What’s Hot This Month:

I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to contribute to the Mindful Parenting eBundle Sale, organized by Jennifer from Hybrid Rasta Mama, Lauren from Hobo Mama and Laura from Authentic Parenting!

The Mindful Parenting eBundle is 21 titles by esteemed parenting authors. This is a handpicked selection of e-books, workshops, e-magazines, and audio, with themes such as creativity and play, peaceful guidance, mindfulness for mothers, children and food, self-care and relaxation, and more.

That’s a total value of $236 USD for the humble price of $24.95 USD!

Among which is my own e-resource, 42 Rules for Divorcing with Children: Doing It with Dignity & Grace While Raising Happy, Healthy, Well-Adjusted Children.

Are you as excited as I am?

Let me share the list of contributors:

1. Parenting for Social Change by Teresa Graham Brett
2. A Unique 7-Step Parenting Tool: Sleep talking by Marcy Axness
3. Relaxation Meditation, audio by Amy Phoenix of Presence Parenting
4. Newbie’s Guide to Positive Parenting by Rebecca Eanes of Positive Parents
5. Issue three of the Play Grow Learn magazine by Christie Burnett of Childhood 101
6. Getting Back on Track! Why We Explode and What We Can Do About it, audio by Genevieve Simperingham of Peaceful Parent Institute
7. Stress Relief for parents, audio by Genevieve Simperingham of Peaceful Parent Institute
8. Creative Play Workshop, email course by Gina Kimmel of Connecting Family and Seoul and Katherine Lockett of Creative Playhouse
9. Mindset for Moms by Jamie Martin
10. Moods of Motherhood by Lucy Pearce of Dreaming Aloud
11. 42 Rules for Divorcing with Children by Melinda Roberts
12. Mommy Overwhelm by Laura Schuerwegen of Authentic Parenting
13. Nurturing Creativity, Guide for Busy Parents by Renee Tougas of Tougas Café
14. The Playful Family by Shawn Ledington Fink
15. Poetry of a Hobo Mama by Lauren Wayne of Hobo Mama
16. Encouraging Words for Kids by Kelly Bartlett of Parenting From Scratch
17. Raising a Creative Kid by Jillian Riley of A Mom With a Lesson Plan
18. Children and Food by Tara Wagner of The Organic Sister
19. Coming of Age, audio by DeAnna L’Am
20. The Parenting Primer, A Guide to Positive Parenting in the First Six Years by Michelle Carchae of The Parent Vortex

This bundle is available only from MAY 28 to JUNE 10. After that, these products will never be sold together again at this price!

Find out everything about the sale at Mindful Nurturing.

Welcome to The Mommy Blog.

I’m Mindy Roberts.

A little history: I was one of the first mommy bloggers; I launched themommyblog.com in 2002, and wrote millions of words until 2013, when it seemed time to move onto something else. I shifted my focus to books, and on launching a network for women new to the US with some awesome partners.

For ten years, I wrote about our young (and getting older) family, and the first half of that period was published in the book, Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood.

After my divorce in 2005, it because a little dicier to write about the family. Then when I remarried in 2012, it became flat-out impossible. Not for lack of material—oh, no—but because the kids were getting old enough to care what they or their friends might read online, and because the mother of my stepchildren had strong feelings about my never talking about her children. As it’s impossible to write about half a family while pretending the other half doesn’t exist, it was like chopping off my hands.

So, instead, I wrote a book about divorcing with children. My ex and I pulled it off stupendously, compared to what I’ve seen and heard as the norm. We share custody, see or talk to each other almost every day, and participate even when it’s not “our” time because we don’t want to miss 50% of our childrens’ lives. Between my ex, my husband, and me, we’ve made a lot of reallly BAD and incredibly WISE decisions surrounding our divorces. So we wrote a handbook to ease things for others going through it without a map or a clue. Which is every divorcing parent, frankly. It’s getting five-star reviews, check it out: 42 Rules for Divorcing with Children: Doing It with Dignity & Grace While Raising Happy, Healthy, Well-Adjusted Children.

And so here I am today. There is so much history and mayhem and love in this blog that I can’t just chuck it, so I’m leaving it here as archive.

Many, many thanks to those who have been here all these years; many of you have become like family to me. A stunted, politically incorrect and perfectly damaged family, but those are the most fun, anyway.

Welcome.