letters written for her daughter, Dear Delilah is incredibly touching and stands for the innate wisdom, joys, and power of a mothers love.
42. Farmers Wifey
An aussie blogger, mummy, and farmers wife! She shares her day to day life of livng on a farm, raising her children and the funny things that happen along the way..
43. Standing in the Shadows
Teenager to toddler (four of them), boys & girl (three to one). Topics include feminism, longhaired boys & girls, clutter, open adoption, free range parenting, observing as much as we can & exhaustion (how can we help it? There's so much going on).
44. Imagination Soup
Fun + play + learning + kids = Imagination Soup. At Imagination Soup, Melissa shares the best ideas for learning, children's books, writing, reading, educational games, math, science, technology, and always offers great giveaways! She's a former teacher and a freelance education writer with two kids of her own. It's a fantastic resource - there's nothing like it!
45. MODG
Motherhood and having kids is boring and lame. Except through the eyes of MODG. High-larious.
46. My Mommy Bites
Daily musings of a a disgruntled mom in Los Angeles, dealing with phonies, weirdos and lunatics that come in the form of parents, bad drivers and your typical cast from any urban sprawl.
47. Pink and Green Mama
What happens when an elementary art teacher stays home to raise two little girls? Over 300 arts and crafts ideas! Grab a smock. Create - Play - Explore.
48. soulemama
Creative, and eco-conscious Amanda Soule's blog and the occasional posts by her husband are an inspiring spot on the web, and give me a few minutes of perspective almost every day!
49. "Just By Living"
Amazing blog by a young mom whose son nearly died at birth. She writes about the heartache it caused and how they moved on. Also she has a brother with down syndrome she blogs about! Great stuff!
50. Sarah Hoffman
Sarah Hoffman is the mother of a pink boy and a girl whose favorite color is yellow. She writes for national magazines, newspapers, and radio, and speaks publicly about raising her gender-variant son. She uses a pseudonym to protect the safety of her family.