It’s the most humbling thing in life … as we get older things that we have heard others discuss become our reality. Youngins, lower the ‘tude because no matter what you think or what you do some things are going to hit you.
Here is one of those moments for me.
No wonder I’m in a mommy coma. Rex got me up at 4:50am. “Thomas Tank, Thomas Tank.” We are out of milk. UGH.
This is a good one… with cameos by producer Michelle — who just had a baby boy!! Welcome Paz (we’ll meet him soon) — and Marissa, production assistant and jack of all trades.
Are you in a mommy coma?
A Cool Mom special! I discovered a cool toy and so can you. Leave a comment here and you will have a chance to win the Box-O-Mania play box. Watch the video to hear more about it. It’s a great portable playhouse.
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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
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Since web traffic is a trickle the last two weeks of the year, I’ve been largely offline. But, back to the chain gang. Otherwise known as having to get my daughter to school on time. And dressed. With a lunch. With a book bag. Sigh.
As people muse about resolutions for this fab New Year I have one to add to the usual, don’t stuff myself with baked goods, workout everyday, read a book with more substance than People Magazine… I have one more aspiration of late: Raise My kids to be Chinese.
Hear me out. Granted it’s not just the old immigrants work harder deal. Did you watch the Summer Olympics opening ceremony? They made it very clear they are taking over the world. So literally it’s good to bone up on your Mandarian. But, metaphorically there are some other lessons to be gleaned here. Look at this. That’s right, I’m not the only one who thought about this. Persistence and discipline can trump IQ.
Just without that pesky Communism.
(Note: Cameo by wonderful cameraman and good sport Chun Ming Huang. Though why he doesn’t have clips of the Cool Mom’s he has shot. I don’t know. )
This is a little different from our regular fare, but it’s a topic that consumes new parents so I thought it would be a good addition. Babycenter.com published the top baby names of 2010 and tracked what will be the hot names of 2011. Here is an interview I did with editor Linda Murray on the topic. She was on a media tour and I am the disembodied voice, but it’s an entertaining exchange I believe. But, then my name is from a famous cartoon character so what do I know? (Yes, Mom, I know you were thinking Daphne DuMaurier).
I have a feeling I’m not the only one a tad interested in this story.
Ah, the carefree days of summer are ending. Laying around on the beach, tan skin and romances! Well, I’m sure that was someone’s summer. This vid is about how the work of summer. It’s a funny transition when summer starts. I have to get use to a new routine, then we wind further so that we have no routine and now I have to gear up for the routine again.
So camp/ summer school is it worth it?
Moms put a lot of pressure on themselves to be perfect. Moms who feed their kids the right foods, get them to bed at the right time with few cartoons, that I do that, but you know? We are always keeping track of what we are doing good or not as good.
So, let’s take a break from that for a minute shall we? Sometimes the satiric mom needs to have her say. I should have also done some “inappropriate things to say to kids” like:
“Are you getting enough sleep? You say you’re 6, but you are looking more like 9.”
“Nick Jonas is going to dump those brothers in a couple years. I hope they are saving their money.”
Or “A man and a woman don’t have to love each other in order to make a baby.”
Ever noticed how some childhood traditions actually fly in the face of what you were trying to teach your kids? Like the mix of “you are so wonderful” is followed later by, “don’t have a sense of entitlement.”
Well, how about this old chestnut of birthday parties for the mixed message award?