photo courtesy of Vickie Riley Photography

My name is eL. and currently I am a stay at home, widowed, single mom and a writer.  I have two great kids who inspire many of my writings… they are also the inspiration for a lot of typos and the over use of the exclamation point at times, but I digress… 

I began the Your Crazy Mom adventure hoping to create a relevant source of information for real moms. 

Real Mom : (noun) Parental figure of the feminine persuasion who has more than once considered slapping a stamp on her child’s forehead and leaving them for the mailman.  (If you were offended by this definition, the term is not applicable to you.)

I am currently enrolled in the Wing It and Learn University of Parenting where  my major is How To Pull Oneself Up by the Bootstraps with minors in both Wine Studies and the Ups and Downs of Relationships with Adults.  I hope to complete my education in the next 12 years.  All of that to say, I am not a professional and do not claim to be the World’s Greatest Mother.  I am merely one harried mother with a laptop.  Some of the advice found here might be a bit unorthodox, but it is honest – and honesty, in my opinion, is the beginning of good parenting.

I’m glad you’re here.  Please join the forum and connect with me and other moms who are just like us!