I wish there was a term for dismissing a case with extra hatred for the non-prevailing party.

Ha, I’m hoping that is knowing sarcasm here because the thought of (most) defense lawyers getting paid big bucks is hilarious. You do know what we pay public defenders, right? Like . . . nothing? - Signed a low-paid private defense lawyer.

What the what? I just had alcoholic ginger beer, which was excellent, but alcoholic root beer sounds even better. Now, how do I find some on my way home from work so I can do what you’re doing?

Mine is still at my parents’ house. We let my daughter ride it when we visit and then marvel at how nothing like that could be made today.

You must be my sister. Hey sister.

Yep. I’m Jewish and we are raising our kids Jewish but we celebrate Christmas with my husband’s family and he asked me to play along with the Santa thing. My daughter seems to love Christmas and Santa, but it’s hard for me to keep up. She also believes in the Easter Bunny (thanks mother in law). It’s fun on Christmas…

Kids: Iggy Peck, Architect and Rosie Revere, Engineer. Me Jane. The Circus Ship. The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home. The Lion and the Little Red Bird. Library Lion. Miss Rumphius. Frida. Lola’s Fandango/El Fandango de Lola (depending on what language you want to read in). The Grey Lady and the…

You are me! Stories of my earliest travel-puke involved my stupid father giving toddler me a chocolate milkshake then packing me into a car for a drive down the CA coast. 7 years later he gave me another chocolate milkshake before boarding a ferry in Nova Scotia (seriously, he never learned). I have vomited on the…

So what does your kid do while you do this stuff? Seriously asking - because I try to get these things done too, but that usually requires my husband to be doing something with the kids (often going to the zoo, because it’s a 15 minute walk from our house and they have lots of space for them to run and a giant…

From my (limited) experience elementary/high schools definitely do that, I don’t know a lot of daycares that do.

Yes, why would the daycare let another child in for free when they could have one whose parents pay over $2k a month to be there? At my kids’ daycare, where infant care is something like $2,400k a month, none of the staff can afford to send their kids to the daycare.

I’m with you. I think I’m back to my normal weight, but I’m so out of shape and squishy in places that weren’t squishy before. But between work and taking care of 2 kids (due to husbands schedule I do drop off and pick up every day, and he’s often not home until their bed time) how am I supposed to fit in working out?…

Being a convicted felon and registered sex offender will definitely interfere with his ability to get into college. Can you imagine any college in today's climate risking the liability of admitting a registered offender?

I think being registered as a sex offender is going to take care of that.

He was convicted of a felony and has to register as a sex offender.

The people I know who have done it have generally chosen one of the hyphenated names to hyphenate with the other parent’s name for the kid. So Mary Smith-Jones and Tom Banks have Baby Smith-Banks. Seems to work fine. I assume that’s what my (hyphenated) kids will do when they have kids. Now the goal is to spend the…

Ha, I have friends in this boat, so they had to go ahead and pick one name to give the kids. They each kept their own.

Do elaborate on these ways in which your mom made it better . . . I think to some extent my daughter is introverted (she is incredibly shy with new people) and maybe that has something to do with it?

I feel like maybe we have the same daughter? How’s the door slamming/kicking/furniture throwing at your house?

This one? http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/79697…. I tried to buy new ones last winter in the middle of Boston’s snowmageddon and everything was sold out, guess I should buy now before everything is gone!