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Carrie On Parenting: An Ill-Placed Elf on the Shelf Display

December 9, 2017 by Carrie Tinsley Leave a Comment

Carrie On Parenting: An Ill-Placed Elf on the Shelf Display

Let me start by saying how wonderful Target is and how no mother could live without its giant red carts, crazy good deals, and endless home goods cuteness. However, I witnessed a conversation the other day that Target and Elf on the Shelf folks might want to know about. I dropped all of my kiddos […]

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Filed Under: Holidays, Humor, Parenting Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas movies, Elf on the Shelf, holidays, humor, parenting, Target

The Fear of Becoming My Mother

May 8, 2017 by Carrie Tinsley 5 Comments

The Fear of Becoming My Mother

  My mother has a song for everything. By trade, she’s an elementary school music teacher, but she has loved music her whole life. No matter the situation, she can break into the perfect song to match the occasion. When I was a teenager, her songs sent me diving under restaurant tables in total embarrassment. […]

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Filed Under: Parenting, stories of us, Uncategorized Tagged With: fear of becoming my mother, Mother's Day, parenting, parents

Rewriting My Story

April 6, 2017 by Carrie Tinsley 2 Comments

Rewriting My Story

A few years ago, I thought I had life and career and marriage and motherhood all figured out. Feel free to laugh. I was the classic example of “Man plans, God laughs.” When my story changed drastically, it was hard to accept at first. My original life plan was gone, and in its place was […]

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Filed Under: Parenting, stories of us, Teaching Tagged With: parenting, rewriting my story, stay at home mom

Lobster Murder 101

March 20, 2017 by Carrie Tinsley 1 Comment

Lobster Murder 101

There are few things my husband Jeff enjoys more than a delectable fresh seafood dinner, preferably starring a big, juicy lobster. Long ago, we gave up the idea of going to restaurants that don’t serve us from a drive-thru window. We have three kids, and two of them are wild boys whose idea of a […]

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Filed Under: Favorite Posts, Y'all, Humor, stories of us Tagged With: cooking lobsters, funny, humor, lobster murder

Next Time, Try Girls’ Night IN

March 17, 2017 by Carrie Tinsley Leave a Comment

Next Time, Try Girls’ Night IN

You hear the hype about GNO everywhere. Girls’ Night OUT, y’all! Woohoo! Dinner at a cute place! Yummy pink drinks! No kids! Dancing or singing karaoke! Dusting off the few remaining “I’m not THAT old” clothes in your closet. Heels? Maybe… Recently, my book club planned a girls’ night IN. Y’all, we had a slumber party, and it […]

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Filed Under: Favorite Posts, Y'all, Parenting Tagged With: girls night in

Dear Online Grocery Shopping…Where Have You Been All My Life?

March 15, 2017 by Carrie Tinsley Leave a Comment

Dear Online Grocery Shopping…Where Have You Been All My Life?

Two big box stores in town are now competing for my online grocery shopping business, and I may never darken the door of a store again. Y’ALL. All I had to do was get on the computer and add items to my virtual shopping cart. Did I mention, friends, the cart is virtual? No one is asking to go to the […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ClickList, funny, humor, kids, online grocery shopping, online shopping, shopping with kids

Carrie On Y’all’s Redneck Therapy Session

March 13, 2017 by Carrie Tinsley 1 Comment

Carrie On Y’all’s Redneck Therapy Session

People handle stress in many ways…some see counselors or therapists, some exercise, some drink or do drugs. Some people talk about their problems, and others lock their pain away deep inside. To relieve stress, I write, cook, or do something crafty (sometimes with a drink in hand)…  But sometimes I make questionable decisions to lighten […]

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Filed Under: Favorite Posts, Y'all, Humor, stories of us Tagged With: funny, humor, play dates, redneck therapy, removing bushes with truck

The Wizard of Oz and Motherhood

March 8, 2017 by Carrie Tinsley Leave a Comment

The Wizard of Oz and Motherhood

In 1939, Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) rode her Kansas farmhouse through a tornado, landed it right on top of the Wicked Witch of the West, and tap-danced her sparkly ruby slippers down the Technicolor yellow brick road to find the Wizard of Oz so she could get home. On the way, she met the Scarecrow, […]

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Filed Under: Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: parenting, parents, Wizard of Oz

What I Learned from Helping a Mom in the Trenches

November 7, 2016 by Carrie Tinsley Leave a Comment

What I Learned from Helping a Mom in the Trenches

The other day, I helped a mom who was a stranger, a mom in the trenches. We were at a play place, and she was wrangling two little boys. Her older boy was about two years old, and she had a baby in her arms. While holding the baby, she tried to help her toddler […]

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Filed Under: Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: kids, mom in the trenches, parenting, parents

I Miss My Kindergartener

August 22, 2016 by Carrie Tinsley Leave a Comment

I Miss My Kindergartener

Over the past two years, I have made a nice little social media/online niche for myself documenting my awkward navigation of stay-at-home motherhood. For all the internet to see, I’ve laughed, cried, and written as a form of therapy while my boys destroyed our house, broke toys, swung from curtains still hanging on their rods […]

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Filed Under: Parenting, stories of us, Uncategorized Tagged With: first day of school, kids, kindergarten, kindergartener, parenting, parents

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About Carrie

Carrie is a former high school English teacher, turned stay-at-home mom to three children. Her blog Carrie On, Y'all chronicles the misadventures of raising children through a lens of sarcasm, poor housekeeping skills, and mediocre attempts to stay sane. She lives in Arkansas (yes, people live there!) with her husband, three children, dog, and cat. Read More…

Recent Posts

  • Carrie On Parenting: An Ill-Placed Elf on the Shelf Display
  • The Fear of Becoming My Mother
  • Rewriting My Story
  • Lobster Murder 101
  • Next Time, Try Girls’ Night IN

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