For new mothers, or mothers who are new in town, parenting at home as a full-time job can be a lonely, isolating experience. The best way to find new friends who are living the same life and can at least commiserate is to join a club or group of other new, or new-to-town … [Read more...]
I’m So Glad I Asked
My birthday has come and gone, and with it an amazing thing: Help a Mother Out has collected 1,000,000 diapers to serve families who can't afford them since May 2009. We made it! With your help. Right now my living room looks like this: Many of these boxes of … [Read more...]
Lots of Happy Babies
Saturday afternoon, May 7. The 2011 Help a Mother Out Mother's Day Diaper Drive. I had spent the entire day outside the Westlake Village Fresh Brothers Pizza, which is in a fancy outdoor mall and trafficked by fancy people, most of whom looked at me oddly as I chirped "I'm … [Read more...]
Give Diapers Instead of Toys For Tots
This Christmas season you may be tempted to buy new toys for needy children and drop them in the gaily decorated boxes at the fire station, the mall, the grocery store, your kid's school, etc. Of course those children will love the new toys. Of course you should give them. But … [Read more...]
I Am a Big Dork and So Can You
At the Glendale Diaper Drive kickoff event this morning, we collect over 3,300 diapers. There are 13 more days in this drive, and our goal is 20,000 diapers. A Glendale area orthodontist is awarding an iPad in a raffle - for one ticket donate 50 diapers, for 10 tickets donate … [Read more...]