Fright Fest 2012 Ladies and gentlemen, put down your...
Fright Fest 2012 Ladies and gentlemen, put down your snacks. Fright Fest is upon us! Starting today and through Halloween, this blog is going be a little bit scarier than usual. During the year, I...
View ArticleFright Fest Entry #1: Tease & Reveal Daddy's Girl
Well, well, well…we find ourselves here again. *gleefully rubs hands together* For the first installment of this year’s Fright Fest, I figured I’d take a tip from last year’s first installment, which...
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Don’t worry, guys, this is just a quick pit stop on the Fright Fest road to Nasty Town. I just had to post this because, A) I’ve always wanted to be on the front page of Yahoo! sporting a pair of...
View Article::Click (twice) to enlarge:: Fright Fest 2012 No amount of Day...
::Click (twice) to enlarge:: Fright Fest 2012 No amount of Day of the Dead decoration is going to replace the feeling I’ve had every time I’ve accidentally opened this file over the past several...
View ArticleFright Fest '12 - Documom Round-Up
This week on Mommyish, I dipped my wooden spoon into my documom submissions folder to touch on a subject that I don’t devote much time to, but that I am deeply, passionately squicked out by. It might...
View ArticleFright Fest 2012 - Pee Stick Edition Awww yeahhh. Nothing like sucking on a...
Fright Fest 2012 - Pee Stick Edition Awww yeahhh. Nothing like sucking on a pee stick like it’s a lollipop. At first glance, I think it looks more like a thermometer (maybe because that’s something...
View ArticleFright Fest '12 - Tooth Fairy Edition
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about a mother foraging through her child’s crap to find a tooth, but it is, however, the first time I’ve received both pre- and post-digging submissions. Because...
View Article::Click (twice) to enlarge:: Fright Fest 2012 - Feet Tattoo...
::Click (twice) to enlarge:: Fright Fest 2012 - Feet Tattoo Edition I’d like to preface this by saying that I know in my heart of hearts we’ll never get to see another one of these again. It just won’t...
View ArticleFright Fest '12 - Voting Edition
For certain parents, “voting season” lasts year ‘round. There’s always a reason to hassle friends into voting for your kiddo, and Halloween is certainly no exception. What a child wears (and wins) each...
View ArticleFright Fest 2012 - Tease & Reveal: Dirty Diaper Edition
Here we are, one week into Fright Fest, and I’m excited to “unveil” Tease & Reveal #2! This time around, we’re talking diapers, and it’s not so much the reality of the situation that I find scary...
View ArticleFright Fest '12 - Placenta Profile
So, at this point we’re nearly a week out from Halloween and reaching official “anything goes” territory. With a post like this one that has a few different layers, so to speak, you guys will be able...
View ArticleFright Fest '12: Bath Poop Round-Up
This week on Mommyish, I stunk up the joint with some delightful bath poop submissions in an effort to bring awareness to this smelly posting practice. I don’t know about you guys, but to me “bath...
View Article::Click (twice) to enlarge:: Fright Fest 2012 - Costume Discount...
::Click (twice) to enlarge:: Fright Fest 2012 - Costume Discount Edition I think partly what I love about this submission is the blunt way the Bowtique owner presents her costume discount offer. It...
View Article::Click (twice) to enlarge:: Fright Fest 2012 - Water Birth...
::Click (twice) to enlarge:: Fright Fest 2012 - Water Birth Edition Here we have a beautiful scene with a newborn baby pumpkin and a mama pumpkin chillin’ in a pool of bloody water and afterbirth, aka...
View ArticleFright Fest 2012 - Mom’s Gold Star I like this submission because both...
Fright Fest 2012 - Mom’s Gold Star I like this submission because both K. and J. win Gold Stars, but for completely different reasons. K. wins the Gold Star because she seems kind of awesome. I could...
View ArticleFright Fest '12 - Tease & Reveal: Clever Cake Edition
I’m not going to sugarcoat this post. (Heh.) It’s one of those “birth cakes” that people have been making in recent years, and I’m sure many of you have probably seen one before. I say “seen” because...
View ArticleFright Fest '12 - Taking a Stand Against the Devil
Every year, I post at least one example of people who religiously oppose Halloween. I’m not so much a stickler for telling people what to believe or participate in so much as I’m amused by those who...
View ArticleFright Fest '12 - Vomit Edition
Fright Fest may be slightly getting to my head, considering I just carefully studied the barf falling out of this kid’s mouth and breezily asked my boyfriend, “What do you think that is? Applesauce?”...
View ArticleFright Fest '12 - Moms Dressing As Moms For Halloween
Before we get back to posts about disgusting things, I wanted to touch on something a little more conceptual that scares me: Mothers who dress up as “moms” for Halloween. Now, don’t get me wrong - I’m...
View ArticleFright Fest '12 - Snot Edition
Ah, yes, Blue, I’d have to agree with that assessment! A good snot bubble will always qualify as being worthy of this blog. Heaven help the day that I look at a picture of a snot bubble, roll my eyes,...
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