NEW Website and Blog!!

Hi All! 


I finally shelled out the bucks to hire a professional web designer after my little computer crash last year. He did a bang up job updating my website while keeping the same theme AND he integrated my blog so, from now on, to read my blog and make comments, you will go here:

http://amyanderson.net/funnyyellowmom

I'll leave this Blogspot blog here for now, but all comment, posts, etc will be over at my new pad!

xo Amy 

MomsLA Post: My Sweet Little Nelly (And I'm Not Talking About The Rapper)

I have a new post up at MomsLA and it's about something in this photo. And it's not my kid...well not totally. Click to read:

Modern Family Wins The Golden Globe!

Join Me On Wikets!

I've been playing around with a new app called Wikets and I want to get more people signed up so we can help get the Wiket ball rolling! It's a fun app and a great way to share stuff you love. I kind of describe it to people as a Yelp, meets Twitter with a WeReward type of points system. Did I mention it's FREE?!!


Wikets is compatible with Apple iPhone, iPad and ipod touch with iOS 4.0 or later. Wikets allows you to recommend products (called "recs"), apps and places to your friends and in turn, search for great recs from people you follow. Then you can earn points for sharing and using each others' recommendations and redeem points for e-gift cards. The e-gift card program is being hammered out right now, but while they are working out the details, it's a perfect time to get started, earning points and discovering new places and products.


Personally, I don't buy much of anything these days without a recommendation from a friend or great word of mouth, so this app is really helpful and it's fun too! One of my favorite aspects is getting a glimpse into the homes of my friends - what kind of products to they use, what do their kids eat and play with, where do they like to go?! It's fun! And if you join with my promo code, you can spy on Aubrey and me :)


Here's how to sign up: 
- Go to the Apple App Store and search/download Wikets. 
- When prompted for a promo code, enter: funnyyellowmom and you'll be ready to REC and roll!! Ok, that was really cheesy, but I do think you'll have fun with it!

Frankenstein's LAVATORY!!

Happy 2012 Everyone!


Sorry I've been blog remiss, but the holidays really did get the best of me in the most wonderful kind of way. Now we are in FULL swing back to work and it's awards season, to boot. Modern Family has been nominated as Best Ensemble Cast for a SAG Award and Golden Globe. Crazy. Awesome. Exciting. Surreal. 


In a moment of normalcy around the house tonight, Aubrey started telling me about the haunted house at Universal Studios. Her dad takes her there a lot because they got season passes and apparently there is a Frankenstein character who walks around the park and goofs around with people waiting in ride lines. Aubrey has been led to believe, or more likely has made up in her 4yr old mind, that Frankenstein is in the haunted house.


Initially, she was TERRIFIED of old Frank. Screaming and crying every time she saw him, but my little turkey has a long history (well, ok about 3 years) of facing her fears head on. She does this on her own and we didn't teach her to do this. It's in her nature. When she's afraid of something, she obsesses over it until she desensitizes herself and eventually, grows to love the former fear. Essentially, she's her own psychotherapist which, in the long run, should save me a fortune.

Sally The Snake Cake! I made it. Woot!

Last year it was snakes after a reptile guy came to her preschool. She obsessed over snakes so much she decided to have a snake themed birthday party and now, the fear is old news.


Tonight, she started rambling on and on and on about Frankenstein, which is nothing unusual these days. The desensitization process involves talking endlessly about the subject. But I heard her say something that was too good not to capture on video - for future bribery and humiliation. Maybe at her graduation party or wedding reception. I bet her prom date will like this too. God being a parent in the digital age is great: