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Well done, ladies!

2008-05-15T20:35:00.000-07:00

Check out http://youbemom.com/forum to see the new "old' UB up and running (beta version -- not everyone can register yet, but stand by!)

Happy Mother's Day!

2008-05-11T18:53:00.001-07:00

Is this on?

Alternate site?

2008-05-11T18:51:00.001-07:00

While things have gotten a bit better over at UB now that they fixed the most-active post function, it sounds as if an alternate site is in the works at http://www.youbemom.com

Creators say you can bookmark now and even register to use in a short time. We ask that they leave updates here in comments. Thanks!

Sign in...

2008-05-10T17:48:00.001-07:00

I'm curious which old-timers (or new UBers) are coming over to look. Sign in using your nickname? Use comments, below.

Vintage UB: Grading on a curve.

2008-05-09T19:32:00.001-07:00

16. - my 5mo absolutely LOVES his doorway jumper - it's a riot to see the smile on his face while hopping up and down - he enjoys jumpping himself right to sleep Toddler - Dec 23rd, 2004 11:04pm
* We have about 28 hours of video of my son in that thing. We'll get around to watching it sometime after I watch the tapes of "roots" that my father insists we never tape over. Toddler - Dec 23rd, 2004 11:05pm
* A+ Toddler - Dec 23rd, 2004 11:06pm
* wow. new format includes grades? Toddler - Dec 23rd, 2004 11:08pm
* Yes, and you only get a B-. ;-) Toddler - Dec 23rd, 2004 11:13pm

Vintage UB: Perhaps my favorite dumb joke ever

2008-05-09T19:04:00.000-07:00

2. - Anyone know about the childrens hair cutting place in Riverdale near 237th? Someone once told me it was creepy or something.
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 9:42pm
* Sweeney Toddler.
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 9:43pm
* no subject
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 9:46pm
* good one!
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 9:47pm
* thank you. i was unduly proud of that, and hoped someone would get the reference. sorry, can't help myself.
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 9:50pm
* No, duly proud. Duly. You have served UP well today. That was brilliant.
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 9:56pm
* NP: Bravo, really.
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 9:58pm
* LOL!!! Somebody really should use this name for a product or business!
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 9:50pm
* ita. i thought op was serious and admired the clever owners!
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 9:51pm
* Um yeah, if they don't want any customers
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 9:52pm
* aw, c'mon. it's a joke!!
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 9:57pm
* Yeah, it was funny. I said "good one!" and it is very clever, but only appealing if you want to off some snotty neighbor kid or something.
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 10:00pm
* ROTFLMAO!!
New York - Jan 27th, 2005 9:56pm
* Nope, I live here, but I'm merely pg, so no experience there. But it's not near 237th, it's on. Right?

Vintage UB: food diaries

2008-05-09T19:01:00.000-07:00

(can't remember why i was saving this one. there was either some decent advice here, or something funny i wanted to recycle):

Sort by: Most Active or Creation Date

1. - this is what i have eaten since i have gotten home from work: one piece of homemade quiche (I made it!!) one bowl of chicken noodle soup, four handfuls of low fat ripple potato chips, two bites of leftover chinese chow ho fun, one polly o string cheese, (more)
one diet coke and one glass of wine, and I am still hungry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:40pm
* maybe when you wake up tomorrow you will be a very beautiful butterfly.
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:42pm
* i don't get it
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:42pm
* hilarious!
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:43pm
* hysterical!
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:50pm
* very funny--i just lol
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:47pm
* Eric Carle book, A very Hungry Cateriller
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:48pm
* just go and eat through one nice green leaf and you'll feel much better.
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:42pm
* LOL!
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:43pm
* go get in the bath where you are not tempted to bring food, and sit there until your body realizes it has food in it and is probably full. go. now. seriously. start the tap...
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:42pm
* eww i live in a rental, I wouldn't put my butt in the bath, at this point it probably won't fit
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:45pm
* okay, eater, now you're just freaking us out. So you live in a rental? Have you never cleaned (or paid someone to clean) your bathroom? If you tub is too icky to put your own butt in, you need to stop eating and get out the SoftScrub, babe.
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:48pm
* pipe down, i'm pretty thin, and am pms, and have a cleaner, but will not lay in that tub!! no chance!!
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:50pm
* Seriously, I only lived in rentals and taken many a bath. WASH THE TUB!
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:51pm
* read my post!!!! my tub is washed very frequently!! I don't want to bathe, I want to EAT!! EVERYTHING!!
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:53pm
* LOL
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:57pm
* Is the tub stained?
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:57pm
* no, but I think we are losing the focus, I eat a lot, the bath won't help. I don't diet, I don't exercise. I just was hoping other people would tell me what they ate rather than recommending a bath. I just wasn't expecting my post to go this way...
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 9:59pm
* LOL again. Poor OP! Okay, I ate 2 chocolate eclairs, 2 fistfuls of Pringles, Turkey and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread, 12 cookies I made from Pillsbury refrigerated dough, 2 cups of milk, a frozen pizza, 6 cherry tomatoes and a few sodas (more)
(not diet), a pear and probably some other $hit that I'm forgetting. A day of debauchery.
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 10:08pm
* Geez...that IS a lot of food. You both need to take a bath and step away from the kitchen
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 10:10pm
* ^^for the record, I was the original "tub" responder, and that "Geez..." post above is not mine.
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 10:11pm
* This is what I get for taking today off to spend with dd! DH is out of town and I could NOT stop eating junk.
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 10:14pm
* sorry for tangent, but can't get my mind around person living in fear of their own tub. seriously, if you've taken plenty of showers the floor of tub is probably now clean by association. But if this is what you want to know, here's what I've eaten: (more)
bowl of vegetarian chili, 1/2 baked apple, seltzer + juice. am now contemplating a cream cheese & jam sammy.
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 10:08pm
* NP - This is what you've eaten all day?????
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 10:12pm
* no, just since coming home. all day, if you must know: oatmeal w/raisins, tea, (that was b'fast) cheese/tomato sandwich and bag of m&ms (lunch) then what I posted before for dinner
Toddler - Jan 27th, 2005 10:15pm

More vintage posts: A hot nail debate

2008-05-09T18:17:00.000-07:00

(also authentic. i think i saved this one because i was going to write a mag. story on the subject. never did, but am glad i saved. will look for others):

natural or manicured nails? how often?
Toddler - Jan 29th, 2007 11:48pm

* mani. every 2 wks.
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:49pm
o would love that luxury again
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:49pm
* silk wraps (fill every 2 weeks) -LOVE EM
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:49pm
* used to mani, now natural & bite them
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:49pm
* natural nails. oh, and for good measure, natural hair color and natural hair patterns (brows and bikini area) too.
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:49pm
o 718?
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:51pm
+ sure, cause only in brooklyn are there normal people
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:51pm
# in greater NYC area, not grooming your brows is not "normal"
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:52pm
* i gotta tell ya, not plucking my brows diminishes my quality of life not one bit
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:55pm
o how can you be sure? get them done, and see if your life doesn't improve. see if people don't respond to you more positively, cause you look young, put together, not tired
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:57pm
+ np: lol!! you are hilarious!
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:58pm
# i feel funny...
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:58pm
+ did them once. big nothing. why do you assume i look old & tired? or that ppl respond to me negatively? i'm 36, a HS teacher, and get mistaken for a student quite often
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:58pm
# i'm sure you look great - the brow nazi is freakish
- Jan 30th, 2007 12:00am
* :-)
- Jan 30th, 2007 12:01am
* hey! am not "brow nazi" just opposed to unibrow, or those stray hairs that sit on top of your upper lid. keep it neat is all.
- Jan 30th, 2007 12:02am
o but ... why? you might need something more fulfilling in your life if you describe yourself as "opposed" to stray facial hairs. just sayin.
- Jan 30th, 2007 12:03am
+ oh, babe, i'm opposed (and for) all sorts of interesting things. but if you say you don't groom, well, that's just bait. g'night!
- Jan 30th, 2007 12:04am
# lol!
- Jan 30th, 2007 12:05am
* np: typical and normal are not synonyms, btw
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:56pm
# or: i think i love you
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:53pm
# True dat
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:54pm
+ are you asking if my area code is 718? yes, it is
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:52pm
* natural - i think painted nails look exceedingly tacky
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:51pm
o Oh dear.
- Jan 29th, 2007 11:57pm
* natural until spring/summer - then mani/pedi every 2 wks

Vintage UB post

2008-05-09T18:14:00.000-07:00

(I saved this because I thought it was funny. Didn't know it would become an object of historic value):

Does anyone know how much an American Girl armoire cost?
Toddler - Jan 6th, 2007 10:17pm

*
* an armoire and a legoire
- Jan 6th, 2007 10:17pm
o ROFL!
- Jan 6th, 2007 10:19pm
o lol
- Jan 6th, 2007 10:19pm
o hahaaaaaaaa
- Jan 6th, 2007 10:20pm
o LMAOOOOOOOO
- Jan 6th, 2007 10:20pm
o lol! clever.
- Jan 6th, 2007 10:20pm
o i lik eyou
- Jan 6th, 2007 10:20pm
o nice one!

A place to vent.

2008-05-09T17:45:00.000-07:00

Realize that this isn't an alternative to UB. But thought it might be a good place to vent where the posts didn't disappear instantly. Comment away...

Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. . .

2008-05-08T20:35:00.000-07:00

This is too tiring and there are rare vintage SATC reruns I could be watching instead. Feel free to continue commenting here.

Tech moms?

2008-05-08T20:23:00.000-07:00

Can someone resign a new website? This is, I think, only a stop-gap measure. If so, post information here about where to go in future. Thanks!

Taking the discussion elsewhere.

2008-05-08T20:14:00.000-07:00

Am not really a blogger. Never blogged. Just wondering if I could put something up that might become a place where we could continue the conversation without the crappy redesign. Post comments here.