I can’t believe it. I’m
stunned. Just five minutes ago, as I was reading over yesterday’s post to check
for spelling mistakes I may have overlooked, I made a spur of the moment Google
search for ‘happy mommy blog’ just to see what would come up. Frankly, I didn’t
expect much.
Well, you could knock me
over with a pinch of dandelion fluff. There is a blog out there actually titled
Happy Mommy and it's not of the facetious variety.
I realise now that this is
probably something I should have done yesterday, before I wrote my
sarcasm-drenched spiel, but it simply hadn’t occurred to me that someone might
actually call their blog Happy Mommy and that such a person would be Canadian
with two young sons (just adding a third, according to her blog). I mean,
what are the odds?
I only spent a few moments
flipping through her pages because, as I’m sure you will have deduced from
yesterday’s post, it’s painful for me to read through the minutiae of someone’s
mothering and homemaking (unless that woman’s name is Erma Bombeck) but I saw
enough to report that this Happy Mommy had lots of photos of her boys and
recipes for healthy dinners. I tell you, my jaw was just about touching the
keyboard as I looked over the site.
So there it is. I feel bad
because I don’t want to hurt the real Happy Mommy’s feelings (she seems like a
very nice person with not so much as a hint of my Jessica’s ridiculous
smugness) but not so bad that I’m going to remove yesterday’s post in the off
chance that it might offend someone. Over the years I have been led unwittingly
to more happy homemaker blogs than you could shake a stick at and I always knew
the day would come when, trying to find out how to clean leather or prepare
artichokes, I would find myself on a happy homemaker’s page showing
eighteen photos of her toddlers dressed up for their first Halloween and it
would just be eighteen photos too many.
Look, I know it’s not the
fault of the happy mommies. They have as much right to clog up the ether with
their empty musings as I have with mine, and no one is forcing me to visit
their sites. I guess I just wish there was a super quick and easy way – like a
one-click, pop-up box -- to give a banality rating for any blog you visit, the
results of which Google would display beside the sites’ names when they came up
in searches. That way you could narrow it down a bit, save yourself some time.