I’ve been experiencing more frequent breakdowns and headaches due to generally only getting about 5 hours of sleep a night for the past two years. I’M SO TIRED. So I went to mental health services at Kaiser where I live, and was truthful about my situation, that I was crying more often, having very occasional suicidal…

I love how your daughter reacted! Glad you could empathize with her fangirl moment.

He’s also the kid from Jurassic World, which was in 2015. Kid literally shot up and slimmed down in 4 years and it makes wonder what I’m in for when my three boys hit puberty.

Just for Mother’s Day?

What people are stuffing down their gullets is so important. First, drink water. Maybe its coffee. Or it’s tea. But it’s still mostly water (unless it’s half coffee creamer), so it still counts. Sodas are SO BAD. I don’t understand how people can get through a day drinking all soda. I also am always aghast at kids who…

Gee whiz, you never hear this kind of negative blowback when it comes to Captain America’s undercover beard, or Thor’s Ragnarok haircut. Her hair is straighter! She’s wearing makeup! She looks 20 years older....20 years later! THE OUTRAGE.

I can kind of tell I need a night guard (and I do have one of the dentist-issued ones) because when I don’t wear it to sleep, my jaw aches like a mother (part of the reason why I grind my teeth) the next morning. However, I have to wonder if my dentist also saw an opportunity because I have PPO insurance, which I…

Aw, newborn poop was so much easier than toddler poop. Hello, blowout city!

Ever feel like you might be an asshole?

My church mom’s mother has the beginning stages of dementia, and I wish I were close enough to be able to bring her to do this, because I know she’d love it.

I see what you did there. Well played.

The photos referenced in the Today article were great. I would totally buy those. But when the photographer obviously didn’t try to get a nice smile or expression out of the kid, and then it’s the optional spring photos (the fall ones go in the yearbook), I say they’re optional. It gets pricey buying those Lifetouch…

It looked like he was trying to get it back for his kid.

MISSED THIS. Never change.

Oh yes. I have a pile of these coupons on my fridge because Pizza Hut is not our first choice in pizza, but the trick is to make sure there’s no date written in ink on the back...

This. I named all my kids classic names, because I hate this thing people have about naming their kids U NEEK NAMES THAT ARE ACTUALLY JUST MISSPELLED and I don’t have to worry about their online identities. They can worry about that when they come of age.

Before I had kids, I ran a wedding decoration blog with pictures from the weddings I decorated with my mom. I made a surprising amount of money from it, but the Google and Facebook algorithm changes tanked my traffic. Plus, the addition of kids and moving to the city of LA that wanted its cut of what little I…

I have a drinking water hack. Bring a cup with you to bed. No guarantees you’ll drink it all before going to sleep, right? So when you wake up, drink it, so you don’t have to carry a cup of water back to the kitchen while groggy. (I hate wasting water because I live in LA, I have stairs and I go to work in the dark,…

I use e-rewards too. They don’t always like me because I work in media, but I’ve gotten quite a bit in the way of Amazon gift cards over the years, and have occasionally been able to also get my husband iTunes gift cards. They recently expanded their gift card offerings to include travel gift cards/points.

Like, do you have a kitchen photo studio at home? I suppose its possible since you’re the editor-in-chief of The Takeout...