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Humor Updates inspired by but not limited to the trials and observations gathered via raising eight children. Updates on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday Guaranteed, plus extras when time allows. Why? Because fish and comedy start to smell after three days an

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• Mom's Middle Name is Icarus

  Posted on Sunday August 17th, 2008 at 06:00 in catholic, children, Games, humility, humor blogs, icarus, losing, mom blogs, motherhood, parenting, strategies, Washington Post

  Motherhood is a lifelong lesson in humility. In the beginning, you surrender your body. When you first see the child face to face, any part of your heart still your own gets engulfed. But the ego t...

• To Dream Perchance of Them Sleeping

  Posted on Friday August 15th, 2008 at 06:00 in bedtime, child labor, edicts, humor blogs, mom blogs, parenting, systems, toddlers, work

  Some nights bedtime is like playing Whack A Mole at the carnival, except it’s the gophers that have the mallets and they’re playing Whack a Mom or Make a Mom Wacky, depending upon how late it gets...

• Short Order Bit and a testimonial worth 1,000,000,000 plugs

  Posted on Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 06:00 in humor, humor blogs, mcdonalds, parenting, sherry antonetti, siblings, snappy banter, testimonial

  But I took my kids to McDonalds to celebrate my second son's birthday lunch. My oldest went to secure a table. We need a big one as you might imagine, and my second oldest ushered everyone into the p...

• Pawns in the Picture

  Posted on Sunday June 22nd, 2008 at 08:36 in catholic mom blogs, christmas, family blogs, family photos, first communion, humor blogs, instant cameras, mom blogs, parenting, portraits, sherry antonetti

  If pictures are worth a thousand words, there are at least a million stories in my house left undeveloped. Yesterday we were getting ready for a party, wherein we were supposed to do none of the work....

• Lessons Learned from Riding the Bench

  Posted on Friday June 13th, 2008 at 07:39 in a-teams, b-teams, catholic humor, competitive sports, God, irony, mom, morals, parenting, prayers, sherry antonetti, soccer moms

  Whatever lessons you failed to master as a kid, come back to bite you as an adult.When I was a kid, I absolutely rotted at sports. This was back in the Jurassic era, when kids were assigned to A and ...

• Video Games, A Family Intervention

  Posted on Sunday June 8th, 2008 at 14:03 in addictions, catholic, humor blogs, indiana jones, jedi, kids, laptops, mom, nintendo gs, original sin, pac man, parenting

  My kids love video games.We have admittedly fed this love, because we enjoy a good round of Smash Brothers or Mario Cart as much as anyone. It’s cathartic to occasionally beat your children in an a...

• The Sun and also My Daughter Rises

  Posted on Tuesday May 27th, 2008 at 21:10 in bed time, Chocolate, cribs, humor blogs, ice cream, night time, parenting, pregnancy, sherry antonetti, sleep, toddlers, two year olds

  It doesn’t matter what time of night it is, if a door creaks or a light switch flicks, my toddler’s wide awake and comes a calling. So desperate am I for a night without the uninvited two year old...

• Ensuring Proper Credit

  Posted on Sunday May 4th, 2008 at 13:52 in child rearing, global warming, humor blog, j-lo, parenting, sherry antonetti, strategies, weather

  When is the proper time to wash a baby?Let me be perfectly clear. I am not some wet behind the ears rookie of a parent that requires others give standing ovations at the mere sight of my progeny bein...

• The Cost of Sweet Nothings

  Posted on Friday May 2nd, 2008 at 08:44 in apples, budgets, chips ahoy, cost of food, economizing, healthy snacks, menu, oreos, organizing, parenting, sherry antonetti

  The News is screaming these days about the price of food.It seems to have increased by a third.I haven’t noticed, not because I don’t shop, or because our budget hasn’t been hit.I haven’t noti...

• The Sounding Fury of an English Tutor

  Posted on Wednesday April 9th, 2008 at 08:41 in classic literature, College, english, major, notre dame, parenting, Shakespeare, sherry antonetti, tutoring

  Every time I’ve ever considered myself competent in English, someone has come along to set the record straight. Back in high school, I took regular English instead of Honors freshman year. The kid...

• Cap Crib Sheet for the Crib Set

  Posted on Wednesday March 26th, 2008 at 08:42 in child rearing, fairnes doctrine, full disclosure, humor writers, humor writing, parent verbage, parenting, public service announcement, sahms, sherry antonetti, translation

  Over the past two years of writing humor pieces, my focus has been squarely on translating the many moods and meanings of phrases uttered by my offspring. Today, in light of my more mature children ...

• Five Questions...Maybe Six...

  Posted on Monday March 24th, 2008 at 14:12 in comedy, exercise, God, pain, parenting, piano practice, prayer, praying, push up, reading, sherry antonetti, suffering

  I keep thinking of doing a 24 hours in my day type entry in this blog but every time I’ve considered the possibility, I’ve quite honestly lost my nerve. The trick to comedy is never to reveal eve...

• Opening Lines

  Posted on Wednesday March 19th, 2008 at 12:06 in bob the builder, comedy, dreams, erma bombeck, interventions, parenting, plane flights, sahms, saturday night live, stand up, therapy, vacation

  I've got 3 weeks to get ready for Erma Bombeck...here's a bit of my routine, still a work in progress..."Hello, my name is Sherry Antonetti and I'm a mother of eight children. Now when you are a mom o...

• New at Subway, Eat Fresh...

  Posted on Tuesday March 18th, 2008 at 10:20 in cell phones, humility, life lessons, mothers, parenting, report cards, responsibility, sandwiches, sherry antonetti, sons, traffic tickets, trips

  It always happens this way.I was going to drive to Austin for a graduate class. My husband shut the door, handed me a diet coke through the open window and said, “Drive safely, don’t speed. I love...

• Olympus as you never knew it...

  Posted on Monday March 17th, 2008 at 13:29 in 12 greek gods, brothers, dads, moms, olympians, parenting, sahms, sherry antonetti, sibling rivalry, sisters

  When we only had two, of course we spent a lot of time inventing nick names for our young prodjeny. They were wonderful, these two, Apollo and Athena. Why Greek gods? We thought them that promising an...

• Where did My Inspiration Go...

  Posted on Sunday March 2nd, 2008 at 20:56 in assignments, editing, eucharist, high school, homework, memoirs, memories, parenting, philosophy

  Last week, I spent the bulk of my time editing. My son had a project in English.It was supposed to be a journal of his life and suffering. The premise was to imitate an author who wrote about his lif...

• Toddler 100% Proof

  Posted on Monday February 25th, 2008 at 22:58 in best food, car alarms, close circuit tv, lost items, messes, mom, momming, parenting, rules, safety, sahms, sherry antonetti

  For all the talk of how one has to make a house safe for an infant, the reality is steeper than a newbie parent can possibly bear. Alas, those veterans out there know it well, a baby needs no padded w...

• Next Saturday, You're On You're Own

  Posted on Saturday February 23rd, 2008 at 11:03 in airplanes, Family Time, gift shop, humor blog, mcdonalds, museum, parenting, quality time, sahms, sherry antonetti, shuttles, smithsonian

  “Mom, there’s nothing to do.”“We could go to a museum.”It doesn’t matter that they’ve been to the Air and Space Center countless times and loved every trip to the Natural Museum of Histo...