Sending you love and strength. There really is something to be said about sharing painful stories with strangers- it is amazing how tonight I have felt so much less alone in this. You're stronger than you know. All my love -

And breast size isn’t even relevant to milk production! I was a 34B before I got pregnant and I let down like a goddamn firehose. Meanwhile a friend of mine with boobs the size of Volkswagons had to supplement with formula because she couldn’t produce enough milk.

Moms everywhere: of course I can push your buttons better than anyone else. I installed the damned buttons.

My dad used to joke when I had braces that all I needed in addition to those railroad tracks were glasses and then I would never find a husband.

I’ve seen the skinny tie go in and out several times in my life. I love the look, but it comes with two warnings. 1) It’s a look best worn when young and 2) a look that suits thinner people because on a heavy person it looks a string attached to your head which is now a balloon.

I’d try the Jessica Smith ones, then. I have a lot of joint problems and so I do her “quiet” or low-impact ones. Some, you even do barefoot. She’s really great about offering modifications and saying “Hey, if you can’t do this for the whole time, just do it for as long as you can and then start back up.”

There are a lot of great, free home workout videos that have evolved a lot beyond the cheezy workout videos of the 80s and 90s. I do FitnessBlender.com workouts or follow Jessica Smith on Youtube. The workouts are free, they’re designed to be done in your home and they’re really effective. Most of them don’t even…

A lot of 24 hour fitness gyms have child care! I dunno about the diaper situation though. ALSO, 24 hour has a special every black Friday online where you can get your membership for like $24 a month.

Why not? I love books. If they want to protest that way, it's cool. They're not being loud or disruptive.

Let the woman have her quiet protest of reading. If she not actively trying to hurt people, let it go.

Then the roaches can ride it like a fancy little elevator.

My Y definitely takes kids in diapers, as long as they are over 6 months.

Yes, Y has childcare and yes I believe they take children in diapers. At least I have a friend who's child is in diapers and goes to the Y childcare. I don't know if they charge for it or if it comes with the membership, but for sure it's worth checking out!

All the gyms I have even belonged to take kids as young as 6 months. It’s usually just for an hour, and the parent is fairly easy to find if there is an issue. It can be a total PIA to get up early but the days I am in the gym at 4:30AM are the days I feel best. But really, you don’t need a gym to be fit or feel…

Yes, I do not have free time to do this. I was taking a class once a week but the fact is, I don’t even really have time for that. Which is a sad truth. I may try the work out video route but the fact is after getting the kid to bed and getting ready for the next day, it’s time for bed.

I’m not mad. I wish I had the time to exercise and work out like this.

Long-term expat, now French. Depp and Depardieu are waaaaaay out of our tax bracket! Wealthy celebrities are well-known for ditching France for lower tax countries like Monaco and Switzerland, but then, plenty of wealthy Germans do the same.

I was discussing the hassle of signing my two elementary school-aged kids for summer camps (it is a hassle because many of the camps are only part time, or won’t take both of my kids because of the age difference, etc.), and my co-worker was like, “what’s with all these fancy camps these days. when i was a kid we went…

Since when do department stores stock for the season, anyways? See: me shopping in February, surrounded by swimsuits, and then trying to buy a swimsuit in August and finding maybe three styles all on sale in the very back of the store.

I pute every single thing I can on my card and pay it card, and pay it off in full each month. I get 1.5% cash back reward on that. Right not I’ve got about $500 in rewards that I plan to use around Christmas. I’ve been doing this for years, occasionally move back an forth between cards when the reward situation…