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Every two weeks, MommaSaid awards one lucky mom for her daily duties as a mom.
The Housewife Awards recognize moms for the relentless, exhausting, incredible
and often amusing things they experience - and endure - daily.
OUR NEXT PRIZE
What you really need for your baby shower.
Enter The Housewife Award® contest by Monday, May 19th for your
chance to win a copy of Geralyn Broder Murray's The Light at the End of the Diaper Pail: Inspiration for New Motherhood,
plus a Housewife Award® certificate for the fridge.
ENTER NOW
Please read this before you enter!
What are we looking for? We're not looking for Mother of the Year.
We're looking for a funny story or situation that sums up the occasional
craziness of at-home motherhood. We want to hear what you put up with on a
day-to-day basis, not that you're coming up with the cure for cancer while the
baby naps (though I would appreciate it).
PLEASE BE SPECIFIC. Don't tell us you cart four kids around in your
mini-van, clean floors and volunteer at school while taking night classes.
We're all doing that! Tell us a story of something that happened to you that
shows how exhausting and confounding motherhood can be. Humor is a plus. Check
out the awards archives for examples.
ENTER NOW! (Yes, you may nominate someone else.)
The Housewife Award® Archives
See all our past winners in the Housewife Awards® archives.
Click here for 2007-2008 winners.
Click here for 2005-2006 winners.
Click here for 2003-2004 winners.
OUR LATEST WINNER
Kristina Jackson of Marysville, Ohio
Kristina, the laundry's done...for now.
[Warning: Bodily fluids ahead.]
Kristina is our latest winner of The Housewife Awards® for her Spaghetti O No!
Why does everything go bad when your husband's away? Ask Kristina. No, don't. She's
still getting over this one.
One recent night, Kristina's husband was on a business trip for his job at Honda, leaving
her home alone with her two kids, Andrew, 4 1/2, and Brady, 2 1/2, and a can of Spaghetti O's.
That was where the trouble began.
On her way up to bed for the night, she noticed a pasta and sauce smell at the top of the stairs,
pretty far from the kitchen, where she had cooked them for dinner. She checked on Brady, asleep in his room,
but everything was fine.
So, she went into Andrew's room, where the smell got significantly worse. Like visiting the town dump worse.
Though he was sleeping, he had thrown up an entire can of Spagetti O's, and was, well, asleep in it, even
though it was EVERYWHERE.
Kristina woke him up, thereby triggering the crying and screaming because frankly, who wants to wake up to that?
She gave him a shower, cleaned up his room and put his sheets in the washer and started it up.
An hour later, she put him back to bed. But Kristina couldn't sleep. She worried he'd repeat his, uh, repeating
so she kept checking on him. For hours, she was in and out of sleep, terrified of what could happen.
Four hours after the big clean up, he appeared in her room with a new report: He'd gone in his undies.
She checked in that unphased butt-check that moms do, but he was dry.
So she checked his room and well, let's just say she had to change the sheets again.
She cleaned him off, too, and brought him back to her bed, presumably because she wanted
to have to wash her sheets, too. I dunno.
For the next two hours, she took him to the bathroom every 10 minutes, like the commercial breaks
on American Idol. finally, they fell asleep.
Kristina wanted to share the joy that was her night with Hubby, so she called him at 6 a.m. her time --
3 a.m. his. He seemed thrilled to find out he had nothing to do with the whole thing. Also, to go back to sleep.
In all, Kristina did four loads of laundry, two by 5 AM, and vowed to stay away from Spaghetti O's for a long, long time.
One weekend shortly after this harrowing night, her youngest was sick, though not in such a prolific way.
Hubby, who slept on their son's floor all night, feels he deserves an award, too. Okay, here's your award:
You don't have to clean up any Spaghetti O's today.
 You're a good mom, Kristina. You
win a signed copy of Jen Singer's new book, "You're a Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren't So Bad Either"),
plus a Housewife Award® certificate for the fridge.
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