Comments on: I Am Mommy: Hear Me Blog

By: Acai Berry

Acai Berry — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:05:51 +0000

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By: alice, uptown

alice, uptown — Sun, 18 May 2008 02:34:42 +0000

I’m not a mom, and I don’t play one on TV, but my experience around small children has given me much greater insight into why my mom tucked us into bed almost before sunset, just in time for cocktail hour.

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By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:15:57 +0000

great post. I especially loved this: “They are the reason I am not even more self-absorbed and impatient and intolerant.”

Christines last blog post..a prayer for my birthday

By: stephenie

stephenie — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:36:01 +0000

While I’m not sure I got everything here (you’re obviously more intelligent than I I liked the spirit you said it with~

By: Memarie Lane

Memarie Lane — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:32:42 +0000

I also find it interesting that “Sarah” is linked to a nothing URL. Hmmmmmmmmm.

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By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:20:20 +0000

All I can say is AMEN! You wrote this so well!!

Blessings!!
~Heather

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By: JanMary, N Ireland

JanMary, N Ireland — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:36:36 +0000

I love to find a blog that makes me think, and what I have read there sticks with me during the day.

Thanks for making me think today….I think!

PS I’ll be back!

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By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:02:06 +0000

I really enjoyed your post and book review – and I like your style of writing. I’m new to blogging and trying to learn lots as I go, so reading through the comments was also helpful to me since I am a Mom AND a blogger myself…

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By: Col @ gigablonde :: things to do in ny when you're [not] dead

Col @ gigablonde :: things to do in ny when you're [not] dead — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:05:51 +0000

Hi Jane, Thank you for making me smile. I love your sarcastic writing style.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:34:26 +0000

Jen — Thanks! I did revise my initial review, though. Hope it entertains also.

Sarah #6/12 — I wonder how you happen to comment twice (and not connectedly)? Couldn’t be that you have an auto-search going for any mention of The Book of Mom, and if you did, why could that possibly be? And what would that mean for your praise of the book?

Anyway, if you see this, I am happy to tell you that I have finished the book and posted a more complete review. You pricked my conscience and I thank you for that.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:57:17 +0000

I disagree with you. “The Book of Mom” is a funny, insightful novel that doesn’t bite, it’s great and I am not the only one that thinks this–my entire book club loved this book and would recommend it to any mom who feels overwhelmed, undervalued and just plain tired. Not only is it a fun read, it has solutions to living a more balanced and authentic life. I am sorry you can’t see the obvious–this book is climbing up best seller lists and it is no wonder that most people have taste.

By: Jen @ JenuineJen

Jen @ JenuineJen — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:46:41 +0000

First, “The Book of Mom bites. The End.” Hilariously! I get your blog’s rss feed on my email on my pda phone. I read this to my husband in the car the other day. He thought it was funny as well.

Jen @ JenuineJens last blog post..What (non-children’s) Music Are You Enjoying These Days?

By: What husbands and children can do for mom

What husbands and children can do for mom — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:53:00 +0000

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By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:32:50 +0000

Barbara — Thanks for the comment and the book recommendation. I’m excited to see how Aikido and good grammar mesh on your blog.

Marie — I think it’s great that you make a distinction for yourself of not being a MB. Somehow that label doesn’t bother me, but it certainly does bother me to hear MB criticized as if it were all the same thing. Like saying that “fiction” is untrue and fantastic.

Sometimes I feel like I have always been a mommy — I have been a mommy for more than half of my adult life, but there is definitely more to life (and more to me) than being a mom.

Marianne — Thanks! I hope we get to meet IRL sometime, bec. I think we’d have lots to talk about! I, too, find that most of the blogs I enjoy most are by mommies. There are some exceptions, of course, but I do like the mommies who rise above, as you say.

Skye — thanks!

Sarah — I think you’re right — I’ve now got 30 pages to go, and will be posting a more in-depth review. Stay tuned.

Suzie — I think the blurb books are fantastic, and, related to the question of privacy and whether your kids will be so mad one day to see that you have written about them on a blog, I would say that my kids love to look at their “baby books” for hours on end. They’re not mad that mommy spent time writing about them and chronicling their childhood. Quite the reverse.

I find the more I write, the less time I spend on straight journaling/scrapbooking daily events and milestones, though I think that is a good and valid use of a blog. I still want to record the major funny/awesome things my kids do, and have plans for formatting that differently.

One last point — when you make a distinction between emotions/thoughts/feelings and “family journal/scrapbook,” I think this is an important point — when my kids are grown, and if they look back on this, what will be more valuable to them as women, sisters, mothers, friends?

Knowing that today we went to the zoo and ate at McDonalds and Sally went to school and Susan had a nap and Spot threw a tantrum OR would they like to know what Mom was thinking and feeling as she watched them grow, what their reactions were to the lessons she taught them, how we all felt when Daddy was out of town?

Do I write “today we watched Little Mermaid. the end” or do I say “when we watch Disney movies like Little Mermaid, we talk about modesty, and how we can love Ariel while not choosing to dress like her. And when Sally watches the Hannah Montana dvd from Grampa, and then asks about Miley Cyrus’s photo shoot, we talk about how we can say no to anyone, and that we can always go to mom or dad when anyone pressures us to make wrong choices.”

It should be obvious that I think our thoughts and feelings are just as (or more) significant as what we do day-to-day.

Christine — Thanks! That means a lot to me!

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 11 May 2008 03:56:10 +0000

I know I can always count on you for a good laugh. Seriously, you bring the most mundane things into a funny light (not that this post was mundane at all!). Thanks for being my favorite blogger who happens to be a mom too!

Christines last blog post..Book Club Drama

By: Suzie

Suzie — Sun, 11 May 2008 02:07:33 +0000

so, i haven’t commented here in a while, but this post got me thinking about lots of different things. But really, I’m just curious- what do you plan to do with your blog? You mentioned how your kids will read it one day. So is it a journal that you will print out into a book? or do you just leave it in cyberspace for years and years?

If it is the whole “journal” idea, then naturally there is going to be some whining, complaining and crying in it. but you don’t really use your blog in a “family journal/scrapbooking” kind of way. (like me!) I just blurbed my entire last year and made a fabulous hardbound book out of it- and i just love it!

so i was just wondering. if it’s not in book form (or even if it is) how to do you plan on preserving it? and if you really don’t plan on preserving it- then what’s the point? just a way to let out daily emotions/thoughts/feelings?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:06:44 +0000

How on earth can you give a review if you don’t even read the book–shameless. If you dared to put your ego aside and actually read the book you would see that the author is not only a talented award winning author that can write an excellent novel on motherhood but also has insightful lessons and tools to life that you could use. The Book Of Mom talks about solutions to whining mothers and marriages that don’t work and how to parent consciously. I think the only narcissism that is going is your own reflection.