How does it feel to be almost 30 years old? Time to start making those babies!!!!
-
"My grandma is always talking about all of these low-fat recipes she makes, then criticizes me for not slathering butter all over the bread when I make grilled cheese."
— Josh
-
- Butt Dialing, Septic Tanks, Valentines. (4)
- How Mom REALLY Feels About Sesame Street (2)
- The Joys of Aging (1)
- Anj: Oh dear. 62 is not old! :) LOL on the bowels…
-
-
-
Past 7 Days
Past 30 Days
6 Months
All Time
- 1. Good Luck with Your Mutant Ear +18
- 2. Do You Need Therapy Now? +10
- 3. The Joys of Aging +9
- 4. Way Harsh, Mom +9
- 5. Happy Milk Day +8
- 6. We’re Gone For A Day, We Might Die +8
- 7. Christ in a Clown Suit +7
- 8. How Mom REALLY Feels About Sesame Street +7
- 9. Butt Dialing, Septic Tanks, Valentines. +5
- 10. In Case of Charles Manson +5
- 1. Climbing & Unwrapping Are Skills of Mine +30
- 2. Flip Flops, Taco Bell–Your Generation’s Going to Hell +26
- 3. If I Die, Tell Them What I Ate +22
- 4. What is a “Cannabis User”? +22
- 5. Patience Is a Virtue +22
- 6. I Didn’t Just Fall Off the Turnip Truck +21
- 7. You’re the Best Adult Vomiter I Know +21
- 8. Trick or Treat? +19
- 9. Have I lost my “Hotness” ? +19
- 10. Your New Criteria: No Prison Record, Not a Lawyer +18
- 1. Don’t Passive-Aggressive-Smile-Face-ME +1496
- 2. Mom, Dad and Facebook: A Dangerous Combo +1162
- 3. Get me out of here! +1054
- 4. Hear me…RABBITS. +1015
- 5. The Grown-Ass Woman’s Club +1014
- 6. What Mom Learned From AARP +973
- 7. Sometimes a Snake is Just a Snake +951
- 8. How to Save Your Marriage +911
- 9. Spring Cleaning? +871
- 10. What Men Want +813
-
Past 7 Days
Past 30 Days
6 Months
All Time
- 1. I Have Fun Too (0)
- 2. In Case of Charles Manson (0)
- 3. Mom's Hip with the Lingo (0)
- 1. Butt Dialing, Septic Tanks, Valentines. (4)
- 2. Christ in a Clown Suit (3)
- 3. Do You Need Therapy Now? (2)
- 4. How Mom REALLY Feels About Sesame Street (2)
- 5. We're Gone For A Day, We Might Die (1)
- 6. The Joys of Aging (1)
- 7. Good Luck with Your Mutant Ear (0)
- 8. Good Luck with Your Mutant Ear (0)
- 9. Good Luck with Your Mutant Ear (0)
- 10. Christ in a Clown Suit (0)
- 1. What is a "Cannabis User"? (9)
- 2. If I Die, Tell Them What I Ate (7)
- 3. Hurricane Preparedness (5)
- 4. Call Me Crazy (5)
- 5. It's Not Called Mom's Nipple Book (5)
- 6. Mom's Mind Is Out to Sea (5)
- 7. Your New Criteria: No Prison Record, Not a Lawyer (4)
- 8. The Great Paranoid Pumpkin (4)
- 9. Dude!! It's Your Daughter's Wedding. (4)
- 10. Butt Dialing, Septic Tanks, Valentines. (4)
- 1. Where Are You From? (182)
- 2. Today in Mom News: How Did You Choose Your Child's Name? (132)
- 3. First You Pierce Your Nose, Then You Have Illegitimate Children (98)
- 4. Grandma Can't Be Bothered? (77)
- 5. Don't Passive-Aggressive-Smile-Face-ME (76)
- 6. Does Your Mom Buy You Undies Every Year? (72)
- 7. And you are becoming a male hater (70)
- 8. Who is the Baby Daddy? (57)
- 9. Mom the Grammar Nazi (52)
- 10. The Grown-Ass Woman's Club (49)
-
Fan of Postcards? Sign up for email updates about our book/website or let us know you like the site by becoming a fan of ours on Facebook, following us on twitter or subscribing to our rss feed.
-
Tags
advice Animals appearance Babies birthdays Christmas college dads dating death dogs dreams drinking drugs facebook family food gifts grandmothers grandparents health holidays jobs memories men missing you pets pets and animals pooping pop culture relationships school sex shopping siblings slang technology texting totally random travel tv vices weather weddings work
F YOU!
December 30, 2008 at 9:44 am
Oh brother… I got cornered on this one on Xmas Eve. No, mom, I am not interested in having children. Ask my brother, he’s the one who’s actually married.
December 30, 2008 at 10:46 am
unless you want to raise (the child) mind your own business !
December 30, 2008 at 10:53 am
Fuck you, mom.
December 30, 2008 at 3:56 pm
UGH. Did you tell your mom that there was this thing called “feminism” , and that you have more value as a human being than to be a receptacle for baby production?
December 31, 2008 at 1:50 am
I don’t think this mom was setting feminism back 25 years, or hounding her daughter into unwanted procreation. I’m 28 years old, single, and a lesbian, and every year around my birthday Momma always asks, very non-chalantly, when I will deliver her a grandchild. It’s like once their daughters hit their 20s, moms experience Biological Clock, version 2.0. As if my own isn’t enough. This mom wasn’t serving up judgment (“You’re a bad daughter/person for not having children.”) She’s probably just a little over-enthusiastic about wanting grandchildren.
December 31, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Often a mom’s advice seems old fashioned, prudish, even silly, but life experiences give older women the ability to see the big picture and what is important in life.
When moms push their daughters about having kids, it isn’t just about being a grandma – it is the knowledge that time passes too quickly and many opportunities can be missed. Unfortunately, our eggs have an expiration date. Many women, me included, wait until they are older to have kids and have difficulties conceiving.
If I had to do it over I’d have started younger. Try as we might, we can’t turn back the clock.
December 31, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Here’s the issue as I see it:
Say the average age of women graduating with a bachelors is 24 then she has 6 years to find a career that is steady enough to support the idea of getting pregnant without getting fired. That seems extremely rushed to me. I mean hopefully some of those 6 years she will be making enough money to do more than pay bills and go to the occasional movie but there’s no guarantee. I say we look into allowing women to have kids when they are in college, freezing the kid in cryogenic stasis and reviving them when the woman is ready to raise a kid. That way the woman gets to 1) have kids at the most optimal time of her life physically 2) they can have a career without worry of what else the woman is giving up 3) the human race continues with as little animosity as possible by the people that actually do the bearing and a good deal of the raising of the new generation. :)
December 31, 2008 at 6:01 pm
savium-Maybe in 2009! The future!!!!! :)
December 31, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Last year at my grandpa’s 92nd birthday party, my mom and I sitting next to each other and my second cousin is holding his baby daughter. I look at my mother and simply just say “NO”.
With mothers, you need to be firm and direct and tell them whats what!
January 1, 2009 at 1:57 am
Perhaps this Mom was actually being sarcastic. It usually doesn’t come across well in text format…
January 1, 2009 at 2:41 am
At Christmas on my father’s side my gram forgot my cousin Scott and I when she was shopping for gifts. Why? Because she listed all her great-grandchildren and grand children under 18 and then their parents beside them. She forgot Scott and I because we don’t have children and are in our 20′s, thus oddballs. Gram has been telling me I was next for years, I don’t know how Scott misses those lectures.
January 4, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Even aging feminazi-hippies get grandchild-madness:
This year, my mother put some of her home-grown-and-dried herbs in a jar for me, and wrote a label saying “Granny’s Herbs”. Neither I nor my younger brothers have children. I just looked at her.
“Oh no, I’m not actually a Granny yet am I?”
“No, mum, and don’t hold your breath, I’m 24″
“Well I think Ed will beat you to it, actually”.
January 5, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Thank god my mom/parents would never say this to me. They’re already ‘trained’ to know that we’re not having kids. Maybe she was being sarcastic?
March 18, 2009 at 11:35 am