Exactly. I gained weight because every time I tried to cut calories my supply tanked HARD.

"Columbusing", whatever happened to using the word "appropriate"?

Yeah, a 14 year old boy. The instant he has a friend over I have to cook 3x as much for any meal. And snacks? Forget it!

My mom was horribly abused - physically, emotionally, mentally - and said "the abuse stops with me". And it did. It's a choice that she, her sister and her brother chose to make. We'll never know if Stuart would have kept to it (he died at age 20) but she and my auntie stuck to it like glue.

I loved my epidural with my first birth. I refuse to give birth in 6 weeks WITHOUT an epidural. I want to be in a hospital in case of unforeseen circumstances.

It's a liability issue - plus it costs about 4 times as much. A cartoonist I follow searched for a LONG time to find a piercer (in Texas where they live) that would do his 7 year old daughters ears. She got captive bead hoops put in. I have a closed piercing in my cartilage that has closed up 3 times now - but it's…

My uncle isn't really my uncle. He was a college exchange student whose host family were my grandparents. They came to be his host family because his little sister had come to the University of Minnesota (from Chilé) for heart surgery a few years earlier and they were her Minnesota family - arranged through their…

Yeah, but we keep visits to under 2 hours. And after we're there we go to the McDonald's down the road and wash hands and faces. The toddler gets a change of clothes.

My period was 2 weeks late. I got it mid-reception and then had it for a solid week and a half. THAT SUCKED.

My inlaws smoke inside. The walls are BROWN. It's so disgusting.

Don't know if anyone will see this - but whenever I see "you're" spelled as "UR" I think.... "as in ursa? like bear?" I am incapable of pronouncing any other way.

Mine is less than 10 - but I can't remember the exact amount. I can't remember names. I can't remember what a couple looked like.

We were able to purchase a house because I am an Iraq War Vet. Every single re-fi offer that comes to the house IS ADDRESSED TO HIM. And they all talk about working with vets and how they can help HIM. The first name on themortgage is NOT HIM. The instant we get one addressed TO ME we might consider it.

I know! I was thinking about that. Not ONE, but TWO marriages and Affleck is her first big heartbreak?

I use for babies "look at that face! And those (fill in the blank)! Amazing!" It works because you aren't insulting or complimenting.

Jaegermeister and Goldshlager. It's called a Starry Night. Oddly addictive once you have your second one. Of course, it's GETTING to the second one that's the issue.

My dad makes pot butter. Easy, but time consuming. Then he can have a gluten-free piece of toast with butter and have a nice mellow experience.

We'll do thanksgiving the day before and do our "traditional" Christmas eve dinner at my moms - and then MIL gave me the recipe for the sweet bread breakfast she usually makes so I'll do that for the morning. I've invited both sets of grandparents to spend the morning with us but the o it one that will take us up on…

You don't live in a northern suburb of Minneapolis do you? You're not my husband, are you?

Yeah, my parents are still technically married even though they've been living separately for 5 or 6 years. I'm now 33, my sister is 37. I'm married, have a teenage stepson and an 18 month old. It WRECKED me when I realized we wouldn't ever do our traditional christmas eve/morning stuff anymore - and I was married…