'Fess up, moms. Which e-mail is yours?

mapesy · 05-08-2008, 10:54 AM

I have to admit I was holding my breath when I read this because I thought I might find one of my embarrassing e-mails to my kids! Hilarious.

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‘Oh, Mom!’

Two young journalists strike blog gold with a site that collects unintentionally hilarious (and often touching) e-mails from mothers to their children.
Susanna Schrobsdorff
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 1:34 PM ET May 7, 2008

Postcards From Yo Momma is one of those Web sites that makes you slap your forehead and say, "Why didn't I think of that?" It's such a simple idea: invite people to submit unintentionally funny, and sometimes sweet, e-mails from their mothers. You know the ones--the naggy notes, the worried pleas, the guilt-grams, the ALL CAPS missives, the technologically panicked cries for help and the e-mails from moms who compulsively forward dire health warnings to their kids. (Munchausen's by Internet anyone?)

"Call me. I suffer," writes one mom.

And another: "tell me about face book. do you have a page on it? can anyone look at your page? I am worried about this type of thing."

Then there's the short, but direct variety: "std's are on the rise. love, mom." ......

Mom?s Embarrassing, Often Hilarious E-mail | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com

paying3tuitions · 05-08-2008, 11:15 AM

Those are funny! Maybe I'll just send my 3 the entire link and tell (no, ask) them to click on one each day. Might as well. They all speak for me and my endless concerns.

NorthMinnesota · 05-08-2008, 11:30 AM

LOL paying3! What a great idea!!!

mapesy · 05-08-2008, 11:47 AM

Great idea, p3t! lol

They're all funny, but I LOVE this one:

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Hi Son, We already sent the response card to your uncle but try calling him or Amy and try asking if you could bring a friend to the wedding. You are about the same age and you played with her while you were kids.
For your second question, we usually just let them figure it out. Just wear a appropriate outfit and I like your hair shorter like last time. Being gay i genetic, maybe Dad's side, and we will always love you and we are very proud of you. We are just glad that God gave us two wonderful children.
Love, Dad and Mom

mootmom · 05-08-2008, 11:59 AM

I browsed the website where they're collecting these gems (Postcards From Yo Momma) with deepending dread as I realized that my Treo alone contains a wealth of incriminating SMS msgs, and with AIM logs and stored email, well...

I am now wondering whether it would be more satisfying to ask my kids if they've posted any of our conversations there, or if mentioning it would just be alerting them to the opportunity to do so, LOL!

LIMOMOF2 · 05-08-2008, 12:22 PM

"I am now wondering whether it would be more satisfying to ask my kids if they've posted any of our conversations there, or if mentioning it would just be alerting them to the opportunity to do so, LOL!"

I was thinking the exact same thing, mootmom!

corranged · 05-08-2008, 12:57 PM

That site is great. Thanks for posting it! I just sent the link to my mom.

latetoschool · 05-08-2008, 01:26 PM

Simply hilarious - I'm really, really glad I do not know this family:

In other news, your father asked me this morning if he could borrow my nasal irrigator. I got very excited, thinking he was being pro-active in fighting the cold that’s got him sniffling non-stop already. Turns out he just wanted to use the irrigator to inject jelly into the croissants he was baking. I could write a ****ing book.

I’ve got to buckle down now and read this new script.

XXOO
MA

NotReady4Purple · 05-08-2008, 01:51 PM

latetoschool,

But... How do we know we don't know them?

Croissants?

No, thanks, I'll pass.... :-)

jym626 · 05-08-2008, 02:10 PM

did you read THIS from that website?

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About
Does your mom still have an AOL account? Does she email you her random, yet charming, thoughts on life and love? Does she wish you called more often? Postcards From Yo Momma is a collection of the many delightful correspondences these traits inspire.

Postcards From Yo Momma is also going to be a book! (It’ll be out next spring… just in time for Mother’s Day.) We want to give a huge thanks to everyone who’s submitted emails so far. We also wanted to let you know that we’re going to be selecting for the book the best emails from among the thousands that have been submitted, so if yours doesn’t post right away, we might just be saving it…

So now we know what we are getting for mothers day next year

nceph · 05-08-2008, 02:30 PM

Apparently I'm not the weirdest mom on the planet, if these emails are for real. (Or at least I don't send the most out there emails.) I decided not to send the link to the website to my D, however, because she is studying for exams, and she is distractible enough that she would probably drop everything to sift through all of our IM conversations and emails over the past years to see what she could contribute.

latetoschool · 05-08-2008, 02:37 PM

ROTFL, I simply assumed I could not possibly know anyone who would use a nasal irrigator for such a purpose, but, then again, people are full of surprises, aren't they?

Nceph, when my daughter was a freshman, I sent her an email that included very rapidly typed details about how I rescued a giant turtle off the highway and set it free out of harms way, and that it walked away going "scrabble scrabble" - and then some other minuteau about it (how else to describe how a turtle walks away????), written in the manner that busy sdults send stuff off - I'm sure you know what I mean - anyway, imagine my surprise, D told me later than she forwarded it to nearly everyone she knew, and they all said her mom was hilarious - I was so surprised, I never expected that to happen, in any case I have been very careful with email/IM ever since...

nceph · 05-08-2008, 02:42 PM

Ok, well, maybe I should wait to see what my kids can contribute before I take myself out of the running for weirdest mom on the planet. So far, though, only emails from Grandma had been amusing enough to forward to all of my D's friends. (or at least that's all she's told me about ....)

alwaysamom · 05-08-2008, 02:53 PM

mapesy, thank you for posting this! I'm enjoying reading these emails and realizing that I'm not the only mom who sends crazy/annoying emails to her kids.

Each year I send out a Happy Mother's Day email to all my friends who are moms. Most of us know each other because we ARE moms so I like to celebrate those friendships around Mother's Day. I will be including a link to this site in my email this year so that they can all share in the smiles!

aibarr · 05-08-2008, 03:23 PM

Oh no.

My mom is famous for her e-mails. She'll continue to hunt-and-peck even if her keyboard is on the fritz or if her eyes are acting up and she can't see the screen, and then she'll actually *send* these confusing, lengthy e-mails to us.

WE'LL AT TIMES END UP WITH AN E-MAIL THAT STARTS OUT IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS AND THEN TWO LINES INTO IT, MOM WILL SAY oh sorry i didn't notice that caps lock was on!!!

One of her e-mails actually included the phrase "hospric triamouse". The spelling of words had degraded so much by the time that "hospric triamouse" actually hit that we have *no* idea what she was talking about.

I'm going to have to start submitting things to that website. Judging by the few that I clicked through, my mom's would definitely make it up...