Tag Archives: Snacks

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Recently Mom Dancing

JF +MO = gold.

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Recently On Instagram

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Recently On Portlandia

Books on Parenting.

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Recently On Repeat

Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood

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Recently Linked

+ How I’m Learning To Rise To A Better Story  by Tina Francis on SheLovesMagazine.com. You’ve seen the blogs. You know, the ones with the Anthropologie dishware, matching His and Her J. Crew outfits and a 3-tier cake on a vintage cake stand. If you’re anything like me (a Bitter Betty or a Cynical Cynthia), you’ve probably thought: a. Who are these people? b. What do they do for a living? c. Why do they have so much time and money on their hands? d. Are my partner and I the only couple who eats dinner in our ratty pajamas, eyes affixed to Netflix? e. Can someone hold me back, lest I hit ‘em with a frying pan?

+ Ever wonder how awful your contributions to Twitter have been? Doghouse Diaries has you covered with this handy guide for calculating your “terrible-tweet score,” with points given for a variety of faux pas commonly spotted in the Twitterverse.

+ Ellen’s Brief to the Supreme Court. Coming out was one of the hardest things I ever did. I didn’t intend to be on the cover of Time magazine saying, “Yep, I’m gay.” The truth is, I don’t even remember saying that. I mean, I definitely said the “I’m gay” part. It’s the “yep” I don’t remember. I’m not really a “yep” person. “Yes siree Bob” maybe. But not “yep.”

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Recently Not Napping

Love this kid.

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Recently A Sloth

Kristen Bell would literally have a heart attack.

(Thanks Dad)

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Recently Technologies  

Google’s new genius

& this jetpack.

(Thanks Dad)

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Recently Jennifer Lawrence Being Jennifer Lawrence

This girl.

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And finally, our Friday Funnies from the Internets

Drew Reviews The Bachelor And It’s Hilarious 

45 People Who Should Not Be Allowed To Use English 

 

(Thanks Katie)

 

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Ellen in Steve Harvey’s Ear

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This expert hair curling tutorial

(Thanks Liza)

& Goats Singing Taylor Swift

(Thanks Mo)

Happy Friday

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Recently Reading

A few weeks ago, a wonderful reader named Tiffany mailed me a copy of Glennon Doyle Melton’s book Carry On, Warrior all the way from Northern Ireland. Her friend had passed it onto her and told her to pass it on when she was finished. Brilliant. Can’t wait to read (and pass on). Momastery is one of my favorites. (Thanks again, Tiffany).

 

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Recently On Instagram

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Recently Weird Toys

Another weird toys list!

Note: I would have loved the My Cleaning Trolley (Waylon too).

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Recently On Repeat

The Truth Is A Cave, The Oh Hellos

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Recently Linked

Beautiful Birth Photography {Baby Wil’s Birth Story} by Brittany G. (Thanks Amy)

The happiest and saddest states according to Twitter on CNN.

Top 5 Regrets People Have At The End Of Their Lives on AlterNet. (Thanks Glennon)

Passenger Records His Own Plane Crash (Thanks Carrie)

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Recently Heart-melt

These are the kinds of videos my friends send me to convince me to get a dog.

(Thanks Carrie)

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Recently Amazing

Street artist playing Hallelujah with crystal glasses.

(Thanks Dad)

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Recently New Punctuation 

8 New Punctuation Marks We Desperately Need

These are amazing. Sinceriod is my favorite.

(Thanks Katie)

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Recently The Oscars

Will you be watching Sunday night?

You know I’ll be there; live tweeting, rolling my eyes with some girlfriends, and eating chips. PS: Six Types Of People Who Watch The Oscars. Which one are you? (I’m the one wishing Tina and Amy were hosting)

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And finally, our Friday Funnies from the Internets

You Had One Job

(Thanks Carrie)

Burning Love Bachelor Parody

(Thanks Karen)

This Kid.

(Thanks Dad)

This Frog.

(Thanks Drew)

& this:

(Thanks Carrie)

Happy Friday.

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Recently On Buzzfeed

33 Ways You Know You Were A Youth Group Kid

The Typical Day Of A Teenage Girl In The Late 90s

(Thanks Katie + Liza)

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Recently On Instagram

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Recently Potato Chips

After three months and 3.8 million suggestions, the contest for the next Lay’s potato chip flavor is down to three candidates:

Cheesy Garlic Bread, Chicken and Waffles, and Sriracha.

Following a trial period of taste-testing, the last standing flavor will be put to vote in May on Facebook and Twitter and the person behind the winning proposal will earn $1 million dollars or one percent of the chip’s 2013 sales. Um, yes.

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Recently On Repeat

Oldie but a goodie.

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Recently Linked

3 Things Your Little Girl Needs From You That You May Not Realize by Joyce McFadden. “You may think she’s too young to start learning about sex, but she’s already learning whether you think she is or not. Every day, she’s absorbing how the world around her sees female sexuality and the female body, and it will inform the teen and woman she’ll become.” (Every parent should read this article) (Thanks Suzie)

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Recently Not Running

I signed up for my first 5k this morning: The Color Run.

Except from now on I’ll be referring to it as The Color Walk.

I don’t run.

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Recently On TV

30 Lessons We Learned From Amy Poehler in 2012

Binge Watching Television

On Seeing Lena Dunham Naked

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Recently Ad Space

25% off Ad Space now through Monday.

Promo code: ilovecheese (of course!) Click here.

A big welcome to Ellie’s Wonder!

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Recently Remembered

Freewrite: Change

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And finally, our Friday Funnies from the Internets

Dear Juice CEO by the Honest Toddler

Latest and greatest Bachelor review by some dude.

Happy Friday.

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Recently Growing Pains

Thanks so much for all your encouraging words last week. I needed them. We’re doing better, but it’s been a major hormonal adjustment. For about five days, I basically just laid on the couch and stared at the wall or at Steve Carrell. It wasn’t great. Other contributing factors include: winter and hot flash inducing drugs. But more on that next week.

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Recently On Instagram

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Recently Welcoming

We’ve got a new sponsor up in here (and she’s amazing).

I  love a lot of things (hot chocolate, It’s a Wonderful Life, reading, the beach, having everything put away, looking pretty, soundtracks, fireworks, laughing really hard, and road trips), but mostly I love my little family. Right now that means my husband and our three babes under the age of two. Life is crazy with so many little ones, but we’re happy. I’m very quiet around people, and a terrible conversationalist – part of the reason I started a blog was so that when I come into contact with people I know, we’ll have something to talk about. (Read more about Mary here.)

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Recently Nostalgic

Who loves the 90s?

(Thanks to everyone who sent this and remembered my nostalgia)

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Recently Linked

I’m My Own Contradiction (a raw post on weaning) via On The Rhodes. “I know that parenting is mostly about letting go.  You equip your children with the tools they need, and slowly, but surely you let go, bit by bit.  It started as they first clipped the umbilical cord.  So this isn’t a first, and it isn’t a last.  There will always be more letting go to do.”

HANNAH BARBARIC: “Girls,” “Enlightened,” and the comedy of cruelty by Emily Nussbaum on The New Yorker. “Girls” has been attacked, and lauded, and exploited as S.E.O. link bait, and served up as the lead for style-trend pieces, to the point of exhaustion. The authors of these analyses have often fretted over privilege: the show is too white, Hannah’s a spoiled brat, or a bad role model for Millennials, or too fat to qualify to have sex on cable television. But when there’s a tiny aperture for women’s stories—and a presumption that men won’t watch them—when almost no women are Hollywood directors, when few women write TV shows, of course it’s the privileged ones who get traction. These artists have what Dunham has referred to as Hannah’s Unsinkable Molly Brown force. (Molly Brown, after all, was a mouthy rich woman who survived the Titanic.) To me, the whiteness of “Girls” is realistic, although the show is slyer and clearer about class than about race. But, as Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote recently in The Atlantic, “the problem isn’t the Lena Dunham show about a narrow world. The problem is that there aren’t more narrow worlds on screen. Broader is not synonymous with better.”

For Birth Photography lovers. (Thanks Bethany)

The Light That Shines.  “How meeting Jill changed my world. This is not a story about cancer. This is a story about love, and it’s a story for all.” (Thanks Carrie)

I Am Damaged Goods by Sarah Bessey. “Virginity isn’t a guarantee of healthy sexuality or marriage. You don’t have to consign your sexuality to the box marked ‘Wrong.’”

NPR Valentines. (Thanks Katie)

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Recently Rewatched

I hear you, L. I hear you.

(Thanks Dad)

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Recently Ugly Cry

Favorite new commercial.

Subaru lifers in this house.

 (Thanks Suzie)

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Recently Kid President

(Thanks all.)

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Recently Remembered

One Year Ago

I’m Not Constipated, I’m Just Hiding

Old snacks here & here.

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And finally, our Friday Funnies from the Internets

This couple REALLY loves Disney.

(Thanks Anna)

Downton Recap

(Thanks Dad)

Best Bachelor Review Ever and this one and this one.

(Thanks Katie)

& the latest Downton Sixbey.

Happy Friday

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Recently Reuniting 

I’ll be with my college loves this weekend.

For the next few days we’ll be tucked away in the mountains, in the middle of a snowstorm, eating, drinking, and (as always) giggling about boys. Is there anything better? Waylon will not be attending, which means I will be sleeping past 6am and drinking more than one glass of wine. My excitement cannot be contained.

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Recently On Instagram

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Recently Inspiring

The Story of Team Long Brothers

(Thanks Liza)

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Recently On Repeat

Bloom, by The Paper Kites

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Recently In Real Life

20 Pinterest Fails

This is me. Every time.

See them all HERE.

(Thanks Kezzie)

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Recently Adorbs

Jessica’s Daily Affirmation

(Thanks Mo)

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Recently Awesome

People are BRAVE.

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Recently Pinned

Via

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Recently Remembered

Last year’s January Goal

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And finally, our Friday Funnies from the Internets

19 Things Worse Than Finding Out That Beyoncé Lip-Synched The National Anthem

If Downton Abbey took place entirely on Facebook: Season 3, Episode 3.

That Baby Wants To Break You Up

& the Parks and Rec Season 4 Gag Real

(Thanks Katie)

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Happy Friday

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