That is some truly amazing news! She looks very contented to be home, and I’m sure you’re feeling a huge surge of relief and happiness to have her there. Congratulations - y’all made it!! Now just remember to follow the Golden Rule: When the baby sleeps, YOU SLEEP.

Ran this one by my mom, who’s had cats for years. She says to start with keeping him in the house, so he can’t run away. asically, he needs to get used to a newbie in his territory. Basically, he needs to get used to a newbie in his territory. Make sure they have separate litter boxes and separate feeding dishes, so…

Audiobooks/DVD commentary tracks. I rip them to MP3, put them on low, and the murmur of a human voice will knock me right out

You put that perfectly. It’s one thing to teach a child to make some allowances (like having to wait til next weekend to see a movie cause Mom has a migraine, something I hated having to do) but it’s another to put everything on the child’s shoulders. What particularly struck me was when the incarcerated mom blamed…

This is exactly what I’m shooting for in my current book. It’s about a god who happens to be black, but he only addresses race once or twice when dealing with the humans and pretending to be one of them (ie, asking a question about whether a promotion has anything to do with race since he thinks a human would expect…

Are you sure about that? Cause I could swear it’s been at least five...

Oh, God, I hate bosses like that. And the worst part is that they can fuck you over for years and jobs to come. My first ‘adult’ job was at a law firm where the top attorney LOVED to do the power play thing. Anytime she called you up to her office, gave you a sweet smile, and asked you to sit down, you knew you were…

When Kidlet was 4-6 or so, we had him convinced that our car couldn’t make left turns. It started as a joke, since Mom doesn’t like turning across traffic, so she makes right turns whenever possible, and then when he asked if it was true, that the car really COULDN’T make left turns, we (being the ginormous family of…

Loom knitting is awesome! It’s perfect for headaches or those nights I’m just too scattered to really focus on cross stitch, and I love how quickly I can see progress. After watching me churn out several baby hats, Kidlet decided he had to get in on the fun as well - the lighter multi-colored baby hat in the pic below…

In my mother’s eyes, I’ve never been close to even cute, and she’s never hesitated to let me know it. For a long time, it was a major problem, but eventually I realized that she’ll never approve of anything about me, so I quit trying. I began living for myself, doing what I wanted to do, and it was amazingly freeing.…

Those are gorgeous! I particularly love the raven - makes me want to shift my Nano idea to some kind of tale from Munin’s eyes...

This. Exactly. When I saw the title, my answer was ‘you DON’T.’ And thank you for telling your kids to ignore service dogs. Going out with my dog, it’s routine to have at least one kid ask to pet him, and when I say ‘he’s working right now’, it’s very common to have Mom/Dad/whatever adult they’re with give me the…

That’s all that needed to be said. I had a friend watching Kidlet at her house when he was about 3 while I was at the theater for the evening. When I went to pick him up, she informed me that Kidlet had tried to go down to the playroom in the basement and ended up falling down the stairs. (About half a flight and…

Right there with you. I’ve had a migraine on and off for over a week now, and it’s getting to where, every time the pain peaks, I’m hoping that it’s a stroke that will finish me off and get me out of this hellhole for good.

Why anyone feels they must have multiple guns and now silencers is beyond me.

See, I don’t understand why the responsible gun owners aren’t the FIRST ones getting pissed the fuck off about this. It’s like how, once I became a pet owner, I got even more upset about asshats who don’t obey leash laws and don’t pick up after their dogs than I used to be. Before, they were nuisances. Now, they’re…

Can we just get rid of both?

Not only are they legal, but there are shooting ranges where the selling point is that you get to specifically fire one! When we went in August, we ran into a guy in the elevator who’d come from one, and he was juat guahing about it, said Kidlet should go, that it would ‘really make him feel like a man!’

The cry of ‘it was this way for me, so it should be this way always, for everyone’ is a common one for conservatives. When Bernie was running, I talked to my dad about his college proposal, thinking that with a grandchild entering college and dealing with the rising costs of education, he’d understand why I liked the…

Lynn Kurland! She writes time travel romances that are my perfect answer for crappy days, since they have that combination of sex and escapism without being cheesy. Other favorite authors for straight historicals are Julia Quinn, Celeste Bradley, Eloisa James, and Elizabeth Boyle (just discovered the Rhymes With Love…