Ultimate Blog Party - 2013

Participating in the ever-popular Ultimate Blog Party this year (and you should, too!)

 

This year, it looks like Parenting, Illustrated with Crappy Pictures is super-involved, which gives me warm fuzzies, not only because she is hilarious, but also because she judged one of my posts to be the best of the best over at Mum's Lounge last month. Which would probably be a good place for me to start.

This blog is full of Pinterest Fails (sometimes resulting in Shiny Bacon Vaginas (Meghan Millard, 2013)).

Plate of Fail and Shame

Sometimes, I'll come up with the one brilliant phrase I'll ever have in my life and slap it on an e-card. Then that card will literally go viral, and I will throw an internet tantrum about it because He-ey! That was supposed to bring me traffic! Not you! (I hang out with a lot of four year olds. Tantruming is how I roll.) But it's also a pretty good piece on why you should always brand your stuff, no matter how big or small you are.

Yeah, that was me. Bet you didn't know it, huh?

Pee Ess - Go visit my Facebook page where I put up slightly less (but still really) hilarious stuff all the time!

Sometimes I get serious, particularly over issues like marriage equality. This piece was just accepted by Offbeat Families for re-publication. It's the story of my friends who got married and adopted their own family after fostering...all because Connecticut allows people to be people.

Every once in a while, I'll take on a big guy who will totally ignore me. This rant against Frank Bruni and his "Baffled Hymn of a Childless Bystander" was featured on BlogHer last week.



Last, but certainly not least, I'm always good for posting videos of my kids being hilarious brats whom I love dearly!



Which reminds me, I should probably run a brief introduction!

Hi, I'm Darlena. I'm a mom of four-year-old identical twin girls. Here's my family:

When I'm not blogging or parenting, I'm also a novelist, and I had two books come out last month, so if you're into romances, check out Ninette Swann! Somewhere in there I find time to go to grad school for mass communications. I'll let you know how that turns out. Oh! And here's me:

Spearmint Blog Hop

Spearmint is doing a blog hop as part of her interesting series on Blogging 101.  I agree with quite a few of her points and have found some good blogs today through this.  Head on over if you want to add your blog, too!



For any of you stopping by from Spearmint Baby, here's an intro post with lots of my favorite entries!

I'm a 28-year-old stay at home mom to twin toddler girls.  We're not perfect, but we're making it work...and we've collected a lot of funny stories along the way.

Nice to meet you!

Ultimate Blog Party and More about Me!

5minutesformom.com is hosting an Ultimate Blog Party and I thought I'd give it a try.  The official party post is here.  If you are a fellow blogger, you'll want to check it out!

 Welcome to Tales of an Unlikely Mother!  I'm a 28-year-old former television news producer, who now stays at home with my two-year-old twin girls. They teach me hundreds of lessons every day.

Here you'll find essays from the trenches of parenting from a woman who's definitely not up for cookie-cutter parent of the year.  We do our best, though.

I started this blog because I read something on the internet that made me mad.  Here it is.

Since then I've talked about rude people in the library, in the salon and at a restaurant. (Okay, so she was actually just trying to be friendly, but we're not all perfect all the time.)  I've taken on childfree writers, facebook memes, and comedians.  I've reviewed some God-awful potties, and failed at making Cream of Wheat.  Before that, I formula fed, do you judge me?  They don't.

Or maybe you're just here for some cute videos of twins kissing, rocking out on the potty to They Might Be Giants, playing baseball, or dancing their hearts out!

Anyway, it's really great to meet you!  If you're here from UBP11, comment and let me know!