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Guest Post: Children Should Never See Their Mom in Her Underwear
I am always looking for new voices to guest post on Only-Mama. I strong-armed encouraged a friend who does not normally submit her writing to the Internet At Large to guest post today.I love her voice...
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Yes, I'm Talking About My Boobs Again
If you have followed my blog for awhile, you already know I occasionally talk about my boobs, my underwear, and encourage other people to talk about their underwear. I then talk about kids for awhile...
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Which is More Important - Diversity or Ideology?
I am a solid Democrat and I generally vote a straight party ticket, but this year's election results made me think a little harder about diversity and ideology. Republicans put forth candidates that...
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My Child Has Been Eaten by Aliens
My kid has obviously been eaten by an alien and replaced with a really convincing replica. Nothing else makes sense. I didn't notice anything unusual until Friday. The new boy looked just like Big...
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The Tooth Fairy Got Played
I try to be a good tooth fairy. Last night Tiny Pants lost a tooth right before bed. I found the tooth box, we wrote the required note asking the tooth fairy to please, please let him keep his tooth,...
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On Racism and Politics and Children
image: http://followgreenliving.comTiny Pants finds a lot of things wrong with the world, and when he grows up he's going to get to work changing laws. I think he'd make a great politician, because...
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The Talk and The Book
I recently gave the boys two age appropriate books about bodies and where babies come from and all that. I found one called It's Not the Stork for ages 4 and up, and it's companion for older children...
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Guest Post: Open Letter to Clay Travis of Fox Sports RE: Trashing Appalachians
On the Oppression of Appalachians: A Response to Fox Sports columnist Clay TravisBy Andrea FeketeToday, I read a blog post titled “Kentucky V. West Virginia: The Dumbest Sweet 16 Game of All Time” by...
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Tiny, Perfect, Beautiful Princesses or Hummingbirds are Assholes
Every summer I work on the cabin porch, six feet away from a hummingbird feeder. We hung it up so we could see those amazing, tiny, beautiful creatures up close. But spending a summer in close...
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Grieving the Loss of a Pet
As some of you know, my ex-husband’s dog died recently. The boys are emotional messes. I found this workbook online, which has been surprisingly helpful: I Miss My Pet.I’m a pretty emotional person...
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Tiny Pants Makes an Unexpected Request For Christmas
I haven’t been posting here that much lately, mainly because I am not all that funny, and as the kids get older, they stubbornly refuse to provide me with free material. But every now and then, they...
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Oh, Santa, I'm Sorry.
I took Big Pants and Tiny Pants downtown to see Santa, as I do every year. We take the train (which is quite possibly slower than driving, but more fun) but I messed with tradition just a little to...
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Travel Brochure by Tiny Pants
Image: masoncounty.lib.wv.usTiny Pants had to make a travel brochure for school this weekend. It was supposed to be about his home town, but it did allow for “any other place” or something. Tiny chose...
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New Blog
You may have noticed that I haven't been posting here much lately. OK, not once all year.That's because I've moved over to www.LaraLillibridge.com which is much more professional sounding and has the...
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Special Announcement
Caption by Big PantsI am so excited to announce that Skyhorse Publishing has signed my second book, Mama, Mama, Only Mama! Stories, Blogs, and Hacked Recipes for the Newly Single Mother for release in...
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My Son is Starting High School as a 12-Year-Old and I’m Not Scared at All
OK, maybe I’m a little scared, I can’t lie. But overall, I’m a lot more comfortable with the idea than I ever imagined I would be.I hadn’t planned on grade-skipping my son. My son’s September birthday...
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Why We Need Darkness in YA Literature
I buy books for my sons. I read reviews and get recommendations and thrust books into their hands and walk away. I don’t generally pre-read the books before I give them to the boys.Every now and then...
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7 Things Your Kids Say You're Getting Wrong About YouTube
This post first appeared on Modern Parents Messy KidsMy kids only watch TV at the kitchen table. They get their entertainment from YouTube, and they aren’t the only ones. DubbedThe YouTube Generation,...
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7 Tips to Teach Kids About Gender Equality
This post first appeared on Modern Parents Messy Kids I feel teaching gender equality is essential, even though I have boys, not girls. Yet, I’m historically awkward when it comes to large and...
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The Cry Valve
There’s a mechanism in your throat I call the cry-valve. It’s that thing that swells and chokes your words even when you’ve successfully convinced your eyes not to release tears. I don’t know about...
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How To Make Bird Seed Ornaments
As a parent, I both love and loathe doing crafts with my children. I want them to make stuff. I just don’t have anywhere left to put the stuff they make, and my kids don’t want to get rid of anything,...
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My Significant Other—SigO as I like to call him—and I took an Uber the other day, or maybe a Lyft. I want to be accurate, but he was the one who called the car, and I’m not sure which app he used. It...
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Tiaras Are Wasted on the Young
I love me a good tiara. You know—the whole Disney princess type of tiara. The problem is that we aren’t allowed to wear them anymore unless we are brides. Even then, there will always be a Snark Cadre...
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Tiny Pants' First Birthday
Eleven years ago I had just given birth to a long, skinny, little baby with peach fuzz on his head and a finely tuned set of vocal cords. Ten years ago I was a newly-single mama who needed to somehow...
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Bonus Material! The Nostalgia of Children's TV Theme Songs
In the weeks leading up to Mama, Mama, Only Mama's release, I am going to share some of my beloved chapters that didn't make the final book. Here's the first:The Nostalgia of Children’s Theme Songs...
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