Comments about ‘MormonTimes.com: A clever twist on Mormon mommy blogs’

This blog is awesome! The funny thing about it is that I could copy and paste any one of her entries and post it on one of my friends and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference!
I really get sick of hearing how perfect, and the best and blah, blah, blah everyone's life is!!!

That is the funniest thing in a long, long time! Talk about dead-on. This girl pretty much nails it.

Its articles like this that help the D-news lose all credibility.

This is a great blog, my husband and I read it and it is so funny but so sadly true. There are so many parts of her blog that resemble other blogs in the LDS mommy community. They brag to no end about their perfect lives, how hot their very average looking hubby's are, how they are just the best and just so blessed. These girl's blogs are just like those sickening bragging Christmas letters everyone gags at getting.

I think it would be funny to highlight blogs that brag to no end in a separate blog. These girls sneakily and slyly try to one up their friends, families and neighbors by posting countless things on their cute little lives...when behind their backs people are gagging. They'll write, "Thanks, hon for the great SUV or vacation! You are seriously the best hubby EVER!" THey are really bragging to their friends, be cause these blogs are not for their husband's or a venue to thank their man, guys don't read these blogs. These girls do it to brag to friends but say, "who wants to read about sad things?" check out summerandmichael.blogspot.com for some really gaggy older posts, wow.

This is a stupid article! You are mocking people!

Great article! This blog does a good job of not personally mocking people, just poking fun at a whole genre. When it gets personal it gets mean and inappropriate, but this author is HILARIOUS and balancing the fine line of being funny and not cruel.

The seriously so blessed is not reflective of the mormon mommy blog. It is reflective of the poorly written, uninspired, undereducated, casually put together blogs that are out there. "Seriouslysoblessed" doesn't reflect the majority of the blogs out there that serve a legitimate purpose of connecting family and friends who, through busy lives and geographical diversity, don't get to spend as much time together as they'd like. Frankly I wish she would focus her sarcasm on something worth taking aim at.

I just added this blog to my favorites! There is nothing MORE worth taking aim at than these stupid (and fake) family blogs! And, yes, I am LDS. Thanks for the laugh!

Actually, dumb, the blog is a fine mirror to a community. As a commenter stated above, it shows the true ugliness that hides behind "cute little lives" and how the authors try to play off their "blessed" status as showing how much better she is than everyone else.

This is so true!! Those blogs are brags! My friend says by blogging she is following president Hinkley's council to write our experiences down. I am pretty sure he means to Journal like our ancestors did. Tell the triumps and trials and how they were overcome. I know he didn't mean to brag about;
1. How laser hair removal has made my life wonderful.
2. My 1000 thread sheets! Now I can get a good sleep now!
3. All my "vacays" and the fancy pillow that said, "Sweet dreams"
4. My big home
5. My husband who is perfect and never does anything wrong.
6. My perfect kids.
7. All my pics showing how much I have!
If bragging about our things and haves instead of telling about how their lives really are complete with trials is following Hinkley's advice I don't want any part of it.

Happy Bragging ooops I mean blogging!

dumb-Seriously so blessed is right on! Admit it and go look at some brags/blogs!

To those who say that this is not reflective of the mormon mommy blog, I have to say that it is SOOO reflective that it couldn't be written ANY better. It is SUPPOSED to be poorly written. I laughed my head off while reading it and could immediately think of at least 50 family blogs that I had read in the last couple of months that were eerily similar. These blogs do not "serve a legitimate purpose of connecting family and friends". They serve the purpose to put themselves above their friends and others. Anyone who blogs like that is likely to be offended by seriouslysoblessed. Those who truly use blogs to stay connected will probably think it's funny.

It may be funny but I am glad that there are women who are grateful and blessed and happy and think their average husbands are wonderful. Too bad we all can't say the same. Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative. Go Mommy bloggers.

Yes, there are tons of normal, uplifting, not obnoxious Mom blogs out there and blogging is a fun way for lots of people to stay in touch. Laughing at how over-the-top some of them can get--especially newlywed ones!--isn't an insult to every blogger out there...it's just good fun. This blog gave me the giggles.

Isn't freedom wonderful. The whole purpose of blogs is to write and post what you want. If someone wants to express their view of the stereotypical mormon house wife. That is what it's there for. And if you don't like it, don't visit the site.

If we can't make fun of ourselves, then life is pretty miserable. The whole purpose of blogging is to write what you want. If you want to use to it to expose the "true ugliness that hides behind "cute little lives"", then so what. If you are offended, don't visit the site.

I really don't think seriously so blessed is that funny of a blog. I know it's supposed to be, but it didn't make me laugh.

Wow-zers! My mom and I had an aMAZINGLY awesome and SPECTacular time looking at the blog! It is makin' me uber excited to become married to a hubby that is goin' 2 B just as marvelous as JJWT!! An' then we can take lots of GORGEOUS pitchers of ourselves too!
Haha, JK. Honestly though. We thought it was hilarious.

My friend said this about Seriously, so blessed and it's both funny and painfully accurate:
"If you're not laughing, it's about you."

It's full of sarcastic commentary that cuts perhaps because it is so accurate...but to what end?

Is it just so we can laugh and feel intellectually superior to others? There's something uncomfortable about humor that exists just to mock (I know, I know, "if you're uncomfortable, then just don't read...")

If the aim is to help those whose outlook is currently selfish and materialistic, then mocking isn't really the best tool. Pessimism and sarcasm are lazy, cheap, and ineffective compared to charity and example.

The shallow and self-congratulatory blog posts that "So True!" laments would better be answered by
1. How I'm happy with the way my life is now.
2. and what I'm working at being better at
3. The better family relationships after our vacation together
4. How I've made do with my less-than-perfect home
5. My husband who, while imperfect, is a pretty darn good man.
6. My kids' experiences learning how to be good people.
7. All my pics showing my life.

Is that ever the truth!