Dawn Meehan (aka mom2my6pack) grew up in Chicagoland where she began her writing career at the age of 5 with her widely praised, The Lucky Leprechaun, an epic tale of a leprechaun who was– yes, you guessed it, lucky.
In 2007, Dawn auctioned a pack of Pokémon cards on eBay. In the description, instead of writing about the actual cards, she wrote a funny story about grocery shopping with six kids. The auction went viral. Thousands of people emailed Dawn, asking her if she’d written anything else. She directed them to her blog and she ended up going from about ten readers a day to nearly a hundred thousand daily readers overnight. Her blog, BecauseISaidSo.com, sky-rocketed to become one of the most popular mommy blogs on the net. In 2008, her blog was voted the Best Parenting Blog by the Blogger’s Choice Awards. It has been nominated for the Best Humor Blog, the Hottest Mommy Blogger, the Best Parenting Blog, and the Best Blog of All Time for the past several years. In 2009, her blog was nominated for the Funniest Blog by BlogLuxe. Dawn is consistently named one of the top thirty-five mommy bloggers by Babble and has been named one of the top 25 bloggers on Circle of Moms as well. Her kids think the blog is just okay.
The success of her blog awarded her a publishing contract with Guideposts who printed her book Because I Said So (and other tales from a less-than-perfect parent in April, 2009. In November, 2010, Simon and Schuster published her second book You’ll Lose the Baby Weight (and other lies about pregnancy and childbirth). Simon and Schuster also published an updated version of Because I Said So (and other tales from a less-than-perfect parent) in July, 2011. Currently, Dawn is working on her third book, Day of a New Dawn (working title).
Dawn’s eighteen year marriage ended in 2010 and brought with it many changes. As the sole caregiver and provider for her six children, Dawn and the gang relocated to Orlando so she could accept a job at a middle school working with low performing kids who don’t have support at home. Here in the Florida sunshine, Dawn practices her juggling skills daily. On any given evening, Dawn can be found taking one child to cheerleading practice, dropping off another at church, making dinner, going to the grocery store, paying the bills, kissing a boo-boo, reading a bedtime story, cleaning up muddy footprints, folding laundry, taking a child to the ER, and explaining to her kids why they can’t have an indoor Slip ‘N Slide or a pet squirrel.
