Weekly Archives:
Jun 22
From last week:
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on Parent Hacks:
Spray bottle makes cool (and water-saving) fun during the summer
Annmarie's hack uses far less water than the kiddie pool or the
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on Sweetney:
Mass media convergences (subtitle: I really, really need a nap (and probably one or several drinks))
Typing on a computer from the comfort and safety of your couch
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on Savvy Source:
Wise Words from Olivia and Her Maker
We can't let this month pass without special mention of Olivia, that
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on Suburban Bliss:
I mentioned the other day how Max was only in it for
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on MamaPop:
Six More Reasons to Get Amped About The Dark Knight
Ohhhhh emmmmm geeeeee, you guys. The premiere of The Dark Knight is
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on Laid-Off Dad:
Leaving a stinging, hairless scab in its wake
You know when you're walking down the street, minding your own business,
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on Cool Mom Picks:
Big Brands Doing Cool Things: Aurora's Eco-Plush Animals
Mostly we're fans of handmade plush around here, but we also understand
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on Dad Gone Mad:
When I was an undergrad at Fresno State in the early 90s,
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on Sweet Juniper:
Her mother reads in the paper today...
Her mother reads in the paper that they are wrapping the old
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on Confessions of a Pioneer Woman:
Try Keeping Your Tongue in Your Mouth While Reading This Post
Have you ever caught someone watching a really sad scene in a
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on Dooce:
The eyebrows run in the family
That's my seventeen-year-old niece Mariah, my sister's oldest kid. She probably looks
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on Cool Mom Picks:
My daughter adores cartoon characters, as she is biologically programmed to, but
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on Dad Gone Mad:
Eight Weird Things That Happen When You’re Writing a Book
1. Sometimes you’ll be sitting with your family at the dinner table,
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on Parent Hacks:
Sprinkler hose may be a better solution for toddler lawn water play
Here's how Tracy tweaks backyard sprinkler play: The comment about the
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on Savvy Source:
Savvy Speaks with The Happiness Project's Gretchen Rubin
We at The Savvy Source are devotees of Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness
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on Suburban Bliss:
I told him everything doesn't have to be white.
I have a few places to share with you today... I closed
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on Finslippy:
The Wii Fit is my passive-aggressive friend who has cool games but
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on Confessions of a Pioneer Woman:
My Eleven-Year-Old Daughter: A Vignette
All things considered, she’s turning out okay. Oh, I know, I know—considering
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on Dooce:
Jon opened up his own etsy shop a few weeks ago to
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on MamaPop:
Britney Gets Overnights With the Boys
Britney Spears has learned that actually showing up for court can be
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on Cool Mom Picks:
A Dandy Alternative To Backpacks For Kids
My three year-old has entered that phase I'm lovingly describing as Her
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on Savvy Source:
Keeping a Journal with Young Kids
As we've been musing about all month, young children have a tremendous
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on Suburban Bliss:
There are worse things to be in it for.
Max is attending day camp this week. This is a camp that
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on MamaPop:
Heidi Montag Presents: Songs From The Hellmouth!
I'm just going to apologize right up front here: yesterday, I caused
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on Laid-Off Dad:
I have an interesting conundrum regarding my imminent matrimonicide: I don't know
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on Dad Gone Mad:
I burned the turkey burgers. “You have to watch them, Danny!” “I
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on Sweet Juniper:
On the way to Cedar Point amusement park...
On the way to Cedar Point amusement park for my eighth-grade class
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on Sweetney:
I won't have what she's having
I'd like to take a moment and talk about Meg Ryan.
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on Parent Hacks:
Road trip car games to pass the time on long drives
Car games! A long-standing road trip tradition. If you've already exhausted your
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on Dooce:
For breakfast most mornings I have a bowl of Bob's Red Mill
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on MamaPop:
Poor Dannielynn Doesn't Even Stand a Slim Chance of Growing Up to be Normal
Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern Birkhead Jingleheimer Smith (you know, Anna Nicole Smith's
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on Amalah:
Dear Jason, I Bring You the Gift of HYSTERICAL PREGNANT NESTING. You're Welcome.
For Jason's birthday, I made him finally replace that godawful Eyeball Nipple
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on Cool Mom Picks:
Happy Camper Week on Cool Mom Picks: Great Outdoors Cookies from Eleni's
We've been getting so many requests for camp picks now that some
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on Confessions of a Pioneer Woman:
Perky vs. Droopy: A Study in Canine Musculature
Suzie, my sweet old Jack Russell traitor, who abandoned me a couple
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In my life, why do I smile at people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?*
When I was in High School, I was pretty much the biggest outcast you can possibly imagine. My family was at the time living in a small town in central Michigan, where I attended a school that was quite literally surrounded on every side by enormous tracts of cornfield. The students of my school were overwhelmingly average, white, middle-class kids who were destined for average, white, middle-class jobs and lives that I had no doubt they would be quite content with...
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June 27, 2008
Mass media convergences (subtitle: I really, really need a nap (and probably one or several drinks))
Typing on a computer from the comfort and safety of your couch at home? EASY. Having a television crew come into your home and make you talk and answer questions and think (ouch!), and move from here to there and pretend to type on your computer and be filmed "looking natural" and stuff? HARD...
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June 23, 2008
I won't have what she's having
I'd like to take a moment and talk about Meg Ryan. Humor me. Remember this Meg? The pouty, long-faced, imperfect-yet-somehow-impossibly-cute-as-a-button Meg? The one from back in her When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless In Seattle, You've Got Mail heyday? Back when she looked, errm, normal and a human being of this planet earth? ...
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June 13, 2008
My heart wants to explode far away
Some days it seems it's impossible to not just wake up and from minute zero be in a funk. Today is one of those days, I fear...
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June 02, 2008
Because I don't spend enough time on the internet already...
I've created a linkblog that I'll be updating daily with random bits, videos, photos, links, and the miscellaneous detritus I come across everyday on the internet that I have nowhere else to put...
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May 30, 2008
In 1982 I was twelve years old. And I was completely obsessed with the movie E.T.
Obsessed, as in see it eleven times in the theater and collect mountains of useless trading cards based on the film. I vaguely recall fretting over weekly box office returns as well, not because the movie wasn't making ludicrous bank, but rather because in my mind it was absolutely vital that E.T. make more money than any movie ever made in the history of all moviedom, thereby securing its rightful place in the filmic pantheon as The Officially Confirmed Best Movie EVAR...
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May 28, 2008
Summertime, and the living is geeky
The next couple of weeks are going to be rough. Just warning you now, just putting it out there like a PSA. Preschool ended for M on Friday, and there are three long weeks stretching out ahead of us until we hit the promised land of YMCA camp (which I'm so geeked for -- not simply because it'll give me a break from 24/7 childcare, but because I never went to anything like a day camp as a child... I'm bordering on jealous. Crafts! Popsicles! Running around like a crazy person in flip-flops all day! Man, that's The Life!). And judging from yesterday's trial-run of Stay-At-Home-Summer, the three weeks ahead look like something out of Laurence Of Arabia: arid, expansive, and bleak, smelling of sweat and sandy grit. I feel like I'm getting a case of the heat stroke just thinking about it...
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May 23, 2008
She's definitely a little comedian. This is the best shot I could get of her yesterday morning -- the least ridiculously hamming funny face of the lot. Hard to believe, huh?... -
May 22, 2008
Losing weight and motherhood: u r doing it wrong
This morning I am a failure at everything.
First, I wake up and weigh myself (a feat which, in and of itself, was emotionally equivalent to completing the Bataan Death March-like trudge to a gynecologist or dentist appointment) only to find I weigh exactly what I did a week ago. Not even a smidgen of change. I literally kept hopping off and rebooting the digital scale, then hopping back on, hoping this was some sort of hilarious malfunction. As if the scale might suddenly morph into a fur-coated, Muppet-like version of itself, blink at me, and chuckle heartily with it's red felt mouth-like orifice: "Just kidding, Ms. Tracey! Actually, you've lost four pounds! Yay Ms. Tracey!!!" And then pink puffy clouds and rainbows and glitter would spray forth from its undercarriage, coating me in feel-good self-contentment and pride.
Needless to say, this did not happen...
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May 21, 2008
Everything's gonna get lighter, even if it never gets better
I'm feeling a bit sorry for myself today. Near as I can tell, it's just a confluence of minor irritants including but not limited to a smidgen of insomnia, this unabating blasted cold, a touch of loneliness, and some very abstract, vague sadness I can't put my finger on. Not uncharted territory, but nonetheless, I'm a bit down as a result...
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May 16, 2008
I haven't mentioned something kind of important relative to the whole Weight Loss Challenge matter, something I suppose I probably should. Sometimes it seems a bit imprudent to tell the internet all your personal bidness.
Sometimes I feel like I should hold back from you, seeing how "you" -- the grand, sweeping collective "you" -- contains dear friends and delightful strangers, but also weirdos and off-the-chart crazies (and believe me, I've encountered innumerable folk who fall into all those categories, and some in-between). I go back and forth all the time about how much truly personal information I should be putting out, broadcasting to anyone and everyone with an internet connection, but lately I'm of the mind that I should be sharing more...
