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Giveaway 1: You’re a Good Mom Book Pack

by char on April 21st, 2008

You’re a Good Mom packA few weeks ago I reviewed the new book by author, Jen Singer - You’re a Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren’t So Bad Either). It is seriously the most entertaining parenting book I have ever read and so full of funny stories, sane advice, and “I’ve been there” moments. Here is a short excerpt from my review:

For 21st Century mothers, there seem to be just two choices: Super Mom or Slacker Mom. One’s bad for you; one’s bad for your kids. So what’s a mom to do? Jen offers secrets for raise perfectly good kids in that sweet spot between flash cards at breakfast and “donuts for dinner, kids!”
Jen’s book is full of common sense advice, served with a side of humor and sass. The chapters have titles that are also the secrets like “Super Mom is Faking It”, “Your Kid’s Birthday Party Isn’t Your Coming-Out Celebration”, “Your Kid Shouldn’t Be Wearing a T-Shirt That Reads Future Trophy Wife” and “If You Think You’re a Cool Mom, Your Kids Think You’re a Pushover.”

Since I am not willing to give up my personal copy, Jen has graciously sent a You’re A Good Mom pack for me to give to one of our readers this week. What’s included? Start with the book, You’re a Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren’t So Bad Either) and then add a bar of handmade Hawaiian Malama soap (this smells amazing) made from oatmeal, grapefruit and Litsea essential oils courtesy of Kona Natural Soap, a Momma Needs a time-Out door hanger, and your own rubber ducky.

How do you win it? It’s easy. Share a story, sighting or comment about a Super Mom or Slacker Mom moment you have had or witnessed in the comments below! I know you have one!

Leave your comments between now and midnight Friday, April 25th. The winner will be contacted via email, so please be sure you leave a valid email address. Please leave your email address in the box under your name instead of in the comment section. Due to shipping costs, this giveaway is open to US and Canadian addresses only.

This is part of the big Bloggy Giveaways being hosted at Don’t Try This at Home. Stop back in - I will be adding more giveaways all week long!! Don’t miss a giveaway - here’s my complete list.

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  • Julie
    Apr 21, 2008 at 11:00 am

    My “slacker mom” moment…

    all the time I have been spending checking out the giveaways today!!

    Julie

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  • Noreen Crone-Findlay
    Apr 21, 2008 at 11:49 am

    You’re always a mother, no matter how old your kids are! And sometimes, you have to force yourself to be a ’slacker’ mom and be a ‘backer-offer’ mom, which is sooooooooo much harder than being a super mom! LOL!
    Just being a mom is a total blessing and I love it!
    Great giveaway! :o)

  • Katie
    Apr 21, 2008 at 11:51 am

    Of course I can only recall “slacker mom” moments…My 3 year old saying during my Bunco night…Mom, can you put down your wine and please get me a sandwich! I’m so hungry my insides hurt. NICE!

  • Shannon
    Apr 21, 2008 at 11:57 am

    I hate to say it but I think I have been a super mom. I have been taking care of a former 28 weeker since 04/20/07 when he was born 12 weeks too early and we have been on a long road and we have endured alot and I deserve this.
    Thanks for the giveaway!
    Enter me please.
    palmersf(at)bellsouth(dot)net

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  • Laura
    Apr 21, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    Slacker mom moment…I let them have candy at breakfast this weekend!

  • Lindley
    Apr 21, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    Slacker Mom moment:
    Letting Diego babysit my 3-year-old most afternoons! Thanks!

  • Alison
    Apr 21, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    I swear I’m not copying the above commenters…I feel like a slacker mom right now because I’m letting the kids watch a video while I’m on the computer.

  • ChristiS
    Apr 21, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Oh my…I’m constantly a slacker mom! But I did have a Super Mom moment last week. As an incentive to keep attendance up here at the end of the school year, the school where I work and older son attends has been having a contest. If your classroom is in the top 10 classrooms for attendance for the week, the entire class got to wear pajamas to school one day. Guess who forgot all about it until we got to school? Yep, me! So son didn’t come up and beg me for pjs, but I felt horrible for forgetting. I grabbed him up, got someone to watch my class, and speedily made it home and back with boy in pajamas in about 20 minutes! I reminded him that he had a mama who loved him lots to do that for him! So one super mama point for me! LOL

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  • Jenny B (aka Mother Hen)
    Apr 21, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    So, I’m in the bathroom and my 8 yo son comes in the house from the back yard calling as he walks toward my room,” Mama, where are you?” So I answer, (put a little attitude in yer voice as you read this part)”I’m in the bathroom.” He totally missed the attitude part and assumed I meant,(put some syrup on it now),” I’m in here, Sweetie, can I serve you in some way?” The nerve, and he wasn’t even bleeding or anything!

  • Jenn
    Apr 21, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    I am being a slacker mom right now…letting my Princess play by herself at my feet while I comment on giveaway blogs!

  • Mama Zen
    Apr 21, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    Allowing a sprinkling of water to pass for a shower!

  • Kim
    Apr 21, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    How about the day I forgot that the hot lunch service at daycare was not avaiable (it was on the monthly calendar) and didn’t send a lunch for my daughter. We got a call from the director asking if we were bringing her anything to eat. I was mildly comforted to learn that we were only one of 25 parents who did the same thing that day. Still, it was an…ahem…proud parenting moment.

  • Mimzee
    Apr 21, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    Slacker Mom moment: Cake for breakfast! Only once but you would know he told everyone he saw for weeks!

  • Lesha
    Apr 21, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    I’m bit of a slacker mom quarterly…. two words: Bloggy Giveaways :)

  • bren j.
    Apr 21, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    Hm…I think I need one of those door hangers for every doorknob in the house. :) thanks for the contest!

  • Mo
    Apr 21, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    I’m a slacker mom in that my 4 and 6 year old daughters make their own breakfast, lunch & snack, plus rinse & load their dishes and do other chores. I figure if I’m supporting them, I can get some labor out of them…lol

    Oh, and I would never have them wear a “Future Trophy Wife” t-shirt, but it did make me laugh! I’d love to win! Thank you for the chance =)

  • Denise
    Apr 21, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    My dear son prayed that his “mean mommy would go to work the next day”. So now my nickname is Mean Mommy! Thanks!

  • Lisa
    Apr 21, 2008 at 6:26 pm

    I saw a mother walking with her 5 yr old daughter on the railroad tracks one day. I’m not sure if “Slacker Mom” is what I would call her, ha ha.

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  • jennifer bowen
    Apr 21, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    i would like to win this well try to thanks

  • Cindi
    Apr 21, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    Hi, I am more of a “Bubble Mom!” I am so protective of my two sons, that my husband says I would put a bubble around each of them if I could! Thanks,Cindi

  • JenniferB
    Apr 21, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    I’ve had my share of both — my super mom moment of late: planning a 4 hour birthday party for my 12 year old daughter and letting her have 8 friends over; my slacker mom moment: futzing around this morning until after 9am and then my 6 year old asking “do I get to have breakfast today mommy?” Sheesh. (Usually she gets her own — but who knows why she didn’t today?)

  • Julie
    Apr 21, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    I laid on the couch while my 15 month old daughter played and I may have slept a little bit.
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  • ali
    Apr 21, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    slacker mom– putting on the tv for my 2 yr old tonight….so i could hit the giveaways. oops

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  • jessica @pianomomsicle
    Apr 21, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    i gave my son extra goldfish crackers in his high chair today so i could catch up on reading blogs!

    (can’t believe i admitted it:))

    i’ve actually put that book on my amazon wishlist. It would be wonderful to win it instead of just wish for it!

  • Brooke Allen
    Apr 21, 2008 at 10:31 pm

    Good mom: teaching my 5 year old how to read

    Slacker mom: putting 1 year old ds in front of “signing time” DVDs while teaching 5 year old to read.

  • kerri renner
    Apr 21, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    when its morning and everyone is gone except my 3 yr old my super slacker moment is putting in a movie and laying on the couch with my 3 yr old and going back to sleep and getting our day started around 12;00

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    Apr 22, 2008 at 4:25 am

    Well, the slacking part is easy to recall during BLOGGY GIVEAWAY week! Though I will say I felt like a super mom during my son’s 4th birthday party when I transformed the backyard into a wonderland of dinosaur marvels! :)

  • Michelle
    Apr 22, 2008 at 4:43 am

    In some ways, I am a slacker mom. There are days when instead of reading my kids a story, I will just put in a story tape for them. Not nearly as personal, but it buys me a few free minutes to collect my thoughts once in awhile.

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  • Tracylea
    Apr 22, 2008 at 6:13 am

    Slacker Mom: Not eating breakfast

  • Emily~Little Chickie
    Apr 22, 2008 at 6:30 am

    I am a mommy of soon to be 8 little ones-Yeppers I am 36 week pregnant with baby #8! Ages ranging from 13yrs-2yrs. I am one busy lady!! I also run my own online business making gifts for little ones~ As if I don’t have enough to do… Would love to be able to take a bath without kiddos beating on the door till I open it and then having 2-3 kiddos standing there NUDE and jumping into to my bath tub—-Bath Tub Hijackings should be outlawed!! Hope you pick me!! My hubby says he will guard the door….

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  • Veronica
    Apr 22, 2008 at 7:26 am

    I work nights and I am such a slacker mom the morning after I work. I put the baby on the boob and the two year old in front of the TV while I lay on the couch and doze off.

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  • Sandra
    Apr 22, 2008 at 8:03 am

    That Looks like a great book. I must say I feel like a slacker at the moment spending all of this time on the computer while my son watches TV! Yikes. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  • Tara
    Apr 22, 2008 at 8:39 am

    Slacker mom moment - My baby eats cat food daily. I don’t mean that I feed it to her (I’m not THAT bad!) but she is walking and she grabs a handful every time I’m not looking. I’m forever doing the finger sweep and pulling out all the chunks of food.

  • Maureen
    Apr 22, 2008 at 8:55 am

    Slackermom moment- reading blogs while my 2 year old son empties lotion onto the carpet! Yikes!

  • Kirsten
    Apr 22, 2008 at 9:14 am

    This morning I was too tired from an all nighter with baby and my toddler finally came with a box of cereal begging to be fed. Am excellent mother.

  • kellybstampin
    Apr 22, 2008 at 9:36 am

    Hmmm…..I probably have good examples of both. But for this post, I’ll share my super mom moment. . . . Yesterday we ALL got lick ‘em tattoos, even Mommy & Daddy. Our littlest (19 mo) is still walking around showing me her star tattoo. And every time my 3 year old whines or causes trouble, I ask him to show me his tattoo and he immediately stops misbehaving to show me! The 5 year old loves hers, too. What fun such a simple thing can be . . . OH, and another supermom moment happened two weeks ago when my husband and I spent 11 hours over the course of a week putting together a wooden swing set for the kids. Whew. . . before becoming a parent we really should have had an intro course! ha ha!

  • Nikowa
    Apr 22, 2008 at 9:40 am

    Slackermom moment-when the kids are writing on themselves and you’re too into a book to notice!

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  • Sharla
    Apr 22, 2008 at 11:02 am

    I deserve slacker mom award right now for entering blog giveaways instead of playing with my kids or doing my dishes! At least my twins are asleep. ;)

  • Richelle F
    Apr 22, 2008 at 11:03 am

    Slacker mom moment–my son was getting in to the cereal cabinet while I was cooking dinner. It was fine, until he got a bag out of a cereal box, and then dumped it on the floor. I was too tired after a long day, that I not only didn’t do anything about it, but let him eat the cereal off the floor!

  • Emily
    Apr 22, 2008 at 11:03 am

    My friends tell me I am Super Mom but I probably spend too much time on my computer.

  • Ann
    Apr 22, 2008 at 11:45 am

    ok, slacker mom at the moment. I’ve fed my son lunch, he just jumped on the schoolbus. I’ve only done 1 washload and my house is a mess!!! These Bloggy giveaways are just addicting!
    Thanks for the giveaway!

  • Christy
    Apr 22, 2008 at 11:56 am

    Slacker mom moment… finding a part of a chicken nugget under the table and not being able to remember the last time we served those for dinner.
    Super mom moment… watching my 2-year-old play and knowing that we’ve nurtured a love of books and music and puzzles, despite the mounds of electronic toys our families send our way.

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  • Noreen
    Apr 22, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    A few days ago my kids had breakfast all day. eggo waffles for breakfast(hubby fed them these), cereal for lunch and scrambled eggs with sausage for dinner. In my defense that is what they wanted to eat. :)

  • Monique
    Apr 22, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    We all have our super mom and slacker mom moments. I try to forget the slacker mom moments. But every day as I cloth diaper my baby and feed her homemade organic baby food, I feel like a super mom!

  • Rebecca
    Apr 22, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    My girlfriend is Supermom - clean house, clean and well-dressed kids, homemade meals almost every night, and she still finds time for her hobbies and to get down and play with them (how does she find the energy?)

  • Christie
    Apr 22, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    Slacker mom moment? How do I choose? How about right now going berzerk over bloggy givaways while listening to my kids fight downstairs.

  • Jessica
    Apr 22, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    I’m definitely a slacker mom. Many days go by in pyjamas, with dirty hair, and dirty dishes. Only occasionally I feel like I do my job marginally acceptable

  • Jen Singer
    Apr 22, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    Wow! There are so many stories here, it’s going to be hard to choose a winner.

    As for Super Mom, Rebecca, I write about her in “You’re a Good Mom.” In short, she’s faking it. It’s all propaganda, so take heart. She only puts her feet up in the gynecologist’s office.

    Jen Singer
    MommaSaid.net

  • Heather
    Apr 22, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    Oh my gosh — you shougld see my house! I am such a slacker (some days)

  • Kyra
    Apr 22, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    I was supermom the other day when not only was my house clean (rarely happens) but my son (who just turned 2 by the way) re-enacted a story we had just read when we had company over. They were impressed and so was I. The house was trashed the next day and my son watched a movie so I could take a shower, but I had one moment of glory! :)

  • Jules
    Apr 22, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    Slacker moment of today…letting my kids watch TV for too long while I surfed blog giveaways! *blush*

    Slacker moment of the year…Leaving the open bottle of vitamins on the edge of the counter. My two year old ate a TON of them (she was fine!) But it still scared the heck out of me!

    This looks like a great giveaway!

  • Sara
    Apr 22, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    Slacker mom moment: I deliberately skipped his nap-time so he would poop out early in the evening when friends were dropping by so i could have an adult conversation for a change! :)

  • Sarah D.
    Apr 22, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    Last week I think my daughter had cereal for dinner like three nights in a row (she loved that), but this week I’ve turned that around and had more energy to cook some really good meals. I take it one day at a time.

  • nottryingforaboy
    Apr 22, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    That book looks hilarious!!!!

  • Missy L
    Apr 22, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    My slacker mom moment is right now, my son should be up from nap but I am do busy reading blogs to get him up, plus I am sick so I just need the me time. He probably won’t sleep tonight now but at least daddy is around to help out if not. Please enter me in the giveaway…thanks for hosting this.

    misspooh8 (at) yahoo (dot) com

  • Jamie
    Apr 22, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    That looks like a great book. I’d love to win it! Thanks for the great giveaway!

  • Liz Y
    Apr 22, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    My slacker mom moment is definitely spending time entering a bunch of these contests! What a great giveaway! Please sign me up! Thanks!

  • Amy
    Apr 22, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    So far I feel like a slacker mom - I’m 11 weeks with #1 and am sick all the time… I hope I will be a much better mom once he/she’s here :)

  • Marne
    Apr 22, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    Oh, what mom doesn’t need this book? Fabulous!

  • Michelle
    Apr 22, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    A couple of days ago we (my sons and I) were talking about gifts. My 5 year old turned to me and said, “Mom, I know what your gift is. You always know when me and Joseph need to pee!”.

    He was so proud of himself and I was ROFL!

  • Laura L
    Apr 22, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    Oh, it gets easier to be a slacker mom the older they get. Lately, the worst I’ve done is leave questionable music on the XM radio.

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  • Kristi
    Apr 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    I think slacker mom would definitely be too much time blogging. I have had to make rules for myself because I was slacking WAY too much. This book looks perfect for me.

  • Mrs. P.
    Apr 22, 2008 at 5:03 pm

    Well, my *most* slacker mom moment was last month. I was nodding off on the couch during PBS Kids, and my then-6 year old says, “It’s OK Mom. I’ll watch my brother so you can nap. I’ll wake you after Cyber Chase.” He then tucked me in.
    Yeah, I took that nap.
    LOL.
    Sounds like I need that book….

  • Marly
    Apr 22, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    This mom hasn’t spent much quality time with her son this week, ’cause she’s been too busy checking out new blogs and contests! :(

  • Naomi
    Apr 22, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    My four year old looked at me and said “mommy, you don’t have enough time for me” as I tried to get the baby to sleep. I felt so rotten!

    come enter my contests, too…

  • Julie
    Apr 22, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    Slacker mom alert….
    My daughter told my husband tonight that she wanted a bath “like mommy does it”…which apparently means a rinse-off, no soap. Sigh. I only do that SOMETIMES! LOL
    julie_ruhlman(at)hotmail(dot)com

  • Heather G
    Apr 22, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    Slacker mom moment? Right now I’m spending time online instead of playing with my boys or picking things up.

  • Elaine Rosser
    Apr 22, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    Great baby shower gift!

  • Ebie
    Apr 22, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    ok, slacker mom, we just got satellite tv, and i’ve just been hooked on food network, but do i actually cook the recipes i watch being made? no, not really.

  • Meg
    Apr 22, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    I felt like a “slacker mom” once when my son had a fever and I didn’t know it….I dropped him off at my mom’s and she called me a few minutest later to ask if I’d known he had a temperature! Augh. Thanks for the giveaway!

  • Krista
    Apr 22, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    I never EVER call my child names. And then one time in front of someone I really respect he did something stupid and I said, you dummy. How come these thing come out of my mouth at the most inopportune times?

  • CanCan
    Apr 22, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    One of my slacker mom moments was not changing the sheets for 2 days after my newborn spit up on them twice…I’m talking about my own bed here, not the crib! I just put a towel on top of the spot and continued to sleep there. I drew the line when he had a leaky poopy diaper in my bed. I mean a girl has to have standards.

  • Joy
    Apr 22, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    When I was pregnant I was a major slacker mom to my toddler. I would be so tired I’d let her wander around my room or sit in my bed while I slept/rested an extra hour in the morning.

    Needless to say I would wake up to makeup smeared all over her darling face, toilet paper strewn in the bathroom, toys all over my bed—all while she grinned, happy as a kitten.

    Yeah, I learned my lesson! I would absolutely love this book and thank you for your consideration in this giveaway!!!

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  • Shilo Beedy
    Apr 22, 2008 at 7:33 pm

    Two days ago I had my super mom moment. I did the dishes and eight loads of clothes. I moped both the bathroom and the kitchen. I took my kids outside to play. Plus I picked up the living room and cooked supper!

  • Carrie
    Apr 22, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    I felt like a slacker when my son complained of a hurt arm for 4 days before I took him to the doctor…it wasn’t broken, but strain. He needed a permanant splint for 10 days. The doctor said see the swelling and bruising right here?? Duh? Well, I listen a little more carefully to the kids complaints now!!! Thanks for the offer!!

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  • Smellyann
    Apr 22, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    My slacker moment: When I am wiped, I tell my KIDS they need a nap so I can take one, too…

  • Jennifer
    Apr 22, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    I am a slacker mom when I let the 14 year old make the bottle. She does it quite often…LOL

    Jennifer
    dj3hill98 (at) bellsouth (dot) net

  • tanyetta
    Apr 22, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    slacker mom=feeding son lunch on the way home in the back seat of the car just to speed up naptime once we got home!

  • Shaunalynn
    Apr 22, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    My most recent Super Mom moment was this past weekend when I splurged on a plastic swimming pool and 3 bags of colored Crayola sand for my two girls. They spent several hours playing in that sand with not an ounce of whine to go with it. That was the best $40 I’ve spent all year. The Crayola sand is so soft and fine and they just loved that it was colored.

    http://www.momstop.blogspot.com

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  • Qtpies7~
    Apr 23, 2008 at 4:48 am

    People think I am a super mom because I have 7 kids. Sure, they are all DRESSED, but that doesn’t mean I have it all together. I don’t like being put on a pedastal. I am real, I am human, I err all the time.

  • amanda
    Apr 23, 2008 at 4:48 am

    I am working so hard to find the “super” in even the not so “pretty” moments. Perhaps the most “super” thing I’ve done is make the choice and sacrifices to be home with my girls and to give them each other…some days it doesn’t feel “super” but I think thats because I listen to everything from the outside world and not the truth! I think it is super that I feed them….even if some meals are better than others…that I work hard to train them up with discipline and love…funny how many of these “slacker moments” people are mentioning are sometimes just being practical and doing what we need to do. :)

  • Suzanne Bastien
    Apr 23, 2008 at 5:46 am

    Slacker mom….. I buy the kids Chef BoyAredee products so I don’t have to cook on some nights.. :(

  • Summer
    Apr 23, 2008 at 5:47 am

    Slacker mom moment? Spending an hour today already just entering giveaways. lol!

  • Hollie
    Apr 23, 2008 at 6:32 am

    I think I qualify for both super and slacker mom awards from solo parenting a special needs child to them days when I spend ALL day in my pjs..Yep I am both!

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  • Susan Chester
    Apr 23, 2008 at 6:59 am

    I have had many slacker-mom moments. Like the time I served Fruit Loops for dinner. My kids loved it, husband wasn’t so happy!

  • Dawn
    Apr 23, 2008 at 7:09 am

    My cousin has tried for 5 years to conceive and she’s finally expecting in October. I’d give this to her :)

  • Tammy
    Apr 23, 2008 at 7:13 am

    Well MY mom had a slacker mom moment, when I was in jr.high. She forgot to pick me up after school when I had an extra band practice, in the middle of winter, in Canada. You know before the days of cellphones, and such, and of course I had no bus fare. I had to walk 2 miles home, not dressed for the weather. But I’m all grown up now, and have forgiven her (mostly)!

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  • Worlds Greatest Mommy
    Apr 23, 2008 at 9:30 am

    Once at the dentist, there was a mom who made her children sit in the opposite section of the waiting room from her. She proceeded to lay down on a chair and take a nap. Meanwhile the kids started to destroy the waiting area, even turning a table upside down and stacking chairs on top of each other. I finally stepped in and told them to all sit down quietly and read some stories to them.

    I felt bad for the mom, I could tell she was tired. But I was also irritated at her lack of responsibility.

  • boogiemum
    Apr 23, 2008 at 9:52 am

    I have been wanting this book and would love to win it!

  • Susan
    Apr 23, 2008 at 10:26 am

    I’m a slacker mom. We havn’t left the house in 3 days and I’ve been feeling kind of lazy so my toddler hasn’t had a bath since Saturday. On top of that, she’s been wearing the same dress since then! I’ve got to get her washed and changed today though since we’re going to grandmas!

  • Zara
    Apr 23, 2008 at 10:42 am

    My slacker mom moment was just last night when I served fruit and cereal for dinner, so that I could get back to the carnival lol. My kids happen to really like fruit and cereal, so it was okay. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway! :)

  • Lindsie
    Apr 23, 2008 at 11:07 am

    Slacker mom moment: letting my daughter watch noggin all afternoon so I could get some cleaning done.

  • Annabelle
    Apr 23, 2008 at 11:32 am

    Having another mom take my oldest son to testing so I wouldn’t have to! (Slacker-mom!)

  • Ginny
    Apr 23, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    I have to be honest, I have tons of slacker mom moments. My most recent is these dang giveaways. I keep trying to clean house & then I’m like just one more contest, lol.

  • P Hafner
    Apr 23, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    For Dinner, I’ve given my kids crackers, lunch meat cut into squares and squares of cheese all arranged on a plate and told them it was a Fancy Appetizer.

  • Tara R
    Apr 23, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    My mom was a super mom- single parent and awesome at it!

  • Jennifer Bogart
    Apr 23, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    Wow, what a great prize package! And available to Canada, woohoo! Thanks! Well, I am a slacker mom these past few days, I badly scalded my foot - second degree burns, and have been taking time off of the house, just in time for the ahem, bloggy carnival ;).

  • Michele
    Apr 23, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    I kind of playing the slacker mom these days..I have 2 older children on going on 9 and on going on 12 and I had a babu girl 7 weeks ago.. and i am so bad i lay on the bed and listen to the the older ones get ready for school and I buy easy breakfast things like bagels and toaster items so I don’t have to get up until it time to go to the bus….I know so lasy and so bad mom of the year award….but i am tired…I hope it counts for something at I at least awake just not up

  • Sarah Berry
    Apr 23, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    This book sounds wonderful. I would love to give it a good read or two. Thanks

  • Kara
    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    What an awesome giveaway! That book sounds great. I recently moved and went to a playdate with a bunch of other moms from my church and as always there was the mom that is perfectly made up, beautiful styled hair, makeup, clothes not out of place, no chocolate stains on her sleeve from a chocolate-covered toddler. I was so jealous, but also not because I was thinking “man, she must have to spend a lot of time to look like that”. Luckily she didn’t have the SuperMom attitude to go with it or I don’t think I would have liked her lol, she was very sweet and talked about soccer-mom rage at her kid’s soccer game because another 4-year old was better than the rest and kept taking the ball. LOL fun stuff.

  • Debbie
    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    So I read the comments and think my best day is worse than the ones everyone comments on. My kids just run around dirty and happy. I guess that’s slacker - I’m pretending it’s just what use to happen all the time.

  • Alaina
    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Slacker mom moments: cereal for supper when daddy isn’t home and occasionally putting them in bed with me and letting them watch PBS while I catch a few more minutes of sleep.

  • Karen
    Apr 23, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    I think I have been a super mom at times. My baby is graduating high school in May. Between his older brother and him, I have attended more sporting events than I can remember. They both play golf, and we spent our summer vacations taking them to golf tournaments. The youngest has 2 state championship rings for golf, and we are heading back to state on May 5th and 6th. I know I will miss this when he is gone. My neice could use the book, she just went through a nasty divorce. Thanks for the chance.

  • amie
    Apr 23, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    Thanks!

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  • Lori - Queen of Dirty Laundry
    Apr 23, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    Slacker Mom makes sure there are plenty of family movies on the DVR for those times I’m not feeling well.

    Thanks for a great giveaway!

  • Natasha
    Apr 23, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    Can I be a “super-slacker”? That sounds bad but I am definitely both. Like now, DH is putting the baby to bad. Slacker moment. Sign me up!

  • Paige
    Apr 23, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    Super mom moment when my three year old says mom,”Your my buddy”. slacker mom moment when do something for him when he says “i can’t”

  • Sarah A.
    Apr 23, 2008 at 6:53 pm

    A slacker mom moment is we had cold cereal for dinner because I didn’t feel like making anything else.

  • Sarah
    Apr 23, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    Slacker mom moment - I let my kids order pizza when I’m too lazy or tired to cook.

  • stacee
    Apr 23, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    My slacker mom moment came when I arrived home from a 10 hour work day to my teenage sons, who had been off school for the day, asking what I planned to fix for dinner. I was too tired to even think about fixing anything, they are capable (and good at) fixing family meals and I was sick of the diet I had been trying to follow. My answer was ‘I’m having a few cookies and a bowl of cereal before taking a bath; you’re welcome to join me at the kitchen counter’. Of course they didn’t like my offer so they fixed their own dinner that night. They still ask if we’re having cookies and cereal for dinner.

  • Julie J Donahue
    Apr 23, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    My mama disasters (usually occuring when I’m especially sleep deprived) aren’t pretty. It’s been better since I’ve been working on changing my heart. I don’t blow up like I used to.

  • Melanie
    Apr 24, 2008 at 12:21 am

    Slacker Mom

    I took DS to the bookstore and used a gift card given to my DH to buy him 5 new chapter books. Then we went to the shoe store where I had to practically sit on him to keep him from running up and down the aisles and trying on the high heels.

    We pull into the driveway and I tell him to go straight inside and start getting ready for bed. Immediate whining about not having watched any TV, and wanting more to eat for dinner (mind you we’ve been gone for almost 2 hours and it’s almost 9 o’clock). I get mad, basically say he’s being a brat after all the stuff he just got and so much for being able to stay out late like a big kid (DS is 5).

    Cross go the arms, out go the lips, in comes the attitude and he says he’s not going to bed EVER. So I say goodnight, get out of the car, set the alarm and go inside the door to count to 30. At 10, the car alarm goes off. I let him out and he’s got tears and snot DH comes up to see what all the commotion is and DS tells him “Mama locked me in the car and I was so scared I wanted to throw up. I could have died in there!”

    I tried not to laugh because he was so upset. Not my proudest moment. Thanks for letting me vent and for the neat give away.

  • Tamara (AK)
    Apr 24, 2008 at 1:33 am

    We’re having a slacker mom moment while I enter some bloggy giveaways!

    Yours is a fun one! Thanks! :-)

  • Princess Leia
    Apr 24, 2008 at 3:02 am

    So I work from home doing stuff on my computer. One time when little man was just starting to get around (and before I had my laptop), he was playing on the floor at my feet while I was working. I saw him chewing on various cables, but I figured it was ok as long as it was the “plug” end.

    That is until I saw “USB device not recognized” pop up on my desktop and realized that he was chewing on the end of a USB cable that was plugged into the back of the computer (and therefore receiving POWER!!!!).

    Yeah, I should get the “slacker mom of the year” award for that one!

  • Ashley BB
    Apr 24, 2008 at 4:12 am

    I would have to agree with some of the women here… I am totally having a slacker mom moment entering these contests. He is supposed to be getting ready for preschool! Oops!

  • Shelley
    Apr 24, 2008 at 7:01 am

    Mama needs some me time.

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    Apr 24, 2008 at 7:31 am

    What a great gift for one of the nursing home residents I read to for Mother’s Day.
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  • Marion
    Apr 24, 2008 at 7:46 am

    Super mom…I let my DD go on a Band trip this week to the US (I’m in Canada) and I didn’t even tag along behind the bus!! LOL I think I’m actually kind of in between super mom and slacker mom.

    Marion

  • katklaw777
    Apr 24, 2008 at 7:46 am

    I have been both slacker and super mom. How about mixing up the baby pictures and since child #2 wore some of child #1s hand me downs….. help now what do I do!?! use my x-ray vision of course! one is a girl and one is a boy. lol

  • fedora
    Apr 24, 2008 at 8:21 am

    Slacker Mom here entering contests while saying, “OK, sure you can watch another episode of Word World!” ;)

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  • taylor
    Apr 24, 2008 at 9:46 am

    oh my goodness, this would be perfect for me! i am a weary mommy and i need a time out!

    also, the book sounds great!

    so please please please count me in!

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  • Sarah
    Apr 24, 2008 at 10:20 am

    This book sounds right up my alley. I seem to alternate between overachiever days and slacker days (I wear myself out overdoing it then veg out the next day, then repeat the roller coaster). Thanks for the chance to win this relaxing prize package right in time for Mother’s Day.

  • Adria Sha
    Apr 24, 2008 at 10:31 am

    I’m being the Slacker Mom right now, unfortunately. All 3 of my little mischief makers have snuck downstairs and are being quiet. I should go see what they are up to in sister’s room - and I will - I just want to enjoy a few minutes of quiet first!

    The book sounds like one that needs to go on my To Read list. I could use a few laughs and some inspiration. And the other things sounds just heavenly.

  • Mandy
    Apr 24, 2008 at 10:54 am

    SuperMom moment: while my husband was in Honduras on a medical mission for the last 2 1/2 weeks my three toddlers and I completely spring-cleaned the house and yard!!
    SlackerMom: What I’m doing right now! Bloggin’ away!

  • Tiff@Three Peas
    Apr 24, 2008 at 11:16 am

    Love the giveaway. Enter me please!

  • audra
    Apr 24, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    My slacker mom moment- happens almost every night- When my baby wakes up at night to eat we both generally fall asleep in the recliner- rather than me taking the 60 seconds it would take to get up, put him in his crib and get in my own bed

  • Marsha
    Apr 24, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    Supermom: any mom is a supermom
    Slacker mom….hey we all need a break every now and then. Oh yeah……..slacker mom GRANDMA!!!!!!

  • LeeAnn
    Apr 24, 2008 at 12:48 pm

    My friend would LOVE this! She is a new mom.

  • chanelireli
    Apr 24, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    what a great giveaway! Slacker mom: has to be the bloggy carnival and all the time I’m spending on it. Supermom: The month I was home alone with my 5 kids (including twin 2 month olds) while my dh was in china

  • The Chatty Housewife
    Apr 24, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    Mine is a super mom story. I have a friend with three kids three and under and she is amazing with them. On Sunday she fed her family of five and four others a fancy lunch. She is great! Thank you so much for the great giveaway, I would love to be the winner! Nw_wife(at)hotmail(dot)com

  • Chantelle Sabino
    Apr 24, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    i was a complete slacker mom last weekend! i was terribly sick and left my hubby with my 2 year old and slept all day saturday! well after finding out my son had cake for breakfast lunch and dinner i felt even worse lol

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  • skye
    Apr 25, 2008 at 8:52 am

    My slacker moment lately has been checking out all th giveaway’s…my kids have never watched so many movies and cartoons-:(

  • sherrieb
    Apr 25, 2008 at 9:33 am

    what a great prize package!!

    my own mom is a super mom - my washer has been broken , and she has graciously been helping me catch up by doing some for me - it is so wonderful to pick up my laundry clean and neatly folded!!

  • Teri Meairs
    Apr 25, 2008 at 11:12 am

    Don’t blame ya. I would’nt give up my copy either,(if I had one(smile). Sounds hilarious..my kind of humour. Thanks for shareing!

  • Lisa
    Apr 25, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    Super mom: I was a single working mom for over two years after my ex moved out and we divorced. Keeping body and soul together was a superhuman effort some days.

    Slacker mom: There were occasions my kid had Cheetos for breakfast because I hadn’t gotten anything made, and there were mornings I was trying to find something in the laundry pile that wasn’t *too* dirty because I hadn’t managed to get the laundry done!

    I think we all have our super moments and slacker moments! :-)

  • Natalie
    Apr 25, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    My mother works in pediatric disabilities and I could only hope to be half the maternal woman she is..

    ~I do however need the guidance as we live on opposite sides of the state

  • Anastazia
    Apr 25, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    Hi, I’m a slacker/super mom! (NOT a super slacker mom, Lol!)
    Supermom moment…GOOD homeschooling days, teaching quilting, cooking, math skills while shopping…
    …slacker daze? Letting all the dishes run out (I’ve been sick) & my daughter hunting for plastic spoons & paper plates (rather than wash a few dishes herself! Hmmm….)
    Great contest, would love this book & prize, I’d read it & pass it along to other slacker/super moms I know!
    ~Anastazia in beautiful BC~

  • reeva
    Apr 25, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Thanks for a great giveaway! I hope i’m the lucky winner :)

    its SO ok to be a slacker mom! :)

  • Maggie
    Apr 25, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    What a wonderful giveaway! My neice is becoming a new mom at age 40 and I think this would be an awesome gift for her if I were to win it.

  • Mary_Freebies
    Apr 25, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    Sounds like a book I want to read.

  • Sherry Ann Abrams
    Apr 25, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    Super Moms like me (3 year old and 3 month old) are super just by surviving a long day and loving their children by enjoying every moment.

  • Teri
    Apr 25, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    I’m not a mom (yet), but I am a teacher, so I will share a slacker mom story with you. I had a parent-teacher conference with the mom of one of my kindergartners last year & I told her that I was worried about her son & his lack of progress made throughout the school year. I then proceeded to suggest a few things that she could work on at home with him, to which she replied (very meanly, I might add), “Well, I guess we could try, but I really think that’s YOUR job - I mean, you are his teacher!”…which would explain why he had the learning issues that he had in the first place! NO one in his home wanted to extend the school-to-homelearning environment

  • Michelle B
    Apr 25, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    Super mom moment: when my guys willing help someone else that needs help

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