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Melissa Skabich (aka @fitsngiggles on Twitter) is a full time working mom with three sons. A lifelong Garden State resident, Melissa will challenge anyone who asks (and many who don’t) to a Jersey-off. Born in Hoboken? Check. Grew up in Jersey City? Yep. Spent majority of formative teen years at the mall? Sure did. Met husband at the Cadillac Bar? Righto (but they’re telling the kids they met at church). First dance at wedding a Springsteen ballad? You betcha!

Melissa’s day job as a public relations executive at a top New Jersey agency affords her the opportunity to actually get paid to do what she loves and also fulfills her need for grown up conversation.

In her spare time, or more realistically, when she’s avoiding the pile of laundry that needs to be folded, Melissa posts her musings on parenting on her blog, Fits "N" Giggles.

Happy Momaversary to Me

October 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

So it’s your kid’s birthday.  If you’re a mom blogger, that means writing a sentimental post that fondly recalls the first moment you locked eyes with your sweet newborn, retells an amusing anecdote from years past, and declares your unconditional love for the being you created.  Now keep in mind that I’m not mocking these birthday posts.  God knows I’ve written more than a few, and I absolutely love reading them. 

This year, however, as my oldest son turns 7, I’ve decided to take a different approach to the birthday post.  This year I’m celebrating me.  It is, after all, not just the kiddo’s birthday.  It’s also the 7th anniversary the day I became a mom—my “momaversary”!  In honor of the occasion, I hereby dedicate the following post to me.

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Must-Have Mom Inventions

September 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Last week I was watching the season premiere of Parenthood and Lauren Graham’s character was so annoyed by her teenage son’s inability to locate his shoes that her frustration led to a brilliant idea.  Why not invent a pair of shoes with a beeping device that’s activated by remote control so any time your shoes are lost all you have to do is click the button on the remote and you’ll be able to find them in no time?  It’s a very cool concept and I hope someone besides the fictional Braverman family puts the wheels in motion so I can re-shoe the whole family before the end of the year. 

The shoe idea got me thinking (who says TV is a waste of time?) about what inventions would help me better manage life with my three boys.  What could every mom use that no one has thought to invent yet?  Future inventors of the world, this post is for you.  Pay close attention and you’ll make your first million in no time.  [Read more...]

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Shaken by Loss, Strengthened by Pride

August 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I knew when the phone rang at 1:30 in the morning that the news wasn’t good, yet there was a small part of me that hoped it was one of my co-workers calling about an issue with the event we were planning for BlogHer.  I’d just left the Hilton two hours earlier in the midst of stuffing 800 swag bags, so it wasn’t entirely out of the realm of possibility that it wasn’t the call I’d been dreading every time the phone rang for the past several months. 

But it was that call.  She was gone.  My grandmother died quietly in her sleep at the age of 92 and I had to pull myself together and call the funeral home to pick up her body.  “Someone needs to come and get her,” I was told matter-of-factly.  “Do you want to come and say goodbye?” 

“No,” I answered, thinking to myself that I’ve said goodbye to her a dozen times these past few months, knowing that every time I left her room it could very well be the last time I saw her.   The truth is that I knew I couldn’t handle seeing her lifeless body.  I just didn’t have it in me.  [Read more...]

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Craving Boredom

August 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I have a full-time job and three sons age six and under.  As an only child raised by a single mom, I always knew that I wanted a large family.  As a teenager I used to joke that I’d have four sons and they’d all adore me.  The older and wiser version of me has decided to stop at three and settle for the kids tolerating me most days.  I’ve become a realist in my 30s. 

All throughout high school I worked incredibly hard to get into a good college despite the fact that we had no money, and somehow my mother and grandmother managed to cover most of the cost of my $100k private university education.  My goal was to use that expensive degree to my advantage and find something I’d love to do for the rest of my life and have a family too.  I wanted it all. 

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If You Have a Toddler You'll Probably Relate To My Theory

July 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The other day I posted the following as my Facebook status, “Living with a 14-month-old is a lot like living with an insane person, I reckon.”  I thought that expanding upon this theory would make for an interesting blog post, but I didn’t want to offend insane people, especially not in my debut post for the Jersey Moms Blog.  So in the spirit of political-correctness, the topic of this post is henceforth known as, “How living with a 14-month-old is a lot like living with a raging alcoholic.”  If you happen to be a raging alcoholic who is easily offended I recommend stepping away from the computer screen.

Now that the warning is out of the way I present to you, in no particular order, a list of facts to back up my theory.

  •  14-month-olds, not unlike raging alcoholics, stumble around the house bumping into whatever crosses their path including, but not limited to furniture, people, pets, sharp corners, doorknobs and walls.
  • If a 14-month-old doesn’t like what you’ve put in front of him, he’ll throw said object at your head and laugh out loud. [Read more...]
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