How to Change the World: The Ultimate Mommy Blog List

Note: There is a contingent of readers of my blog who do not like when I write about blogs/blogging/bloggers. I rsquo;d guess there rsquo;s also a contingent who do not like when I write about non-business, non-tech, non-male subjects. To these readers, I say in advance: ldquo;You can never support a mom, much less a mommy blogger, too much, so deal with it.

rdquo; ldquo;Mom with a mohawk. rdquo; Watch Badgermama as she raises a son, lives as a writer in San Francisco and attends PTA meetings where the other moms pretend they rsquo;re not staring at her purple hair. .

ldquo;The one-stop internet spot for parents of twins and multiples. rdquo; Welcome to an online magazine whose name was inspired by the song, ldquo;Bewitched, bothered and bewildered. rdquo; Edited by a mother of twins, journalist Diana Day.

. ldquo;Better parenting through coffee. rdquo; Busy Mom is 41 years old and has been married to Busy Dad for 15 years.

They have three kids: Busy Girl (11), Busy Boy (9) and The Preschooler Formerly Known as Busy Baby (4)...

. ldquo;A Trinidadian term of endearment, used especially when addressing a child. rdquo; A former C-level executive, Karen is a full-time writer and photographer, with a wry wit and a good eye.

Chookooloonks describes her daily life as an ldquo;Englameridadian," being married to a Brit, and being the mother of a child so multicultural she defies categorization. And don rsquo;t miss her other blogs: , , and . .

ldquo;Mama ain rsquo;t raisin rsquo; no fool. rdquo; Welcome to the private site of a 36-year-old hip-hop- and new-wave-music-obsessed, city-dwelling mother of two. You may already know her as professional blogger Stefania Butler (Slashfood, Blogging Baby).

.. .

Not McCoy style! Jenna blogs about family life, fire and military life, homeownership, broadcasting drama and, of course, ldquo;the cutest baby on the planet. rdquo; Content also includes photography, book and product reviews and the occasional -- but necessary -- rant.

. ldquo;I rsquo;m your host, Mrs. Kennedy rdquo; An editor-turned-blogger takes on the struggle to live life as a thinking person while trying to get a small boy to school on time without dog biscuits in his teeth.

. ldquo;Putting the lsquo;mo rsquo; in lsquo;mofo rsquo; since 2004; rdquo; Meghan is 33 years old, has an 11 month-old daughter, a big, handsome Dutch husband and two dogs. ldquo;I live in a rambler in the suburbs and I drive a freaking minivan for God rsquo;s sake, rdquo; she writes.

ldquo;What happened to me? rdquo; Well, she co-founded with Jenn Satterwhite and Jenny Lauck, for one thing! .

ldquo;Faking it since the turn of the century. rdquo; Meet Izzy, a thirtysomething mother and mildly sarcastic mommy blogger. Occasionally serious, usually funny and always honest observations, stories and rants on everything from body image and preschool politics to motherhood and marriage.

. ldquo;Like toilet paper stuck to the heel of your shoe. rdquo; In this personal, humorous blog, JenB talks about her family, parenting her two-year-old, her personal struggles, television, music and books.

. ldquo;Taking aerobic dancing seriously since 2005. rdquo; I rsquo;m a 34 year old woman married to the same man for 15 years, mother to two handsome boys and one beautiful baby girl, who was not planned but who turned out to be the Unexpected Joy of our lives.

My blog is an honest reflection of who I am and the crazy, yet completely ordinary life I live. . ldquo;Meet Nina, Twizzle, Irane, Linda, Delia, Weigook Saram and Stefania.

.. rdquo; What better name for a blog written by a group of Korean and married-to-Korean mothers than Kimchi Mamas?

After all, they say, ldquo;We rsquo;re a little spicy, plenty fiery, and sometimes? We like to get pickled. rdquo; .

ldquo;I don rsquo;t know what I rsquo;m doing either. rdquo; Liz, a NYC writer hailing from the justly-maligned world of advertising, fell in love with the funny guy from improv class and begat Thalia. ldquo;Turns out we got the best one, rdquo; writes Liz.

ldquo;Now if only I knew what I was doing rdquo; . ldquo;Mom by mom, we are changing our world! rdquo; The goal of Mommybloggers is to expose the diversity of the writers who commonly fall under the label mommyblogger.

ldquo;Love the term or hate it, Mommybloggers are here to stay, rdquo; say co-founders Jenn Satterwhite, Jenny Lauck and Meghan Townsend. . ldquo;On a never-ending search to find a way to receive her coffee intravenously!

rdquo; Welcome to the personal blog of co-founder Jenn Satterwhite. In between loads of laundry and soccer games, Jenn blogs, writes essays and is currently finishing her debut book. .

ldquo;Picking up your socks since 1992. rdquo; Carmen is a stay-at-home mom to six kids. She rsquo;s a Starbucks addict and a huge fan of naps.

When she rsquo;s not scaling Mt. Laundry, cleaning, driving carpool, or cooking, she likes to read and run. .

Julie has always been full of contradictions. She rsquo;s been an honor student, harpist, punk rocker, cheerleader, Air Force officer, record company employee, a wife, and a mother to a Goose and a Mouse. You may need a map to follow her train of thought, but at least it makes some pretty interesting stops.

. It rsquo;s a no-more-mrs.-nice-mom take on the mom blog.

The faint of heart or weak of stomach need not apply. Kristen is taking off her mommy mask and letting it all hang out. .

ldquo;Writing to Stay Sane While Caring for Little People with Big Needs. rdquo; Mary Tsao is a stay-at-home mother who lives in Silicon Valley with her engineer husband and their two toddlers. In her former life she was a technical writer, but she knows far more people read her blog than ever read her user guides.

. ldquo;Beware the four-pointed paw of death rdquo; If it rsquo;s happening in Belinda rsquo;s life, it rsquo;s probably reflected on her blog. A Southerner, Democrat, and Christian, this rdquo;walking contradiction rdquo; blogs about her daughter, marriage, family, health issues, showdogs, horses, church, society, and more.

And there are poodles. Ninja poodles. .

ldquo;Yes, they are all mine. rdquo; Jen is a 35 year old recovering hard-core Dr. Sears type parent of four kids, ages 3, 5, 7 9, who is discovering the joys of NOT cosleeping (well, not much) anymore.

She has been breastfeeding for nearly ten years. Yes, TEN. .

Fighting the war on tantrums since 1994. Formerly The Big Yellow House. Meet Chris, over-educated mother of six boys and one girl, struggling to stay sane despite the efforts of her children.

And yes, she knows what causes it. . A byte of Silicon Valley life.

Welcome to Silicon Valley, where 20+ moms write about being CEOs at work and CFOs at home, where houses are expensive, kids love sushi and have web businesses, and moms are too busy chauffeuring kids to raise a sword in the mommywars. Read the . A social commentary site devoted to showcasing new voices, many of them women: From just west of Washington, D.

C. writes about pop culture, raising kids and just how wacky the world can be if you let it get to you. Experienced journalist writes about motherhood from a feminist perspective from her ex-pat perch in Valencia, Spain.

From Milan, writes about European culture and politics. And, of course, Spot-On Founder and Editor , a veteran political journalist who decided to stop yelling at her TV set and instead write and publish her own political commentary. Nolan isn rsquo;t a mom.

But some of her favorite bloggers are. . Coming soon!

You may already know Grace from the Hurricane Katrina Direct Relief Fund blog and SFGate. Here Grace blogs about her teen daughter, her happy marriage and her musings as a ldquo;rowdy, badass woman in her 50s. rdquo; .

...

is what you get when you combine a two-year-old daughter, 15 and 13-year-old stepdaughters, an alpha male husband, a braying beagle, a bunch of annoying neighbors and a 30-year-old woman trying to make them all happy and look damn good in the process. . Rita Arens is a writer and mother living with her husband and daughter in Kansas City.

Her magazine articles, fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous periodicals. . Muthablogga in residence.

Keyboard at the ready, this 30-something SAHM (stay at home mom) ranges far and wide in her blog, from daily life raising a preschooler to music, current events and politics. . ldquo;Don rsquo;t make me have to use UPPERCASE!

rdquo; This Full House is a full-frontal encounter into Liz rsquo;s life as a mom with four children, two cats, one super hyper sock-eating chocolate lab and too damned much laundry. . ldquo;Helping Other Parents Feel Superior, One Blog Entry At A Time.

rdquo; Witty, warm and self-deprecating, Jenny Lauck takes a humorous look at parenting three young children in the suburbs. Learn more about Three Kid Circus. ldquo;Put some fun in YOUR dysfunction.

rdquo; A hilarious (and sometimes serious) blog from the point of view of a mother of two boys - one Good Child and one Troll Baby. . ldquo;How exactly did I get here?

rdquo; Perhaps the Web rsquo;s funniest single mom, Mir is trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up-despite already being a divorced 30-something with two small, demanding creatures underfoot. She also recently launched , about her quest to live a fulfilled life without benefit of endless buckets of money. and her goals for .

Addendum. Here are even more great mommy blogs: I was 44 when I had my baby. This blog chronicles the joys and challenges of living in the brave new world of hot flashes, sloppy cookie kisses, and trimming itty bitty fingernails while wearing bi-focals.

This is the mother lode of mommy blogs. ldquo;Best of. rdquo; ldquo;Featured.

rdquo; ldquo;Directory. rdquo; You name it..

. Krisco is a full time stay-at-home mom to two little cuties. She used to be something.

She forgot what. Still somewhat startled at the changes, loving the dollies, hating the housework. (Update: And now, she's working again!

Will her old self return? Can she find matching shoes? Will anyone do the laundry?

) Heather rsquo;s clever writing and gorgeous photos charm and surprise readers. In addition to SAHMs, writers, creative types and techies alike can rsquo;t get by without a daily Dooce fix. Trying to keep expletives to a minimum while raising her two children and dealing with the death of The Other One.

Wears Birkenstocks, has dirty feet, enjoys music, baking, writing, fine wine, finger painting, and digging sand out of mouths. Breaking through her hormone-colored daze Kim Moldofsky muses on parenting and stay-at-home moms returning to the world of paid work. When PMS strikes, she takes care not to leave chocolate fingerprints on her keyboard as she rants about our nation rsquo;s public schools and how the system leaves gifted children behind.

Madcap misadventures in infertility, pregnancy, prematurity, and parenthood. Cranky, introspective, frank, and funny, sometimes all at once. Seven kids, one exchange student, three dogs, two cats, two birds, four goats, fifteen chickens, and a 500-lb.

pig named Florence mdash;but who rsquo;s counting? Uber-Mama Natalie writes on life, kids, and how she manages her super-sized family without resorting to Valium or a paid staff. Sometimes touching, sometimes funny, always better than a kick in the head.

Well, most of the time...

Happy married with an almost 3 year old, the Lucky in Lucky Mom could come crashing down soon as baby #2 (and last!) is due in less than 3 months. Will her luck run out?

Five Texas mommies dish the dirt on the real down-and-dirty rites of motherhood. The mommies run the spectrum from SAHM's to full-time professionals, from single to married, and from wrangling their babies to strangling (or at least wanting to strangle) their teens. Mother of two and founder of MomAdvice.

com, Amy dishes out her advice for moms on creative home solutions, saving money, feeding your family, and anything else that will help keep your sanity. A naked, brutally funny, endearingly honest chronicle of family life beset by disaster on many fronts.

Mindy keeps her family together through catastrophic illness, four bouts of postpartum depression, financial peril, familial Waterloo, and job instability. Here rsquo;s Hoping My Kids Won't Need Therapy. A twenty-something mom trying to find the humor in new motherhood.

When I first saw this list, I thought to myself, "I really need to thank Guy in person when I see him at BlogHer." When I went to BlogHer, I kept noticing this man with a camera who looked vaguely familiar, but just figured, "Hmm. I must read his blog occasionally, or something.

"
So, Guy, thanks so much for this great list. I'm a complete idiot for not realizing who you were until I got on my plane to come home -- otherwise I would've made sure to shake your hand.
Perhaps at BlogHer '07, then?

K.
Karen,
BlogHer 07 then. Don't worry that you didn't place who I am.

We Asians all look alike. :-)
Guy mentioned my blog? Had my url right out there on his site?

Thank you, Guy! I shall never wash my template again. I can't wait to meet you at BlogHer!

Thank you for taking the time to recognize the many amazing Mommybloggers out there.
Thanks so much to Mom101 for adding in the Moms who decided to go with Federated. Several of us at BlogHer regretting turning down the chance to work with them, but never the chance to rock out with them in the Mommyblogging world.

They are incredible women and incredible writers! Just goes to show this Mommyblogging thing is probably here to stay, huh!
You rock, Guy!

Hey Guy,
Our worlds collided when we saw your great Mommy blogger post last week! We have sponsored many of the mommy blogs in your list in the past and owe them a lot for helping us get out the word for our popular "GoodFather" line of daddy gifts.
Let us know when you begin putting together the Daddy blogger list because we have a nice primer started for you.

I think that's a tiny inter-linking corner of the mommyblogging world, but I'm happy to be in it! Thanks for the shout-out, Guy.
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?

The world would split open.” (Muriel Rukeyser)
http://iasshole.org I, Asshole: The most obnoxious.

Witty. Filthy. Bizarre.

Punk-ass Seattle mom.
http://www.meibell.

com/ Meibell: Venezuelan computer geek Meibell's story of living in NYC with two young children. In Spanish. Lots of pics and videos.

Funny smart.
http://spanglemonkey.typepad.

com Spanglemonkey: incredibly prolific blogger, writer, lately dealing with mental illness. Known for her invention of Democrat Porn and the group photo blog 10:10.
http://shroomhead.

blogspot.com Adventures of Leelo his pottymouthed mom: Mommyblog with a focus on autism, autism therapy. Detailed personal stories of life with a young autistic child.

It's worth reading from beginning to end. My homie "Squid" is wry fierce.
http://shapeofamother.

blogspot.com/ Shape of a Mother: Personal stories and photos, a blog about body image. Revolutionary celebration of stretch marks refusal to hide the realities of the effects of pregnancy.

/gack.
Guy just patiently reminded me that the post keeps hitting the feed because he keeps updating it.
Which, of course, I would have realized, had I not left my brain elsewhere.

Gack!
Why is this THE POST THAT WOULD NOT DIE in Netnewswire?
All of Guy's other posts show up once, as expected, but this one shows up in my newsreader over and over and over.

...

As my mother said, "if I've told you once, I've told you a million times...

"
She introduces the best blogs to check out at ClubMom daily.
Check it out!
Thank you very much for the mention!

It certainly has been a big surprise to us that the mommy bloggers have developed such an incredible support system and community.
From my experience as a parent of two girls (ages 4 6), most moms typeically bond through parenting clubs and playdates. From my short time blogging, I absolutely see this happening in the mommy blogging world!

It is incredible to be part of it!
We certainly appreciate your support!
Just jumped into mommyblogging a few months ago.

I've been amazed at the sense of community and beauty of the writing. Not surprised, of course. But wowed and utterly addicted.

I'm a former magazine editor, now SAH mom of two-year-old Baby A, and founder of the blog Quick Serve Kids. I'd be honored by a mention in your list..

.or just the comments. Description below.

Many thanks--for this, and for your Apple and post-Apple work.
First came the job: founding editor of a magazine for fast-food industry executives. Then came marriage.

Then came the baby in the baby carriage—and a new perspective on the world in which that baby will grow up.
Now I'm using my fast-food (quick-serve) industry expertise to filter restaurant news and information to other parents. Join me as we figure out how to raise our Quicksies to make good choices in a world where fast food is part of life.

whaddya hafta do to get on that list?
I put you on it. If you want a description added, please send it to me.

Thanks,
I'm a longtime fan from way back and a semi-regular reader here.
You cannot POSSIBLY imagine my surprise when I got an email today saying that myself and a slew of other mom bloggers were so kindly mentioned over here. There are not words!

Thanks for the props on behalf of all blogging moms rockin' the cradle AND the world!
You've made my day, week and month :)
It was my pleasure. I thank you and your colleagues for all the work you do as a blogger and mom.

Thanks for the shout-out, Guy! I wrote you a little thank you here:
Stefania (CityMama, Kimchi Mamas)
Stefania,
Thanks for the acknowledgment and link. You're very kind.

Perhaps we'll break some kalbi someday!
Warmest Aloha,

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