I see you’re back. Well, thanks for joining us here at Mammakaze for another Manic Momday! We’ve got plenty of guilt, mamma drama and humor in store for you.  

I’m hoping this week will be less stressful than last. Randy is definitely on the mend from his rattlesnake bite. Woo-Hoo! You can barely even see the fang marks anymore.  He’s kind of bummed though that there’s no scar he can show when he’s an old man on a porch to scare the bejeezus out of the neighborhood kids.

I’m guardedly optimistic (as optimistic as I can be after having read Stephen King’s “THE STAND” three times) about this swine flu thing petering out. Well, they’ve renamed it H1N1 because it was giving pigs a bad name. In fact, supposedly Egypt slaughtered every pig in the country, even though YOU CAN’T GET SWINE FLU FROM EATING PORK! Can you imagine people overreacting like that based on rumor and poor information? I mean, besides me?

Personally, I’m not so optimistic that the name change will take. It’s not catchy enough. It’s sounds too scientific. And it has numbers in it. People are tired of numbers. We already have too many numbers we have to remember. Our social security numbers, our various phone numbers, the number of valium we’ve taken today. Yeah, I’m pretty sure pigs are gonna continue to take a hit on this one. I’ll stick to BEEF.

Anyway, enough about the swine flu (see I didn’t call it by those numbers)!  Let’s get back to what’s really important…BEING MOMMIES and all that entails! The guilt, the drama, the constant self-doubt! Oh, yeah. And all the love… which makes it all absolutely worth it.

This week on MAMMAKAZE: Guilt over nap time desperation strategies, yoga butts, and who’s really surprised that Jon of “Jon and Kate Plus 8” stepped out on that overbearing shrew his wife Kate?