Mom Blogger: 'It's Like We're 'The Brady Bunch,' Without Alice'

Oct. 15, 2007— -- Dawn Meehan was born to multitask.

She navigates her toy-strewn living room with the grace of a ballerina, vacuums up piles of pet food her son has spilled in the hall, and then -- with her squealing 18-month-old tucked under her arm -- begins to make dinner.

She jokes, "It's like we're 'The Brady Bunch,' without Alice."

That is because Dawn Meehan is Alice.

She plays housekeeper, chef, laundress and chauffeur to a family of six incredibly active children, ages 1 to 12.

Her funny and unvarnished tales of the daily drudgeries of motherhood have made her the author of an incredibly popular Mommy blog -- the name given to the expanding number of online child-rearing blogs written by moms.

"Last night I wrote how I accidentally washed a diaper -- not a cloth one but a real diaper went through the washing machine and exploded. There was gel and fluff everywhere," she reads from her blog, which is titled "Because I Said So."

From a desktop computer stuffed into a cramped corner of her bedroom, Meehan chronicles her family's many mishaps, like the assortment of wildlife her 3-year-old has tried to bring into the house. His latest acquisition had fur and teeth..

"I get up and look outside and lo and behold my 3-year-old is indeed carrying a squirrel by his tail," She reads from her blog.

She took a picture of the startled animal and posted it with the story on her site.

Meehan's entry into the blogosphere came by accident, four months ago, when she was trying to sell a packet of Pokemon trading cards that her children had snuck into her shopping cart on eBay. She wrote about it, and the response was so good she began blogging.

Now nearly 30,000 moms log in to Meehan's site every day to read and respond to her daily column. This newfound Internet fame is incredibly surprising to a woman who spends most days filling sippy cups and wearing spit-up stained T-shirts, which Meehan believes is the key to her appeal.

"I think moms all over can relate to that. They say, 'She's not perfect, I'm not perfect, we can be not perfect together,'" Meehan said.