Thursday, May 30, 2013

Mommy Dearest

Okay - maybe it is me.  And maybe it is because Mother's Day occurs in May, but I just seem to be stumbling upon all sorts of mother-daughter duos these days - in the blogsphere and in the media.

Yesterday's J Crew blog focused on a studio tour of Face Stockholm, which is co-owned and run by Mother-Daughter duo Gun and Martina.  How cute are they?

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They work together all day and the daughter just lives 3 minutes down the road.  As for my mother (god rest her soul) and I, if we had worked together we would have been featured on America's Most Wanted for snapping and doing the other in, not in a nice JCrew blog post....

Makes me want the sequin top she is wearing above - but wait - I have a minty fresh sequin top from the jcrew factory, which I promise to show you on Friday...

And then Dani mentioned another blogger, India Alexandra, to me yesterday.  India is a young, pretty and spunky thing from the U.K. and she and her mother go on all kinds of adventures.  These adventures involve wine and good food at fine restaurants or shopping at exclusive boutiques.  Very glam and they obviously get along very well!  My mother and I used to go to Zellers...(Canadian equivalent of Walmart, now sadly - and happily! - bought out by Target.

Another famous duo that I read an interview with recently is Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson.

Kate is currently spokes model for Almay makeup and in honour of Mother's Day, they included Goldie in the recent campaign:

Kate Hudson and Goldie Hawn share their beauty secrets in honor of Mother's Day

This article has them dishing on beauty secrets (it is Almay after all!), but they obviously get along really well and it shows!  Beautiful, beautiful women with lovely hearts.

Hilary and Chelsea Clinton also appear very close - Both Hilary and Bill have had very high profile careers, but it is clear that they have raised a lovely young woman:

Hillary Clinton, 61, and Chelsea Clinton, 28

Hilary's time may have passed to become president, but maybe Chelsea 2020?

Don't you wonder what shenanigans Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I might have gotten up to if poor Anne had been able to keep her head?  If they were alive today, they'd have a blog...

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or maybe a reality TV series:


or maybe they'd write books together like Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark?


Or maybe they would running the world again....

But my favourite mother-daughter duo of the week has to be our own AJC and her mother.  AJC wrote a lovely post about her recent trip home to Poland, and you just have to read it and see her beautiful mother here.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Anyone else noticing a lot of mother-daughter duos these days?  Would you/could you have worked with your mother?  In my case:  NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay safe out there folks!



30 comments:

  1. That would be a definite no!
    And those Kardashians make me want to throw up. Talk about over exposed!

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    1. I hear you! But wouldn't an Anne/Elizabeth reality show be a hoot?

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  2. A yes from me, mum and I are very open, honest and brutal with each other so we actually would work well together plus she can add and look after money, I'd be her henchman!

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    1. Tabs can picture your mum calming stacking up an very impressive balance sheet in a lovely twinset. In Wendy's world I may be disabusing you of a fantasy, but you aren't turn the screws enough for henchman. How about lieutenant, and you get a smart uniform ;-)

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    2. Yes, I see you and your mum working together very well! As for henchman, I see you kind of as Smithers to her Mr. Burns ( a la the Simpsons!)

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  3. Hmmm, working with my mom ... loved her but that would be a NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on working together, it would have lasted about a nanosecond.

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  4. MOTHER MAY I No. What A Well Styled said about reality TV's worst family. And as for Kate H., look what she has to look forward too when she grows up. I was lucky to see mother and daughter in Muskoka a few years back, and while not as glam as Almay shots - by a long mile - they are both lovely, and seemed very in sync.

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    1. I know - I have seen Goldie in pics sans makeup and it does make you realize that makeup goes a long way, as does lighting and makes me think I need a makeup artist and a good lighting specialist to follow me around!

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    2. Can I have one too please?! :)

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  5. My mom and I are both lawyers, and she had actually offered to bring Tom and I into her practice, but we have the EXACT same personality and I can say without a doubt that within a year I'd have murdered her and pinned the rap on my poor husband. I adore her and she is my role model but it would have been too many snippy comments about being over/underdressed and how much/little I was eating for lunch. Better to work with those who aren't quite as invested in you.

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  6. There is no Way I could work with my mother. It would all end in tears or worse.
    Those Kardashians are everywhere and I still don't understand who they are or what they do. What is their purpose?

    Kate and Goldie look very happy!
    I'm not sure if you're familiar with Comptoir des Cotonniers? It's a French clothing company (love their things) who ran an add campaign featuring mothers and daughters. I loved that campaign, even though the cynical git in me thought it was all terribly contrived.

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    1. HI Ruth! I am not familiar with Comptoir des Cotonniers - will have to go take a look! You a cynical git - never!

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  7. No, I would not be able to work with my mother, we have different temperaments and opposing views on many things. But we are very close, she lives nearby and looks after her grandkids all the time. We have Sunday brunch with her and I love to buy her things because she does not like buying things for herself. The make-up line Chantecaille is owned by a mother-daughter team, both beauties.

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    1. HI Marie! I have never hear of this makeup line! Another thing to look up today!

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  8. I have not noticed the mother-daughter stuff lately, maybe I tune it out? Your post made me think of my mother, she loved those Mary Higgins Clark books way back when.

    Goldie Hawn looks pretty in that picture, but she looks like someone else. I don't know if it's just the photograph or if it a lot of plastic surgery changed her looks.

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    1. I have wondered that lately, too! I can't help but compare them all to my beloved Audrey Hepburn - give me lines any day!

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  9. Mum was an executive secretary back in the day; she still does the minutes to all her clubs at age 88. I'd love her to be my exec asst! She would object to my swearing though.

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    1. That is so awesome that she is still that active at 88! That is exactly how I want to be! As for the swearing - maybe a swear jar?

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  10. That is some crazy photoshopping going on in the Goldie/Kate photo. I guess it is a cosmetics company after all.

    would love to work with my mother but I think I would drive her crazy and not the other way around.

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    1. xoxo - that is funny and honest! I think I used to drive my mother round the bend as well!

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  11. So I will be the only one commenting so far that is not close at all to her mother... I would definitely not have been able to work with her neither. While I am very aware that both my parents did their best to raise me, they never supported me... They never encouraged me in my teenage or in the studies I wanted to pursue... When I had my son they came to the maternity to see us on the second day... I know they wanted to not overload me, but that was very sad for me... My parents live about 5 miles from me, still when I ask them if they can watch my son (during school break for instance) the first answer I get is: "let me look in the calendar if we are free"... Which makes me feel I always come last in their priorities... If my son is sick and they agree to watch him, I have to wake him up and drive him to their home on my way to work, they would never watch him at our place... I was never close to my Mum while pregnant... She is a anxious person and transferred all her anxiety to me... She even was so reluctant with the name we chose for our son... And the list could go on and on... And I stop there because it is very painful for me... so all those posts make me very jealous...
    Have a good one Wendy.

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    1. Steph - you are NOT the only one! I know there are lots of us that had very complicated relationships with our parents! I could never have worked with my mother - I loved her, but we were so different that I often thought we spoke different languages! She didn't have a warm bone in her body - I guess that's how she was raised - but she was very smart and could be a lot of fun and she had a lot of loyal friends. I think the close bond club is not quite as large as you might think it is! Our in-laws live 1 hour away and would never have helped with the kids. Funny isn't it? I guess people do the best they can!

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  12. Love ajc and her mum! My mom is my best friend. It's hard to not live in the same city. She drives me nuts lately (especially in the last few years since I moved away) but we talk every day. I don't know whether I could work with her or not, we have very different personalities. I am very assertive and she is very passive, so maybe it would work. I would love to spend 24/7 with her. My husband loves her too, so that makes things easier. I am delighted that my mother in law always wanted a daughter, and has sort of adopted me too. We have many a difference of opinion, culturally and because we were raised very differently, but she is a great person and I thoroughly enjoy her company. I love how she tries to show me off to her friends.
    None of my parents like my swearing either, Lane!

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    1. Antho Blogger - you are so fortunate to have such a wonderful relationship with your mom and your MIL! That is wonderful! I wish my kids wanted to spend 24-7 with me (well maybe not 24-7...)

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  13. NOOOOO to the mother thing...

    Gosh, I wish Anne Boleyn, mary queen of scots, and lizzie, oh and cant forget bloody mary, they had blogs. Even the thought is just so juicy!!

    But I think India Alexander and her mother hanging out and going on picnics so sweet and special. Especially a girl at that age to be so warm and cook dinners for her parents. I thin it is so touching.

    I can't comment on Kardashians as I just don't get them...

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    1. I don't get the Kardashians either! I think India Alexandra is just like a little doll - so sweet and keen!

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  14. Wendy, thank you so much for the mention. I love my mom and we are very close although this creates some tension as well. I think this is never a simple relationship, it is too wrapped up in all kinds of emotions. I personally was very close to my mom until I was a teenager, then I had a long period of rebellion and trying to cut the symbolic umbilical cord and only after maturing more and growing as a woman and mother myself, appreciating her more than ever.

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  15. Cute post but noooo, I could never work with my mother (or my father, for that matter). I would go stark raving mad!!!

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