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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

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

The Mom-Olympics: Settling “Mompetition” Once and for All

March 10, 2017 by Carrie On, Y'all 8 Comments

The Mom-Olympics: Settling “Mompetition” Once and for All

  Okay, moms, you know it’s out there. Mompetition. It’s a noun. It’s that guilt, that urge you feel when someone is mothering their little progeny better/craftier/more patiently/cuter/WTH…did they just step out of a magazine…than you are. Mompete is a (sort of) verb. It’s the time when you choose to craft/cook/volunteer/say yes…against all better judgment because you don’t want […]

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Filed Under: Favorite Posts, Y'all, Humor, Parenting, Soapbox, Uncategorized Tagged With: competition, mompetition, parenting

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

Carrie On the Holidays: Make Like Elsa and ‘Let It Go’

December 5, 2016 by Carrie On, Y'all 1 Comment

Carrie On the Holidays: Make Like Elsa and ‘Let It Go’

My family has a million Christmas traditions, dating as far back as I can remember. There are holiday traditions that I treasure and will always perpetuate, and there are traditions that, because of necessity, geography, having small children, and…time, have subsided a bit. It’s not that these traditions aren’t important to me, or that I’ll […]

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Filed Under: Holidays, Uncategorized Tagged With: Christmas, humor, parenting

Carrie On the Holidays: Pardoning a Few Turkeys, Y’all

November 20, 2016 by Carrie On, Y'all 1 Comment

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all! It’s that time again…to give thanks for all that we have, watch a lot of football, enjoy our families (of course, until 6pm on Thursday when all the pre-Black Friday mania begins…ugh), and eat some turkey. A couple of very lucky turkeys in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday will receive an official Presidential […]

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Filed Under: Holidays, Humor, Uncategorized Tagged With: annoying people, funny, humor, pardoning turkeys, soapbox, Thanksgiving

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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You’ve Still Got It, Mama

June 15, 2016 by Carrie Tinsley 3 Comments

You’ve Still Got It, Mama

Someday I’d like to introduce my kids to ME, the ME I was before they were born. That girl was fun. She read and wrote all the time and had dinner with friends in cute bistros. She and her boyfriend (now husband and father to the three kids) got lost on back roads in her […]

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Filed Under: Favorite Posts, Y'all, Humor, stories of us, Uncategorized Tagged With: Back flip, bad parenting moments, humor, Isla Mujeres, Mexico, parenting

Retired Arkansas Home Builder Assaulted by Blogger Tired of Mopping White Floors

March 11, 2016 by Carrie On, Y'all 8 Comments

Retired Arkansas Home Builder Assaulted by Blogger Tired of Mopping White Floors

I have mentioned before that I’m not a cleaner. But today, I am briefly going to share my frustration at possibly the worst home décor choice in the free world: white floors. Behold my kitchen. It’s amazing, right? We bought this house in 2013, and when I saw the kitchen, it was love at first […]

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Filed Under: Humor, Uncategorized Tagged With: funny, humor, mopping, white floors

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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…

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