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Valentine's Day '13: A Mother's Love, Volume II
This week on Mommyish, I followed up on a hawt story I wrote about last year in a post called “A Mother’s Love.” This very special kind of love involves a woman, her son, and Facebook. The submissions...
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Valentine's Day 2013: Love Edition
This year, Valentine’s Day felt a lot more like Valentine’s Week, with people obsessing over love in its various forms all over the internet and in retail. I actually stood in a drugstore and debated...
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Valentine's Day '13: Mom's Gold Star
Jamie gets a Gold Star for not taking her flowers, her unborn baby, or her husband’s Valentine’s Day sentiment too seriously. That’s the kind of pregnant rose bouquet recipient I’m talkin’ about! Most...
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Valentine's Day '13: Tease & Reveal
Well. I’m officially wrapping up this year’s Valentine’s Day coverage, a modest five days after the actual holiday, and I have no words to prepare you for what lies behind the jump in this post....
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Sex, Love, and TMI
Last week on Mommyish, I wrote about parents who whisper sweet nothings about their personal lives for all of their Facebook friends to read. It’s a subject that I’ve posted about several times before,...
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Sanctimommy Round-Up!
Inspired by fond memories of this post, I dedicated last week’s Mommyish column to the ever-obnoxious yet ever-amusing sanctimommy. Well, to all the sanctimommies out there keepin’ it real and acting...
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STFUP Fables: The Apple That Turned Into a Tattoo
Ah, yes, the old story of the apple that turned into a tattoo. It’s as old as apples and tattoos themselves! You see, a long time ago, in a land far, far away called Louisiana, there was a woman named...
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Parents Behaving Badly: How (Not) To Act In Public
This week on Mommyish, I wrote about one of my all-time favorite subjects: Parents who behave badly in public and then write about it on Facebook. It takes a special kind of person to not only act like...
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The Return of Links Round-Up!
After taking an extended hiatus for a brisk two and a half years, I’m finally bringing back the Links Round-Up! For those of you who are new to the round-up, it’s where I post the best and the worst of...
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Daylight Saving Time: Meta Edition
As I mentioned the last time we all irrationally “advanced” our clocks, it has become as boring for me to recap the predictable DST/Standard Time outcries of tired parents as it is for tired parents to...
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Blog Birthday: STFU, Parents Turns 4 + The STFU, Parents Book Trailer!
It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating this little blog baby turning three, and now look what’s happened: Today she’s FOUR. That’s FORTY-EIGHT MONTHS, and LOTS OF MATH (1,461) DAYS OLD! If...
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Baby Name Drama For Your Mama
This week on Mommyish, I zeroed in on Baby Name Drama, which is kind of like if a yoonique baby name submission had a lovechild with a mama drama submission. It’s the provocation of the drama, plus the...
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Links Round-Up!
This week’s round-up comes courtesy of a suburban HOA that celebrates St. Patrick’s Day by playfully decorating toilets. Have leprechauns visited your toilets today, or were you too busy watching...
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Tease & Reveal: St. Patrick's Day
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everyone! This post is AWFUL.Typically on St. Patrick’s Day, I post a varietyofthemedholidayposts and pictures of babiesdrinkingbeer, but not this year. This year, I’m just...
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The STFU, Parents Book Shower
Come one, come all! I’m having a book baby! On Wednesday, April 3rd, the day after the STFU, Parents book comes out, I’ll be setting up a live webcam as I simulate giving birth to a book at Housing...
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Links Round-Up
It’s time for another weekly installment of the best and worst links from around the web! But first, let’s study the above Pregnant Paper Dolls (+ Bonus Baby, the kind of bonus every Pregnant Paper...
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Happy Easter! In the spirit of Easter, and as a nod to the painted egg...
HappyEaster!In the spirit of Easter, and as a nod to the painted egg bellies of yesteryear, I now present to you the Egg Belly of 2K13. Behold her roundness and her extreme close-up-ness. Ask yourself,...
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Easter 2013 - Round-Up!
If there’s one thing readers of this blog can rely on, it’s that I’ll put up holiday posts. And there’s a reason for that! Ever since Facebook became a club that’s literally been joined by “everyone...
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Easter 2013 - Tease & Reveal
One hint that a picture of your kid might not be Facebook-worthy (or, if you’re Jennifer, is totally perfect for Facebook) is if the picture looks Photoshopped. But when I say “Photoshopped,” I don’t...
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Easter 2013 - Mom's Gold Star
Whoa, Mary, your kid is a hero. Obviously adults already know that Zombie Jesus has a “thing” against brains that have been compromised by the pleasure center after the ritualistic eating of chocolate...
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