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When Momzilla Attacks!
Your relationship with your spouse’s mother is a tricky one, at best. There are all these invisible lines you can’t cross, certain things you’re better off never saying and if you happen to have hitched yourself to the wagon of a bona fide mama’s boy – well, you’re screwed.
Now, I’ve heard a lot of mother-in-law horror stories in my time, but I happen to have lucked out in the mom-in-law department. My children are her only grandchildren which means free childcare! We just moved across the country for that particular reason. God love her, she’ll hold my 4-month-old son Henry all night long, cooing and cawing into his little face while I busy myself drinking wine and the like.
But one future mother-in-law seriously takes the cake. As Yahoo! reports, last month, 60-year-old British florist and total mom-zilla, Carolyn Bourne attacked.
Her stepson’s girlfriend, 29-year-old Heidi Withers, was a guest in her fancy-pants home on the outskirts of Dawlish, Devon and apparently Bourne felt like the girl’s manners weren’t up to snuff and told her so. In an email. That she sent three times to make sure Withers received it. The subject line: “Your lack of manners.”
Instead of paraphrasing the email I’m going to post it in its entirety so you’re sure to get the full effect. Continue reading »
People don’t take bad pictures anymore. Digital imaging allows us to take unlimited photos – until everyone in the shot looks perfect – and then we delete the rest. But not so long ago, in the days of 35-millimeter film and Polaroid pics, people were frequently caught in awkward poses, to be framed and saved for posterity. This week, Today interviewed two men who’ve compiled a book that celebrates all those weird, uncomfortable family moments.
Childhood pals Mike Bender and Doug Chernack have successfully exploited the niche of Awkward Family Photos, recently turning their popular website into a book of the same name. The anthology of bizarre family pics will debut at number three on the New York Times Bestseller List this Sunday.
It’s no surprise the book is doing so well; NBC reports that “15 million people a month visit the site to ogle families posing at their embarrassing best.” The pair take submissions from regular people all over the world – almost 6,000 a month. The site launched just over a year ago and became viral almost immediately. Bender and Chernack say they “prefer older photos (or at least ones taken before the website launched) to ensure the pictures haven’t been digitally altered to catch their eye.” A popular theme on the site is the baby-with-scary-Easter-bunny pic. I had no idea what a common experience that was! My friend, comedian Diana Saez, took a photo of her twins with an amazingly disturbing bunny at the Mall of America this year. Click continue reading to see it. Prepare to have your mind explode! Continue reading »
The kids are in the backseat are all rocking out to Beyonce’s oft-covered hit when Dad jokingly tells his son he’s not a single lady. Like you do. But the poor little guy took it personally, and started bawling. Kind of adorably bawling, actually. Thus a viral YouTube sensation was born.
Even better, CBS invited the whole family onto national TV, where their adorable boy got to sing a a bit of Single Ladies solo.
Girl Scout cookies sales dipped about 1 percent last year. (I don’t know who these people with financial and dietary willpower are, but they’re certainly not me.)
Since the cookies are the keystone of the organization’s fundraising–bringing in $700 million a year–the Girl Scouts will not let Thin Mints go gently into that dark night. Continue reading »
The photographer who captured this is a genius or just lucky. Someone must have told this kid about the historically bad financial, health care and geopolitical s***storm he’s been born into. Continue reading »
I’m 99.9 percent sure that I’m all done having babies. At six and four my kids are in that grace period of early childhood — big enough to pour their own cereal on Saturday mornings, still little enough to enjoy a good cuddle.
But watching Lex go from googly-eyed newborn to chunky monkey to long-legged toddler makes me nostalgic for those squishy baby days.
Lex’s parents took his picture every day for his first 365, a nod to how quickly a baby changes and how fast that first year really goes. Take a look.
I have a move or two up my sleeve. The Cabbage Patch, the Harlem Shake and of course the Sprinkler. Yeah, I’m fly like that. But I have nowhere near the swagger as this kid.
Apparently in Milwaukee, at an event for foster kids, there was a talent show. A boy, who’s supposedly about 7-years-old, took center stage (I should mention that the ‘stage’ here is a the asphalt of a parking lot). This child …he has some moves on him. He totally straight serves it up.
Now here’s the controversy. Continue reading »
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