Burritos in that part of the world are huge!

“Who is that woman standing in front of Gwyneth Paltrow’s book?” were my thoughts.

I kind of thought the advice you got, based one what you said, was not great because I think if it was you being “overexcited” you probably would be having the same experiences regardless of who made the initial contact.

I had one friend who was visibly disappointed that my daughter’s third birthday was family only (ie, my parents flew in and we had a cake and did something fun and special). It’s such bullshit, it’s like the other parents want you to be as stressed out as they are to justify their choice to be stressed out.

“All the “mom jokes” on the internet about locking yourself in the bathroom with wine, or wearing sweatpants all the time, or being unable to ever relax or sit or watch tv or go out or go on dates or see friends just don’t ring true for me.”

Me toooooo

My brother and SIL are vegan and my brother absolutely buys that shit about evangelizing veganism. It’s extremely off-putting and he gets really nasty about it.

I wasn’t expecting it to be so funny and I actually snorted.

Remember that clip of Bernie running over to help someone who was fainted at one of his speeches?

I was vegetarian for 18 years and nearly vegan for the last five. I never understood the point of the ersatz food. It is never going to be as good as the real thing, so why bother when there is perfectly delicious food that happens to be vegan?

I want to add that I’m going to try again (after the current gestating fetus has made its exit) because I’m >hoping< that that will have made enough of a change that the IUD might work for me.

I had two copper IUDs because I can’t handle the hormones. The first one was “rejected” and the second one gave me cramps and spotting every single day for three months and I couldn’t stand it.

This same landlord gave us 50% off rent for three months after it took him what he felt was too long to find and fix a leak in the roof. He was a pretty great landlord.

In our last place, we had nasty old carpet that had been put in in the 80's. We were living in that town because my husband was attending grad school and when we decided we were not going to buy a house, we thought we’d approach our landlord with the request to put in hardwood floors. We made it clear that we would be…

I understand that - I was switching their position and mine to say that if I were in a similar situation with my daughter and she was near death, I might try, out of desperation, a thing I thought was nonsense (crushed onions or acupuncture) so I can’t understand why they didn’t try a thing they thought was nonsense…

I believe you misunderstood my comment. I didn’t claim that they did, I was stating that if my daughter was that sick and nearly dying and the thing that I rely on to help her (in my case conventional medicine, in the case of this boy’s parents, crushed onions and whatever) was not working, I would probably be willing…

I live near Harvard, have a small child and they have a fucking MUMPS outbreak right now. MUMPS. I am thankful for vaccinations.

I know! As sick as he was, wouldn’t one be willing to try ANYTHING? I feel like if my daughter was as sick as that little boy was and conventional medicine was doing nothing, I’d probably try things that I thought were nonsense.

I think they had some weird supplement company and believed they were nutrition experts.

That was my thought. What on earth could exonerate these people?