Top Tweets of the Week: Jan. 5-11

My parents live in the South, and they are enjoying a winter that is much, much warmer than ours on the East Coast. Every time I talk to my mother on the phone, she asks what I'm wearing, offering to send me fuzzy mittens, leather gloves, an embarrassing hat with bear ears I used to wear as a child, to help fend off the New York City chill. @TimFederle's app idea would save me many a "Mom. I'm fine; I have like four layers on, and I wouldn't be able to text in mittens, and I can't believe you kept that hat, we've moved three times." But, like @betterwaymoms's post expresses, my mom is not my friend, she is my mother—and she does a pretty darn good job at it.  

Little Man comes home ecstatic - his crush has a crush on him. "She'll have to wait until I am 18 so we can date but I am sure she will" — CC Fowler (@ItsCCFowler) January 5, 2015

Oh, to be young and in love!

I'm not your friend, I'm your mom: http://t.co/qyC3Rmtzwe — Sarah Walton (@betterwaymoms) January 6, 2015

"I just feel strongly that kids need parenting instead of a buddy who doesn’t want her kid to be mad at her."

Why do kids spill something and then just look at it? Why!!!!!!!! — Kimberly L. Thomas (@valleystreammom) January 6, 2015

They're testing yourreflexes.

Where should I ship him? http://t.co/qZoZU2E1yb — Heather D. (@GirlGoneMom) January 8, 2015

 

A photo posted by girlgonemom (@girlgonemom) onJan 8, 2015 at 12:53pm PST

We like having visitors in the office!

An app that automatically texts our moms that we are wearing **extremely warm jackets** whenever the temperature dips below 0. — Tim Federle (@TimFederle) January 8, 2015

And one that messages that we are wearing SPF 30 (at least) whenever the sun shines.

What I love about shopping for a first birthday is you can bring the birthday girl with you and she doesn't even notice her surprises! — Hilary Morris (@MrsMoNJ) January 9, 2015

Happy birthday! Will you/did you make a smash cake for the birthday girl? I'm partial to this lion cake—almost too cute to eat.