Me too! And I have no idea who Sandra Lee is.

I like to believe he’s grown up a bit since this disaster. Although it hasn’t been that long since another PR issue. Some people have to learn everything the hard way.

Oh, you’re RIGHT. I had the same suspicion, even though I didn’t want it to be true. And now he totally looks like his paternal family. On/off subject - if you watch that train wreck of a show called The Royals, this is the current storyline.

My mother LOVED a good party, especially a costume party. She channels through me all the time, when I hear myself say, “Oh, THAT would be GREAT for a costume!” Even though I never go to costume parties. Maybe it’s because she was a Halloween baby.

I couldn’t even finish it.

My mom had some control issues, and really clung to 1950’s variety sexual morality. It made her kind of hard to talk to when I was a teenager, although she was consistently pro-birth control and pro-choice. She died almost 20 years ago, but as she aged, she was becoming more and more liberal. She even asked once, “Why…

Based on the comments, I realize I’m saying this at my own risk, but wedding guests do not owe you a gift. They are invited because you want them to be a part of the celebration of a marriage, and not because they *should* give you the Francis and Francis cappuccino machine (in orange) as payment for a bunch of booze…

When my daughter was 2 or 3, someone gave her tiny medical scrubs from a hospital. It made for a great Future Dr. Julia/Neurologist Halloween costume. :-) Now she’s almost 20, and it’s very clear that medicine is not in her career path. But it’s a better costume than a Sexy Nurse.

I thought that one was a doll as well. Or crazy air-brushed.

One of those sad emoticons lives in my house. She’s not sad anymore, but wow did that suck.

A million years ago, I just had one - my favorite cousin. A million years before that, my mother just had one, and I think I wanted to be like her. She had a super-classy wedding on a teeny-tiny budget - borrowed wedding dress and everything. One is SO easy. One fun shopping trip for one off-the-rack dress if you’re…

That is also my 19 year old’s middle name. Her name has a nice ring to it.

I’m in Paris this minute. Have also been to Belgium and Denmark, staying in homes the whole time. Tomorrow’s agenda is the American Embassy to see about getting my daughter’s stolen passport replaced.

Why would anyone want to marry someone who isn't sure they want to get married?

I’m so glad FB didn’t exist when I gave birth to the cutest baby EVER.

My particular almost-not-a-teen-anymore binge watched Friends and How I Met Your Mother. So, at least one did.

Is that the River Oaks Theater in Houston? I was a teen there 30 years ago. Before the denim mini.

This pretty much has disaster written all over it.

Oh funny! I was kind of a child of the 70’s too (I’m super-close to 50…), but never heard the dog thing until today. Mandy is kind of a weird dog name, even though unlikely dog names are my favorite.

I heard somewhere, possibly an unreliable somewhere (maybe on this site, actually), that Mandy was about a dog. But Elton John sung a few little ditties about women too, so, you know. Kind of what they “had” to do, and maybe some still feel they have to.