Here’s the thing with that: I spend a fortune (it’s a seriously horrifying number) on daycare for my kid, but what I’m getting (or rather, what she’s getting) is real education from certified early childcare providers. These folks know so much more about this than I or any of my friends/relatives do, and my kid has…

Completely accurate take. As a kid reading the story, my main takeaway was a desperate, fervent wish that the cleanup machine the cat wheels in at the end somehow existed and could be part of my life (full disclosure, this wish has not faded in adulthood at all), but as an adult reading it to my own kid I’m like…

Yeah. I got my ears pierced at the piercing pagoda at the mall in, like, second grade, and they’re pretty noticeably crooked. If/when my kid wants hers pierced, away we’ll go to a trained, sterile piercer at a legit shop. 

As a fellow pregnant mom to a “threenager” (which I have never heard before but is PERFECT), your comment made me cry at my desk a little and also want to just hug you and take you out to lunch so we can complain about what bullshit pregnancy is together. Hang in there, girl, I’m rooting for you.

Fingers crossed for both of us that that’s the case. And yeah, from what I’ve seen little boys tend to feed off each other’s shittiness, so one that’s overall a good kid will totally turn into a little asshole when surrounded by his peers.

My first one was girl, and I was (am) delighted. She is smart and spunky and independent and basically everything you’d want your girl to be (except she’s a born ball-buster, of me in particular, which is not my favorite quality of hers). Number two is on the way, and I was shocked how upset I was when I found out…

Locally, we’ve got Ayanna Pressley, first black woman on the Boston City council, now running against long-time Democratic stalwart Mike Capuano for his seat in the house (federal, not Mass). She is the BEST. She’s got her work cut out for her- Capuano has been around a long time, is popular, and frankly their…

I’m just grateful that my three-year-old doesn’t yet know about Frozen (in a meaningful way, at least- she’s heard Let It Go [NOT IN MY HOUSE] and apparently knows that Anna is “the Let It Go lady’s friend” - ??? no idea how she learned that). I plan to keep it this way as long as humanly possible.

Of course not. You can’t spider face with a nose.

I, for one, absolutely do not endorse cutting off noses to spider face.

I <3 <3 <3 my mirena and the complete lack of periods I had on it (up until I got it yanked to get pregnant again).

That’s what I figured too, though you’d think whiskey was a choice that was sure to get him busted.

Years ago, I used to waitress at a karaoke dive bar (I have stories). There was one youngish (late 20's/early 30's), vaguely hipster guy who’d come in regularly with a group, one of whom appeared to be his girlfriend. Pleasant guy, somewhat quiet but always polite, tipped reasonably. He’d always order O’Doul’s from me…

I also wept openly on the bus reading Atonement 10 years ago! Glad to know it wasn’t just me!

Maybe so, but as a pregnant person I would say “heavily pregnant” feels apt. With you 100% on that POST BABY BOD garbage, though.

Fucking relaxin is the worst (says a pregnant lady currently seeing a physical therapist to help with extreme hip pain caused by relaxin).

Something does exist (or did)- my mother in law told me that when my husband was born, she was given a shot without her consent that dried up her milk, and she’s STILL pissed about it. Oh, the 70's.

I’m a huge fan of his show (from which this is a clip), Adam Ruins Everything. But I always enjoy debunking, especially stuff like this that people don’t want to know about/believe, but need to. I want to say it comes on TruTV, whatever that is? I DVR it.

Same! There’s a reason that Dr. Brandt was so cheap, it turned out...

Yep, I was actually in there today! It closed down for a while, but is open again (for now- the owners of the buildings have made some rumblings about building a mall-ish thing above it and turning it into an escalator/entrance way, which is literal bullshit.