It’s the Friday (w)rap-up, dawg.
This week, at Toulouse & Tonic, I wrote my most favorite post ever — a profane expose about the dysfunctional Berenstain Bears clan. Special thanks to Ninja Mom for letting me be one of her stealth assassins.
If you enjoyed The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV: Bitch PLEASE, you’ll want to head right over to Ninja Mom’s Character Assassination Carousel. You’ll find links to loads of other hilarious take-downs of your most hated kiddie lit.
I want to say a special thank you for all the “liking,” sharing, tweeting and commenting…your support of the Berenstain Bears piece helped me have my biggest visitor day ever on the blog. And if you think I cared, you’d be very, very right. Cared is not a strong enough word. Obsessed is more like it. I spent the entire night staring at my stats page like a half-wit and constantly hitting refresh to see if I was there.
Hubs got in on the T&T action too, getting mucho husband-shamed over at Mommy Shorts. That’s him in the party hat. Isn’t he cute? But what he did was very, very, very bad.
Did I mention he asked me for a 3-month break on being made fun on the internet? More like 3 days. Ha!
Keesha Beckford interviewed me for her incredible blog, Mom’s New Stage. And she made me sound cool so, ya know, she rocks. Read it and find out why it’s stupid that I was posting recipes when I started my blog. You’ll also find out that I can’t answer ANY question in one sentence. Not even when the question says, “Answer in one sentence…”
The Christmas season will be in full swing as soon as you push your chair back from the Thanksgiving table. You might want to consider preparing yourself for the inevitable family dysfunction by reading Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat. You’ll laugh, your giftees will love it, and shhhh…it’s a very inexpensive gift. Buy it on Amazon.com by clicking here.
Or even better, I’ll give you a chance to win an autographed copy or a Kindle Fire. Just enter here.
Next week, we’ll back on the bully shaming train. Friends and strangers have joined in, posting their own stories and I’m gonna share some of those with you. The stories are touching and even inspiring. Like the Bully Shaming page on Facebook and follow on twitter @bullyshaming. If you have a photo to share, tweet it or upload it here.
I’m EXHAUSTED from outing bears, shaming my husband and giving away copious lovely Christmas gifts. Blogger problems.
Enjoy the weekend and come back next week!
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Seriously great post yesterday on the Berestein Bears and must tell you I do the same with my stats page at times. Too damn addictive. My husband is similar and will ask me why do I have to talk about him so much, but then if I go a day without mentioning him asks me when will be his next mention, lol!! Seriously, they just want there 15 minutes of fame or so I have come to learn
Maybe I’ll stop writing about him for a couple of weeks. It’d be worth it just to hear him BEG! Thanks for the tip! ; )
I loved the Berenstain Bears! But I appreciate humor at anyone’s expense. Going to go read it now!
You had a BIG week and well deserved success. This is one of my top 3 C.A.C. “roasts”. Can’t wait to see what next week holds.
That really makes my day! Thank you!
So glad you rocked the stats page, Suz! I look at mine like someone with severe food issues checks her weight! And many thanks for the shout out!!!
It’s weird that you’ve highlighted the People I Want to Punch in the Throat book right when you’ve also decided to write about bullying. Jen became popular after her blog post derided a specific mother for her Elf on the Shelf antics. It would’ve been one thing if she’d written a a tongue-in-cheek post poking fun at the ridiculous measures moms go through with the Elf, but she poked fun at- bullied- a specific mother. And mommy bloggers, the same ones who proudly denounce bullying- have come behind her and applauded her and have become ardent fans. How is it that her bullying is “funny” and “honest”?
You’re not the first person to call me a bully and you’re not the first person I’ve responded to about this name. I don’t see myself as a bully and I think if you actually sat down and read my blog you’d see that I am not a bully. I’m not a bully. I’m a BS caller. I didn’t bully this woman. I didn’t call her ugly or tell her I despised her or tell her she sucked (even though I get this in my comments section just about every day from people who dislike my Elf post and think I’m a bully – go figure). I didn’t even call her an idiot. All I said was her Elf ideas were stupid. I said that there is no way I would ever make a mess just to convince my children our Elf is magic. I said that there is no way she does that for her kids, she does it for herself. You can’t keep raising the bar and showcasing more and more dumb ideas to make you a “better” mother and not expect me to call your BS. Bloggers put their stuff out there all the time so every one can ooh and ahh and tell you what an ah-may-zing job you’re done. If I think it’s a dumb idea I will say so and everyone should be able to put on their big girl panties and take the criticism without calling someone a bully. I speak for the moms who are exhausted just moving our Elf and visiting Santa and baking cookies and wrapping presents. We don’t need anymore sh*t to add to our list. If anything, I’m the Equalizer. I see your BS and I call you on it. I refuse to let you get away with it. If you can’t take criticism, then don’t put your stuff out there where I can find it. And by the way, Blossom has since poked me too. We share a joke, a sense of humor. Blossom understands that she’s over the top and that people will laugh at her, but she’s having a great time doing what she does and she can laugh at herself too and poke fun at me too. It’s a shame that you can’t see that.
I was gonna say something in response today but I don’t think it’s necessary. Nicely done, Jen. Nicely done.