This week, the two finalists from Season 5 of MasterChef competed for the title of America's Best Home Chef. After first being chosen from a pool of thousands, these extremely talented, self-taught women withstood three months of grueling challenges to become the last ones standing. And, incidentally, they joined other women from the international MasterChef shows when they became part of the [...]
by Tammy Soong
August 7, 2013
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Elfie,
Growing Up,
Mawage,
Media,
Mouths of Babes,
Parenting,
Personal Insanity,
TV,
Unsolicited Advice,
Worst Mom Randomness
"What are you watching?" My 9-year-old daughter has just caught me watching The Bachelorette. Normally this is an activity I'd reserve for after the kids have gone to bed, but it's summer, and "after they've gone to bed" is practically when I go to bed. "It's called The Bachelorette. It's a horrible, horrible show where [...]
So I watch the Bachelorette. Don't stone me. I know. My husband says it's my contribution to the downfall of Western civilization. Anyway, last night, something unprecedented and pretty amazing happened. If you don't watch the show (and I know none of you decent people do), let me give you some background. Desiree Hartsock, this [...]
by Tammy Soong
December 29, 2012
– Posted in:
Elfie,
Mouths of Babes,
Movies,
Newt,
Parenting,
Personal Insanity,
Sex,
Tenzin,
Thank God Your Father's Home,
TV,
Worrying,
Worst Mom Reviews
I went and saw Les Miserables with a girlfriend the other night. It was an amazing movie, but for some reason, I still feel like I could just nitpick it to pieces. I'm starting to think this could be my calling -- professional life nitpicker. Too bad I can't get someone to pay me for that... [...]
I love Kickstarter. If you don't already know, it's this website that lets people who have really good ideas (okay, sometimes not such good ideas) put them out in the universe and ask everybody in cyberland to help pay for them. I want to say the fancy word for it is "crowdfunding." Kickstarter is also [...]
I was googling "worst moms" the other day (just basically being lazy and trying to find an old blog post), and I ran across an old article from The Stir. If you don't read The Stir, it's good fun. Basically a whole bunch of fun chick topics all rolled into one place. Anyway, I came [...]
Ginger, who blogs at Spicey Mom, sent in this little nightmare about her then three-and-a-half-year-old and 15-month-old daughters. Sounds like the kids were just doing their part to make Mom's life a little more "dramatic."You ever have one of those feeling as a parent that you are just destined not to get sleep that night? [...]
This submission comes from my snarky mommy blogger friend, Rachel Kargas, who writes Get Real Mama. Rachel really does put the "snark" in snarky. She even started our "Snarky Mamas Group" at the Mom Bloggers Club. I don't know what else to say about Rachel except that she's easily one of my favorite writers for [...]
Tammy Soong is a writer, wife, and mom from Reno, Nevada. She takes an absurd amount of pain medication, but not enough to have actually named her children "Newt" and "Elfie." She spends most days stressing out over clutter, writing stuff for this place, and working on podcasts with her gal pals, the Blogging Betties.