Once you become a mother pretty much all you'll talk about are the intricate details of the mundane routine of caring for your baby. You'll be asked and somehow find yourself asking, even against your better judgment, all sorts of really banal questions to all your mommy friends and acquaintances. I just got off the phone with a pretty good mommy friend and it seems no matter what the daily circumstances are, we can't help launching into endless details of last nights sleeping pattern as compared to the night before and last weeks as well. And of course we have to re-cover the unending naptime difficulties, how little our babes are eating, and the general resistance their new found independence is bringing. It's kind of interesting,... well really it's not that interesting. I think it's just that we need so much more support than we are getting that we keep going over and over our common minutia. It's a bit sad really, but I find myself entangled in the same uneventful thought patterns too.

So in my typical fashion, I started searching around the web looking for some interesting mommy sites. Is anybody else feeling this way? Duh, of course someone is! * Reminder: This is a big bad ass world and the internet has all the geeked out crazy bloggers served up fresh every damn second. Besides obviously I'm doing it too. Anyway, so first I came across the literary mama site. My first thought was who has time to really read a book let alone write one? I guess they read and write rather than knit and blog— right, that makes sense. I like the tone and realism of the column mothershock. She's got a blog too. From there I linked to mothers talk only to find it says "coming soon". Don't you hate that? I was intrigued 'cause I think it said it's based in San Francisco. Ok, here's the motherload of blog links: mimi smartypants, midlife mama, this woman's work, mothered up beyond all recognition (has a great mama blog list), and mom brain. That's enough to keep me overloaded.