Blog Title: The Plain Jane Mom Blog, by Erika Fields Jurney :

I've been out of the loop for a couple of decades — is there a PC term for these yet?

Heard in the other room: Henry [knowing a sucker is born every minute]: Give me your arm. I promise I won't kiss it. Ed: AEIIIIIIIIIIIIII! Henry [proudly]: That's an indian sunburn. Ed [running to me]: Mommy! Henry twisted my arm! Me: Yes, that's called an indian burn. Ed: What's an indian burn? Me [banging head on wall]: What he did to your read more..

This week has been very Chimpspirational

Today we took the boys to see Space Chimps, and it was pretty cute. Everyone had fun, but they all agreed that Clone Wars was better! Afterward we had lunch at California Pizza Kitchen (do they have those outside of California?) and followed it with a surprise trip to THE LEGO STORE! It was worth the read more..

Why can't children just have hooves?

Because that would seriously be so much easier than buying them shoes. Today we had to run and get 2 pairs of soccer cleats before they sell out, plus I need to get everyone some sneakers. We got the cleats in person, but I've been doing the sneakers online. I really really loves me some Zappos read more..

Taking small children to Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Who knew Battle Droids were so funny?)

All the negative reviews of this movie really make me wonder what people were expecting. Oscar-worthy? Nope. Watchable if you're over age 10 and didn't bring kids to the theater with you? No way. But if you take your young kids (I suspect boys will like it better than girls, but I don't have any read more..

Still haven't gotten over you yet

Holy crap, I just realized we're in the middle of a 'staycation' — I think that is possibly the worst word recently invented. But who has the money to go anywhere? My dream family vacation is renting a house in the middle of Switzerland with cows, trains, gondolas, cheese, sun, green and such, but really… read more..

Well, I'm gonna treat you like the queen you are.

My favorite part of this article is where the 1930s woman describes some comments she gets from strangers as "bitchy." I just love that 30s lingo. I see that the 70s aren't taken yet. Maybe I'll make that the Erika Decade. Rock on. Photo Credit: Daily Mail Follow me on Twitter @ErikaJurney.The Plain Jane Mom Blog is Copyright read more..

BlogHer 2009 will be in …

In July 2009 I'm either going to be in St. Louis, Portland, or Philadelphia! Are you going to join me? Remember the poll? Well the votes were tallied and these were the top three. Now they're going to investigate all three cities to see where they can get a good venue for the dates and so read more..

Now that's what I call a party. Yee Haw!

One of my favorite BlogHer memories is captured in this movie. Whymommy and I were at the Silicon Valley Moms Blog party and the venue had a unique way of entering the party. And she has great sense of humor. And adventure. Watch it — it's funny, you get to see us having fun, and read more..

Rewriting the past in the present

I've been teleported to a time when I lived in Los Angeles in the early 90s. I would drive downtown at night and watch the skyscrapers flit through the sunroof while listening to Brian Eno, John Cale, and David Byrne. It was a distinctly disconnected yet serendipitous time in my life which… more. Follow me on Twitter read more..

Thank god I had my roots done

After reading Maria's post I thought to myself, 'Hey, I was there too!' and of course started scanning the photo. And there it is! Or to be more precise, there I am! Hot damn peeps, my freshly-colored hair is in the New York Times. Now that's what I'm talking about! (And of course, this story was put read more..