Mommybloggers: Kathryn! We just adored hanging out with you at BlogHer. One thing is troubling us, though... you call yourself "Daring Young Mom." We need the story behind the name, missy.

Kathryn: No, I love you more. Seriously, thank you so much for paying my way to the big show. It was fabulous to meet you all.

Daring Young Mom is a play on words from the old song “He floats through the air with the greatest of ease, this daring young man on the flying trapeze.” I love the juxtaposition of images between a graceful acrobat and my staggering attempts at new motherhood. When I googled the phrase “daring young mom” and it came up with zero hits, I knew I had a winner… or possibly it sucked so bad that no one would ever think to plagiarize it.

Mommybloggers: We love your sarcasm and winning sense of humor. Have you always been so funny?

Kathryn: Funny “ha ha” or funny “did you forget to take your medication”?

Mommybloggers: When did you start blogging, and why? Have you always been a writer?

Kathryn: After Magoo was born, I was “advised” to find a hobby to help with some post partum anxiety. I told Dan that I thought I’d try my hand at writing for publication. He “advised” me not to choose a hobby that involved masochistically sending my handiwork to publishers like a lamb to the slaughter. So I chose instead to narcissistically send the intimate details of my life out to the internet like a pig to a pedicure.

I have written for years but did not consider myself a writer until I had an audience larger than my immediate family.

Mommybloggers: We'd love to know about your background. What kind of kid were you? Did you know there was a trapeze in your future?

Kathryn: I was born and raised in Alberta, Canadia with 4 siblings, several dogs who mysteriously died off one by one and 2 taller people who never let us sing while we played cards. I liked to throw myself out of trees in desperate attempts to break one of my limbs so I could get a cast, have it signed, and become the most popular girl in school.

If I had known about the trapeze, my rise to the top (by way of crashing to the bottom) would have been much smoother.

Mommybloggers: You're courageous in your fight against the smell of ghostly poultry. You meet celebrities with reckless abandon. Is there anything you won't talk about on your blog?

Kathryn: Things that will make my children vomit if they read them are not acceptable blog fodder over at Daring Young Mom. For example, I do not blog about the activities that made the miracle of their lives possible or my addiction to the music of the Backstreet Boys.

Mommybloggers: We've got to ask: what is your take on the mommyblogger label? Are you a mommyblogger?

Kathryn: I just don’t like labels in general. We spend way too much time trying to classify each other and not enough time really listening to what others have to say. “That’s a humorous liberal Jewish Chinese woman’s mommyblog,” does nothing but narrow my expectations of what I’ll find when I visit the site. I’d much rather hear, “I read a really engaging blog today by a woman who’s passionate about her family and has a truly unique voice.” I guess the problem is that this world is less about conversations and more about 20 word sound bites.

I do cringe when someone other than my children refers to me as “mommy.” It’s rarely infrequently not unpatronizing. Gosh! I love negatives.

Mommybloggers: We just can't get enough of your writing...where else can we find you? Do you have any new projects in the works?

Kathryn: I’m currently blogging for Parenting.com and the Seattle PI newspaper website. I also have an LDS blog on the backburner and am still working on growing out my mullet. No, I’m not pregnant.

Mommybloggers: Tell us about your interest in documentary films - is there a documentary in your future?

Kathryn: In college I studied English Literature and Media Arts, my final project being a documentary about rape and sexual assault, and I’m really passionate about film. Currently Laylee and Magoo are too wussy to hold a boom mic or carry a tripod and I haven’t made any great film connections in the Northwest but I have a few ideas. If you’d like a job as a cinematographer where you will be paid in crocheted hats and homemade Indian food, please contact me.

Mommybloggers: We love that you host Daring Family Freestyle Rap Battles. In fact, we're thinking that there needs to be a way to incorporate it into BlogHer 2007. Can you give us a sample of your lyrical prowess?

Kathryn:

Get yer tooth-BRUSH from the vanity, OOO let’s fight cavities

You better put away the play-doh, this moment
You own it, you better never let it go
Crusty. You only get one tub, do not miss your chance to show
Grammy your sculpture once before bedtime, yo

You really don’t get the whole experience with just the words on the page. If you could picture me as one of the white moms on Oprah trying to “get down” with one fist raised in the air, attempting some wooden-legged booty-poppin’ as they watched Mary J. Blige perform recently, you’d feel like you were actually there in our living room for a DFFRB. Laylee and Dan like to add some flava with a sweet two-fingered wiggedy-wiggedy faux-vinyl-spinning maneuver which I plan to incorporate into my own routines at some future date.

Mommybloggers: And here are the questions we subject all of our featured bloggers to (With apologies to Bernard Pivot and Inside the Actors Studio):

1. What is your favorite parent related word? Squidge

2. What is your least favorite parent related word? Why? or Ungh-ungh-ungh-ungh-ungh!

3. What is your favorite creative censored curse word used around children? BOOP! We’re so square around our house that we have censored versions of our censored curse words. CRAP! became C-R-A-P! became POOP! became BOOP!

4. What is your favorite hiding place within your home when you need to get away from it all? The solarium – but until we have one of those, the bathroom is my “safe room” of choice.

5. What hiding place have you been found in too often and can no longer use? The imaginary solarium

6. If Oprah exists, what would you like to hear her say when you arrive at the Oprah Winfrey show when she features the Mommybloggers? Just kidding! We’ve been reading all of your blogs and we’ve decided that more than increased traffic, you really need to be the audience for the biggest ever edition of OPRAH’S (that’s me) FAVORITE THINGS!!!

Check back tomorrow as we turn Mommybloggers.com over to the always hilarious Kathryn of Daring Young Mom.