to secretly love this vomit-inducing, my-life-is-so-awesome 'mommy' blog...

[moraletotallydestroyedbypoopoo]

taza-and-husband.blogspot.com/

Mathanxiety they are definitely Mormons, there's a link saying We Believe on the left that takes you to a Mormon church website, and they've been going on about the General Conference recently.

Thanks for all the other blog suggestions everyone, looking forward to browsing.

Just remembered another one in a similar vein that is maybe a bit more honest about motherhood being occasionally irksome, but somehow even more vom-inducing. She's always dressing her 4 poor dcs up and making them pose for photos. Google bleubird vintage

They're always unfairly goodlooking too

and must have money
i make do and mend but I often can't afford to buy wool, fabrics etc

Aw they look happy.

Why not after all.

Nothing wrong with looking happy, being pretty, loving each other and talking about it.

More important than that though, I couldn't find the cinnamon roll link? Can someone point me in the right direction? I do like a cinnabon!

Here you go www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/cinnamon-rolls-recipe/index.html

gosh darn, those teeth are very mormon, rather like Donny Osmond

I too still follow Sew Liberated. I think she does enough on the Montessori style living to make reading the blog into finding out about something different, it's not just lifestyle photos. It's a real contrast to my own set-up, I can tell you.

Actually one of the (only) Mormon mommy blogs I do read did a post on this a while back: thatwifeblog.com/2011/02/on-being-shiny-happy-hip/

Apparently there was an article on Salon about the fascination with Mormon mommy blogs.

I am in shock. Their whole life looks like a catalogue (and why can't she punctuate properly?)

I don't get blogs. Why read the random thorughts of someone you don't know or haven't met. Now someone famous doing something interesting maybe...

I spent an hour last night snorting away that the crappy pictures blog and DH also agreed that it was fucking funny.

Especially the toddler hallucination theory

They are the epitome of hipster, aren't they? The glasses, the metrosexual dad, the lack of capitals, the photos-taken-via-hipstamatic-iPhone-app, the shop bought clothes which are supposed to look "homely" and hand knitted. I could go on.

Bless them.

Also, DS has just come to tell me (very indignantly) "Mummy, don't laugh when I'm trying to play!"

I love that crappy parenting blog. The illustrations are really good.

Those of you defending the schmaltzy blog, have you checked out the film on the 'about this blog' page?

Vom

Honestly, what the crap is wrong with these people? How do you go about directing someone to shoot and edit what is basically an advert for your perfect life without feeling like a complete fucking wally?

'Yeah, so then we'll be wandering hand in hand, and we'll come across this, like, totally cute little pile of abandoned books, and I'll pick them up, and then we'll just get the camera to pull focus to capture my freckles as I smile...'

It's like they've both had an unfortunate accident which resulted in removal of their irony faculties.

Quod
OMG, I hadn't seen that.

I guess what bothers me about this kind of blog (and I said this about Cherry Menlove's blog) is that there is a large suspicion in my mind that this is not a blog for the love of blogging but a blog with a financial aim.

Show this perfect life, pretty family, cutsie house, then get a shit load of sponsors, hopefully a book deal or radio/tv contract..

It is not RL. It is too studied and professional for that.

Yawn. However, I did briefly ponder how they manage to look like beanpoles depsite allegedly stuffing themselves on cinnamon buns and toffee apples- if they ever publish that secret (and it's not as closely related to vomit as their blog in general is to inducing it), I'd possibly read it.

Oh God. I got 1m 14secs into that video but I didn't want to spend any more of my life looking at it. I've been ill all week with a horrible D&V virus and that has stunted my recovery.

MmeLindor you would appear to be right.

It is not clever enough to have much appeal though. Unlike the Crappy Illustrations one. Cutesey perfection is yawn-inducing, and people who are seriously into dance tend to be seriously up themselves too Imho.

And she doesn't leave her cinnamon rolls in long enough judging by the anemic look of them.

Hmm. I read it and gave them a chance but no, I just don't like them. Sorry.

Bint
Aha! I think it was Aitch who first mentioned a book deal, tbh.

Oh for the love of puppies, you are right Morale, they are Mormons. So that's what it's about then? 'Mormons are just as cool as anyone else'.

Interesting. My first thought was that it reminded me of another, too-good-to-be-true, perfect-mommy/perfect children blog also written by a mormon mom. It reads like a catalogue or a commercial.

i just wasted 3minutes and 45 seconds of my life watching that. I had to watche the lot to see if their was actually a point to it.

I can just picture DHs face if I asked him to make something similar for my blog

that little snippet of film is truly bizarre. And ref irony they are American and mormon. I think the two are mutually exclusive...............