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- In case you don't know already, Dish Network and DIRECTV are by far the leaders in the satellite television industry. These corporations operate the satellite networks that offer coverage throughout the United State (www.supersatell....ction.com/)
Briantologist of Byrne Unit finally writes something mushy about his kid. Jesus, it's about time. I was beginning to think the snark had eradicated all traces of sentimentality in those two. But don't worry, it's still a Briantologist kind of mushy (www.parentdish.com....-playdate/)
Enough with the celebrity moms, already. Genuine begins profiling celebrity dads. And not the ones you'd think. This week: that guy who played Puddy on Seinfeld . (www.parentdish.com....-playdate/)
Everyone have a good weekend? I hope so. To start to ease you into your work week, here's a recap of the most popular posts we had during the previous seven days. Fasten your seatbelt though - there's old moms! And faint fathers ! And scary condom babies (www.parentdish.com....-playdate/)
This past week has found the Blogging Baby writers covering an inordinately diverse group of subjects: from Daddles to dogs, and from Brad to boobs, it's been really busy . In case you missed any of it, here are some of the more popular stories written by your favourite writers this past week (www.parentdish.com....-playdate/)
The greatest thing about kids is that they give you a whole new set of eyes through which to re-experience the every day wonders in our world and George Lucas films (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
This darling three year old gives a refreshing and somewhat rambling synopsis of Stars Wars. The main point: "Don't talk back to Darth Vader, 'cuz he'll getcha! (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
The remote is very simple to operate: just point at subject, press the corresponding button, shut your eyes and pray to the parenting gods that your command will come true. (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
According to the manufacturer, they make no claims as to the performance of this item except that it WILL generate laughter. No batteries required; powered by positive thinking. (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
As Astromommy says, "It's never pretty, but at least you know what lies ahead for you and your spawn." Her predictions are far from dire, and tend toward the humorous side of course, but they are far from sugar-coated. (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
This horoscope is almost as good as those Gap zodiac onesies I tried to get for my son the other day. Luckily-or was it in the stars?-the online store was out of his size. (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
So after the gazillionth time, I was pretty done with the whole concept. So when one of the kids asked, yet again, why the chicken crossed the road, I muttered "because it had children on this side." I still have a bruise from where Rachel walloped m (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
When I was younger, singler, and non-mommy material, I prided myself on keeping the house clean. It drove me crazy when dust settled on the furniture, the floor needed to be swept or the shower tile got even a little grimy. And, heck-I had time back then to attend to all those things (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Rachel, a semi-vegetarian, gave me a look that would have killed a lesser man. I guess the new kid will have to wait until it's on the outside before getting any. But is that really fair (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Given the lack of time I'm ever going to have again to myself, I figured if I could get to the spa at all I'd better make use of my time. So I went for the Brazilian. It was not the least painful thing I've ever done but it sure beats labor (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
The girl's name was suggested by Sara and the boy's by Jared. I think I could scour every baby name book ever published and still not come up with a better pair of names than that. Now, I just have to let Rachel know. I think she's going to love them (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Of course, as we all know, kids will be kids and the photo they used featured a young girl, dead center, picking her nose. Oops! Not surprisingly, the pamphlet won't be used. I suspect next time they won't, um, snub their noses, if you will, at a staged photo (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Last week, Jared was home sick one day from school. It was nothing serious; basically, he'd had a fever the night before. He hadn't wanted lunch after swim class, but to lie down instead. We took him home and he just lazed about and slept all afternoon while I did the marketing (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
Every now and then , there is a discussion worth sharing with our readers. Here's what we discussed after I begged for some commiseration on my ever-growing siz (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
Jen Creer wrote: Yes, big as a house. And swollen to boot. Because I was already nice and stretched out from the first one. Sigh. Just wait 'til your third (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
Susan Wagner wrote: Nadine, with Baby #1, no one could even tell I was pregnant until I was well past the six month mark, and THEN none of my maternity clothes fit until well into the eighth month (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
I'm actually not familiar with much of the work of either of these actors; however, I cantell you that Blogging Baby staffer Stefania Butler is crushed. He's so dreamy, she said of Sarsgaard, in an exclusive interview with me viainstant-message earlier toda (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
When I met my husband Marcus, and knew he was The One , Ibecame completely paranoid every time I traveled. I was convinced that now that I'd met this wonderful man, thenext flight I took would be my last, or the next subway I took (since I was living in London when we met) would be metwith terrorist activity. It was sad (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
Of course, I did, but you know what? I have toadmit that when I surfaced after the second dive, I breathed a prayer of thanksgiving that everything turned outokay. And not just because I was worried about my safety, but because I was so happy that I was going to be ableto return home to Marcus and Ale (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
Sister i've noticed that whenever someonetells me that they've adopted one or more of their kids, they look like they're bracing for an unpleasant reaction fromme. (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
Sister the minute i tell people that alex is adopted,they smile and they make eye contact, and they ask all these personal questions like why you decided t (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
JGS over at Two Opakis appreciates a hidden benefit of sending your kids to summer camp . In his words, camp was, " the first external judgment or assessment of our parenting. We've spent 3.5 years doing the best we can, but having no idea if what we were doing was good." JGS also writes an article confronting the myth that good dads don't really matter in early childrearing (www.parentdish.com....-playdate/)
Zygote Daddy's Danish mother who lives in Copenhagen picks him up a high chair/desk/"medieval torture" device for her grandchild-to-be that is too awesome for words. I am so sick of the Scandinavians getting everything cool, and the rest of us getting stuck with stuff from Swedish Wal-Mart. (www.parentdish.com....-playdate/)
Over the last couple of days, I've been without reliable internet access - goodness, how annoying that was. As a result, this morning, I spent an inordinate amount of time going through the posts this past week on Blogging Baby, astounded at how much I've missed - and what a chore it can be to page through all of the posts that have been featured here (jeez, we write a lot!). It's made me quite sympathetic to those of you who may have found yourselves in similar straits in the past. (www.parentdish.com....-playdate/)
And so, to help make it a bit easier for those of you readers who may not have been able to access Blogging Baby as often as you would've liked to over the previous seven days, I thought we'd start a new feature here at Blogging Baby: the Blogging Baby Playdate , featuring some of the best and most popular posts that were penned by your favourite writers during the prior week. I'll make an effort to have this available to you every Sunday evening - you know, to help ease you into your upcoming week. (www.parentdish.com....-playdate/)
When you've tried every single option under the sun, The Control A Kid remote control might be the only way to blow off some steam. Among the highly sought-after buttons are Be Quiet, Tidy Room, Do Homework, Grow Up, Don't Answer Back and the very special Attitude: Off button. (I need that last one for my husband. (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Remember that scene in Best in Show where Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock are talking about how they met at Starbuck's while reading catalogs? I probably laughed as hard as anyone at that joke because I am exactly the sort of person you'd find in a Starbuck's rooting through a Crate and Barrel or J. Crew catalog. (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Now, of course, I have my laptop with me. I spend most of my time writing but there are occasions when I can be seen perusing the new season at Banana Republic or seeing what's on clearance at Victoria's Secret. I rarely if ever purchase anything from any of these places, but it's nice to window shop. Being a new mom with a full-time job, a house that's a mess, and endless pile of laundry, a career as a blogger and a running gig, I have precious little time to actually visit any stores (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Reading about the clothes and such online is simply not the same, though, as leafing through a leaflet. And looking through catalogs requires even less of an attention span then what's needed to look through an actual magazine. Sometimes I am so pooped I can't even be bothered with that. Plus the magazines don't show you the myriad colors that top you just fell in love with comes in (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Call it an addiction or a vice, call it what you will, but I still love my catalogs. I never sign up for any, though, in an effort to be green. I recycle those I receive. I try to do my perusing online. For those of you who receive unwanted catalogs you can call the company's customer service numbers and ask to be removed from the mailing list (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Well, even though we are not on the "bloggers we love" list over at cookiemag.com, we at ParentDish thought it was time to pay a visit to crabmommy , who of late has been predicting the future for mothers across the web. She provides a monthly "momoscope" to help moms out there get through life as parents (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Gemini has turned into a Flakemommy. Leo is pregnant (and taking a pregnancy test with clear results, no less!). Saggitarius has a colicky baby. See-there's something for everyone! I found these to be funny and in good fun, if not all that accurate (I know Leos who are not pregnant). But that's not the point, I think. Rather, that we're all in this motherhood thing together, so we might as well laug (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
When I was in high school, I had grand plans to become an electronics engineer. I was going to go to the University of Illinois for my undergraduate degree, followed by graduate work at MIT. I was going to design computers and robots and all manner of labor saving devices, much like the hero of Robert Heinlein's Door into Summer (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
You know that scene from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown where Schroeder is playing the piano and Lucy is telling him how she's always dreamed of marrying a man who plays the piano ? How he'd play something nice at parties like April Showers or Frere Jacques? And she ends it with a resigned "Beethoven 's nice too"? That's how I felt. Trains are nice too. (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Well, whether you care to admit it or not, mine is. It seems that no matter what I-or my fabulous husband, who picks up a good 50% of the household duties-do the place is still a total disaster . And I live in a one-bedroom apartment; it's not like I live in a 3-bedroom house with a yard (oh, the terror ! (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Everyone I know (and some I didn't!) said to me that once I had children that would all change. The house would be a disaster with a never-ending pile of laundry to climb out from under. I would never cook, and, if I did, it would be something quick and easy and the kitchen would look like a war zone anyway. All of this has turned out to be true, a prophecy of the worst kind for a former neat freak (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Rachel finds it difficult to fall asleep in silence, so she turns the telly on at night. I'm usually still up working, and do my best to ignore it in the background. The other night, however, she turned on Ferris Bueller's Day Off , a truly great movie and one of my favorites. At first glance, it appears to be an amusing farce about sassy and sarcastic Ferris, but it's really a coming-of-age film about Ferris' friend Cameron (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
It was Friday night - Burrito night as it's known around our house. We were sitting at the table, enjoying our dinner. Sara had her lengua tacos, Jared a lengua burrito opened up and eaten from the inside out , and I had my lengua burrito, eaten normally like a hot dog. Rachel was the odd man out with her vegetarian burrito - rice, beans, cheese, avocado, and sour cream. (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Suddenly, Rachel started looking a little ill, something that is unfortunately not uncommon these days, what with her being six months pregnant and all. I told her I knew what the problem was. I explained that the little one was feeling left out, unloved, neglected. Rachel looked at me incredulously. Sure, I said, it's the only one not getting any lengua and its feeling left out (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Then during the pregnancy I gave up after a few tries. It was too painful (skin can becomes more sensitive during pregnancy) and I couldn't lie on my back.and it looked hysterical . Me, with this giant bump, splayed out! Post-pregnancy I couldn't tell you what was going on down there. I remember getting several waxes, but they were few and far between and I only had the quickest of quick (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
Then somewhere after I went back to work full-time, started running seriously again and all that, I gave up completely. Things got out of control . I started feeling not so hot about myself and not sexy at all. Not that getting a wax is the only thing standing between me and sexiness, or that you have to get one in order to feel sexy, but for me that was one of the things to getting back to myself. The pre-baby self who was sort of a hotty (to her husband, anyway) (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
I'm used to waxing but not like that. And I will say that although it was a tad uncomfortable it was over quickly. Also, now that a bunch of strangers (and my OBGYN and my husband) have seen it all I have much less anxiety about stripping down for the wax. Once you've had a baby I think the modesty slips down a notch. Well, if you care about those sorts of things in general I guess! Some gals don't bother with the wax route so this post is no use to the (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
I guess the point is I wanted to do a little something for myself to make me feel good about myself, to make me feel gal-ish again. And since I didn't have a lot of time I got as much bang for the buck as I could. These Brazilians are not cheap, though. NYC pricing cost me over $50. And it was worth every penny (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
So there you are, Aunt Reta's in from out of town, and you're trying to get a photo of the whole family. Snap! Everyone was looking at the camera, no one's eyes were closed, everyone smiled - except for little Bobby. There he is, dead center in front, sticking his tongue out. Or with his eyes crossed. Or a crooked gri (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
So you try again, only this time, it's sweet Sue sitting next to him that is pulling her ears. Then it's baby Alice sucking her thumb. In the next shot, Cousin Rob is doing bunny ears behind Aunt Selma. You tell everyone to please be serious, this is for Aunt Reta and she's 98 years old, for crying out loud. So Uncle Phil makes his trademarked silly face and everyone cracks up, especially Aunt Reta. At this point, you realize there's no way you're going to get anything approaching a serious family portrai (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
My mother-in-law watches Jared and Sara two days a week for us while we're working. It's a big help and it's great for the kids too. She really enjoys getting to spend time with the kids as well. The other day, she and Sara had just picked Jared up from school and were on the way home when someone in the back seat let out a big fart (www.parentdish.com....sh-laughs/)
By the evening, his temperature was up to 101 and change. The fever broke, but as a teacher, Rachel knew he needed to stay home at least 24 hours after the fever broke. So, I worked from home and he stayed downstairs reading and watching television. My mother-in-law came over for the morning and stayed with him. After she left for a meeting, he hung out in our bedroom where he helped himself to Rachel's laptop and AOL's Instant Messaging service. (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
One of the best parts of this job is the hilarious daily email interaction we bloggers have with each other. Most of it is unpublishable, because many of us are absolutely insane, not to mention profane, and some of the content is mundane - the dull stuff about how we actually get this stuff up, or who's going to write about Brangelina's latest acquisitio (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
Ever wonder what we here at Blogging Baby do in our spare time? We all enjoy amazingly full and active lives but sometimes the allure of the computer and our dear friends inside of it are too much. Below is an example of a conversation I had last night with Jen Creer, who knows that I am climbing the toddler walls these days (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
From People.com Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal andPeter Sarsgaard, costars in a never-released 2003 movie, In God's Hands , are engaged, and expecting a childtogether. The couple have apparently been together for over four years. No further information has beenreleased with regard to wedding date, or expected date of birth of the baby. This will be the first marriage andchild for both (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
Yet, it wasn't nearly as sad as how I am now that I'm a parent. I'm convinced every time I do anything away from Marcus and our daughter, Alex, I'm never goingto see them again. I know, it's sick, but you know what? I'm not alone: Irene Nam once told me via instant-message that she's soafraid something will happen to her, she has yet to fly on a plane without her husband and childrenaccompanying her, and doesn't think she ever will (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
Yesterday , in preparation for a scuba diving vacation ourfamily is taking with another family this upcoming weekend, I did a couple of little dives off the coast ofTrinidad. It had been three years since my previous dive, and I wanted to do a few with a scuba instructor tomake sure that I still remembered how to do everythin (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
We Blogging Baby bloggers are located all over the world and the best way to talk to each other in real-time isto instant message each other. Today I was chatting with Karen Walrond (who lives in Trinidad) about our surprisinglysimilar backgrounds. At first glance, it might seem like— culturally—our backgrounds are not that similar.But that's the thing about first glances, they can be deceivin (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
It never dawned on me that my fear of hearing negative feedback would register on myface when I divulged Alex's adoption. But my sister's right: I do feel palpable relief when I realize thatthe reaction is going to be positive, and even more so when the person to whom I've made the revelation has a storyabout how s/he personally was touched by adoption. And I know I'm not alone in these feelings. I'minterested, though (www.parentdish.com....-dish-ims/)
As a new section on The Dish we will be featuring our favourite covers and to kick it all off, I have chosen this weeks 56;God Save The Queen57; by the Foo Fighters (www.the-dish.co.uk....-fighters/)
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