Strong mothers feed of this!!

First, I want to give a shout out to Evil Witch Lauren Haldeman who published a new book of comics this week:

Lauren is an illustrator witch in Iowa whom I interviewed about her creative/parenting ways way back in the pandemic. Something cool about Lauren is that last week I published an interview with a witch named Danielle for my piece about weightlifting and she mentioned that a friend named Lauren lured her into her gym coven. I said "Do you happen to know Lauren Haldeman?" and that was her. They have an all-middle-aged-women weightlifting club where they go to the sauna afterwards and talk about hysterectomies around the bro babies who are present. Get Lauren's book and read on for part two of that weight lifting chat. But first –

Do you get paid an executive assistant salary to be your family's executive assistant? If not, perhaps quit and hire someone else to do it

I stand by this testimonial I wrote last year about how I hired someone from the company Faye to help us with calendar, school, tasks, logistics and things like that. Here were just a few things Erin, our family assistant has done for us lately:

• Notice that we'd forgotten to order the kids' hot lunch; went online and replicated last month's order and submitted it.
• Put me on the calendar for a friend's Meal Train. Handled the purchasing of the Meal Train food and texted me a photo of the food being delivered.
• Helped me create the (forthcoming) Evil Witches Sweet Sixteen bracket of most inconvenient places our children have puked.
• Acquired concert tickets for us because I can't handle the process of buying concert tickets anymore.

That's not even to mention the three different sports teams schedules that are getting rolled out (and last-minute rescheduled) on our family calendar that she's helping us juggle.

If you've been tempted to try Faye or gift it to someone else, the code EVILWITCH20 will get you 20% off your first month's subscription. This is an affiliate link—my first! It means I get a little commission if you use that code. Faye's founder came to me with this deal after my unsolicited endorsement and here we are. I believe strongly we deserve to delegate when we can.

Audiovisual and calorie intake for weightlifting witches

Last week I published an issue speaking with Evil Witches who are really into lifting weights. I had so much to talk about with each of them that I decided to break off a separate segment listing what they watch/listen to while they lift and what, if anything they eat or take as a supplement to support their strong bodies: