kelcey kintner

I’ve worked in the White House. I’ve been a TV reporter and anchor. I’ve earned a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University. I’ve lived in Montana where this city girl had to drive three hours just to find sushi. But nothing has ever kicked my bum like motherhood. It’s exhausting. It’s frustrating. It’s strangely addictive. Now I understand why my mother loves me so much.

Dylan is my 6 year-old, Summer is my 3 year-old and Chase and Harlowe are my baby twins. My husband Rick is handsome, loyal, funny and an amazing dad. He’s too good for me. I hope he doesn’t realize it because there is no way I’m taking care of these kids alone.

In addition to the mama bird diaries, I’m the co-founder and weekly contributor for The Mouthy Housewives, a humor advice site.  I’ve also been published in the Miami Herald, the News & Observer, the Modesto Bee, The Sacramento Bee and other newspapers across the country. I’ve been featured on Good Morning America, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Washington Post’s On Parenting blog, The New York Times Motherlode blog, Cookie Magazine and the “Write for Charity” Anthology.  I spoke at the 2009 and 2010 BlogHer conferences on humor and advice writing.

I used to be addicted to yoga. Now I’m addicted to my Blackberry, the NY Post, Peppermint Patties and “Project Runway.” I’m hoping yoga makes a come back. And I’m obsessed with Justin Bieber’s hair. But really, isn’t everyone?

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contributing mamas

Mountain mama Daphne Biener lives in Colorado with her husband and their two muses, Kira and Acadia. She splits her time into infinitesimally small pieces of pie composed of peanut butter sandwiching, boo-boo kissing and carpooling. (She gives small thanks that tushie-wiping is no longer on the list.)

When there is some pie left over, she thinks about evils like corn syrup and plastic water bottles and occasionally works on her novel, a tale of family and functionality and the challenges of life. She chronicles her own attempts at growing a greener family at A Greener Biener.

Jordana Bales grew up in tony Westport, Connecticut and now lives on the fashionable Upper East Side with her husband, Michael and their daughters, kindergartener Ava and 2 year-old Lila. She, however, is neither fashionable nor tony – although she once dated a fashionable guy named Tony. A Tufts University graduate, Jordana also has a masters in molecular biology from the Medical University of South Carolina. When not explaining to her daughter the difference between writing on pillows, walls and paper, she teaches at the Bronx High School of Science.

Midwest mama Karen Palmer Bland lives in St. Louis, Missouri – with her husband and four kids, Rory, Sawyer, Georgia and Coco. She’s a big city girl (not to be confused with a large girl who lives in a city), but right now she is “doing the right thing” and living in the middle of the country, to provide her birdies a nice backyard with their very own expensive swing set. Karen is a Tulane graduate who earned her MBA at Washington University. She is a recovering advertising agency executive, now serving the toughest clients of her life – her four kids.

Rick Folbaum is extremely proud to be the first contributing papa. But he’s even prouder of his wife – the brains behind this blog and the mama bird of his dreams. If he’d known how exhausting parenting would be, Rick would have slept even more than he did in college.

When he’s not reading Olivia Forms a Band to his 5 year-old for the 700th time, Rick is an anchor and reporter for Fox News Channel in New York City. He also recently promised his wife Kelcey that he will do all the laundry, dishes and diaper changing from now on (his wife may have added this last sentence).

Diane LeBleu, a former northwest gal, became a permanent southwest mama when she realized the sun shines 320 days of the year in Austin, Texas.  Although she studied Communications and Business at Trinity University in San Antonio, she put her broadcast journalism aspirations on hold when she learned she’d have to move to ‘somewhere, Arkansas’ to get a job upon graduation. Instead, she sold out for a corporate career and Powerpoint presentations until trading in her pumps and Ann Taylor pantsuits to stay home and raise their four children with husband and college sweetheart, Tom.  Fortunately, Danielle (10), Travis (8), Sabrina (3), and Caroline (2) provide great inspiration and much fodder for the anecdotes she has finally started to write and share with her gal pals at The Writing Mamas Salon of Austin.

Our suburban mama Erin K. Butler lives in Connecticut with daughter, Katherine and husband, Mark. Before Baby K, Erin worked as a TV reporter and Communications Director for the American Red Cross. Now, in between baby proofing the house, learning all the lyrics to her ‘Mommy and Me” CD and organizing play dates, she is a freelance writer who still makes time to gleefully participate in neighborhood Cookie Swaps. (Swapping cookies… really, only in suburbia could such a thing exist.)