He might also just absolutely love babies. My big, sweet male cat looooooves kittens (as well as puppies and human children) and will pick up any unattended kittens in the vicinity and attempt to walk off with them. 

I grew up in Vermont and my Dad loved to ice fish.  We had a chocolate lab who loved water so much that he would put his head in every single ice fishing hole my dad drilled. The first time he did it I thought “there’s a mistake he won’t make again!" Wrong. He loved it. Came up, shook off, went to the next hole. He…

I was an advanced/early reader, too. My parents said I apparently taught myself to read when they read me stories which they did a lot. I was able to read completely on my own by the time I was four and my comprehension was really good, but I was generally clueless when it came to pronunciation. I often wouldn’t even…

That is adorable.

Tbh... the bigger people should pay extra. They know they encroach into other people’s seats. It’s not like a subway seat where you pay $2.75 to sit for 30 minutes. It’s a fucking plane.... It’s not like you’re magically ever going to find a plane with larger seats. Every time after your first time flying and you’re…

my mom’s college roommate married dad’s college roommate and mom married dad! So every year, the original four women and their families get together

This is amazing and I want to be invited to the next shoe race!

I am laughing so hard at this. I have a MILLION cousins and when we were kids, my grandma rented a giant lodge for the week of Christmas. We would all pile in and get snowed in together, which sounds like a nightmare unless you were us (significant others have been known to panic at how boisterous we are; some…

As someone who has lived back and forth between Germany and english speaking countries, I can empathize. I’ve said all sorts of things that have made my German family laugh or make fun of me :(

Faux pas in a foreign language are the best. In Spanish you might be tempted to say, “Estoy embarazada” to express embarrassment. That means, “I’m pregnant.” In German if it’s a hot day you might say, “Ich bin heiß.” That means, “I’m horny.”

Even as adults, mean mothers freaking haunt us. My mother called me a fat cow as a child more times than I could count.

Hmm, I don’t remember reading this last year. So thanks for sharing it. I love heart warming stories like this! Obvs the self harm is not the heart warming part, but we all have our demons. Your Amma was somehow there for yours, and whomever was guiding her from other-worldly sources. ❤💗

I remember this one and being so glad she was there for you! I wish I could Red Panda hug you.

Sometimes there are times when guardians have to step in. Most definitely. I’ve had that happen on several occasions. i’m glad someone was there for you.

That’s strangely sweet--the part about your surrogate mother, not your self harm. Glad you’re doing better today. 

That sounds incredible!  I looooove cake.  But I feel you with the manual breathing, lol.  Please eat more cake, and tell us about this magical cake, I mean, German, program. :D

How many times will that much cake be available to you? You’d regret NOT eating all the cake more someday.