by Jessica Scott | Apr 5, 2011 | army mom, books, empowering parents, military mom, mommy fail, Uncategorized, working mom
I think I get a cool mom prize today. Not for building my kids a swing set or actually making them homemade cookies. No, today I saved a book. Today started like any other day. I got the girls up at 5 am. Got them out the door by 540 and off to daycare. As we’re...
by Jessica Scott | Mar 27, 2011 | army mom, empowering parents, mommy fail, Uncategorized, women at war, working mom
So my kids have listening issues. Kind of like the vikings from How to Train Your Dragon on with less self sufficiency. My own yelling at them in return for this misbehavior has created, yeah, you guessed it, more yelling. And a whole lot less discipline than I’d...
by Jessica Scott | Mar 14, 2011 | army mom, books, mommy fail, Uncategorized, working mom, Writing
Those who know me know I have a hard time sitting still. I’ve always got something going on, something that prevents me from sitting down on the couch and veging out. Which is odd because if you knew me as a teenager, you’d have said the exact opposite. But this last...
by Jessica Scott | Mar 7, 2011 | army mom, deployment, military mom, mommy fail, moms at war, Uncategorized, working mom
The weekend started for me at 0200 Saturday morning as I hopped in a vehicle and headed to the Tuscon Airport for my flight back to Fort Hood. After landing in Dallas, I get a phone call from my mom, who’d been watching the girls for me while I had my TDY trip....
by Jessica Scott | Feb 18, 2011 | army mom, mommy fail, moms at war, Uncategorized, working mom
This Week Sucked It took until Friday for my daughter to break down. I heard a noise from across the house then nothing. Then I heard it again. I padded across the floor and heard her heartbreaking sobs. I walk into her room and she’s sitting up in her bed, staring at...
by Jessica Scott | Nov 7, 2010 | books, company command, mommy fail, moms at war, redeployment, Uncategorized, writer's ruck sack, Writing
So my big news this week is that I finally turned my book Angels Before Me into my agent. It feels pretty good, not the least because it’s the first book I’ve written start to finish from scratch by starting with a synopsis. Technically, it started with a paragraph....