Joining the chorus to say congratulations to you! I enjoyed reading your take on pregnancy and parenthood when your first was born. Good luck with your VBAC!! I'm hoping for one too. I'm due with my second in January and have reached the point where I know I probably won't sleep well again until March.

You just described them perfectly, right down to backyard farming! And we live in the Midwest. I think you're onto something. I'm pro legalization and know some responsible users too so, no need to explain.

I swear it makes no sense! Your uncle sounds like a real winner, too.

My husband got his MBA while working full time and graduated when our daughter was about 1. So for a while he did it while working and parenting. He studied on lunch breaks and occasionally stayed late at work to do homework since there were less distractions. He studied during the workday too when he could. Like,…

Christmas dinner is gonna be so much fun this year! Everyone has a crazy relative or two right? My cousin and her husband have become increasingly nuts. They often talk about and post to fb about the following: anti vaccine articles, chemtrail conspiracy "proof", gun rights stuff, marijuana is a miracle drug that…

Ooooh that's my kind of hobby.

Yeah, I work for my towns DPW and although I've never seen harassment to this extent, (althought one creep did corner and kiss me once) but I wasn't surprised either. I work in the admin office and avoid the back garage areas because a few of the guys have zero boundaries and are just total pigs. The women who work…

Haha! Came here to say just that. My 40something co-workers who have kids out of the house have lots of money, energy and time to travel, party, whatever. My own parents had kids in their mid-30s and now they're in their 60s and are still kinda raising my younger brother. No thanks.

My husband is the same way, and I feel like I've lucked out!! I don't ever talk about it because among my peers (late 20's to early 30's) I think it's kinda rare and I don't want to come across as bragging. We both work FT and have a toddler plus one on the way, and split things pretty much 50/50 between household…

I know I'll be in the grey, but its worth a shot...
Any ideas for a costume involving an umbrella? It supposed to rain and I still wanna take my daughter out. I thought of mary poppins but I'm also 7months pregnant and none of my black dresses will fit.

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I'm having a baby girl in a couple months and my husband really wants to name her Eleanor. I like Ellie for short but Eleanor took months to grow on me. I finally was coming around to it and found out its becoming more popular. Oh well. Picking a name is hard and at this point I don't wanna think about it anymore.

My kid is only 2, but so far, we don't watch tv when she's awake so the tv is shut off in our house until after her bedtime. It used to be on all the time til I noticed her staring at the screen as an infant. Just recently we started watching an episode of Thomas or seasame street (so 1 hour tops) before dinner. But…

My nausea went away around 11 or 12 weeks. The only advice I have is just eat whatever the hell makes you feel ok. Don't worry about nutrition right now, take those prenatal vitamins and soldier on. I spent my first trimester eating lots of toast with butter or cheese, ice-cold lemon water, and the occasional apple…

This story is oddly familiar to my own brother. You're a great sister to support him like that, and I really hope he grows up soon for your sake and his.

That's how it worked in my house too, except we never got any cooking-related chores. I think it was because my mom was a SAHM and enjoyed cooking, so she never wanted or needed us take that job over.

I got mine about 8 months ago and do just that. I used it twice a day for the first few weeks, but then my oily skin was getting dry patches on my cheeks. Now I only use it before bed. It gets all my make-up off nicely and I find that in the morning, my face still feels very clean not oily at all. Some mornings, I…

Does anyone else find themselves forgetting that the clones are all played by the same actress? When she played the soccer-mom clone pretending to be Sarah, I was pretty blown away by how incredibly hard that must be for an actress to do. It's quite impressive.

I worked at a pizza place when I was 14, it was my first job. I'd been making pizza dough and wiped my hands on my pants, leaving a white-flour mark. My manager, a middle-age man, walked over and rubbed both hands up and down my ass and legs to "help me clean up the mess". He was fired a few weeks later for…