Yes, please. Let’s get it farther away from my birthday (December 30). It’s bad enough that I basically share with New year’s eve but maybe with Christmas in January I could get separate presents.

I made sugared pecans for the first time at thanksgiving, super easy. My grandad makes pecan pralines but they take much more effort.

never had a sexual harassment training, work for a very small business. Our annual trainings are only related to health and safety and first aid.

woot for shopkick. I just rediscovered it and I kinda like the product scanning. I hadn’t used it in awhile but I think I’ve earned 1,500 points in just the last two weeks with walk-ins, scanning, and a little shopping.

I’m surprised to see the lack of Thanksgiving morning traffic in LA, but maybe they aren’t looking at the traffic just outside town. It’s taken us over four hours to drive from south LA County to south San Diego county on Thanksgiving morning, never again. Now we leave late on Wednesday evening. Put the kids in their…

We are big fans of the crazy chicken at our house. It’s just down the street, and funnily enough, they built a Popeye’s across from it on the ashes of an old KFC. Popeye’s is yummy but there’s just not enough chicken and it’s a bit overpriced.

Pretty similar to the list I had when I changed my name, but I still find things that are wrong, seven years later. The ones that I forgot about or still haven’t managed to fix:

I definitely recommend all the easy to eat food. I put together a breastfeeding basket for a new mom (who unfortunately had stopped nursing well before we managed to find a time to comemeet the new baby). I included a giant water bottle, lots of larabars and quick snacks, and a back-up battery for her phone or tablet…

My university marching band used to play the mash up version when the other team got penalized, but they stopped after the whole Gary Glitter/pedophile thing. I hadn’t heard this version of it and always wondered why we called it “Doctor Who” since it didn’t sound like the Doctor Who theme to me at all.

Never needed this, but man, you should write about the beauty of the Nose Frida. Both kids have been snot monsters and this thing is the best thing for it. A little saline spray, a little nose sucking, and suddenly the kid can nurse again. I had a bad cold recently and I totally wished I could nose frida myself.

I pay $84/month by myself on a 2005 toyota Matrix for full coverage. I must be doing something wrong. What’s your annual mileage?

A good nursing pillow definitely makes a world of difference. I took it with me to the hospital both times. Side lying was great but it took me months to figure it out with baby #1. With baby #2, I was doing it in the hospital.

I like driving for post mates, food delivery feels a little safer. Plus I have two car seats so I can’t do uber or lyft anyway. I ride share on my commute with waze.

Exactly what I thought when I read the headline

I joined an engineering sorority in college and I’m still close to other members of the organization. There were so few women in my classes 20 years ago it was nice to have a social and professional group of compatriots. But we were left out of traditional Greek life because we had separate recruitment and no house.

We only let the 2.5 year old watch Super Simple Songs on YouTube. She loves it, sings along, dances. Better than yet another episode of sofia the first.

This only seems to work in certain venues. We definitely never had it as an option and we looked at a ton of venues. Maybe if we’d had a bigger budget. We offered a limited selection of beer and wine (a keg of Guinness, a keg of hefeweissen, and three types of wine) and the venue had a full cash bar for everyone what.…

I would say that to most people $11k is a LOT of money. It sounds like you had a great time and focused on your priorities which is definitely the way to go when keeping wedding expenses down.

I’d be very worried about affecting my supply if I went “part-time” with breastfeeding too soon in the journey. I’m glad I was able to keep up exclusive breastfeeding (i.e. no formula) for the first year with both kids. I wouldn’t have balked at formula, I just didn’t want the added expense. Fed is best, right? With…

We have it everywhere in Southern California.