I started my blog to raise a smile on a knackered mum’s lips. Unpaid sources have verified that lips have, indeed, twitched on reading my posts. But now I want more! I want it all! In short, I want a MAD Blog Award!
To this end, I’d be extremely chuffed if you’d consider voting for me.
If you’re related to me / already sold – simply click on this link and enter 1) your email address and 2) my blog address http://wrymummy.blogspot.co.uk in any category you choose (or all of them if you don’t read any other blogs!). You have to choose a Blog of the Year first, so you can put me for that too, if you like. Fret not – you don’t have to fill in all 12 categories. New, Writer or Entertaining are the best fit for me, I’d say.
If you want to try before you buy, please take this handy tour round my blog. Should you wish, you could kindly consider me for the New, Writer or Entertaining categories. With the best will in the world, you couldn’t class my blog as Craft, Travel or Food. Although I do often write about food coming out – both ends. For example, in my first post:
My first post Cleaning Up Chunks – A Mother’s Glory was in September 2013, and, for me, it sums up my blog and, indeed, motherhood: even cleaning up sick has a funny side.
“As I root out the chunks, I think grim thoughts about my husband, by now probably gently snoozing with our child nestled adorably in his arms. My only consolation is that with each breath he is inhaling the sick bug while germs seep into his pores from our poor infant’s soft skin.”
My top three posts are:
“You can’t command respect naked. Not even from your kids. Hence, I propose a Mumswear diffusion line, starting with The Shouting Bra and the Pants of Power.”
“When my son opened his birthday present, his face looked like we’d just shot our dog. We don’t even have a dog.”
“The 7pm-8pm Vortex. You can be primed, kids in PJs, teeth done, their eyes (despite themselves) drooping, sitting on the bed about to read a story at 7pm. You feel pretty smug. Three stories, kiss on the forehead, downstairs by 7.15pm – done! But then, the Vortex opens. It has no mercy. It can sense a parent desperate for a break and it will gape its all-encompassing jaws and swallow time. That hour will be gone. It is beyond your control. How does this happen?”
I mainly write irreverently about mummy stuff. But sometimes I write reverently about silly stuff. Like Uggs:
“One day in 200 years’ time, some meteorologist will dig them up from my grave, release them from my clenched bony fingers and be able to map the weather of this ancient age from the watermarks and snow-lines on them, like the dating rings inside a tree trunk. It’ll be like the Rosetta Stone, in sheepskin.” (Oh October – Season of Shinrot! The Return of the Ugg)
Whether you nominate me or no, I hope you enjoyed this post. And may I take this moment of unusual un-Wryness to say a huge thanks to everyone that has read and supported my blog. Your kind words are far more important to me than an award.
Still going to pop the link here one more time though!
A few of my favourite blogs
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What, pray, are the MAD Blog Awards? The fifth annual Mum and Dad Blog Awards, in association with Parentdish.co.uk, are the UK’s biggest and most exciting awards for parent blogs. Last year, more than 150,000 nominations and votes were received in the UK’s biggest and best awards for Mum and Dad blogs. (Source: MAD website.)
Thank you so much for mentioning me. This post made me laugh in itself! Entertaining – yes!
Thank you! Always pleased to amuse. X
Ahh thank you for the mention lovely! You totally deserve a place in the final – one of my very favourite bloggers xx
Good luck!
Thank you!
And thank you so much for the mention!!!! You totally deserve your place… you are a very funny lady. I love your blog. X
Thanks so much! X
You’ve made me want to read more… some funny stuff going on here!! #PoCoLo
You are very kind, thank you!
Thank you so much for mentioning me in your favourite blogs – very chufffed 🙂 Good luck my lovely, you write a great blog. Thanks for linking to PoCoLo x
Thank you! Your blog is great, and #PoCoLo is a fab idea! And #SoLoCo. X
Good luck with the awards, thanks for posting. What a great idea to post your top 3 posts 🙂
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Lovely blog So glad I found it – Always need a good smile after yet again another night of no sleep 🙂 Wishing you all the luck in the Mads xxx
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Thanks very much, will check out your blog too.
Thanks for the mention, lovely. And what a great pitch you have! Good luck to you – you are very funny x
No no, I like your pitch better! See you in the jelly pit 😉 x