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"   Good Mom Bad Mom (http://blogs.chron.com/goodmombadmom/) Jenny Lawson and Mindy Sterba write this entertaining blog for the Houston Chronicle&amp;#039;s web site. Jenny&amp;#039;s mantra: &amp;quot;As parents we need to celebrate the small victories. Did your kid make it through pre-school without needing hooks for hands? Success!&amp;quot; And Mindy, self professed &amp;quot;bitter middle aged mom,&amp;quot; wonders if parenting &amp;quot;will be more fun in retrospect.&amp;quot; If you&amp;#039;re looking for the lighter side of parenting, you&amp;#039;ll find it here. Example: &amp;quot;So I&amp;#039;m thinking these people at the cereal factory are pretty lame to put a rubber lizard in a box of cereal. Why didn&amp;#039;t they just throw in a handful of hairy spiders if what they&amp;#039;re really trying to accomplish is just to scare the crap out of mothers across America?&amp;quot; Rocks in My Dryer (http://rocksinmydryer.typepad.com/shannon/) This 30-something mom of four and &amp;quot;grammar snob&amp;quot; says that if you don&amp;#039;t like sappy blogs, then move along. A blogger for Parenting.com and a BlogHer contributing editor, Shannonruns Works for Me Wednesday, a &amp;quot;blog carnival&amp;quot; encouraging readers to post a little tip they&amp;#039;ve learned on any (G-rated) topic that has made life easier. But she&amp;#039;s also got spot-on insights such as &amp;quot;For every 24-hour period a mother plans to be away from her family, she should allow 48 hours to plan for that period.&amp;quot; Yeah, and then 48 hours to get everything back to normal afterwards. Amen, Shannon! Girl&amp;#039;s Gone Child (http://www.girlsgonechild.net/) Rebecca Woolf&amp;#039;s irreverent blog includes a letter to her skinny jeans: &amp;quot;One day you were on me and the next? Folded up and pushed to the back of my closet like yesterday&amp;#039;s news,&amp;quot; complete with accompanying muffin top photos. A new (again) mom, Rebecca includes loads of cute photos and videos her four-month-old, Fable, attempting to stay upright. A contributor to Momversation.com Rebecca says that &amp;quot;formula isn&amp;#039;t an F word,&amp;quot; even though she loved breastfeeding, and she entered an entire blog while typing with one hand and holding her newborn in the other because &amp;quot;fable is skleeping.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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