Welcome!
I am a stay-at-home mom to three kids — elementary-aged and younger. I love my children like they are God’s precious gift to me (most days) and my number one goal as a parent is to raise godly children. As parents, it is our desire for our children to grow up knowing God loves them and for them to live to serve Him. And if I can manage to feed them more healthy meals than junk, bonus!
So, while I love my kids and want them to act loving towards me, I’m more than willing to play the “bad cop” to ensure they get the structure and discipline they need. If that earns me the badge of “The Meanest Momma” (TMM), then I’ll wear it with pride 
. The goal is not be loved in the moment, but to instill godly values in our children. I do look forward to the day that they “rise up and call [me] blessed” (Prov 31:28), but I’m willing to wait a year or twenty to earn that accolade.
In addition to chronicling the minutiae of our lives (mostly for the benefit of the grandparents), I also enjoy sharing homemaking tips as I learn them, reviewing [mostly] kid products I’ve come to love (or hate), and highlighting areas for kid fun in the Metro DC area as I discover them.
Creating and maintaining this site has been a good outlet for my semi-techie/creative side (prior to achieving TMM tenure, I worked as a web consultant). Like most bloggers, I love hearing from my readers, so please don’t be shy and feel free to comment!
Thanks for stopping by,
Kendra
The Meanest Momma
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HI Kendra,
What a cool blog. I barely recognized your photo with everyone’s hair so dark. You all look great but you will always be blond to me.
I received your lovely card and note. It sounds like life is progressing nicely. I was so impressed with your father’s holiday card — wasn’t that cool? And Barrett and Melissa going to SFO? Fabulous although I know you will miss them I imagine it is a great opportunity.
So how long have you done this blog? Is it revenue producing? Even in newsletters (my weekly newsletter now feeds to a blog) I am finding lots of folks have ads. I wonder if I should pursue that since we are pretty good about doing it every single week!
Any suggestions are welcome since you are much more the expert than moi. I occasionally doing a decorating with kids and/or children’s room theme for my submissions and would be happy to share those with you should they be of interest to your readers.
Have a great holiday and again congrats on a cool blog!
Pamela
Hi Kendra,
I came across your blog via Kimberly’s, and just wanted to confirm your sentiment of accepting The Meanest Momma badge. When we were kids, we dubbed our mom The Meanest Mommy in the Whole Wide World. My parents also strove to raise us with godly values and to love and serve our God. It may have taken /thirty/ years, but I can attest that all seven of us can rise up and call her blessed. She was and is a great mother.
Warm regards,
Sarah
Thanks for your review of the Arlington Parks. Super helpful!
Just came across your blog today and I LOVE it! Thanks for sharing your family’s story. Glad to know we’re not alone in being the “meanest” parents
Kendra,
Thank you so much for creating this blog! I’m a SAHM to my daughter aged 1 and a half and am always on the lookout for playgrounds and things to do. I appreciate how you’ve organized the playgrounds by feature (so helpful!) and location with the map. I was just searching around on my own until I found your blog by chance. Your site has everything nicely compiled in one place with helpful editorials which has really made planning our weeks easier.
I’m an Annandale resident so any other additions of Fairfax County parks would be great, too.