I wish I knew this a year and a half ago!

Yeah, he was a person you wrote a report on during February.

• What’s your favorite canned fish? I know I’m supposed wax poetic about sardines, but I really like canned salmon croquettes. Now you know.

First birthdays are ALWAYS for the parents. I wanted my kid’s first to be special and went all out because I wasn’t able to attend my baby shower (kid was born 2 days before and we were still in the hospital. I don’t regret a cent spent or the effort involved.

Oh, I leave my towel and toiletries in an unlocked locker because I don’t care about them and it’s more of PITA to carry a lock in and out. I suppose someone could wipe their butt on my towel and spit in my lotion but I think the odds are low. And if you want to steal those things........go ahead, you probably need…

I need to know how much and how to move to a new city ....that’s literally down the street from where we live now. Can you hire movers who will walk down the block . Seriously, a moving truck will be pointless—it’s literally 7 houses down, and there’s nowhere to park a huge truck at the new place.

So what should one do about blood?

The X5 seemed oddly small—we sat in one at a car show and it seemed like we were really close to each other. I’m 5'8" and he’s 6'4" so that might have something to with it. A mini van makes even more sense for us with their larger between seat consoles.

Yes. I have a tiny vehicle (only 1 kid now, but we are thinking about another one) and it’s still a pain wrestling the little one out of his car seat. He is 18 months, but HEAVY—as am I, which means there is even less space when parking next to another car.

Minvan if only for the sliding doors when the kids are old enough to get and out of the car themselves.

I just realized I remembered how to say Uli’s name, but, like you, can’t remember anything from Scandal.

YES! I remember him losing and being VERY mad. It looked like a ‘real’ dress.

Do NOT tell your father, the widower, how many pigs your going to buy the coming spring. Or where you’re going to put them.

Well, when she died it was just the family in the room. And since it’s hospice, they don’t have you hooked up to anything, so no nurse rushed in the room right away—someone had to go find her and tell her AND find her husband (he had stepped out to talk to someone because he didn’t want to talk in front of her even…

be mindful of what you put on the TV

I thought the reason was that it didn’t have the ‘same last three letters’.

Was this a random thought or one brought on by an episode of Jeopardy! from last week?

My mom did this. Never learned that I was supposed to pour the milk in the bowl. To this day I eat dry cereal.

Is he wetting himself at school? If so...have the other children said anything?

YEP!