I am doing this thing now where I just say no to all of that stuff, unless I actually really do want to go (rarely). Easy as that. A wedding I don’t want to go be single at? No, thanks. A baby shower? Nope. Your kid’s birthday party? Nope, no thanks. And I’m actively keeping myself from making up a “valid” excuse,…

I just saw this on Shark Tank. It’s so you can leave your valuables on the beach and not worry about someone stealing them! ;-)

If you live near a Trader Joe’s, they have a great vitamin c serum for under $10. The formula is not greasy, absorbs well, and doubles as a primer.

I don't know anything about Vitamin C serum! What do you use?

I discovered her stuff last summer. It was a revelation. Who knew that putting oil on oily skin would do it (apparently everyone who knew that my skin was oily because it was dehydrated, go figure)? And considering I started using it in June, and got hooked over the summer (aka soupy Ohio hell), it took on my skin at…

I’ve always just gotten a quick brow wax when I get my hair done. But my daughter is insisting I do the Benefit brow bar. Is it worth it? Will it be an experience like I had when the Sephora lady put the makeup on me and I felt like good fairies had made me pretty?

BEAUTY THREAD!

Kylie Jenner kicked Tyga to the curb because, according to a source, “he was lying repeatedly to her face, and she just couldn’t take it anymore.”

Unless the woman you don’t like is Angelina Jolie in which case you’re Chelsea Handler.

I’d say, “no, but 1 in 3 women have.” Or whatever the right statistic is now. Or “what would you do if I said yes right now? Are you really prepared to have that discussion? Or can you perhaps accept that rape is fucking repugnant and seeing it in every other goddamned movie is something I might find disturbing?”

I read an awesome discussion of treatment of rape scenes. In Outlander (sorry, I love it) there were two attempted rapes back to back (!) and one was directed by a man, one a woman. In the male directed scene, there’s all kinds of T&A, with improbable positioning to get the most out of the forced nudity. It’s also all…

Yep. My first pregnancy was twins (yay!?) and our friends gave us their three-page, single spaced birth plan to use as a template, even though she’d had an emergency c-section due to low amniotic fluid. I accepted it but didn’t allow myself to have any preconceived notion of how i wanted it to go, aside from a…

When our second daughter was born my wife and I left for the hospital at 12:30 and the time of birth was 1:06. We weren’t trying to wait until the last minute or anything, but we lived near the hospital and the labor wasn’t too intense so we were just hanging out at home, then the contractions got super intense and…

This time I was at least in labor and delivery though. I think all in all it was a five hours process. Had him on Thursday, went home on Saturday, was at work on Monday.

Although to me, the notion of trying to control the situation is more of a modern mentality. I feel like back in the day women just went about their day and had no real notion of control. And certainly had no illusions about how hard it was going to be.

The idea that we could control the process beyond the most basic level seems adorably quaint and naive in retrospect.

baby came so quickly my water broke as I was pushing. I was already at the hospital for monitoring and hadn’t had any labor pains or anything like that. The doctors were like, we want to keep you over night but you’ll be home in the morning so just rest up because you still have a few weeks to go. Cool. I got up the…

Yes. Wipes everywhere. Our kids are 8 and 4 and we still keep a pack in the car for sticky hands.

Let me tell you something no one told me: keep wipes everywhere. Keep a box in your car, keep a box near the changing area, keep a box in your diaper bag - everywhere you can keep wipes. There are few things worse than your baby having a blowout and running out of wipes or diapers.

I think an important thing to know for new parents is that there are times when you will have to set the baby down (in a safe place) and just walk away to gather yourself for a minute. If you are frustrated and sleep deprived, and you will be, and the baby is screaming in your face it is easy to get angry and then you…