Allow me to share with you how a recent letter from an Internet company left me feeling like a horrible mother:
Hi Britt,
As Moms, we all participate in so many groups and activities that it can be hard to keep everything straight. From volunteering as a classroom Mom to coaching your son or daughter’s sports team, getting groups organized can feel like managing the unmanageable, taking up time in already jam-packed days.
Ahem. Well, actually….
I, um, I don’t volunteer for anything right now. I’m pretty excited I managed to get my son signed up for a martial arts class – and that’s only because they pick him up from school. In my defense, I used to volunteer for everything under the sun when I lived in Iowa.
I’m hoping I’ve still got a little bit of volunteer Karma left to burn up.
Enter Qlubb.com, which makes organizing your homeroom parent meetings, playgroups or book clubs incredibly easy. Qlubb is a web-based service that helps organize your real-life groups online, providing all the functions needed to easily and actively participate within a group. Qlubb allows you to connect, plan meetings, assign responsibilities and share pictures with all of the members of your group at once. Features include an event calendar, sign-up sheets, member rosters, a task reminder service, and bulletin boards, which every member of your community can access and update from their home computers.
Wow! That is actually very cool. You know who could really benefit from something like this?
People who volunteer.
Also, I think that this would be excellent for a Mom’s Group. (Oh wow, this just keeps getting more and more awkward. For me.)
Accessing and using the site is incredibly easy for even the least computer-savvy members. Qlubb’s secure sign-in protects group information, so only members of your group have access. However, participants don’t have to individually register and can simply sign in using the group password.
We’d love your help in spreading the word to Moms about Qlubb.com as a great resource for managing groups and activities.
Crap.
Um, listen. It’s not you – it’s me. I’m sure Qlubb is an excellent resource for adults who frequently interact with other adults. And I promise to tell all of my much better people than me friends about it. I, however, am absolutely confident that I am the exact opposite of what you had in mind when you developed this handy, dandy site for getting people organized.
Mainly because I suck.
If you develop a resource for women who are sorely neglecting their role as active parents, please be sure to keep in touch.
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You aren’t alone. I don’t do anything like that. Mostly because I’m too lazy. I don’t think my children suffer from it because they’re home with me! Which is the answer to all their prayers, I’m sure. lol
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Oh hell yeah – where’s the computer program that reminds me to do laundry, or that I’m out of gin?? Now THERE’S one I could use!
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My parents never did any volunteering with me. My mom did the whole PTA things for like two seconds and I did Girl Scouts. Mmm…girl scout cookies…
ANYways, I turned out just fine(ish) without having those overly attentive-hand-in-EVERYTHING parents.
So yeah I wasn’t really sure where I was going with this except to say that you don’t suck. You just don’t need Qlubb, you’re pretty much to awesome for it.
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I cannot stand their name – it gives me the willies! :annoyed:
Qlubb. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:slaphead:
Don’t mind me, having fun with smilies, shoulda gone to bed sooner… :yawn:
But your kids are fine. My mom didn’t volunteer for much, just a couple of field trips here and there. And look how awesome I am!
Um, strike that last sentence… :angel:
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I have a couple of things.
And, because I’m a total pussy, I’m going to start with telling you that I read you and love you religiously.
First: Qlubb? Totally DUMB. Intended for those moms who the OTHER (read: US) moms hate. So don’t worry.
B) (and the reason I want you to know that I love and admire you and want to BE you…) it’s driving me crazy…your post title should read, “How to get organized if you’re a better Woman than I AM”. I’m sorry. I just HAD to say something.
Oh, and Next: please realize that I cannot spell or use hyphens, apostraphes, colons of any kind, or dashes correctly.
xo
b.
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if you say that you suck one more time i am flying down there and kicking your ass coz you SO do not suck. clearly.
(ha! i stole your clearly and used it on you!)
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You and me both, hon! I used to volunteer but it is really hard with work. And the more you volunteer, the more they ask you to do. I think you’re great just the way you are!
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Actually, Just Beth, in the case of referring to a direct or indirect object (e.g., “woman”), “than me” is grammatically correct. :cheese:
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I would like you to know that I am reading your posts but find I don’t have much to say about them so I’m saying nothing at all.
I love it when Dawg wears your “I SUCK AT LIFE” t-shirt, especially when he turns it inside-out and secretly wears it under his uniform shirt. *giggle* There, a comment!
:heartbeat: you, Britters. You’re awesome in my eyes.
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HAHAHHAHAHAHA! I used to volunteer. *used* being the key word here.
Isn’t spelling club=Qlubb kinda like back in the 80s when parents tried to spell common kids names “different” so they would be “unique”. Yeah til there were no pencils to be found with their name spelled correctly on it.
Of course me, I’ve never had a Darla pencil. Yes, I carry a lot of resesntment, but I digress.
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You really need to read The White Trash Mom Handbook. It’s a quick easy read and it’s made for people like you and me. If you can’t get the book, you should check out the website. The Qlubb is for the Muffia–those women who do everything and make sure you know it so they can shove it down your throat how inadequate you are as a parent.
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Waaaay back when my kids were little, I did the “volunteer” thing when I could. Being a working mom, that is not always an option. I finally decided that engrossing myself in my kids development and educational processes was more than enough to keep my schedule quite FULL.
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I know what you mean. I always get invitations to participate in Daddies-who-hate-internet-porn forums (dwhip.com).
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OK. Sit down. This is a rant.
I think that we, as working mothers, somehow keep thinking that we should do the same thing as the Leave It To Beaver Era mom’s did.
Remember when you guys were little and I used to get so frustrated at all the activities they would plan during the day and say “How in the hell are you supposed to get to them if you work?”
It made me think I was the only HORRIBLE working mom in the world.
Besides, when I was a kid, our parents let us just go out and PLAY, rather than all this hyper-organized stuff. As a result, we knew how to entertain ourselves, rather than kids who have everything planned and organized for them and as a result don’t know what to do with themselves.
You CLEARLY do not suck. Nor do we all.
Sheesh
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What about a site for neurotic ex-smoker women who bash their parenting skills but are actually good mothers in their own right?
I think that’s a niche market that has not been tapped.
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Thank you for sucking so badly.
I do and will volunteer where there is an actual need, but otherwise I blog.
I agree with the previous commenters about the name of this new online forum sucking, and I totally agree with your mom’s rant.
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There’s already “a resource for women who are sorely neglecting their role as active parents.”
Clearly, it’s gin.
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I volunteer for Girl Scouts and that’s because I was/am one and know what the hell I’m doing. Other than that, forget it.
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Hear hear, Britt’s mom.
Deanna-Banana’s poppa and older sister volunteered constantly, but, because they just loved it, no other reason, certainly not for any self congratulatory reason. The rest of us in the family, (Deanna Banana, Molly, brother and momma) hated, hated, hated it, so, no volunteers here. Nothing to do with how good we are at parenting…(except, I guess the older sister and the poppa are GREAT parents,……sooooo,,,,maybe……. :poke:
:eyebrow:
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WOW, way to reach out there, QLUBB, and stab us in the heart. For those of us who are scrambling around to get the bare necessities done, THANK YOU for rubbing salt in the wound.
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I’m the biggest asshole.
that’s like the biggest loser, only worse, and I don’t lose any weight or win anything.
I’m sorry, I’m embarrassed, and worse, I was WRONG!!!
:dunce:
I WAS going to get on here and apologize because I just now (it’s like seven thirty my time, on Sunday) remembered that I had written that, and because, well, it was another beautiful day in the PNW and we were at the pool… and … well… drinks were had. SIGH.
:slaphead:
So… MY BAD!
xo! :peace:
b.
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My son’s PTA voted to give parents a $75 “We’ll never ask you to lift a finger or send in brownies” hush money payment. LOVED writing that check! No further emails or Kwubbs needed.
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I aspire to suck as badly as you do. Sometimes I feel like the only working Mom on the planet.
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