The winners were selected by drawing numbers out of a bowl and counting the commenters to match the number. In the case where the commenter’s name was hard to specify, I included the time of the comment. If you think you’ve won, please drop me a note using the contact form and tell me in the body of the note what you’ve won, and the mailing address you’d like it sent to. (Very important to tell me what you won because I’ll never remember and might be tempted just to send you a pack of gummy bears and be done with it).
Thanks again so much for celebrating with me. I’ve really enjoyed reading your comments and was touched by all of them.
Via Instant Coffee Packs
Decaffeinated: allisonsara
Iced: Katie F.
Caffeinated: Kim (stressedmama)
Gift Certificate to b good
Jennifer Krieger
Tickets to Expressing Motherhood
1 Liz C
2 Becky @ 11:45
Tilty Floored Farmhouse Care Package
Jess @ 1:37
Package Aden and Anais Blankets
Mommie V
Frog Hollow Farm Peaches
Heather @ 11:14
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 30-October 1, I will be peforming in Boston’s producton of Expressing Motherhood — an ongoing nationwide production of women sharing their stories of motherhood. No acting necessary. (That’s in their literature, I share it here so that we’re all clear: I WILL NOT BE DOING ANY ACTING. I will find it challenging without trying to, you know, professionally emote.)
The performance is at the Durrel Theatre, Cambridge, in Central Square. I am giving away two pairs of tickets to readers who put their name in by commenting here. (I’ll draw names tomorrow night) You can purchase tickets here.
I’ve had some interest in doing a DaMomma.com get together after the performance one night. I love that idea, but only if it doesn’t involve my being expected to, you know, be organized.
See, I’m expected to wear nice shoes in this show. Heels, even. And honestly, figuring out how to walk in shoes and do my reading without a) accidentally swearing; b) falling off the damn shoes; c) throwing up … it’s taking up all my time and energy. I’m sure you understand.
I’m told that we can’t hang out in the theater after the performance, so if we’re doing it a get together it has to be elsewhere. At the request of a reader interested in a group get together, I set up a discussion spot on Facebook. If something does materialize and there is enough interest I’d be really honored and pleased to be there. If not, well, I’ll high tail it to the Tilty Floored Farmhouse to take those damned shoes off.
xoxoxo
DaMomma
Hello, Bloggitty People,
Yes, it has been more than a week since I posted, and yes, I do have a very good reason. With all love and kisses to you, it’s not one I feel like sharing right now. I promise that all the residents of the Tilty Floored Farmhouse are quite well, and I will return to a regular blogging schedule shortly.
Also, I’m getting ready for a big sixth Bloggiversary Special that will include PRESENTS!
In the meantime, you can find me on Twitter and Facebook as always, and I’m also sort of still answering e-mail, too.
xoxox
~DaMomma~
Speaking of freaking fabulous food — my high school classmates Jon and Tony have this company, this burger place that makes home made fresh EVERYTHING — smoothies, fries, burgers (vegetarian, too!). It’s called b good, and they’re a phenomenon here in Boston. They make salads from fresh local produce, and everything is cooked to order. They have a location near Longwood Medical Center and when I was pregnant with Eden I ate a lot of their burgers. (In fact, Cute Husband had to bring me one after I delivered.)
Jon and Tony are opening their newest b good location in Hingham Massachusetts, about thirty minutes south of Boston depending upon the traffic. They’re inviting DaMomma.com readers to a special preview of their food at 5:45 tomorrow night and you can bet your sweet potato fries I am going to be there. The event goes until 8:00, so if you can’t make the preview, you can still get free food after that.
Join me if you want, bring your friends, bring your kids, bring your books to sign and come hungry for delicious burgers!
I will be at the Starbucks at Briargate Promenade in Colorado Springs on Sunday, June 13 at noon.
I’ll be the chick with the latte and the dark sunglasses. I’ll stand right out.
Bring your children, your dogs, your issues, your books to sign. Sip a latte with me and hang out!
First, congratulations to Tzipporah! You are the winner of Ayelet Waldman’s Bad Mother! E-mail me your mailing address and I’ll get it out to you.
Second, if you don’t follow my Twitter and Facebook feeds (why aren’t you following them? Is it because I called my baby an “asshole?” And my friend’s baby “Fat Bastard?” — Okay, yeah, best to stay off the feeds, then.) I want to let you know here that I am going to be in Denver next week and am considering hanging out some place in public for a bit to say hi if anyone wants to. If you would be interested, drop me an e-mail and let me know. I’d be shooting for the 16th, I think, and I am considering the Tattered Cover Bookstore. If you have alternative ideas about great meet up locations, I’d love to hear.
xoxox
DaMomma
You’ve asked. Lots of you have asked. More lately, and I’m not sure why. Maybe because it is such an obvious gap in the narrative. Ducky, Gran, that Grand Man, the aunts, the brother. But never my mother.
And the answer is: because I don’t feel like it. Maybe some day I will, but not today.
What I will tell you is that all parenting — good and bad – is a reaction, good and bad, to the way we were parented. And that one day a little girl decided the one thing she would never ever be was Mom. And she fought and worked and grew up to be DaMomma, and that pleases her greatly, and the joy she has in it she shares as widely as she can.
My compassion, my desire for privacy, my stage of life will allow no more discussion than that.
