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Thursday, January 28, 2010 Family

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. —Malachy McCourt

Monday, January 25, 2010 Family, Momversation

What do you think?  Should your children be privy to the round-the-clock coverage tragedies such as the tsunami, 9/11, and the Haiti earthquake inspire?  Or do you have a don’t ask, don’t tell policy?  Join the Momversation by commenting in a related forum:

• What are you doing to help the people in Haiti?
• Do you have an emergency plan?

Sunday, January 24, 2010 Me, Me, Me

I get a frazillion Google alerts a week for my name or blog (Thank you, everyone else who calls their blog “The Mommy Blog.”). Sometimes it comes in handy as something to put in my Press section; other times I begin to wonder whether I’m living to my full potential.

Here’s a roundup of what the other Mindy/Melinda Roberts’ are doing:

1. In October 2009, Peace Corps Volunteers Becca Commissaris and Mindy Roberts took a break from their village activities and went to Namibia for some fun in the sun and some sand-surfing…..
2. Assigning a short story for Wintersession 2010. ARCHETYPAL SYMBOLISM: UNIVERSAL RESPONSES TO TIME AND PLACE.
3. The Melindaville Blog chronicles the journey of Melinda Roberts Tyler as she writes and publishes her memoir, “Lost and Found,” which details her experiences as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, as a sex industry worker. [Read about her] experiences involving the sex industry, heroin addiction, recovery, and the process of writing her memoir.
4. Organizing outstanding sessions with David Lefkowitz on behalf of the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Philosophy and Law at the Eastern Division meeting.
5. Melinda Roberts Photography: Serving all of Western Colorado and Eastern Utah, specializing in weddings, high school seniors, families, children, boudoir, proms.
6. CNN: Melinda Roberts has come up with strategies to assuage the fears of her kids Logan, 11, Dylan, 9, and Daphne, 7 on how to handle kids anxiety. Wait—that one WAS me. I believe it originally published with a misprint saying that I let my 7 year old watch Kill Bill with me. That was fun.
7. Showing my handmade quilts at Quilters Guild of Greater Kansas City Quilt Show at Crown Center.
8. Earning the Andrew Clark Hecht Public Safety Achievement Award with the Mount Rainier National Park’s climbing program.
9. And lastly, I most certainly am not Hotel operator Leona Mindy Roberts Helmsley [who] became a billionaire in 1997 when she inherited the fortune of her late husband, real estate entrepreneur Harry Helmsley worth 2.2 billions.

Thursday, January 21, 2010 QOTD

DYING today with the quotes of the day. It’s not even seven-thirty yet and I’m hurrying to get them all down, and they just keep coming as I’m working. (These are not my kids, which is why I get to sip my coffee and keep on typing.)

“What do you want for breakfast?”
(Playing Wii) “I want something that takes a really long time.”

Serving breakfast:

“I’m not eating that.”
“Yes, you are, you said you would.”
“You don’t have a signed contract.’”
“Oh, yes I do, it’s a verbal contract, legally binding, and will hold up in a court of law.”
“Then somebody get me some virtual scissors!”

And, finally:

“SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!”

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Family, Momversation

How’s your hoo-hah?  Your twinkie?  Your flower?  How’s your… vagina?  Yep, doesn’t quite have the same “cutesy” ring to it.  And that’s just fine with Daphne Brogdon of Cool Mom who is not a fan for precious nicknames for private parts (is private part a cutesy nickname?), especially when used by moms.  Do these nicknames annoy you, and do you think kids should be taught them?  Sound off!

Do you use cutesy names for private parts?  Do you use them in general or just with your kids?  Share them, and join the Momversation by commenting in a related forum:

• Would you buy your teen daughter a vibrator?
• Caught in the act!