Aw, he looks so much like my Calamity Jane! (Inspiration for my screenname.) Keep on truckin, old man cat, you're adorable! :)

The dumbest part about the lack of black women being cast in holiday movies is that I don't think that's a choice audiences are making. It's studios assuming that it's something we don't want, which is absurd because it's not like America, which is obsessed with Beyonce and in love with Lupita Nyong'o, is saying it…

Oh my gosh, how heartbreaking. I'm so sorry! I'm glad your business survived though and you're rebuilding.

I actually thought having them close was easier— we were done with the nanny sooner.

That sucks, I'm sorry. :( Hopefully they change their laws again in the future. (If you don't mind my asking - how did they change them that made you have to return to the US?)

Thanks for sharing - best of luck!

Seriously, and I know this sounds dumb, but I did not even really think about summer until this year. I was talking to my boss and she had this whole icloud calendar for summer camp for her kids (like, 8 and 10) and it was like, an insane 12 week fiesta of a million different types of week long camps. I (stupidly)…

I can't even imagine in Manhattan. I'm in LA and it's crazy enough here, but the rent and nanny options are both cheaper than NYC. I'll pray for you. (And I'm not religious!) ;)

I know. :( I've been looking into it a bit and it's rough. Basically, I think the only way we could go is if my husband had a job offer. Or if we were independently wealthy. If you don't mind my asking - where did you try to go? (We've done a little bit of research into Canada, the UK, New Zealand and Australia…

Yep. Sigh. It's definitely going to be a nanny for us when we have a baby (hopefully in the next year.) I work 9 - 7 and my husband works a lot of nights, so no way could daycare work. We'll be very, very lucky in the sense that my husband works odd hours, so hopefully we'll only need a part time (20 hours a week,…

Oh she's beautiful!

It's probably a combination of things and, as justlikeacold pointed out, I bet a bunch of it is college tuition increases, which have been... depressing, to say the least. However, as far as child care costs, I know in my work circle, people have had to increasingly rely on nannies instead of day care (or nannies AND…

Yeah, I talked at length with a coworker who had lived in New Zealand for a few years and regrets returning to the US on a daily basis. I have high hopes that my husband's career will take us abroad at some point. One can dream, anyway.

Psh, whatever, my Archie will be cloned and passed down for generations. OH HOW I WISH THIS WERE TRUE. :( :( :(

Leaving the country: getting more attractive each year.

What on earth is it going to take for things to change? I mean, if Trayvon Martin didn't change things, if Mike Brown and the Ferguson protests didn't change anything, what on earth is it going to take? It's like with gun violence I thought for SURE okay, Sandy Hook. That HAS to be the thing that changes…

Oh man, this article is bringing out the trolls hard core. Ignore them! Do not engage! *she says, while practically sitting on her hands to control her rage typing impulse*

How did I not realize how hilarious Gabourey is??? Following immediately!

Holy moly. I gotta tell you, religious people (of this type of extreme belief) just terrify the shit out of me. Reminds me of some Taliban/ISIS shit. *shudders*

I feel very similarly about anyone who names their adorable little girl after Arya in Game of Thrones without getting any further than the show, currently. I mean, I love the character of Arya, as a reader, but wouldn't feel super great about naming a baby after her.