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The Housewife Awards
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Every two weeks or so, 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
Have a happy baby?
Check back to see who won The Housewife Award®,
a copy of HappyBaby: The Organic Guide to Baby's First 24 Months
by the founders of HappyBaby,
plus a Housewife Award® certificate for the fridge.
CLICK HERE TO ENTER NOW! (Yes, you may nominate someone else.)
THE RULES
Please read this before you enter!
What are we looking for?
- We're NOT looking for Mother of the Year.
- We ARE looking for a funny story or situation that sums up the occasional
craziness of 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 that).
- 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. Poop is fine, but really not necessary every single time.
(Check
out the awards archives for examples.)
Note: Unclaimed prizes will no longer be available after 90 days from contact from MommaSaid.net
The Housewife Award® Archives
See all our past winners in the Housewife Awards® archives.
Click here for 2010 winner archives.
Click here for 2007-2009 winners.
OUR LATEST WINNER
Jaimee Star of Tremont City, Ohio
Jaimee is off checking for lollipops.
Jaimee is our latest winner of the Housewife Awards® because of her Sane Shopping Trip, Sucka!
Jaimee just wanted to buy dinner and go home. But her three-year-old was being particularly fussy that day, so she had to resort to every mom's dirty little secret:
She handed him a bag of lollipops. Only, he didn't just choose one and eat it contentedly in his car seat en route to the supermarket. Rather, he unwrapped one, licked it
and put it in his lap. Then he unwrapped another one, licked it and put it in his lap. Again, and again and again.
Jaimee did not care. It was that kind of day. She admits, "I felt it was a small sacrifice to make."
When they got to the supermarket, Jaimee pulled her son out of his car seat and began tossing the barely licked, yet sticky, lollipops in the trash can by the cart corral.
She picked out a kid-sized cart for her son to keep him busy so she could buy what she needed fast and get back home.
As soon as they walked into the store, Jaimee felt people looking at them. She figured they would comment on how adorable her son was or about
how determined he was as he sped down the aisles.
But two younger guys looked at them, and began laughing hysterically.
Jaimee wondered if her son was picking his nose or if her fly was undone.
When she got to the van, she figured out what was so stinking funny. As she shut the door,
she saw her reflection in the window. Turns out, she had several Dum-Dum lollipops stuck to her armpits and her chest.
Two red, one green and one of those "funky white coconut or pina colada,
sticking around as though I had intended to finish them later," remembers Jaimee.
She yanked them off and had a good chuckle as she tossed them into the trash --
just as the two amused guys yelled out their window while they drove by, "See ya, Sucka!"
She says: "The best part? Still feeling it was all worth it because my son was so content and calm and cool ... worth any price in humiliation!"
You're a good mom, Jaimee! You win a copy
of a copy of Kristen Chase's The Mominatrix's Guide to Sex: A No-Surrender Advice Book for Naughty Moms
plus a Housewife Award® certificate for the fridge.
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