It's easy (for me, anyway) to focus on a certain event and get too wound up about it. My first wedding was planned a year in advance and felt kind of anticlimactic. My second wedding was planned over about eight weeks and was way more stressful, even though it was smaller and didn't involve any vendors or anything…

I'm 31. I've in the same city since I was 12, but when I was 27 I moved to New Mexico with my boyfriend. I fell in love with NM, but it was really lonely and hard to make friends.

most freezer meals are unappealing to me. I like to make a big batch of tamales a couple times a year and freeze them. You can fill them with basically anything you like and they keep for quite a long time.

When it comes to dealing with medical professionals, medical billing staff, and our health care system in general; thinking about it too much will always piss you off.

THIS!!!

maybe it does, but it won't get your baby high. Unless you are worried about someone testing your baby for drugs, I highly recommend smoking the weed to new moms.

seriously. I can't stop snickering at this photo.

This outfit is stupid, and yet she looks 1000x better than Britney did, plus you get bonus points in my book for not giving a fuck and having fun.

It wasn't especially flattering on her. The way it hung off her body just didn't seem right.

My 2.5 year old loves sharks. I just showed this to him and he fell off the couch laughing.

Ugh. That's really sad.

No, it's not cold at all.

I struggle with this, too, especially now that I'm a mother. My husbands extended family are very racist— they are also Native American. I want my kids to grow up learning about their heritage and learning what they can from their elders, but I also don't want them to hear grossly ignorant things about Mexicans, other…

My husbands mother and I talk about this all the time— our mothers expected us to care for them in their old age since day one, yet are unwilling to do their part in caring for themselves until that time comes.

Not to mention that when the responsibility of caring for an elder falls to the son's family, it's typically his wife doing all the work, not him.

I have noticed that parents in my community who are foreign-born seem much less stressed and more secure in their roles than American mothers do.

Thank you for saying this. Adoption can be an incredibly trying process. If you are a person like myself who lives outside the mainstream, it seems impossible. People love to say, "well, you can always adopt!" But it's not that simple.

Ugh. Can't wait for that. I'm pretty much stuck wearing flip-flops already. Find for now, but I'm due in November.

I'm 26 weeks and FUCK THIS.

there's no way she's going to keep that pig and care for it once it reaches full size, whatever that ends up being. Just another accessory to her. Shitty.