never used it in our diaper regimen, but we definitely use it for removing sand from the playground or the beach. Such a limited exposure is probably safer than their daily car ride to and from daycare. I don’t see anything here about the type of asbestos that’s found in talc, they aren’t all the same.

This is my husband right now. He’s so fed up with Trump (and the Tea Party before him) that he changed his party affiliation to independent and voted for a bunch of democrats this year. He comes from a family of republican Trump haters that were all shocked that he won in the first place. Maybe just California…

came here for this. If I slept when the baby slept, there would be no food to eat or clean clothes to wear and I wouldn’t shower for weeks.

I went fancy this year with Grands Cinnamon Rolls. you only get 5 but they are legitimately larger. I made eggs later that morning.

The hot toy in our house is of the LOL Surprise variety, but it’s Surprizimals from Claire’s. The toys inside are actually really cute and they are overpriced but beloved. fit really well in the stocking too. 

Umm, Honey Nut Frosted Flakes is just “Nut and Honey Crunch” right? That was totally my favorite cereal for awhile.

darn it, I’m much too far behind on my blog reading. Wish I’d seen this before Christmas Eve. I was totally prepared for the kids’ stockings (ages 2 and 4) but I forgot to get anything for ours. I ended up filling them with stuff from the cupboards (rice krispie treats, bags of goldfish crackers, fruit snacks, rx…

I made personalized cocktail glasses with etching cream for my husband’s grandmother once, also included a nice metal serving tray and a bottle of Grand Marnier. Felt pretty fancy, especially when she realized I actually made the glasses instead of buying them that way.

My brother-in-law started doing GIS for Cal Fire this year. His Christmas presents were wrapped in maps from the Woolsey Fire this year. A little morbid, but they were just going to be tossed.

I definitely disagree (as others have) on Dr. Seuss. I am SO tired of re-reading The Lorax and One Fish Two Fish. There are a few that are great, especially the board book version which is abridged. We especially like “There’s a Wocket in my Pocket” and “Mr. Brown can moo, can you?”

We have two copies of this one. One with missing tabs and one that’s still fairly pristine. The two year old isn’t ready for the nice version yet.

We love Knuffle Bunny and Dragons love Tacos. 

This!!! My favorite book as a child (Harold and the Purple Crayon was a close second) and my little ones love, love, love it. (Do not buy the sequel, Elmo sucks the life out of everything)

not the original poster, but everybody loses baby weight differently. Personally, I lost the first 2/3 of the weight without really trying, I just started walking more once I hit 6 weeks post-partum. But the last 10-15 pounds hung around until baby started solids and I wasn’t breastfeeding as much. At that point, I…

Here’s one alum who is definitely going to have problems making any donations in the foreseeable future. Of course, I don’t think I’ve given more than $20 at any one time in the past 18 years, so I’m not the donor they care about. And I probably even saw Tyndall, I just don’t remember. I wasn’t particularly sexually…

California teachers (and maybe other government employees) are also exempt from our state pregnancy disability. They don’t pay in and can’t claim it. The rest of us get up to four weeks before birth and six weeks after (8 for c sections) and 6 weeks bonding that both parents can take. It’s only 55% of your pay but the…

I love my Mirena IUD. I didn’t get it until after my second pregnancy (first took 2.5 years of trying, multiple failed cycles with IUI and medications, and an eventual laproscopic removal of endo with 6 months of lupron treatment; second just happened naturally as soon as I cut back of breastfeeding). I didn’t get…

the friends that ghost you when you can’t conceive are the worst. Admittedly, they weren’t the warmest people to begin with, but we have another mutual friend and I avoid his events because they might be there. And this is after I managed to have two children anyway. those 2.5 years where I was struggling and they…

There’s a Starbucks inside our mall, across the street from the mall, in the grocery store next to the mall, and they just added one in the target attached to the mall. 

This is what we use at our office and it’s decent but they only last a year or two before we have to buy another one.

This is what we use at our office and it’s decent but they only last a year or two before we have to buy another one.