My feelings were pretty much echoed by Rapper Busta Rhymes though.  When Busta commented on the situation, “The truth is undisputed. It ain’t what they used to be as far as supporting the music, you know what I’m sayin’?

Can’t we all just get along?

Apparently not, because there are a few VMA attendee’s that just wanted to kick.  Well at least give a good talking too.  There were however, a few positive eye watery moments too.  I have so much to say, so settle in!

Winner: Selena Gomez

Loser: Justin Beiber

First let’s me just say Selena Gomez is adorable, but her boyfriend Justin Beiber is a complete tool.  This adorable girl was trying to work the Pre-Show and Beiber could not keep his hands off her.

Dude!  You’re 17, we don’t want to see that.  Your 19 year old girl friend was trying to work and be professional.  Have some class!

Your snakes name is Johnson?  What, are you like 16?  Oh wait, you are.

Later after Chris Brown’s performance you can see the Bieb mouth, “That’s my Boy”.   Ok, Justin, Chris Brown is so not your boy.  Selena, RUN!!!

Winner, but ultimately a LOSER: Tyler, The Creator

Let’s talk quickly about Best New Artist Nominee and Winner Tyler, The Creator.  Why does someone with such an adorable little baby face have to be so hateful?  Stop trying to start drama with other musicians, (ie Bruno Mars). Stop with the homophobic slurs.  You’re only showing your ignorance.

Second, Tyler, an entourage is so 2003.  A strong Hip Hop artist doesn’t need one!  Look at Jay-Z, Kanye, Drake, and even Eminem.  They don’t hit that stage with an entourage anymore.  Put on your big boy pants (or just pull your own up) and take that stage like you deserve to be there.

Winner: Jo Calderone aka Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga opened the show as Jo Calderone and performed You and I. She didn’t break character through the whole show.  Ok, maybe once.  After trying to get Britney Spears to kiss her, she and Brit had giggle moment when the lights were going down.

Gaga’s, Born This Way, also won for Best Video with a message.  She did get a little choked up a couple times while she gave her acceptance speech.  Good for you Gaga!

Winners:  Beyonce  and Jay-Z

After a fun performance Beyonce dropped her mic, unbuttoned her jacket and rubbed her cute belly.  Congrats to Jay-Z and Beyonce!

Losers: Kayne and Jay-Z

I know I just said Jay-Z was a winner, but I can be a bit bi-polar.

I have to say Kayne and Jay-Z’s performance was AWFUL!!!!  What was that?

I do need to give a big thumbs up to Jay-Z for not standing applauding for Chris Brown.  We know where his allegiance is.

Winners: Foo Fighters

Not just for winning Best Rock Video of the year, but because they’re the Foo Fighters.  They rock!

Winner: Katy Perry

She is adorable and she won Video of the Year.  I love that her hubby got all teary eye’d when she thanked him.  Love Love Love

Winner: Adele

She has such an amazing voice.

Quick note to all you boys out there.  You better make sure you start treating the girls you date better. You never know, you could be dating the next Adele or Taylor Swift.  Do you really want to end up in a song that tells the world you suck.

Loser:  Lil Wayne

Normally, I like a little Lil Wayne, but last night, not so much.  His auto tuned mic was ridiculous.  His pants around knees?  Another fashion miss.  Didn’t that go out of style around the same time entourages did?

Winner:  Britney Spears

I think she may be back!  Last night was the first time in a long time that I actually saw that sparkle back in her eyes.  Not only did she win best Pop Video, but she was also awarded with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.

I personally loved how excited Gaga was when she was introducing the Award.

Winner: Young the Giant

This Irvine CA local band, gave an amazing performance!  I can’t wait to download their album today.

Loser: VMAs

With so many winning moments, why would I give the VMA’s a thumbs down?  Because it’s not what it use to be.  The show doesn’t pull the super stars it use too.  I’m not just saying that just because JT wasn’t there.

Where was P Diddy, Pink, J-Lo, Rihanna, and Eminiem?  I mean, come on, only one Jonas brother showed up. Shouldn’t that be saying something?

What happened to such iconic performances like Britney’s “I’m a Slave”,  Madonna’s “I’m a Virgin”, P Diddy’s tribue to Biggie, Eminiem’s  The Real Slim Shady,  or even  Rage Against the Machine bassistTim Commerford climbing the scaffolding of the set.  There were no moments like that this year.

The VMA’s and Grammy’s use to be my favorite 2 nights of television.  What happened MTV?  Maybe Adam Levine is right.

So what is your favorite VMA moment from the past.

I don’t believe it effected me in a negative way.  I wasn’t ever a kid to hit other kids.  I never got into physical fights. I definitely wasn’t a bully.  I did however fear getting spanked and that helped me make the “right” decision many times.

I’ve read a number of studies out there that say parents should not spank their kids.

Really?

So what do you think?

I definitely have my personal opinions about this one. While we aren’t a family that make spanking a regular punishment, Ellie has been swatted on the bottom before.

There’s a thought out there that kids shouldn’t fear their parents.

What do you think?

This week…

How do you keep the older kids from telling the little ones there’s no Santa?

and

How to stop sibling rivalry between Toddlers and Infants?
She answers our questions here

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Last week I had the opportunity to sit in on a media call with some amazing blogging women and Megyn Price who plays Audrey on “Rules of Engagement”.

We had a chance to talk about everything from her character, Audrey, fertility issues and surrogacy, to Megyn’s feelings on being a working mom.

Besides super adorable, Megyn was funny, engaging, warm, and completely open.  I’ve loved her as  the “Hot Mom” on Grounded for Life and I adore her as Audrey on Grounded for Life.

This season on Rules of Engagement  Audrey and her husband Jeff have been interviewing surrogates, which never go smoothly.  And now Audrey has quit her job and has been trying to find her purpose in life.  Something I can totally relate to!

On tonight’s episode Audrey takes a job as a hostess where she runs into an old college classmate.  After Audrey quickly pretends to be there for brunch, she signs on to be mentor.

Here are some of the highlights from the call.

Linda Sellers from LindaSellers.com:  “I’m wondering if you see surrogacy and motherhood changing your character.”

Megyn Price: “Yeah. The surrogacy issue we’ve sort of danced around. We had danced around fertility last year which I, you know, from friends’ experience I have known as a very heavy subject.

And somehow our writers, a couple of whom had gone through fertility issues with their own wives, managed to find all of the humor that was possible – if that is possible in sort of the fertility shots and the processes that you go through, and the heartbreak along with the absurdity of it.”

I loved Linda’s next question

Linda:  I’m wondering do you think Audrey would like to be a mom blogger and share this with the world.

Megyn: I don’t know that she is in touch yet with her super squish side. I think that a lot of her decisions are goal-oriented.

Vivian from Momlogic: What’s the one thing that you’ve learned in life that you’d most like to pass on to your daughter?

Megyn: To be nicer to myself. I mean just to be kind to yourself. I think that’s the biggest thing. I think what I’ve learned – probably not until I was 30 years old was the way you treat yourself is the way you ask other people to treat you.

So, I think all the self-deprecating comments and all the self-flagellating comments can go out the window. I think it’s very important to be kind to yourself because you teach other people to be kind to you as well.

I think that’s a little advice we could all use.

Kelly from 5 Minutes for Mom: How do you find that balance with obviously having a successful career but also being a mom?

I think this is a question we all struggle with daily.

Megyn: Well balance is a word I don’t ever use because it never feels balanced ever. But I think what has really helped me is remaining really grateful.

Because I can – if you want me to be just totally honest, I can literally lament and want to quit my job every single day of my life. And I have to take a moment to say – and you have a job that people would cut off limbs to have.

And you are so fortunate that I got to keep my job through pregnancy and post-pregnancy and got to take my baby to work with me every single day.

A huge thank you to all the women on the call!

Vivian – Momlogic

Christine – Blissfully Domestic

Carmen – Untrained Housewife

Kelly – 5 Minutes for Mom

Linda – LindaSellers.com

Sherry – Have You Heard

Jeanine – Two for Mom

Picture courtesy of Sony Pictures

Megyn Price grew up in Oklahoma and studied economics and communication at Stanford University.  While in school, she frequently performed at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and in university productions.  After graduation, her short-lived career in finance soon gave way to her passion for acting.

On television, she was a regular on the series “LateLine,” and played Claudia the “Hot Mom” in the series “Grounded for Life.”  Her additional television credits include the series “Will & Grace” and “The Drew Carey Show.”  Her feature film credits include “Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector,” “Mystery, Alaska” and ”Love Happens.”  On stage, she has appeared in the highly irreverent comedy, ”The Anne Heche Monologues” and “The New Living Room.”

Megyn currently lives in Los Angeles withher husband, an emergency room doctor, their daughter and their dog.

Deb from San Diego Momma, Jessica from BernThis.com and Jess from Shuggilippo tell us what they never expected to say.

So we want to know. What was the one thing you never expected to say to your child?

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This is a very sweet story. Congrats to the very cute couple.

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It was probably our biggest and most difficult-to-navigate holiday.

Christmas was easy: Christmas eve with Dad’s side of the family and Christmas Day with Mom’s side. But Thanksgiving was a NATIONAL holiday. A day to celebrate alongside our neighbors, regardless of color or creed, as AMERICANS. Splitting up Thanksgiving over two days would be un-American! So here’s how I spent every Thanksgiving of my childhood:

First, we’d head to my dad’s parent’s house. All the adults would squeeze into the living room and they’d drag picnic benches into the kitchen for us many, many kids. Dad’s family usually served the meal around noon. (I know!) The food? Was SO. GOOD. We’d gorge ourselves on the rich “American” fare we truly only ate once a year: Turkey, Yams, etc. Everything swimming in butter. Only “American” music would be played: big band, Mathis and Doris Day. After my Aunt Maria’s delicious homemade pumpkin pie, we’d end our festivities with, what else? A BIRTHDAY PARTY. Oh, yeah! Several family members had late-November birthdays and my grandparents would take advantage of having the whole family under one roof. So we’d bust into the 2-hours-old “leftovers” and then, naturally, we’d have cousin Becky’s butter-filled layer cake for dessert!

(My dad, left, and his brother Jess with their post-Thanksgiving birthday cakes)

Then we’d head over to Mom’s family home. You know, for Thanksgiving.

It was a short trip from East Cedar Street to West Cedar Street, where my mom’s parents lived. They served the meal at 4pm-which meant we had to leave the birthday party early. Mom’s family was just as big and it was just as tight a squeeze to seat everyone. Only problem? The food was better at the first house. It was! With Mom’s family, you could bet that the giblet bag had been baked inside the bird. Or that the mashed potatoes would be too thick to penetrate with a steel serving spoon. Or that the bread could be used to shatter the windshield of your worst enemy. (Before you get insulted, Aunt Sheila, may I remind you that they literally could not slice that bread with a saw.) And we were SO FULL. But we HAD to eat! So eat we did. And the fact that the food was so much better at the first house was always very quickly mitigated by the fact that the laughs were so much bigger at the second house.

By nightfall, my parents, my sister and I would be too full to sleep. We are blessed to eat and we are blessed to laugh, but take it from me: over-eating and over-laughing should only be mixed on very, very special occasions. It’s the American way.

What were your crazy Thanksgiving traditions? I can’t be the only one!

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A professional interior designer and blogger, I’m a grown-up art-school brat with 2 kids, a marriage and a couple of businesses.  I love using the visual medium of the internet to connect with people. Along with my design partners, I help our clients create an environment they love at home and/or online.  Also? I make killer Sangria. You can read more about me on my personal blog,  www.nachomamasblog.com. Looking forward to helping you live, work and play at home. Rock on, Mommy!

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Do you ever just get tired of the negativity? How do you handle it?

How about blogs?

Do you ever find yourself not visiting a blog anymore because it’s always about how awful their life is?

I know many of us use our blogs as a way to vent.  But is that the only reason we blog?  If it is that’s ok, but…

I struggle with my personal site and don’t use it as much as I should because I don’t always want to write about negative things.  But they seem to be the easiest things to write about.

Tomorrow I’d like to do a whole post on Debbie Downers and how to deal with them. But I wanted to start the conversation today.

So, how do you handle Debbie Downer.

NO San Diego Momma you aren’t a Debbie Downer, even though your name just so happens to be Deb. LOVE YOU.

If a friend had come to me to tell me that this happened to them I’m pretty sure I’d tell them they should return it or pay for it.  I’m going to be honest, I’m not sure if I would have known what I would do in that situation until it actually happened to me.

Once I realized that we had inadvertently stole the game from Borders I knew exactly what I was going to do.

In that moment there was no question that I needed to back and pay for it.  It may have taken me a few days, but I did it.  I’m to afraid of Karma!

The game sat at our house for a couple of days and several times Ellie asked if she could play it.  The answer was always no, until today!

I’m here to tell you Gobblet Gobblers was worth the wait and the $15.12 I paid for  it.  It’s a great stocking stuffer for the Holidays.

Ok, with that said, I’ve got to tell you, I’m sure there were times when I was sleep deprived that did pay for something I  put on the bottom of a shopping cart.   I’d like to thing I’d go back every time and right the situation, but I’m far from perfect!

We had been to dinner with Mama Mary Show and her kiddies.  After a glass of wine, we decided we should hit up Borders.  You see, this location is closing and everything is 20-30% off!   So you can imagine the amount of “stuff” we purchased.

Apparently, I (or Ellie, again I can’t be sure who did it) put this game in the basket of the stroller.  We paid for everything and then left.  With the game still in the basket.  Obviously, I later found it…

So what would you do?

Would you go back and pay for it?

What if you didn’t discover it for a couple days?

What if the store was closing?

You don’t have to be honest with me, but be honest with yourself.  What would you do?

I’ll tell you want I did on Wednesday.