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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
  • Our Crazy Road Trip x2: a funny review of the 2017 Lincoln MKX and Continental
  • On being Canadian: wearing toques in summer
  • Oh, the Places I Grow Grass: Before and After
  • The Weird Places I Can Grow Grass
  • Suburban Woman vs. Weeds
  • Funny Review Time: Jord Wood Watch
Groovey Giveaways
  • Oh, the Places I Grow Grass: Before and After
  • The Weird Places I Can Grow Grass
  • Suburban Woman vs. Weeds
  • 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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