Mommies Magazine

Is Your Mom Swedish?

Posted on 13. Mar, 2009 by cherylmoeller.

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She publishes a Swedish cookbook that begins with, “Add two pounds of butter, two gallons of cream and a quart of sugar…”
She had the bridesmaids’ wear dresses with wide blue and yellow stripes at her wedding.
She tries to administer coffee and pastry to a man choking in a restaurant.
She asks the grocery store manager where [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day Game: “Meal or No Meal?”

Posted on 27. Apr, 2008 by cherylmoeller.

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photo credit: billaday
For Mother’s Day week, I have added my own game show to the tradition of “Deal or no Deal?” I’m calling it “Meal or No Meal?”
I think I can compete with “Deal or No Deal?” host Howie Mandel but I refuse to shave my head.
My show works this way.
I have just [...]

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Read the Instructions or Else!

Posted on 26. Feb, 2008 by cherylmoeller.

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Kenzie’s dream was a lofty one — to sit upon her own throne on her 9 th birthday and unwrap her gifts. So she talked me into buying a Strawberry Shortcake inflatable chair to be used to fulfill not only her royal ambitions but another dream as well. When we moved into our current home [...]

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Holiday of the Heart

Posted on 11. Feb, 2008 by Jackie Papandrew.

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Now that football season is finally over (YEAH! Oops, did I say that out loud?), it is time for American men to focus on something far more important. It’s almost Valentine’s Day, fellas – surprisingly, it is falling on February 14th this year, just kind of snuck up on you, didn’t it? If you have [...]

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Mom’s 2008 New Year’s Resolutions One Month Later

Posted on 08. Feb, 2008 by cherylmoeller.

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January 1st: “My children and I will learn Modern Hebrew this year.”
February 1st: “My children and I will weekly eat one dozen bagels with lox.”
January 1st: “I will get the kids the pet they’ve always wanted.”
February 1st: “I will buy a collar and a leash for my chia plant.”

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The Loose End

Posted on 04. Feb, 2008 by Jackie Papandrew.

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To celebrate the end of football season, I’ve posted something I wrote back at the beginning of yet another season of insanity…
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. — Erma Bombeck
By some strange twist of fate, I’ve brought forth a football fanatic. My son is one [...]

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Cruise Control

Posted on 23. Jan, 2008 by Jackie Papandrew.

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If the Good Lord had wanted us to eat sensibly this time of year, he wouldn’t have invented the cruise ship. It must have been divine compulsion that drove my family and a couple thousand of our closest friends to set sail recently on an after-Christmas cruise in the Caribbean. It’s not that we wanted [...]