1st Annual Cool Mom Awards

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As we face down the barrel of Oscar time I think, ‘Hey, I can be as self-involved, self-promoting and self-congratulatory as anyone else in show biz, the Hollywood Foreign waiters (what my dad called the Golden Globe group) or the Tea Party’. It’s time for the CMAs!!! Oh, wait, that’s what the Country Music Awards go by … hmm, I know!  Time to hand out the “Coolie” (sidebar:  I worked with Coolio once on a VH-1 show in NYC and loved the guy.  I’m from Culver City; he lived in Westchester, which is next door.  We bonded over unchic addresses.)

But, will the Coolie go to me?  Sure, the team that put that video together will know they were a big part of making something award winning — I’m talking to you Rex and Vivien — but, oh, no, the real winner is the randomly selected commenter.  Because if you make a comment, that is my reward.

When I shot this video I didn’t know what my “trophy” would be for the lucky winner (a viewer, not the winning video).  But now I know!  The lovely moms behind PackIt (my first ever national commercial) have offered up one of their PackIts.  (True: love the PackIt.  Just packed a smoothie in one this AM for Vivien’s lunch snack.)

So, watch this video, and please “vote” below.  Who knows? Maybe one day the Coolies will have a dinner, red carpet and sweaty under breasts – all the hallmarks of a REAL award show.

IF you need to jog your memory here is a link to nominee #1, #2, #3, #4, #5

For official rules, click here.

27 thoughts on “1st Annual Cool Mom Awards”

  1. I vote for Daphne the Explorer!

    I have been contemplating writing a book filled with short stories based in reality about the cartoons my daughter loves, i.e. Handy Manny…in reality Kelly the hardware store owner has an enormous crush on Manny and runs around town breaking things, so he’ll have to visit her store and she’ll always have just what he needs.

    Sidenote: Just want to thank you for all the laughs and educating moments. I found you via iTunes and later followed you to momversation, another great sanity keeper for me. Thank you!

  2. I love the ones where your sister takes up half the lines. She’s so animated, and you clearly love her so much, it makes for a great dazzling duo. Also, the editing of your videos always floors me with how cool it is. Anytime I see a cut-in of you boozin’ it in bed, or pondering your shoes in your closet, and then it cuts back , I’m like “brilliant!”.

    My kids would LOVE to fight over taking the Packit to school, it would sure help in our quest to raise kids who love food, cooking, and all the occasions in which food can be enjoyed!

  3. I’m casting my vote for Rex’s Wallet Organizer. That one made me laugh and laugh!

    My super-awesome write-in would be Small House. I really enjoyed that one too. Best of luck, Daphne! I hope you win a “Coolie!”

  4. Well If I just pick “ONE” vid which is VERY difficult by the way,

    I would choose ” Just ONE” I mean talk about a dazzling virtuoso turn by 2 people that want the same brownie! XO

  5. My absolute favorite vid didn’t get nominated (boo, hiss) (it was the italian movie send-up starring rex), so left with the other fabulous choices, I’m going to cast my vote for the letter to expectant moms. Disclaimer: I could be biased because it was one of the first of your videos I saw, and when I was home with a newborn, so it was absolute kizmet for me. I fell in love with you instantly, and have been cyberstalking you ever since. ;-) Love you woman. Thanks for validating the mothering biz, and making the choice to stay home with mine feel less isolating.

  8. OH, SUCH TORTURE!

    They mostly involve Rex.

    You can’t do this to me.

    It has to be:

    Rex’s wallet cleaning service OR

    Dora.

    My boys love wallet cleaning service, though. so that’s THREE votes

    Oh, the agony…I just can’t choose when it’s my Rexy.

  12. worry not Italian movie star aired in 2011, so it did NOT qualify for the 2010 awards. Worry not, it will be on the 2011 list of nominees… unless I become so incredibly funny over the next several months it starts to look like a perm in 1987 as in , “why did I think that was a good idea?”

    Thanks for the votes and the praise from the moms and theirs kids!

    BKC– thanks for the write in of “small house”. It didn’t get a lot of comments, but when i looked at the stats it was one of the most watched of 2010. Perhaps there are a lot of tiny dwellers.

  13. So hard to choose, but that baby doll was a riot, so I’ll go with the Letter to Expectant Moms.

  15. 16 yr old son just voted: he watched, and votes for Rex’s wallet service.
    I think we’re going to be here all night, they’re just so good…all of them.

  20. “Just One” was hilarious and poignant. Your sister Carole is a treat to watch, could she co-star in more videos?

  21. “Daphne the Explorer”
    I have two children 11.5 and 7…and have often wondered how my psyche has been forever damaged by the endless hours of children’s tv I have endured. Loved your “parody”! I just found your site last week…so glad I did!

  22. I think I have to go with Rex the Wallet Organizer since my guy wants to have a similar business. Daphne the Explorer is a close second, though!

  27. Definitely Letters to Expectant Moms!

    While the truth may scare moms-to-be into catatonic shock, it makes the rest of us already-moms feel better it wasn’t just hard for us!