Adene Sanchez/E+/Getty Images This story is an “as told to” and anonymous. The mom in this story is a mother of one, in her 40s, living in the Midwest. My husband and I have been married for 18 years. We really struggled to get pregnant, and went through years of infertility and struggles before we...
Fertnig/E+/Getty Images There are few things I love more than a night out with moms just like me, spilling their guts one margarita in, and all of us going, “Omg YES, that’s exactly it!” There’s just no connection like a motherhood connection, and everyone realizing that we’re all going through the same thing — the...
Earlier in June, Scary Mommy hosted our first ever Mom’s Night Out piercing party at Rowan, a nationwide boutique ear (and nose!) piercing studio. The goal was simple: leave the fam at home, grab a drink and get pierced (or watch your friends get pierced and buy some cute earrings). It’s safe to say we...
June hits and, let’s be real, all hell breaks loose. Don’t get us wrong: we love the start of summer and all of the fun it brings. But we’re also realists who are acutely aware of the total chaos the kickoff of this season signals: wrangling unruly children to apply sunscreen, the musty smell in...