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I should be offended, but this made me laugh so damn hard. Perhaps I read too many pregnant/mommy-related message boards? Pregnant Women Are Smug by Garfunkel and Oates

In my crazy rush to tidy up before Kevin's parents came over for brunch, I not only completely missed the flowers Kevin bought me (they were two giant bouquets, in the middle of the dining room table), but I completely misunderstood what he was saying to me as I blitzed through the house picking up baby toys and - drum roll, please - opened, ( Read more... )

I can't think of a way to describe this, so just go watch it. It's short, and you will either laugh or bang your head against a wall. Possibly both.

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Circumcision has actual health benefits? I'm all about making informed choices for my children, and I absolutely don't want my emotional responses to get in the way of making the best/smartest/most logical choices, but this practice of cutting off part of my son really upsets me in a fundamental way. There are tons of studies of varying ( Read more... )

Hey look, I'm posting from the couch! And not from my phone! Hurray new laptop :-D I woke up this morning to a pee-soaked baby. Kevin put a new diaper on him, but no cover. Sigh. However I also woke up to the Fed Ex lady knocking on the door to deliver the amazing shiny new MacBook, which pretty much made up for the pee-soaked baby thing. I was so ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took a nap and had a cah-razy dream. My great aunt Blanche (along with her sister, Thelma, and their husbands Hager and Roy) drove to Indy from Ohio, apparently just to pick up my dad and drive to New York to retrieve some of Blanche's clothes from an apartment in Meredith and Amanda's building. Blanche (who I haven't seen since I was ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed I survived the zombie-pocalypse with the help of Rachel Maddow, and when everything was mysteriously back to normal we decided we ought to get married. Because, y'know, that's what survivors of a zombie holocaust should do, right?

Today is one of those days that makes me wonder why on earth I thought it was a good idea to have children. What I really want is a stiff drink, a steady job, and the right to go to the bathroom in private.