The couple who ran ours never actually told us how many kids they had so I assume it was 8 or 9.

I actually think the FOCCUS thing is awesome and wish there was a widely available secular equivalent.

None of that is true. You do have to do pre-cana but it’s not 6 months. We did it to appease my in-laws and it was 6 weeks. You went to 2 seminars and 4 sessions with a mentoring couple (folks from the parish who had been married 10+ years). The only part of it that was actually religious was the last seminar where…

Outlander is romance and the insistence that it’s not is tiresome and snobby. The only reason to insist it’s not is because romance is viewed as bad and inferior, which is sexist. Yes, the patriarchy does suck.

This. I think middle schoolers are unbearable so I don’t teach them. All my friends/co-workers who teach older kids think teenagers are hilarious. It seems like it should be a requirement.

Of course when we had a special election after Ted Kennedy died we ended up with Scott Brown. Special elections are weird.

That’s not true. I bought tickets to two different shows last night 15 minutes after they went on sale. (I’m not seeing it twice, one pair is a gift.)

The cheapest seats are now $179 a piece.

I am also a teacher and I’m wondering where you got anything about Bernie’s K-12 policy. His total lack of comment on that is part of what tipped me to voting for Clinton way back on Super Tuesday.

I did a timeline of the Civil Right Movement with my second graders this year. I put Loving v Virginia on it and blew the kids’ minds. A few students had parents born in the 60s. We had been talking about segregation and I had beens struggling to explain to them how recent this all was. These kids were born in 2007…

I’ve got some of those in my family and let me tell you, no one hates anti-vaxxers more than parents of kids who can’t get vaccinated or have compromised immune systems.

I know someone who’s parents didn’t vaccinate their 7 kids. The grown ones have mostly gotten themselves vaccinated and not told their parents about it.

Amherst doesn’t have back country. It’s a college town with some medium sized hills.

Like, is that what being a parent is? Keeping them from dying and giving them support and love?

Mirena hormones are systemic. They initially thought it was local but it turned out they were wrong.

Where do you live that 5th graders are wearing big bows? I’m fascinated. I’ve taught 5th grade and I can’t imagine those girls wearing hair bows.

Doesn’t it make sense to use basic taste when the plan is to flip the house? Inexpensive shit that will appeal to the most people is what’s going to make you money.

I voted on Super Tuesday and I decided day of. It's a weird, weird election cycle.

It says she worked at this particular zoo for 3 years that doesn’t mean that she had no experience when she got there.

If I recall correctly, she flipped that house for a tidy profit.