I don’t think we are mad, more confused because it DOES seem like this is the hill you want to die on (and I love your comments and follow you btw).

Following up, the time period under discussion the baby was THREE months old! He was physically attached to her 24/7. There may not have been a nanny at this point, and he left her alone and unable to take a break for what, four hours? Have you had a baby?

There is no maid, there is a twice monthly cleaning service. The nanny is 18 hours a week, while she works out of the house three days a week, and in house two. He works full time at home, and had regular travel. They need flexible, reliable part time childcare. No luxury, probably even costs less than daycare in a…

Yes and a part time nanny can adjust to your schedule where a preschool might require full days, or half days all week, to the tune of 6-8k a year (in a regular old city, not NYC)

Exactly! I live in a house with a fully functioning team of semi adults who do pretty well coordinating daily tasks, but without the weekly deep vacuum and bathroom clean we'd be up to our armpits in cat fluff and general scum mines (unless I took all of Saturday to do it).

They are probably working more than full time, which is what happens when you run your own business. Travel also counts as work. Just because you are not in an office does not mean you are not working.

Especially if you work from home you shouldn’t automatically be relegated to cleaning everything. As someone in a similar situation, the weekly housecleaners do the “Charlie” work, which would otherwise land on my shoulders, essentially erasing my Saturdays.

Because sadly that would be felony assault

Milkshake lady is probably my mother, who I haven't spoken to in eight years. I'm sorry....

Handmaid’s Tale....

Gawd, still relevant, still iconic....

As mentioned above I loathe sweet tea and always have. However one summer day in Charleston I just about keeled over from heat and humidity and the only thing that revived me was about a gallon of the sweetest tea imaginable at a soul food place. Made so that a spoon would stick up in it. Man then I understood its…

Yes, leave the world a better place than you found it, a little bit everyday!

Your friend is right in that soil type and hydrology affect crop choice and success, which in turn affects labor patterns, economic conditions, adaptations thereto, and so on. One of my favorite way out there ideas is this one:

But to return to the earliest point, Mississippi Embayment or cultural borrowings notwithstanding, in no case have I ever heard a case being made for Missouri belonging to the ‘Deep South’ (and I speak as someone with published research on the region). The traditional definition relies on political geography, with a…

Oh god yes, the marching scourge of sweet tea. Don’t make me say the brain melting ‘unsweet’ tea! Here in DC I notice that tea is automatically unsweet but immediately across the Potomac you get sweet, and it is creeping into Maryland.

You can perhaps see that this information would have been helpful in your first post, whereas I thought I was dealing with a UK citizen with an infirm grasp of US geography....

If it helps, consider that St Louis and Kansas City are in Missouri. It is absolutely central Midwest, both in terms of geography and population distribution of United States

Oh there has definitely been Mission Creep on behalf of a certain type of southernesque cultural traits....

Mississippi and Missouri are different states.