Do people often say that your son looks like Rosie O'Donnell? Is your baby's cranky face reminiscent of Gilbert Gottfried? Does your
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07/07/11
The 4th of July Fan Photo Album
When I started making “Fan Photo Albums”, I had about five fans and only two of them submitted photos. This time around, I was somewhat overwhelmed. I tried to include everybody. If I left you out, it was either an accident or because your kids look like they are of legal drinking age. Let’s get to it.
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Remember my "Draperize Your Husband" giveaway? Well, the contest continues.
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Earlier this week, I published a post called “Parenthood Isn’t Sexy” in which I asked everyone to divulge their unsexiest parenting moments. As usual, I couldn’t let your comments sit there unattended. So I picked my five favorite moments (read: most horrific) and now I am going to put them to a vote.
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05/11/11
Post Mother’s Day Analysis
Plus the COLOSSAL CRUMBS CUPCAKE giveaway winners
Have you ever read the same word so many times that it stops making sense to you? That is what
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What could be a better way to welcome the warm weather than with a reader-submitted photo homage to winter misery? (That’s a rhetorical question, please don’t say— “How ’bout with a Slip ‘N Slide, a Corona and some actual SUN?!”)
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Thank you to everyone who submitted pictures. In my head, all the photos were going to look red-carpet-esque and this post was going to be like the baby version of Joan and Melissa’s Post-Oscars Fashion Rundown. But instead, as I struggled to come up with commentary, I felt less Joan, more Giuliana Rancic. Translation: Not nearly as funny. But here it goes regardless.
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02/10/11
Watch Me Open My Gifts
You know how you'll be having a perfectly lovely time at a baby or bridal shower, and then suddenly it gets to the part of the party where
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01/13/11
Reader Video Empathy
After I posted my tale of sorrow involving Mazzy's refusal to acknowledge me (despite the fact that I have shown her nothing but love and
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My two week recap which closes the year with a holiday album of reader submitted photos. Captioned of course….
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Photos of babies terrified on the laps of Santa are all over the internet but none are better than this reader submitted shot from Diane O.
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12/10/10
Cake Smash Face-Off
Mazzy’s cake smash wasn’t quite what I had hoped. Thankfully, we have one more shot at the family-only party tomorrow. In the mean time, I present to you “The Mommy Shorts Reader Submitted Cake Smash Album”…
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11/05/10
Bet You Can’t Beat This Holiday Card
Two weeks ago, I did a post about whether I had to send out holiday cards now that we have a baby.
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11/05/10
Baby Feats of Strength
I thought Mazzy was strong but she's never done anything close to full-on push-ups.
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11/01/10
Baby Halloween Costume Awards
Whether at the Washington Square Park Baby Costume Parade, the Theater for the New City's Village Halloween Costume Ball (which every year
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