This year on our card we’re all sitting around the set Christmas table with our baby in a turkey roaster in the middle smiling away. Solidarity!

Yeah I’ve noticed that a lot. It seems people go on and on trying to dig their way out and only when it’s clear that they’re cornered they’re all, “You know what!? I don’t need to answer to you because my lord and savior understands me!” It’s always struck me as super odd that they go there last though. If I was a…

There’s also the issues with general perceptions of women and children within the tribes themselves. Violence towards them has been normalized to the point where it’s almost an expected part of domestic relationships. Macleans did a pretty good job of touching on this. http://site.macleans.ca/longform/almos…

That’s exactly what I was thinking but thought I was the only one.

I hear you. I’m short and my husband is really tall. So far it looks like my 3 kids are all going to be taller than me by the 4th grade. I’m going to look ridiculous in family photos.

I read that they left the surrogate stuck with the hospital bills as well.

Wait...what? That was actually a thing!?!?!?

You have won the internet today.

Agreed! My daughter is in girl scouts here in rural Canada and they do an awesome mix of crafty things (which the girls actually love) mixed with outdoor survival skills and recreation. The point is that they get to be strong, independent and capable while still taking pride in being girls. Telling little girls that…

Totally agree. The name is terrible and all that comes to mind is bread for me as well.

Yes! The few times in my life where I’ve had to tell a guy he’s being inappropriate and I’m not into it, the situation has turned into mocking me to my face and to others about how I must think I’m “all that” because he never did anything since clearly I’m not as attractive as I think I am. Every. Single. Time.

But the cost of living on the west coast is through the roof. Check out rural Vancouver Island. Major need of nurses and gorgeous properties for cheaper. Also you can kayak with whales on your off time free of charge.

Exactly! I have 3 little girls who I adore and a fantastic husband. But when my sister was knee deep in med school and in a crappy relationship and needed to terminate an unwanted pregnancy I was 100% supportive. Just because my choices to get married and have a bunch of babies worked our for me doesn’t mean that I…

My mom went to Catholic school. She still can’t really talk about the horrible physically and emotionally abusive things the nuns did to her and her classmates. But it must have been as bad as it gets because she can’t go inside a Catholic church and if anyone starts using religious words around her she literally…

Tell me about it! My Mother gave me such a hard time about spending money on a prom dress (because, “it isn’t like you really care about those things anyway.” I wasn’t nearly as beautiful and fashionable as my sister but still really wanted to look great at my prom) that I volunteered at the dress shop ran by a nice…

Your Dad is rad.

This is so true! I grew up in the 80’s where rumors and speculation about HIV/AIDS were being passed around as facts to kids. I remember being told in a school assembly that there was no definitive evidence that you can’t get the disease from sharing a drink with someone. They had videos of people claiming they don’t…

Thank you! I’m glad my girls are too young to have wanted to watch that. So many of the relationship dynamics in those movies/books were creepy as F.

You’re absolutely right. And it has no basis in nature. There are apparently some people who believe that it actually emotionally scars the baby if you don’t let the placenta stay attached to the baby until it rots off. Maybe that’s why the world is such a violent place?

Sadly I think you’re right. I spent three years working in South Korea and my Korean friends there told me about how they had this whole persona of pretending to be out of control when they fooled around because it was a way of showing that they, “aren’t that kind of girl”. In fact my best friend who is a white…