I hosted my first Thanksgiving this year. We made the turkey, stuffing, fruit salad, mashed potatoes, and roasted brussel sprouts. Everyone else brought pies, cranberries, sweet potatoes, etc. It went really smoothly, all of the food was delicious, and everyone was excited to get to contribute a little bit while I…

Yep. We stopped giving gifts to my husband’s sister and her husband when we had our kid. We get gifts for their kid and they get gifts for ours. Everyone is happy because no one is sweating over what to get other people who already have everything they need or getting crap that they have to pretend to like.

I’ll go look that up!

Horshack Test cleared it up for me above. The only kind of composting available in my area is personal composting so I wasn’t aware that it could be a city service.

Ah, that makes more sense. Thank you for explaining it! Composting is definitely not a city service where I live so I wasn’t aware that that was even a thing.

Composting them doesn’t make any sense, since you’re not supposed to put any oils in compost either.

I’d like to shake your hand vigorously.

And of course, if she HADN’T been wearing more expensive clothing, she would have been berated for daring to show up to Congress without dressing up.

Note also that Democrats flipped a house district in Oklahoma. For almost two decades now, Oklahoma has been solid red, but we managed to get a blue rep. That’s huge.

For a bad cold: Pho, miso, or ramen, depending on what I have in my pantry and whether or not I have someone willing to go get me some pho. Tea with honey or just straight honey if my throat is really bad.
For an upset stomach: BRAT or any kind of fruit.
For those days when you’re feeling better but still not totally…

I recommend a good mead, like Schramm’s. It will make you feel like you’re wrapped in warm hugs and everything’s okay, whether that’s true or not.

If you want to know HOW to stop hitting your kids, Google Positive Parenting or Hand in Hand Parenting. It’s not easy but it works.

I hope you don’t get flak for this because this is exactly what the research says. I don’t understand why it’s considered revolutionary to suggest that kids should be treated like human beings rather than wayward animals.

Oklahoma allows vote by mail for anyone but you have to re-register every year and each ballot you send in has to be notarized.

Considering I didn’t wear any costumes as a kid that could be construed as making fun of a group that needs assistance rather than judgment but usually receives judgment, no, I’m not embarrassed by anything I wore as a costume when I was younger. Why are you so offended by the fact that my brain imagines her as being…

So? I’m a mom and I don’t. Different people look at things differently.

I’m just imagining her looking back at this with embarrassment when/if she actually becomes a mom herself.

Siphoning money from the federal government into her family’s bank accounts.

For kids it’s about candy, sure, but for adults, it’s about confronting the real things (like our own mortality) and the not-so-real things (like all of the supernatural things our imaginations like to conjure up) that terrify us.

Again, you may want to have alternative ways to educate them. As someone who has given birth myself, the best thing for me was knowing about the stages of labor and knowing that the time when it would seem the worst was when it was closest to being over. That is not something that a person learns from a video. Videos…