Comments on: 7 Surefire Ways to Get Blacklisted from the PTA http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/ Real life is the real party. Lap it up. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:46:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nothing found for 2045 http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/comment-page-1/#comment-16470 Nothing found for 2045 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:08:21 +0000 http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/#comment-16470 [...] 7 Surefire Ways to Get Blacklisted From the PTA [...] [...] 7 Surefire Ways to Get Blacklisted From the PTA [...]

]]> By: Melissa http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/comment-page-1/#comment-15456 Melissa Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:21:11 +0000 http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/#comment-15456 Lela, thanks for appreciating my brand of hypocrisy! WRT the big ol' poufs: yes, I did make them! I used this tutorial: http://www.marthastewart.com/how-to/tissue-paper-pom-poms-how-to and enlisted my little brother and his girlfriend to help out. The trick is "poufing" them out evenly. I think I used one or two more sheets of tissue paper than the tutorial suggests, also. That helped with the poufing. Oh and, you've gotta get BIG tissue paper if you want big poufs. I found just the right size at the Dollar Tree, which was great 'cause the tissue at Michael's was hecka expensive. Good luck! Lela, thanks for appreciating my brand of hypocrisy! WRT the big ol’ poufs: yes, I did make them! I used this tutorial: http://www.marthastewart.com/how-to/tissue-paper-pom-poms-how-to and enlisted my little brother and his girlfriend to help out. The trick is “poufing” them out evenly. I think I used one or two more sheets of tissue paper than the tutorial suggests, also. That helped with the poufing. Oh and, you’ve gotta get BIG tissue paper if you want big poufs. I found just the right size at the Dollar Tree, which was great ’cause the tissue at Michael’s was hecka expensive. Good luck!

]]> By: Lela Davidson http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/comment-page-1/#comment-15448 Lela Davidson Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:24:23 +0000 http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/#comment-15448 Melissa, how very kind of you to say! I will withhold my opinion of dead baby jokes. Now, for the important question... did you MAKE those tissue paper thingies shown on your blog for The Bean's Bday? Because I'm going to a baby shower this weekend.... Melissa, how very kind of you to say! I will withhold my opinion of dead baby jokes.
Now, for the important question… did you MAKE those tissue paper thingies shown on your blog for The Bean’s Bday? Because I’m going to a baby shower this weekend….

]]> By: Melissa http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/comment-page-1/#comment-15445 Melissa Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:42:47 +0000 http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/#comment-15445 If I took offense to every joke that was even somewhat relatable to me, I'd be constantly offended AND I'd take it out on everyone. Complete strangers even. On their blog. Many, many things are "NOT FUNNY," yet I'd rather live in a world with humor than in a world without it. Ever heard a "dead baby" joke? They're terrible. Not funny at all. I detest them. But I'd never be so uptight as to admonish someone about it when it's their right to write whatever the heck they want to on THEIR blog. Relax. And as hypocritical as this is: try, even for a day, letting go of the desire to control things that are totally out of your jurisdiction. Try choosing to blow unimportant things off and moving on before you get all worked up about it. It's sure helped me. If I took offense to every joke that was even somewhat relatable to me, I’d be constantly offended AND I’d take it out on everyone. Complete strangers even. On their blog.

Many, many things are “NOT FUNNY,” yet I’d rather live in a world with humor than in a world without it. Ever heard a “dead baby” joke? They’re terrible. Not funny at all. I detest them. But I’d never be so uptight as to admonish someone about it when it’s their right to write whatever the heck they want to on THEIR blog.

Relax. And as hypocritical as this is: try, even for a day, letting go of the desire to control things that are totally out of your jurisdiction. Try choosing to blow unimportant things off and moving on before you get all worked up about it. It’s sure helped me.

]]> By: Helen http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/comment-page-1/#comment-14580 Helen Sun, 04 Sep 2011 06:14:52 +0000 http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/#comment-14580 Using Allergies to make a point that would encourage parents to use peanut products to get kicked out of the PTA- is really NOT FUNNY at all. How funny is it when you child has fatal allergies to common food products? Sit in the car when a child is having a reaction as you are racing to the ER hoping you can make it there before their last breath. NOT FUNNY YOU SAY? Find something else to use to get kicked out of the PTA, I know, write crap on how to kill kids with severe allergies...OR how to get kids to drink poison. This is REALLY irresponsible journalism! Using Allergies to make a point that would encourage parents to use peanut products to get kicked out of the PTA- is really NOT FUNNY at all. How funny is it when you child has fatal allergies to common food products? Sit in the car when a child is having a reaction as you are racing to the ER hoping you can make it there before their last breath. NOT FUNNY YOU SAY? Find something else to use to get kicked out of the PTA, I know, write crap on how to kill kids with severe allergies…OR how to get kids to drink poison.
This is REALLY irresponsible journalism!

]]> By: Dear PTA: I Got a New Attitude (Not Really) | After The Bubbly http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/comment-page-1/#comment-14372 Dear PTA: I Got a New Attitude (Not Really) | After The Bubbly Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:29:10 +0000 http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/#comment-14372 [...] 7 Surefire Ways to Get Blacklisted from the PTA [...] [...] 7 Surefire Ways to Get Blacklisted from the PTA [...]

]]> By: Drive a Mile in My Minivan | After The Bubbly http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/comment-page-1/#comment-4093 Drive a Mile in My Minivan | After The Bubbly Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:22:47 +0000 http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/#comment-4093 [...] 7 Surefire Ways to Get Blacklisted From the PTA [...] [...] 7 Surefire Ways to Get Blacklisted From the PTA [...]

]]> By: Have You Earned Your Mother’s Day? | After The Bubbly http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/comment-page-1/#comment-2119 Have You Earned Your Mother’s Day? | After The Bubbly Fri, 07 May 2010 11:31:10 +0000 http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/#comment-2119 [...] And perhaps most important, do I make a material contribution to the PTA? [...] [...] And perhaps most important, do I make a material contribution to the PTA? [...]

]]> By: Lela Davidson http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/comment-page-1/#comment-1252 Lela Davidson Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:59:52 +0000 http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/#comment-1252 Shannon - Thank you so much! That means a lot to me, that you're enjoying the blog! As for the Moms with the capital M, if they don't want you, of course you don't want them. I hope you'll come by more often. Shannon – Thank you so much! That means a lot to me, that you’re enjoying the blog! As for the Moms with the capital M, if they don’t want you, of course you don’t want them. I hope you’ll come by more often.

]]> By: Shannon http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/comment-page-1/#comment-1249 Shannon Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:30 +0000 http://afterthebubbly.com/7-surefire-ways-to-get-yourself-blacklisted-from-the-pta/#comment-1249 I love your blog; I got it from another mom. This is one of the things that make a crappy days better. I have kids that are 3 and 1 so I don't have the PTA issues yet, but, I did try to do the mom group thing and decided that it was really for moms that have personal issues and are making their kids an extension of the fell good moment. I have to agree with your reader that said that divorced women are a threat in my case my children’s father and I just decided after both coming from really bad first marriages that marriage really was not needed. When the mom’s group found this out I have not been asked back. Make for a better day for me. I love your blog; I got it from another mom. This is one of the things that make a crappy days better. I have kids that are 3 and 1 so I don’t have the PTA issues yet, but, I did try to do the mom group thing and decided that it was really for moms that have personal issues and are making their kids an extension of the fell good moment.

I have to agree with your reader that said that divorced women are a threat in my case my children’s father and I just decided after both coming from really bad first marriages that marriage really was not needed. When the mom’s group found this out I have not been asked back. Make for a better day for me.

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