My point is no bins at all. Just one big pile. No girl colors and boy colors. Just pink, blue, purple, chartreuse without any labels and pictures of both/either gender if you really want to show kids on them. Or bins with "sports"; "board games" "dolls" "fantasy" "science", etc.

Watching Gremlins (my kid age 7). Thought about cute Gizmo and a little gore, totally forgot about the scene where Phoebe Cates explains why she doesn't believe in Santa. She actually wasn't too scarred, as I made a big deal about being grown up and she now had to keep the secret from her younger cousins. I still…

I'd argue he is. To me, defying gender stereotypes is not having boys play with dolls and girls with trucks - its not labeling or classifying them at all. We have all kinds of things, play with what you like.

I really hope Lil Cat Chick sees this. It's taken so much of my energy over the last 8 years to not react or tell her what an asshat her dad is. Now he's having a baby with his new wife (but never wanted one that much in the first place). I grin and bear it every day while doing 99% of the parenting because…

My mom's record in her fuzzy robe is 3 pm on Christmas Day, after she got dinner all prepped. I think she actually would like to keep in on longer, if she could.

I've been watching Star Trek: TNG with L'il Cat Chick and Guinan is a great character, but now I cringe when she's on.

Jez is now the go-to source for celeb gossip! Our local pop radio station, 94.7, cited this post in its morning gossip report about Ariana Grande. Congrats!

I have a lot of movies to watch before February...No Property Brothers? It's the only tv I watch these days so I'm clueless on that front

Guess I was so on trend last month when I got married in this...Who would've known?

Very good point.

But how will girls learn how to hustle products to grumpy people that don't need them? How will they build character without pulling a wagon full of cookies around on snow and ice covered sidewalks in the middle of winter? How will they learn the joy of earning a teddy bear poster for selling $500 worth of cookies? …

And the same people who believe "every life is precious" so save the unborn babeeesssss

Yay, I'm glad I voted for him even more now. That, and he got a great brewery to come to VA. Yes, these two are VERY different in priorities I realize. I'll take what I can get until the next Republican "lower your taxes" idiot wins the governorship.

Oh yes, even 2-3 inches will help.

Liberty was a joke! It is as far from my (and hopefully her) beliefs as an institution can get. We've got a few years. She could be a Rory Gilmore and want to go to Harvard or she could want to get the hell away from me and go to Reed.

I'm 4'11 on my best day. We don't get those cute basketball looking bellies. LittleCatChick took up my entire mid section from boobs to below and I was definitely wide. Your mom is a rock star.

Thanks, good to know. Wherever she goes, I'm going to have to make sure she is prepared. And this is coming from a former sorority member at another well known Greek dominated ACC school.

Damn. As an in-stater with a kid doing very well in school, I was all set to gently push Little Cat Chick towards UVA because it will be a great deal and she'll only by 3 hours away. Must rethink that plan. She'll probably totally rebel and want to go to Liberty U or Notre Dame or something, tho.

I can totally understand how the fans feel, but I support this move. My parents have been Lady Vols fans for 25 years (more so than for the men) and Tennessee has such an entrenched tradition in the city of Knoxville and the whole state. I've been to many games and love taking my daughter to them. Everything is…

I've been married twice and I hear ya. I purposely tried to avoid it the second time. Seriously the worst part about the wedding planning - I felt ugly, poor and the people in the stores were not helpful at all. I did everything online or went to stores just to try on what I found online. I just got married the…