“I don’t want to rail against the term Mommy Blogger, but that term is kind of derisive, and it has a patronizing tone to it like, ‘Oh, you are writing about your little cupcakes that you are making.’ There isn’t anything wrong with cupcakes,” Morrill said.
I couldn’t help but laugh.
“It’s an oversimplification of what is happening in the lives of these bloggers,” she [Morrill] continued…”It minimizes what it is to be a mother and makes it sounds quaint.”
As soon as I said “cupcakes” in the recent interview I did for an article on Mom Blogging, I knew I’d stepped in it. Baked goods are loaded topics in parenting, and have been for some time. If it’s not the Stay-at-Home Mom/Working Mom debate, it’s the sugar/refined flour sticky wicket.
What I was trying to say is that a cupcake may manifest in the life of a parent (and on a blog) not because she’s trying to make a statement or be a model of domesticity. A cupcake might appear just because it does. Here’s one that landed in my day last week, in the form of a life preserver.
Start at the upper right-hand corner.
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I love this, Whitney! Fabulous illustrations, too!
Cupcakes make everything better. Although personally, my go-to is brownies, because they are far easier to whip up – no frosting required. But I always have a few cupcakes in my freezer, just in case.
Oh, man, Becky, that’s impressive! Taking notes…
Thanks, Marissa. By 9 pm I was wondering if cupcakes went well with beer (yes).
Cupcakes always — always — go well with beer!
Wow, had no idea what a day that was for you! Thanks for thoughtfully adding me in to your schedule (even though it didn’t work out in the end). Thank goodness for cupcakes! Mama’s secret weapon!
P.S. I like that sketch of my house
Oh, Jenna, I’m just sorry I wasn’t able to help that day. Please put me down for a reschedule. Thinking of you xo http://www.indiegogo.com/support-for-sophie