My children are very young— the older will be three next month. My guess with a kid that young is that he would be fine not eating anything (this has happened many times in our house). However, what then will happen is he’ll be hungry later, and at that age you can’t really reason with a kid and say, “We told you that…

Yes. My name is common enough that I am not really google-able, which I am very happy about. At the same time, it is not so common that I had the problem of being the fifth girl in my class with that name every year— I think I knew one other person with my name growing up. That’s the sweet spot.

Haha! Can you imagine? Also candy corn.

This is amazing. I am jealous that I didn’t think of it and that I don’t know you so I can’t partake.

In my experience in the U.S. with insurance, I could stay 2 night after giving birth without complications (longer if you had a c-section). The first time around I stayed both nights because I felt pretty bad. The second time I stayed 36 hours (after a 5am delivery) but needed my doctor to ok me leaving “early”. I was…

Yeah...I just did Rent the Runway for a wedding I have coming up because I gave birth sort of recently and none of my dresses fit me. We think this will be the last wedding we go to for a while and I just couldn’t stomach spending the money on a dress I probably (hopefully) won’t wear again. It still costs money, but…

Yeah, and it is sort of concerning that that was the main take-away of this post. If it was any other line of work but one where you’re responsible for the well-being of helpless living creatures, fine. But considering that toddlers drive even people who love them nuts, this had the potential to get really ugly.

Seriously. Someone started the vaccine wars on ours recently, and it’s like, really?! Really??

I tried to space my pregnancies close together for a related reason— I wanted to minimize the amount of time that my career would be side-tracked. As it happened it took a long time to get pregnant the second time so the kids are 2.5 years apart.

Downstate NYers here. The existence of melk has blown my mind, so I don’t think it’s from here.

Oh, please. My baby is a way bigger foodie than these two. He only eats artisanal, small-batch, organic, raw milk from a local producer, warmed exactly to 98.6 degrees fahrenheit.

The only reason to be in NYC is to hopefully schmooze with enough rich folk to get your own business popping

That is good news! Do you think you will go back to your original commute at some point?

Thanks. :) It's hard to be mad when things have turned out much better without him in the picture. Is everything ok with your commute situation?

1) Pregnancy scare (broken condom) the night of the wedding. We had no intention of ever having children.

Yessss! I didn't realize this is on Netflix now and I have been looking for something to low-commitment binge-watch. The thing that really gets me, looking back, is that I don't think these shows were really seen as "black" shows, or at least not solely for black audiences. Everyone watched them (I'm thinking of the…

Don’t leave! Come out to one of the boroughs.

Yeah, seems like that statement is highly conditional. I live maybe 15 minutes from LGA. Still a shitty airport, though.

That's good to know, thank you! In theory I like how that flowy style looks, but I just worry that it will end up looking frumpy rather than chic. And it's a lot of money to spend to end up looking frumpy, you know?

To be honest, even though I liked the book and would recommend it to others, it sort of got more eye-rolly once she was in New York. I couldn’t figure out whether she was dropping an awful lot of names, or if she was just telling her story and all of those people were part of it. I’m a 90s kid so, yes, I want to hear…