The girl whose blogs I used to hate-read has deleted her latest blog and there is a hole in my life that cannot be filled. So I'm right there with you.

Since I am in the media, the first several pages of my google results are things I've written in my job capacity. It's kind of a blessing because anything personal is buried.

Oh man, yes. I only got eight weeks off, only two of which were alone, but I could not get back to work fast enough. The baby was too small to really take anywhere (since he had to nap every two hours) and I was recovering from a C-section so I couldn't be too active, either. So I basically sat around the house all…

Oh, I can vouch for the fact that it exists. I've seen it at least three dozen times. Only because I've seen the first Cars movie about a hundred times.

Not foodservice, but I remember when I had my first job and went with my Dad to cash my very first check.

HEY THAT'S LIKE THE SCENE IN CARS 2.

Oh man, when I was a server a guy once asked me, "Can I get summa that a-Jew sauce?"

The other day when I was changing my toddler's diaper he yelled at me "WIPE MY BUTT, MOMMY!" and lifted it up in the air.

I had this thought too. Personally I wish we had waited to get my son a training potty - we got him one about eight months ago, when he was 18 months, and he was super excited at first but his interest in it passed quickly (because really he was too young to be potty trained). So now that we're trying to actually…

The other thing about it - and I've said this before - is that being a SAHP is so isolating. You don't get a whole lot of time around other adults. At least at an office job if you nail a presentation or something you get recognition of it, but when you're a parent no one (except other parents) really appreciates the…

I was haunted for days after first reading that WaPo story. I think I claimed I was sick and left work early. It really, really stayed with me, which was a testament to the reporter's skill in handling such a loaded topic (made me see Weingarten in a whole new light). My little one will be getting lots of love today…

There's an UH-MAZING local doughnut place in my city, and when we went on Sunday there was a line out the door. A customer asked for two dozen doughnuts and the guy behind the counter told him there was a 6-doughnut per customer limit when they're busy. He was super nice about it - "We want to make sure everyone gets…

The ice thing made me thing of the iced tea drinkers. Who always had to have the perfect ice-to-tea-to-lemon-to-sugar ratio. I learned quickly that refilling their glasses from a pitcher was not sufficient. Every refill had to come with a fresh glass of ice and a bowl of lemons.

I got straight-up cussed out by a customer once when I was waiting tables at a casual chain restaurant (think a "stuff-on-the-walls" place) because in between trips to the table I was hanging out at a wait station at the back of the dining room goofing off with other servers (dancing, telling jokes, chatting, etc.)…

The bit in the WaPo article about the father who tried to grab the gun from the police officer who arrived on the scene so he could kill himself absolutely gutted me. I would feel the same way. Between the grief I was feeling and the agony of knowing that my husband would know that I was responsible for losing our…

I see the most messed-up people post those things. I'm sorry, but if you're a heroin addict who, as an adult, still has a mutually abusive relationship with your parents, you no longer get to claim you "turned out just fine."

Literally every other punishment ever. Time outs, loss of privileges, logic/reason... There are entire books out there on discipline that does not involve hitting a child. It's absurd to act like the only thing a child will respond to is hitting them back.

If they're that old they already know that hitting hurts, they're acting out for other reasons. Hitting them "to show what getting hit feels like" is not addressing the reason they're hitting.

You don't have to hit them to do that. Another way to do it is to explain early on what "hurt" means. When they fall down and skin their knee - "Ow, I know, that really hurts." Pretty soon they know what "hurt" means and you can tell them "that hurts."

Have you ever forgotten your keys in your car? Have you ever started to get up, but then realized you were still buckled in? Have you ever started to get out of the car and realized the car wasn't in park?