CLOSED!
Congratulations, Selena!
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The Fourteen Days of Laughter are here! (& just in time, after a doozy like yesterday) You’ve seen me Tweet & Facebook & basically be a raging tease minus fish net stockings, but I am so honored to be a part of the Bright Starts kickoff of their new Ingenuity line. Because it’s Bright Starts, y’all. & ten bucks says that like me, you already have a product of theirs that your kid is currently drooling on. & the awesome part about this kick-off? It’s a give-away. As in, the winner takes a pick of a big-ticket item from the Ingenuity line. That’s right. Someone is going to win a swing. Or a pack n’ play. Or a bouncer. NOW YOU SEE WHY I TEASED YOU?!?! Because I was so excited, I wanted to explode!
If you have a kid like Harrison, you spend many hours literally bouncing the child in your arms, on your knee, etc. (if you’re still brewing a kid, I pray that you do not have a kid that likes to bounce considering I’m pretty sure my knee will NEVER stop jiggling at this point) We had a bouncer, but it only vibrated. I won’t name names, but COME ON. My kid doesn’t want to be vibrated! HE WANTS TO BE BOUNCED. SO WHERE THE HELL IS THE BOUNCING?!
It’s here:
Ladies (& gentlemen), may I present to you the Ingenuity Automatic Bouncer, aka SOMEONE FINALLY GOT IT RIGHT!! The hybridive (look, I’m not an engineer. don’t ask me) keeps it bouncing, just like a mother’s arms. On two different speeds. With music or water sounds, if you so choose. & it’s so sweetly soft. It’s also perfect for serving oatmeal & applesauce in the evenings:
The toys are sweetness & one of my FAVORITE things is how neutral it is. Because a) I don’t dig loud & obnoxious-looking toys that don’t blend into my home and b) I can use it for a boy or a girl. & it was super-easy to put together, even at ten o’clock at night. Oh, it washes well, too. Harrison already christened the headrest three times with oatmeal & vom.
My only complaint? I wish there was a third bounce speed that bounced harder & faster. Because Harrison REALLY liked bouncing to the point of needing a bungee cord off the back deck to keep him from crying. Maybe that’s a safety thing but if it’s not, those of us with Babies That Demand Bouncing would like more speed, please.
I know, I know…shut up, Blair, & get to the good stuff. One lucky person will win an Ingenuity product of your choice! So here’s the details:
Share “that moment” that you realized you became your own mother.
It doesn’t have to be baby-related – maybe it was the moment you carried a pie over to your new neighbor. Maybe it was the moment you said “EFF IT” to homemade tomato sauce & broke down for Ragu. Or maybe it was the moment you marched across the playground & told your child that if they didn’t stop hanging upside down on the monkey bars, they were going to crack their head open & you didn’t have time for the Emergency Room.
For extra entries (not mandatory, but please write a separate comment for each entry):
- Become a fan of Bright Starts on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/BrightStarts)
- Tweet this & let me know your Twitter name in the comment: Enter to win big with @heirtoblair & Bright Starts Ingenuity! http://wp.me/pv8EV-w4 #brightstarts
Also, Submit your stories to Make Mom Laugh for a coupon code toward a Bright Starts order. One mom’s story will be chosen each week to share with the Bright Starts fans!
Best of luck!! I will select the winner on Saturday, March 13, 2010.
I knew I had become my own mother when I told my daughter she had to read every day before the TV could be turned on….I seem to recall disliking that one as a child!
I tweeted!
I'm a Bright Starts FB Fan
I knew I had become my mother when my darling sister informed me that i did everything just the way mom did and my response was so what!
I am a fan of Bright Stars on FB!
I became my own Mom when I started singing David Bowie and Beatles songs to my little boy!
And I tweeted this (@mylittlenoopy), and I became a FB fan!
The day I knew I had become my mother was when I told my husband, if he wasn't going to answer his phone, he wasn't going to have a phone and was totally serious.
I am a FB fan!
I knew I became my own mother when I was talking to my daughter in the exact same baby voice my mother uses! And I used to get so annoyed with her when she used it on other babies saying "you know you're supposed to talk to them in a regular voice or they will talk to you in a baby voice!" hahaha
and now i sound like her! "awww does wittle kirsten need her baba????" oh god!!!!!!!!!
I'm a Bright Starts FB fan.
I'm a facebook fan!
I tweeted.
Oops, forgot my twitter name. @Jocelyn0887
I tweeted the event! @PGHmommy
I realized I had become my mother when I started talking to my younger sister the way my mom talked to me. I thought, "Whoa! I sounded just like Mom. Yikes!"
The day I knew I had become my mother…is when I put on my first pair of non-maternity jeans after having my son…and I realized my butt had disappeared. It was like looking at the backside of my mother in the mirror. : )
I realized I became a Mom when I didn't care about the dried up spit-up on my shoulder when I had to run to the store!
I realized I became my own mother when I cleaned up a fountain of vomit without batting an eye! I never knew how my Mom did it when we were younger. Now I know… you do what you have to do to get your baby comfy & happy (& smelling nice).
Oh no I don't want to admit this!! But I'd really love to win!
I knew I was my Mother when I yelled at my son one day and I sounded SPITTING IMAGE of how my Mom used to sound. To the "T: I sounded just like her voice and thought to myself O-M-G never again! That was a rough awakening……
Jenprincess88 at aol dot com
fb fan of Bright Starts already
Jenprincess88 at aol dot com
I knew I had become my mother when my stepson (just 3 at the time) fell down and I laughed. No, my Mother and I are not horribly mean mommies. It's just that usually, kids get upset if adults act concerned. So my Mom always laughed at us and then we'd laugh too. So I tried it. Usually works too. (Though you feel terrible when they really are hurt).
the moment i realized i became my mother was when i couldn't put noah down. i literally could EAT him lol. my mom is very "in your face i want to eat you i love you so much" and that is totally how i am with noah. to this day, i'm 27 years old, my mom will make me sit on her lap. and i can totally see myself being this way. i will always be her baby no matter how old i am, and i think that's not such a bad thing no matter how suffocating it feels to be that child lol.
i also became a fan of bright starts on fb
tweeted @noahbythesea
I realized I had become my own mother when I was baby talking to DS one day and my lovely husband looked at me with the "Dear God, what have you transformed into" look.
I knew I was a mom when I started pointing with my finger every time I told my son not to do something. Before that I was just a woman loving on little babies…but now I am a mom who has to discipline and train her little ones to grown up and be good people. I can probably do that without pointing though!
My mom ends all of her questions with "or what?" and it drives me nuts. It sounds so confrontational, even if she's asking a simple question in a nice way. Lately I've been ending questions with "or what?" How did this happen?!?!?!
I'm not entering because I'm nothing like my mother, thank goodness. Does it count if we are like our fathers who was basically the dad and mom? If so, I realized I'm like him because no matter how hard Ethan cries or screams I'm very patient (if I were like my mom smoke would come out of my ears and my neighbors would hear me yelling). I didn't think I'd be patient, but I really really hoped I wouldn't get upset.
I'm mostly writing to say that Harrison is so adorable!
Sorry, forgot to add that I'm friends with them on Facebook
I became my own mother when I told my husband he could not use his plastic insulated cup at the dinner table. Please switch that beverage into a glass, thankyouverymuch.
Many of the best things I do make me realize I've become my mother. Even though when I was a child I felt like she never let me do anything I wanted to do and it always had to be her way or the highway, as I grew older I realized that was because she wanted me to become a respectable, successful woman. My mother is amazing and I can only hope to be half the mom she has been to me!
I knew I became my own mother when my mom and I both said the exact same thing to my daughter at the exact same time! This happened 3 times in one day!
Gosh, I hope this still counts as an entry:
I realized that I am NOTHING like my mother when:
-My daughter was born and I adored her
-When I opened a bank account for my daughter to plan ahead for her future
- I make decisions that are unselfish
~ just to name a few..
Sometimes you consciously make yourself aware so that you don't become your mother, and that I do.
It DEFINITELY still counts
fan of brightstar on facebook
I realized I became my mother when every time my husband leaves, I say, "Be safe." and he knows to reply with, "Always." To this day, my mom says it every.time.we.talk. and the verbiage is always the same:-)
I am a fan of BS on facebook. Thanks:-)
Woo Hoo to gold medals in hockey! Booooo to not getting to enter the giveaway contest.
And for the record (even though I can't officially enter), I'm with Cindy. I'm happy that I'm not turning into my mother. I'm doing everything I can to do things differently than she did, and I'm proud of the mom I'm becoming.
This made me laugh because just the other day I stormed into the living room, hand on hip & finger pointing at my husband, and yelled "if you do not learn to put your dishes in the sink or dishwasher, you will come home one day to NOT A SINGLE DISH to use" and stormed off. Yeah, totally my Mother at that moment.
Became a fan on FB.
The moment I realized I have become my mother? It is an every day occurance–my mother and I share an office in our family business and I am fortunate enough to bring my son to work with me. She and I have a constant battle (in a good way) over who is going to feed, change, play, ect..with DS. Both of us are one in the same right down to our obnoxious laugh to our love for DS!
oh and I am also a fb fan!
Tweeted! @TCB1025
Oh God. Save me from turning into my mother who I love more than life but who I do not want to *be* for the rest of my life. That being said, I KNEW I was turning into my mother when I was changing J's diaper one day and I started making up a song about it. Really. A song. About diapers. And that's when I decided there are worse people to turn into… at least when it comes to raising kids.
I'm a fbook fan of Bright starts!
I'm a fan of Bright Starts on facebook!
And I'm tweeting now… lawmomma77
I realized I became my mother the same day I realized I married my father.
When I licked my finger to get something off my son's face…
tweet: angie608@gmail.com
I realized I was turning into my mom when I told my husband to take his feet off of the coffee table or to take his shoes off. I always always put my feet on the coffee table or couch with shoes on and always get yelled at for it. I was shocked the other day when those words came out of my mouth and I think DH was too!
I realized I had become my mother when my husband and I bought our first home. Growing up my mom was a cleaning / organizing freak and I thought she was crazy for never relaxing on the weekends. Now that I am grown and own my own home, I also spend my weekends making sure the house is spotless and the yard is tended, etc. My husband always yells at me to sit down and relax! I believe I have inherited her OCD…ugh.
My mom always does this thing when she is driving where she moves her mouth and face like she is talking but no word s come out because she is talking to herself. We have taunted her for this because she looks like she is totally off her rocker.
Except.
My husband caught me doing this when I was bathing my dd last night.
It was the lowest point of my life.
I am a fb fan of bright starts
When I co-slept with my newborn.
I realized I became my mother when I licked my finger and wiped off my son's face. She constantly did that to my siblings and I and I hated it…until I tried it
I am also a fan of BS on FB!
I knew the moment I became a mother was when I could tell what my child was crying or whining for within half a second. Also, when I stomped in because his grandmother was feeding him water and "MY CHILD ISN'T READY FOR WATER YET! GIVE IT TO ME!" was my argument….
haha. Mommy knows best.
I became a fan of Bright Starts on FB.
I don't have kids yet (first one on the way woohoo!!), but I'm sure when I do I'll notice myself more and more like my Mom! I hope so!!!
Thanks!
Kim
I became my mother when I started using saliva to get food/stains off my son's face, as well as to tame his cowlicks!
I'm a bright starts FB fan.
I tweeted! gsc418
I became my mother when I finally stopped trying to change my laugh. My whole life, I've had the same laugh as her, but it always seemed too loud, too explosive, too much so I tried to change it. But the day I decided to just embrace it and laugh my natural laugh was the day I realized I had become her.
I became a fan of Bright Starts on FB
I re-tweeted for ya! @Earley_Edition
I knew I was completely turning into my mother when I was arguing with my husband one day.
I had asked him to pick up his work tools from the front hallway for about a week. Finally I blurted out "When I ask you to do something, I mean NOW!" Yikes, my kids are in trouble.
I became my own mother when I started freaking out every.single.time. my husband played with our daughter thinking she was going to get hurt. Hubby flying her around the room like an airplane? Me: "GASP! OMFG you are going to hit her head on the cabinets! BE CAREFUL!". Hubby sitting with one leg crossed over the other with baby resting against it? Me: "GASP! OMFG she it totally going to fall through the hole onto the floor! BE CAREFUL!!". You get the point. He kept laughing at me and telling me I was overreacting, of course I told him he was crazy! One day he looked over and smiled and said "You are such a mom! Nothing is going to hapen to her!". Yup, I guess I am officially a mom!
I tweeted!
Opps, forgot to put my Twitter name:
freshmaker05
I am a fan of Bright Starts on FB.
I became a fan of Bright Starts on FB!
Growing up my mom always shopped for us at thrift stores. She said we grew too fastand made too much of a mess to pay full price for clothes. I used to be slightly embarrassed of my hand-me-downs (ok, maybe a lot embarrassed!), so I never told anyone that my clothes came from a thift store.
My mom literally jumped for joy when I suggested to her last week that we look for baby furniture at Salvation Army. We ended up finding a dresser/changing table in near perfect condition to use in the nursery! When we walked to the baby clothes, I found several outfit that were new with tags. I couldn't believe I was buying my child clothes for a second hand store – exactly what I swore I would never do.
Looks like my mom wasn't trying to embarrass me, afterall. She was just being a smart mom!
I tweeted about the giveaway! (butterfly1979_)
I realized I'd become my mother when I started swearing at pie crust. My mother and I are both culinary perfectionists, so delicate tasks such as rolling pie crust yield a lot of F bombs, G-Ds and similar gems. Luckily, both our husbands know to steer clear of us when we have rolling pins in our hands!
The day I knew I became my mother is when I was rocking my newborn daughter and started singing made-up songs to her. And it hit me. OMG. My mother did this and STILL DOES THIS to this day and it drives me CRAZY. And now I am just like her. And you know what? It makes me smile because I have the best mom ever and even though I swore I would not act as nuts as she does, I'm glad there is so much of her in me.
FB fan and Twitter name is lalabee0425.
I knew I became my mother after the birth of my son. When we are in the car driving and other cars are driving erratically or swerving in and out of traffic narrowly missing us, I now GASP!! I used to hate it when my mom did this!! I think it is just a reflex I have now, worrying someone is going to hit the side the car seat is on.
Also, if I need to slam on the brakes, I put my hand over the passenger seat as if there were a person there. My mom always did this too. Not like a hand is really going to stop anything from flying forward, but again, it is a reflex.
Becoming a mom really does change you!
When my daughter was 8 weeks old I managed to get both her and me ready to go out to the grocery store. When I was half way there I realized I wasn't wearing a lick of makeup. I had a 2.2 second freak out, and then decided I didn't even care. THAT's when I realized I had become my mother…
I became a fan on facebook
The day I told my toddler to quit crying or I'd give her something to cry about.
Oh, this JUST happened… and I wasn't too happy about it. My mom is lacking the stop sign between her brain and her lips- she says whatever she wants, often resulting in embarrassment for me. Over the weekend we had a GNO and there was a "new" girl in our group… beyond exhausted and desperately trying to include her and get to know her while the others were in their own world I said a few things that I look back on now and squirm. I thought "you were just like your mom out there" and wanted to crawl into a corner and die! Yay for awkward moments… NOT!
I tweeted – wallycat
I havent had that realization yet, and probably wont ever have it. We are very different people.
I've become a fan on facebook! With 4 weeks to go before my little one arrives, I could REALLY use the bouncer and the pack n play!
I realized I became my own mother when I began obsesively cleaning my house for guests to come over.
And when the husband said, No dear, I don't think they will look at the baseboards and I said
WELL THEY NEED TO BE SPOTLESS ANYWAY…
that's when I knew.
But at least my house is clean.
I knew I became my mother when I had my baby boy! She did most everything right with my sister and I. My life has always been filled with love and happiness (too much puppies and rainbows?) and I strive everyday to make sure that my little boy grows up feeling that way too!
I became a fan of Bright Starts on Facebook too
It was pretty easy – I knew I had become my mother when my brother gave me this quizzical look, then said to me, "You're sounding more and more like Mom every day…" And I don't think he meant it as a compliment.
I became BS… Bright Starts fan on FB.
I knew I became my mom when I started yelling at FH about putting his dishes in the dishwasher and not the sink. My mom abhors it when we put our dishes in the sink if the dishwasher is empty. And it is always empty.
I knew then I was my mom. & that's not a bad fate at all.
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Twittered!!
@Kiki_Dawn
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Facebook Fan!!!
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I realized I became my own mother when getting puked, peed, and pooped on didn't even faze me!
I tweeted @kendallpopp
I became mom when I told my husband to watch his language in front of our son. I am guilty of it as well, but have really learned to not swear in front of him. Our house is now a no swearing zone, because I just don't think it is appropriate.
I became a fan of Bright Starts on facebook
I realized I became my own mother when I pulled the old lick my finger and rub a stain off of my son's face! Gross!!
The latest moment I realized I become my mother, I was trying to get my little girl ready for preschool. She was complaining she had nothing to wear umongst all her clean clothes (this is when I realized she was just like me) and I threw my hands up and said "Fine, go to school naked!" and left the room. Or when I told her that all the toys in the back of the car were for my "friends" kids for christmas. I kid you not, that was my mother, word for word
When my husband and I started dating and he became close enough to the family that my mom would send him e-mails, he would always have to ask me what the hell my mom was talking about. I would ruefully "translate" all the random jokes, off-the-point narratives and SAT vocab words, and would swear that my e-mails would remain concise and clear.
I realized I became my mother when I sent my husband an e-mail and it made absolutely no sense. To him, that is, because my mother or my aunt would have totally understood every random joke and SAT vocab word.
Ah well, there are worse things! (And I'm sure I will act even more like my mom when baby #1 is born in 6 months, so…. pick me! Pick me!)
I knew I had become my mother the first time I told my daughter to clean her room and I combined it with the right index finger super-point to emphasize how enormous the mess was. It's kind of a scary realization.
I became a fan on FB. sallyv04 at hotmail dot com
I have not become my mother, and I hope I don't. I love my mom, and she is my best friend, but we are very different people.
I realized I was my mother when my daughter was whining in the back seat and I gave her candy to get her to stop. Now normally I'm a big no candy person, but I had had it! And it worked. LOL
I'm a Bright stars fb fan
I realized that I had become my mother before I even gave birth. One day, hubs and his brother were shooting rubber bands at each other, and I responded, "Knock it off! You'll shoot an eye out!"
I can't even begin to tell you how many times my mom uttered that phrase growing up!