About: Lisa Barker
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- Lisa Barker writes the award-winning syndicated parenting humor column, Jelly Mom™ - a weekly feature in The Salinas Californian (circulation 19,000) and monthly in School News Roll Call parent’s magazine (circulation 323,000+). Jelly Mom™ has also been printed in The Eureka Reporter, Omaha Family, Mount Shasta Herald Supersaver and Llano Estacado Family Resources in Texas.
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Help, We Are All Being Held Hostage
Posted on 23. Oct, 2007 by Lisa Barker.
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You’ve got to be really, really ill to want to stay home in our family. My eldest daughter had a fever one night. Her head felt like it had swelled five times its size and her throat and ears ached. Still, she dragged herself by her teeth down the hall to the bathroom and [...]
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Lost & Found: One Mind
Posted on 23. Oct, 2007 by Lisa Barker.
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Many times my husband will come home from work and ask me how my day went and I will tell him, “I know I was busy all day, but I don’t have any idea what I did!”
Well, I finally figured it out. I’m not losing my memory I’m losing my mind.
Every day I make [...]
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Cooking Up a Comedy of Errs
Posted on 23. Oct, 2007 by Lisa Barker.
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On September 6, 2007 I, Lisa Barker, did not burn, cut or maim myself when I cooked dinner.
Don’t laugh. This is a big feat. If there were chain mail I could wear while cooking dinner my husband would buy it for me. But he would have it asbestos-lined because, he reminds me, metal is [...]
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Look Out! It’s The Estrogen Express
Posted on 23. Oct, 2007 by Lisa Barker.
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My husband is a manly man. He takes great pride in being the head of the household and he does a great job as a husband and father. I don’t mind deferring to him…but he’s about to be dethroned.
There are three women living in our house. Any sane man will tell you that that [...]
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Top Signs of Volunteer Burn-out
Posted on 23. Oct, 2007 by Lisa Barker.
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One of the best things parents can do for their children is to volunteer in the classroom or for an after school sport or club. But sometimes parents, especially moms, can over-commit and that can quickly lead to burn-out and resentment. Post the following list on your refrigerator to help keep your volunteerism in [...]
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Signs That You Are a Chocoholic
Posted on 23. Oct, 2007 by Lisa Barker.
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1. You like to dip strawberries, cherries and bananas in chocolate so you start experimenting at dinner with broccoli and cauliflower substituting chocolate for cheese.
2. You buy a bottle of chocolate syrup and carry it around in a small paper bag for a quick nip when you need it.
3. You pour yourself a cup [...]
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I’m A Soul Woman
Posted on 23. Oct, 2007 by Lisa Barker.
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I tried one of those self-tanning gimmicks. It took me almost an hour to choose from all the products and if I had just spent that amount of time in the sun, I wouldn’t have had to spend twenty dollars on an experiment.
Everybody’s going to know I got a tan out of a bottle [...]