My county did make a PSA. http://m.seattle.curbed.com/archives/2014/…

How the heck do they keep those things shelved?

Coming from a mom who was unable to successfully breastfeed for several reasons, “normal” is whatever you deem best for your baby.

Native Seattleite here. I believe, statistically, the rainy season is January through June, then late September on. But, in contrast with cities closer to the coast, we have many more completely overcast (but not rainy) days. But don’t tell anyone else!

I’m so excited that I have an excuse to share this fact: I was 37; I had intercourse just once, 3 months after stopping the pill, and that impregnated me! Not quite the same as Gwennie, but still anecdotally significant!

Isn’t it like getting a hickey? Pulling blood to the surface and bruising? My ex used to have it done and I never noticed any improvement in anything.

My kid’s dad has a difficult-to-pronounce Italian last name. My son has it as well. Dad doesn’t give a fig if it’s pronounced correctly, but kid (and I on his behalf) ALWAYS correct people.

Seconded!!

Mindy, you and Deerlady and my favorite Cat Hat Maker: all of y’all are really awesome and I couldn’t live my life fully without you. Thank you!

Co-signed, a Seattleite.

Sorry about shini-ness, but my son did this when he was 4. I love, love this. (Which is why it’s immortalized with mod podge on canvas.) He now draws faces much more literally.

Let me reply to your reply now that I’m 100% sober, because I feel I have to. I call myself a bitch, daily. It’s part of my regular lexicon.

Said by my father (who wasn’t a kind man) to me when I was a teen, “You used to be such a cute little girl.”

Allison Janney wins at everything.

I don’t believe The Pope has an autistic child with Sensory processing issues.

Yay! An old like me! My first concert was A Flock of Seagulls! So very, very bad!

Oh, honey! I’m so sorry, but it will all be OK. Hugs to you and all the support of a 50s bra! Xo

I’m very light-skinned, but have furiously thick, black eyebrows that need tweezing daily so I appear female. Also, I have rogue hairs on my chin these days (I’m mid-40s), my hair on my temples is thinning, but my cheeks’ baby hairs are thicker than ever before.

Preface: I’m a cryer. Usually I just DGAF about crying in the store, my car, at a restaurant, etc. Because for YEARS after my brother died (13 years ago), I couldn’t cry. I had to watch The End Of The Affair like 100 times until it came naturally to me again. However, 3 years ago, on Halloween. My young son was…

The kid with the Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard hair looks like neither parent pictured...