Alternate title: Trust me, I’m a mom!

Remember a while back when I said I was being interviewed by Channel 9? Remember that? Yeah, I had kind of forgotten too, until Wade came home and said that a guy in his office swore he had seen me on a News 9 promo. And then I remembered.

The interview was for a piece on mommy bloggers and marketing. Because you know, when you’re a mom and you have a blog, the Internet sends you free stuff all the time! (I’m kidding, really.) I will tell you the same thing I told the reporter: if you start a blog under the assumption that a UPS truck full of cool stuff will pull up at your door every day, you are sorely mistaken. Trust me.

I will also tell you this: I don’t accept anything for review — here or anywhere else I write — that doesn’t fit, in an organic, seamless way, with what I’m already writing about. And I don’t write negative reviews; if I don’t like a product, I just won’t write about it, here or elsewhere. I’m all about cool stuff, and I love sharing the cool things I find, whether I have paid for them out of pocket or been given them as a promotion, but that doesn’t mean I’m willing to compromise my writing or the story I’m telling here just because something is free.

Anyway, the interview aired this week; you can see it at the Channel 9 website. Please ignore my whacked out hair (wth is going on with that?).

One wee correction: I don’t write product reviews for AOL; I’m the assistant editor at ParentDish.com, where I mostly write about the Gosselins these days. I write product reviews for Cool Mom Picks and BlogHer BeautyHacks, and occasionally at The Working Closet. And I share all sorts of things with you all, but a large portion of them are things I have actually purchased, or that I am coveting but do not own.