Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
In January, I presented a workshop on the topic of choosing a blogging platform at Blissdom 11 in Nashville. It’s a great starting point for blogging wanna-bees, newbies, or anyone who wants to know more about what blogging tools are out there, because the most basic tool in all blogger’s bag of tricks — besides [...]
Bathing suit shopping, as any woman can tell you, is basically the wardrobe equivalent of walking over hot coals. You go in to the shop with the impossibly thin mannequins modeling scraps of spandex held together with plastic rings and dental floss. You pick out the suits that you think will cover the parts you [...]
Oh how I love word play! Just as much as you, the aspiring mom blogger, should know your backend (aka. your blogging platform), you should also know your hosting, by which I do not mean your mad Martha Stewart skillz, but your blog hosting. When it comes to blogging, the term ‘hosting’ means just that: [...]
Tired of hearing about an old high-school friend’s house-league softball championship but still game to finding out how they’re aging? Interested in knowing if that old roommate ever made it off the pole but not interested enough in having to actually have a conversation with her? Forget Facebook – there’s better stalking grounds in town. [...]
Look, people, it’s an absurd world out there. Completely absurd. And every absurdity is being captured by the lens of reality TV. Homeless men can get broadcasting jobs and free homes just by pitching a guy with a flipcam at a traffic light. Adult, seemingly sane women “compete” to marry a man who’s been sleeping [...]
Like many middle-aged women, my 13-year old niece is obsessed with Edward. As in, the vampire. Not R-Pattz as a person, but Edward, as a vampire. Not to be patronizing, but it’s cute. (Because she’s 13. It’s not cute when you’re 40.) I applaud her steadfast refusal to watch anything else the lanky Brit is [...]
A couple of months ago, I wrote this about the stuff that we love and why we love it: Here are some things that Jasper and Emilia love: crayons, art paper, paints, marshmallows, bubble wrap, trains, books, the iPhone, the iPad, video cameras, regular cameras, Toady, me, Kyle, the cats, skateboards, anything Disney, Scotch tape, [...]
I don’t know about you guys, but I can take 200 photos in a day. TWO HUNDRED PHOTOS IN ONE DAY. This doesn’t happen so much in the winter (how many sledding photos can one take?) and it doesn’t happen every day in the summer, either. But it happens. It’s not as though I’m shooting [...]
So, this might not come as a surprise coming from the editor of a site that that has categories like ‘Bad Cookery’ and ‘Bad Housekeeping,’ but I’m a pretty bad homemaker. I’m an incompetent cook, and I hate housekeeping. Except for making coffee and soup and vacuuming. I kind of love vacuuming. ANYWAY. I might [...]
Stories like this make my heart hurt. A gang of parents lobbying to remove a special needs child from her public school because her needs are interfering with their childrens’ right to… enjoy peanut butter sandwiches? Yes, it’s a child with a peanut allergy – a severe, deadly peanut allergy – which might not sound [...]
There are, of course, many things are more humiliating than being perp-walked by some bunnies and a couple of angry birds on the backlot at Universal Studios, but how many things are more awesome? Very few, I’d wager. Very few. (Universal Studios backlot. Pink Beret Bunny Task Force and Easter chicks on the scene.)
Last week, for no particular reason, it struck me as I was putting my toddler to bed that she’d never had a pukey sickness. She’s had loads of colds, but not once had she had a gastro bug. And at that moment, I thought, Wow, am I ever not looking forward to that, cause that [...]
This video is a proof that you don’t need toys to entertain your baby. All you need is a nose or any other noise-emitting body part and we all have at least two or three of those, right? Face it, bodily functions are hilarious, especially the ones you can do on demand (armpit farts anyone?) [...]
So there’s still a few days of spring break remaining, and if you’re at all like me, you’ve probably run out of things to do to keep your children occupied. Here are some ideas to get through this last, long stretch, without losing your mind: 1) Have Backwards Day. Just like any other day, except [...]
I wrote about how to take photos with a blurry background a few years ago on my personal site and I still get daily Google hits for people searching for how to do just that – take photos with a blurry background. I’ve been waiting for spring to arrive so that I could take new [...]
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