Oh my my my. Great song + acoustic upside-down guitar for a lefty + adorable father/daughter sing-a-long = I die.
Thanks for the tip, seester!
[Posted by Mallory]
Category Archives: family
today is a google holiday, hooray!
I am thankful for Google Holidays.
Today’s Google Holiday: Ina Garten’s Thanksgiving Recipes from Google. Holy cranberry sauce, you guys. This is two of my favorite things combined! I’d recommend not looking at the recipes if it’s midnight and you have no food in your apartment.
What I was Googling: L’Occitane. Hostess gift…Mouser, don’t tell Merrimom.
Hope you all get a short day tomorrow and are preparing to put your waistband expanders to good use!
[Posted by Mallory]
Filed under family, food, pop culture, technology
hump cay cry face: the fam.
Ladies and gentlemen, a family Cry Face (from a photo booth at a recent wedding):
We may not agree on how we feel about what happened yesterday, but Cry Face will always bring us together.
[Posted by Mallory]
just six words and a picture.
A note left by Rep. Patrick Kennedy on his father’s grave (Ted Kennedy). Warning: if you have a bleeding liberal heart, this may make you weep. This picture comes from the White House’s Flickr stream.
“Dad, the unfinished business is done.”
[Posted by Kathleen]
Filed under blogging, celebrities, family, health, history, news, pictures, politics, pop culture, random, six word memoirs, the hill
sandra bullock and jesse james, NOOOOO!
Sandra Bullock is perfect. She is a fantastic actress, self-deprecating, hilarious and gorgeous. Although she seemed to be completely out of her husband’s league, they were so adorable together and seemed so in love, it didn’t matter.
And still, he cheats.
WHY DO GUYS WHO LOOK LIKE THIS:
CHEAT ON WOMEN WHO LOOK LIKE THIS:
WITH WOMEN WHO LOOK LIKE THIS: 
Devastating.
[Posted by Shannon]
happy thanksgiving, all you little turkeys!
Thanksgiving is upon us yet again, and I’m currently at work hoping that we will soon get an email saying “LEAVE. NOW. EVERYONE. GOBBLE GOBBLE.” So far, no luck.
I was taking a look at my Thanksgiving post from last year, and I must say: not a whole lot has changed. I’m still thankful for all of that good stuff (like goat cheese and Michael Franti and not being pregnant). Yesterday in my Pilates class, while we were doing a move called “the teaser,” the instructor asked us to think only of things we were thankful for. No bad thoughts like “hot DAMN this is hard!” I thought that was kind of sweet.
This year I’ll be spending Thanksgiving here in DC with Kelsey and a couple other lovely people, and we are forgoing the traditional feast-and-family route in favor of Korean spas and fancy dinners. I’ll let you know how that goes.
While we’re at it, I’ve gotta confess: World, I am thankful for Jason Segel. Even though I’m very NOT thankful that he pulled this stunt at the Swell Season concert in LA rather than the one in DC. Asshole.
Eat lots of delicious things tomorrow, and be happy about all you’ve got going for you. Gobble gobble!
[Posted by Mallory]
Filed under adventures, celebrities, crushes, family, food, YouTube
i want to be an obama!
Today the White House released the official portrait of the First Family taken by Annie Leibovitz. My first thoughts were “My GOD what a beautiful family” and “Where should I photoshop myself in?” Creepy? Yes. True? …Yes.
And First Dog Bo wasn’t left out of the action. In fact, Bo had his own set of White House portraits done, although Annie Leibovitz didn’t stick around to take those photos. Malia and Sasha didn’t even get that honor.
No, this isn't the official White House portrait. I just like it a lot.
Click here for the real one.
[Posted by Shannon]
youtube clip of today: philip spooner.
Awww, shucks. This made me tear up a bit.
Philip Spooner, a lifelong Republican and WWII veteran, makes the case for gay marriage at a meeting in Maine. I can really picture my grandfather, who was also a Republican and WWII vet, saying these exact words.
Happy day before Friday!
[Posted by Kathleen]
yours to decide, cute or creepy?
Sorry that I have been “the worst guest blogger ever” to directly quote Mallory. I recently got back from a fantastic trip to Ireland and London with my Mom, and then we had a long-femurred visitor a few weekends ago. I know, poor me.
All excuses aside, I wanted to share this youtube video to see how people felt about this marriage proposal. So far, we’ve got 2 votes for creepy, 1 vote for cute (sorry, Caroline).
To me, it seems like the girl being proposed to in the video would vote creepy as well, but that’s just my observation.
Here it is: Disneyland Musical Marriage Proposal
[Posted by Shannon]
no pink or blue for pop.
A couple in Sweden have decided to raise their child genderless, or in my opinion, screw up their perfectly healthy child. The couple won’t answer any gender questions pertaining to their two-year-old son or daughter, who the media is calling “Pop.”
The idea behind the genderless upbringing is that the child won’t grow up with preconceived notions of gender and won’t be pigeon-holed into acting like a boy or a girl.
I’m sorry, but there is NOTHING WRONG with having a gender. The parents are creating gender issues where there probably weren’t any in the first place.
As a parent, why would you want to do anything that might encourage this type of identity crisis and bring about certain ridicule from peers on your own child? Isn’t adolescence difficult enough already? The parents claim that Pop will be able to choose his/her own gender whenever he/she feels it is the right time. Pop, for your own sake, I hope it’s soon.
Read for yourself over at The Local.
[Posted by Shannon]
Filed under babies, definitely not politics, family, health, news, pop culture, rando, random, thoughts, weird
six words to change the world. 