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Aging (Un)Gracefully
  • My Chin, My Husband, and North Korea
  • On Growing Another Head
  • Weird Sleep Habits of Neurotic Adults
  • What makes someone sexy?
  • Beauty Dos and Don’ts from a Sassy Mom
  • Top Eight Reasons Not To Eat a Dog
  • My Celebrity Look-alikes Are Men
  • Vomiting, Turning 40, and Husbands
  • Selective Memory, TV, and Children
  • The Importance of Having a Favourite Colour
  • Midlife and Make Up
Finding Humor Everywhere
  • Surviving the Calgary Stampede with Kids
  • How An Author Reacts to Seeing Her Book for the First Time
  • Husbands, Dogs, and a Humor Book Announcement
  • Hurry, Hard! Top 12 Reasons to Date Men Who Are Curlers
  • If parents were animals…
  • When Jaws Invades an Innocent Classroom
  • Weird Sleep Habits of Neurotic Adults
  • 13 Ways to Destroy an Elf on the Shelf
  • Friday Fun at NickMom
  • Back To School, Computers, and Sanity
  • 10 Bizarre Reasons I Love My Toyota Minivan
  • Fitness Follies – The Canada Day Edition
  • 5 Jobs Titles You Can Fake Your Way Through at Parties
  • The One Humor Rule All Comedians Use
  • Things I Complain About
Fitness Follies
  • Lego Yoga: What It Feels Like to Exercise in Your 40s
  • Say "What" Again, Husband?
  • Finding Humor in Fitness Terms
  • Putting the Die in Diary: A Fitness Journey of Sorts
Funny Family Moments
  • This Is What 15 Years of Marriage Looks Like
  • Funny and Easy Gifts for Mother's Day
  • What Easter Looks Like With Tweens
  • When Your Husband Helps You Blog
  • Earth Hour and Other Failures, Like Spring
  • From Spring Break to Spring Break-down
  • Husbands, Dogs, and a Humor Book Announcement
  • Valentine's Day, Husbands, and Socks
  • When Jaws Invades an Innocent Classroom
Funny Reviews
    Groovey Giveaways
    • Weird Sleep Habits of Neurotic Adults
    • Fitness Follies – The Canada Day Edition
    • Learn Everything About How To Be Funny
    • Giveaway: Funky iPad case
    Guest Post, Guest Posts
    • A Lesson in Country Circumcision
    • I Do Not Look Like Mater
    • Want to Guest Post for Me?
    • I am the DH (Part 2 of Too Many or Not Enough)
    • I am the DH (Part 1 of Too Many or Not Enough)
    • A Letter To My 20-Year-Old Self: a guest post
    • Roses in Bahrain: a revealing guest post
    • Top 10 Signs That Mom Needs a Vacation: guest post
    • The Day I Met David Hasselhoff (and had a cameo on Baywatch): a guest post
    • When You Take Your Twins To Church…
    • A Letter from China
    • Daughters, Bad Breath, and Losing It
    • How To Be the Teacher’s Pet
    • Grace Is Free, But It Sure Ain’t Cheap
    • I am the DH: Being Married to Ironic Mom (Part II)
    Hilarious Family Moments
    • Funny Texts from my Husband
    • Funny and Easy Gifts for Mother's Day
    • On Growing Another Head
    • The Creepiest School Photos You'll Ever See
    • 10 Bizarre Things To Experience on Vacation
    • The Problem With Fridge-Magnet Poetry
    • When You Google-Chat With Your Daughter
    • A Parody of the Stages of Marriage
    • 10 Reasons Why It's Great to Have Your Parents Come to Town
    • When Kids Misbehave…in Church
    • When Your 2-Year-Old Is Your Boss
    • My Week in Funny-ish Tweets
    • Top 10 Ways Not To Get Ready for BlogHer
    • Rough-Housing, or Why Kids Don't Fold Easily
    • Driving 14 Hours with Kids
    It's a Rant
    • The Tyranny of School Supply Lists
    • Bizarre Baby Names
    • Destroying Things on International Women’s Day
    • Five "Best of 2010" Toys That Really Suck
    • Why I Despise Dollar Stores: A Rant
    • How Many Shoes Does a Child Possibly Need?
    • Why I Despise Kids' Birthday Parties: A Rant
    • Kids, Chewing, and Dogs
    • 5 Annoying Parenting Habits
    • Band-Aids and Bad Parenting
    • Gender and the Olympic Games
    • Raising Normal Kids
    • I Believe: A Parenting Manifesto Inspired by the Olympics' Theme Song
    • Why Winter Olympic Sports Are Psychotic
    • Is It Possible To Outsource Brushing Your Kids’ Teeth?
    Lackluster Parenting
    • “Why Don’t You Love Me, Mom?”: a book by my daughter
    • 5 Tips for Traveling with Children
    • Breaking My 10 Parenting Commandments*
    • Funny Search Terms: You Are What They Look For
    • Jekyll and Hyde: my roles as a mother
    • The Navel-Gazing Holiday
    • More Epic Fail Parenting: Advent Calendars
    • 5 Reasons Halloween Reminds Me I’m a Slacker Mom
    • Is Croquet a Blood Sport?
    • When Your Child's a Police Officer
    • When Children Won't Stay In Bed
    • The Importance of Having a Favourite Colour
    • The Vegetable Truck: Lying to My Children
    • The Challenges of Teaching Twins To Ride Bikes
    • Reasons I’m Not Nominated for Parent-of-the-Year
    On the Move
    • 12 Non-Bloggy Things I Learned at #BlogHer13 in Chicago
    • Do You Want To Improve Your Writing in Your Pajamas?
    • It's My Birthday and I'm Giving Things Away
    • Funny Stuff in Other Places
    • The 10 Worst Christmas Songs. Ever.
    • Some Book News (and some old giveaways)
    • Halloween Fun at Huff Po
    • Two men, the Undead, and Zombie Lego
    • Celebrating My Funny Readers: An Invite
    • Thursday Quick Click: The Huffington Post
    • Tuesday Quick Click: I Love You But…
    • Wednesday Quick Click
    • Disney World, minus the kids
    • How To Entertain Children (or Yourself) on Car Trips
    • How the Tooth Fairy Can Ruin Your Life
    The Anti-Craft
    • “Why Don’t You Love Me, Mom?”: a book by my daughter
    • Another Craft Disaster with Kids
    • More Epic Fail Parenting: Advent Calendars
    • Ode to Turning 6
    • 5 Reasons I Hate Crafts
    • Activities for Children of Lousy Parents
    • Gingerbread DysFUNction
    Thing 1 & Thing 2's Excellent Adventure
    • My Things Were at the London Olympics!
    • Thing 1 and Thing 2 Do The Netherlands
    • Thing 1 and Thing 2: Special Op
    • Thing 1 & Thing 2 Wreak Mayhem (on TV) in England
    • Thing 1 and Thing 2's Excellent Adventure ~ European Edition
    • Thing 1 and Thing 2's Excellent Adventure: Rochester, NY
    • Thing 1 and Thing 2 Do Nashville and Chicago
    • Thing 1 & Thing 2 Take Saint Paul
    • FOUND: Thing 1 and Thing 2
    • MISSING: Thing 1 and Thing 2
    • Thing 1 & Thing 2's Excellent Adventure: Stop 6=Bay Area
    • Thing 1 & Thing 2's Excellent Adventure: Stop 5=Georgia
    • Thing 1 & Thing 2's Excellent Adventure: Stop 4 = Joplin, Missouri
    • Thing 1 & Thing 2's Excellent Adventure: Stop 3 = Maryland
    • Thing 1 & Thing 2's Excellent Adventure: Stop 2 = West Virginia!
    Top 5 Fridays (or Wednesdays)
    • Surviving the Calgary Stampede with Kids
    • 10 Reasons Why It's Awesome to Be a Picture Book Author
    • 5 Books You Don't Want Your Spouse to Sign out of the Library
    • A Parenting Dictionary: 5 British Words We Need To Adopt
    • A Fun Intrepretation of the Year of the Dragon
    • 10 Junie B. Jones Titles That Were Rejected
    • A Twisted Guide to the Worst Toys of 2011
    • Stephen King on Parenting
    • Shakespeare on Parenting
    • 5 Tips for Traveling with Children
    • 10 Bizarre Courses I Could Teach
    • 5 Ways Blogging Is Like Parenting
    • 5 Tips For Traveling Without Children
    • 5 Lowlights of Christmas
    • 5 Ways To Do Christmas on the Cheap
    Un-Ironic Moments
    • An ALS Ice Bucket Challenge – Batman Style
    • Remembering a Century and a Legacy: Grandpa
    • Tour de Blog
    • 10 Reasons Why It's Awesome to Be a Picture Book Author
    • Picture Book Q and A: Ideas, Research & Diversity
    • Announcing Book #3
    • Ironic Mom Goes Shopping
    • The Importance of Names (and Book Cover Reveal)
    • The Calgary Flood
    • It's Book Launch Week!
    • Do you want to join my book launch team?
    • Finding Humor in Serious Books
    • Sunday Night Angst and Seeing the Light
    • Book Deal!
    • Moments With My 8-Year-Old Son
    Unproven Theories on Childrearing
    • Children, Wrestling, and Neglectful Parenting
    • Toothpaste, Twins, and Coercion
    • The Mom Gene of Being Able to Find Things
    • Recovering Addicts, Celebrities, and Parenting
    • Sibling Rivalry, Friendship, and Twins
    Whiteboard Wednesday
    • Trying to Explain "The Big Bang Theory" to Your Kids
    • Elmo Has Balls…
    • I'm Only Trying to Help
    • Just Say the Grace Already
    • Good Mom vs. Bad Mom
    • Brownie, Carrot—What's the Difference?
    • The day I denied my kids their vegetables
    • Imagination Has Its Limits
    • It's Just a Body Part
    • When Your 2-Year-Old Is Your Boss
    • Playing Favourites
    • When Your Child Uses the Dog Door
    • Get Down, Get Down… IYKWIM
    • The Baby Pound
    • How To Survive Mealtime with Kids
    Wild Gen X Tales
    • Bizarre Clothing: Growing Up Gen X
    • I Am a Prom Cliché, circa 1989
    • The Night Before Prom…circa 1989
    • My Prom Date, circa 1989
    • The Joy of Fessing Up
    • Two Truths and a Lie: The Blogging Version
    • On Being a Farm Girl and a Younger Sister
    • Remembering School Dances and the Uncertainty of Adolescence
    • What's in a Name?
    • School Photo Day: Remembering Kindergarten
    • On farm girls, tom cats, and guns
    • Babies, Monkeys, and Bangkok
    • Surviving the First Week with Newborns
    • Remembering Grandma’s Cookies
    • A Music Memoir in 12 Questions
    Worst Toy List
    • The Worst Toys of 2014
    • The Worst Toys of 2013 ~ The Skankification Award
    • The Elf on the Shelf…and Hate Mail
    • The Worst Toys of 2012: The Noisy Award
    • The Worst Toys of 2012: The Gross Award
    • The Worst Toys of 2012: The Gullible Award
    • The Worst Toys of 2012: The Child-in-Tears Award
    • The Worst Toys of 2012: The Plastification Award
    • The Worst Toys of 2012: The What-Is-It Award
    • The Worst Toys of 2012: The Surrogate Parent Award
    • The Worst Toys of 2012: The Call 9-1-1 Award
    • The Worst Toys of 2012: The Skankification Award

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