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Give It Up, People: A Call for Anti-Resolutions

December 31, 2016 by Carrie On, Y'all Leave a Comment

Happy 2017, everyone. As “that time for resolutions” has rolled around again, I sincerely hate discussing all my promises to myself that “this is gonna be the year.” I am a liar. I can lie to my children without batting an eye: “Mommy sends Santa a monthly report, and this is going in it.” “We’re leaving.” […]

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Filed Under: Holidays, Humor Tagged With: anti-resolutions, funny, humor, new year's resolutions

Carrie On the Holidays: In Every Single Thing

December 13, 2016 by Carrie On, Y'all 3 Comments

Carrie On the Holidays: In Every Single Thing

Years ago at church, our pastor showed a video during his sermon that a simple 8-note scale contained the best news in the world. That image has stuck with me, a piano-dropout myself from years ago. The narrator ignores his mother’s gentle attempt to bring him into the world of piano, and like every piano dropout […]

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Filed Under: Holidays Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas music, holidays, Joy to the World, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

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

Carrie On the Holidays: Bring On the Cheesy Christmas Movies, Hallmark.

November 16, 2016 by Carrie On, Y'all 2 Comments

Carrie On the Holidays: Bring On the Cheesy Christmas Movies, Hallmark.

Ellen: You set standards that no family activity can live up to. Clark: When have I ever done that? Ellen: Parties, weddings, anniversaries, funerals, holidays, vacations, graduations… –National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) So the Christmas spirit has caught me a little early this year. We’ve been to a Christmas event at church, had hot chocolate, pulled […]

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Filed Under: Holidays, Humor Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas movies, funny, Hallmark, Hallmark movies, humor

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

The Unholy Roller: An Expose of My Disgusting Mom-Mobile

July 28, 2016 by Carrie Tinsley 1 Comment

The Unholy Roller: An Expose of My Disgusting Mom-Mobile

Last night, I offered to drive two friends to our book club meeting. When I picked up my friend Sarah, I mentioned, “There’s sort of a weird smell in my car. I haven’t been able to find it yet.” This was an understatement… “Oh, I’m sure it’s not that bad,” she reassured me. However, upon […]

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Filed Under: Humor, Parenting Tagged With: Crain Team Conway, disgusting mom cars, mom car

5 Reasons I’m Celebrating My Kids’ Independence 

July 3, 2016 by Carrie Tinsley Leave a Comment

5 Reasons I’m Celebrating My Kids’ Independence 

Today, in addition to celebrating the many beautiful freedoms I enjoy as a US citizen, I also want to celebrate the independence my three children (ages nine, five, and three) are gaining. They’re growing up fast, y’all. When America was born, our fledgling nation declared its independence from England. We started our own thing, made our […]

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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

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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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