I actually do this with my kids. The size of the floor to be washed is adjusted according to the transgression, and if they're in trouble because they were fighting, the kids have to work together with one bucket, one scrub brush, and one rag. My kids actually make a great team; it's nice to see them work things out.…

Totally not the point, but I had this exact Trapper Keeper. ...wow.

I am so sorry for your loss. Reading your heartfelt story, I could feel your pain and anguish. I am a mother and I don't want to even imagine having been in your shoes. I hope that you go on to have as many children in the future as you wish and that you get to experience the way that love can widen your heart.…

I didn't know this site existed and now I'm in love. Thanks!

Autism isn't an illness so much as a genetic mutation. Autists are just wired a little differently from the outset and so require different education (when highly functioning) to fit in with the rest of us. If the degree of Autism is severe, it's extremely difficult or impossible to help teach that person to function…

Do you mean "inferred?"

lol Chipolte!

I buy chickens when they're marked to half price at my local Safeway. They come up regularly. Then I spend like, $2-3 per chicken, make it with whatever flavors I'm craving that day, then I have stock and leftover bits for soup too! It's amazing.

Super easy. Stuff a half stick of butter under that bitch's skin with whatever herbs sound yummy that day, cram an onion, some garlic, and a couple celery stalks into its ass, then plop it a pan with chunked up potatoes. Put some foil over it. Throw the pan of food into the oven on 450 degrees. After you start…

Ditto. They sold a dish of garlic-baked shrimp shit. >.<

I would say that the most painful part of labor was the transitional phase. Pushing and then getting the baby out is a relief after those really intense, emotional labor pains.

A few years ago when I lived in Manhattan, KS (home of K-State), I was settling into bed (naked, obviously) one night. I rolled over to grab my vibrator (my husband was out of town at the time, so a girl's gotta handle her own business, right?) and I notice a strange light reflection, or so I thought, in the blackness…

Right? My 2nd grader had 6 glue sticks on her list. 6x25 is 150 glue sticks, or about 6lbs of glue. Really? We REALLY need this much? Or how about the 8 pack of dry-erase markers every kid must bring. You know for a fact that these are for the teacher, not for the kids, and WHY? I've had 2 dry-erase markers for the 4…

I'm totally with you on this one. My three kids and their weirdly-specific lists (with brand name pencils and sizes of storage bags divided by GENDER, no less) came out to $298.36 this year, and approximately 14% of these supplies will ever be touched by my three kids. Meanwhile, someone else's devil spawn will be…

Your mom sounds awesome and I want to be like her when I grow up. My kids need more of that in their lives.

You are not alone! I freaking LOVE office supplies and it's very hard to talk myself out of neon paperclips and complete sets of pens and pencils.

I married my high school sweetheart young while he was in the Army. It didn't last, but we're friends now and actually, I got to see a lot of Europe while he was stationed in Germany! (This is not the normal married-young experience, ofc.)

Anecdotally speaking, this sentence is complete hogwash and possibly even troll bait. As a former military spouse myself, I've seen the culture up close and personal, and "stable" is not a word I'd use to describe the average military family. One half of the marriage is on deployment at least 25% of the time, the…

At the convenience store where I work to bring in extra cash, we do not have mandated breaks. We try to look out for one another and give each other time, but there is no break room or place to go and get your mandated 10 minutes every 4 hours or whatever it is, let alone an entire lunch. You're expected to work the…

inorite? (Gahhhhhh)