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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

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: 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

Santa Baby: The Mom Version

December 24, 2015 by Carrie Tinsley 3 Comments

Santa Baby: The Mom Version

Okay, y’all. There is a radio station in Little Rock that starts playing Christmas carols on November 1. Naturally, I’ve been listening since then. I have heard Eartha Kitt’s “Santa Baby” approximately two million times, and I’m pretty sure she has it wrong. I don’t need a yacht. Or the deed to a platinum mine. […]

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Filed Under: Favorite Posts, Y'all, Holidays, Humor, Uncategorized Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas music, funny, humor, parenting, Santa Baby, Santa Baby The Mom Version

Smart Mouths and Big Hearts

December 18, 2015 by Carrie Tinsley Leave a Comment

Smart Mouths and Big Hearts

I used to be a teacher. I jokingly refer to myself as a “recovering high school English teacher,” but the truth is, I miss the classroom. I miss the students. I miss the self-discovery of the teenage years and helping young people realize who and what they’d like to be someday. (I don’t miss the grading.) […]

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Filed Under: Holidays, stories of us, Teaching Tagged With: BonBon Break, Christmas, giving, National Honor Society, teachers

Carrie On the Holidays: Great Expectations…Thwarted

December 16, 2014 by Carrie On, Y'all Leave a Comment

I heard a great sermon this weekend about expecting the unexpected. You’ve probably heard me wax poetic about the Clark Griswold-esque expectations we often put on the holidays, but this sermon really brought it home to me. My main takeaway from it is that, instead of being disappointed when the 12-foot tree doesn’t fit in […]

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

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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