Real Bad Mommy confessions from the park (reprinted with permission)

One very good mommy brought a birthday cake to a park gathering. "I hope you brought enough for the grownups," I said, and she assured me she had.

I confessed that I've simply never grown out of the love of frosting, and will elbow my way in for an edge piece (or better yet, a corner). "Oh, my kids didn't taste frosting for the first few years of their lives," one of my favorite moms said.

I thought she meant that she'd always made them healthy birthday treats, but she reassured me by adding, "Because I always got there first."