Megan Roggendorff
Megan and her husband and two kids happily live, play, eat, sleep, and basically do everything else on the island that is East Nashville. She currently serves on the Board of Directors at Street Theatre Company, and she occasionally moonlights as an actress. You can visit her brutally honest (and often vulgar) blog, outofkadesh.com, if you want way too much information about her and her family.
Totally Useful Guide to Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas (And What They Say About You!)
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and we all know what that means: time to let your partner know just how much he means to you by picking up something from that pink...
Confessions of a Terrified New Homeschool Mom
“When are you ever going to have time for yourself?”
“Good luck! I could never do it.”
“Are you crazy!?”
Surprisingly, these aren’t responses to my announcing that I’ll be joining Unicef and traveling to developing...
The Myth of the Mom Identity
Before Noah was old enough to understand what Trick-or-Treating was, a friend of mine told me that her mom had made all their Halloween costumes every year when she was growing up. It was...
Totally Useful Step-by-Step Guide to Christmas Crafting with Your Kids
Christmas is such a beautiful holiday. The twinkly lights, the glow of a fire, the frosted windows, the peaceful blankets of snow (that I’ve seen in pictures)...AHHH. It makes anyone want to take their...
My Promise to My Daughter
A few weeks ago, we were having breakfast with family. My four-year-old son and my two-year-old daughter were both tearing up some pancakes with equal wolf-like ferocity, but a comment was suddenly thrown at...
Totally Useful Tips on How to Have Sex (Without Interruptions from Your Kids!)
It's my son's fault that my daughter was conceived.
My husband and I had come to count on him as our main form of birth control—because he was so impeccably good at knowing exactly when we were...
Weighing in on the Spanking Debate
I try to get most of my news from Jon Stewart so that even the most horrific stories make me laugh, yet I accidentally stumbled across the Adrian Peterson story while doing some research...
How We (Mostly) Cured Picky Eating
I knew our eating habits had to change when Noah was around two. He basically existed on bread, with the occasional cheese stick rounding out his buffet. He would not eat more than a...