It’s good that your husband was able to stand his ground. My husband works for a small business and he wasn’t able to take any time off at all. He even went in for a half day on the literal day our baby was born because he couldn’t get anyone to work his closing shift. Relatedly, he works with/for a bunch of…

This is a great step forward and pretty generous for the US. However, as a company founded in Sweden and based in the UK, American employees are still getting a lot less than their EMEA-based counterparts. This is the problem I have with a lot of multinational companies - why not extend the same benefits to everyone…

It’s really a great concept. They are super popular where I live because the wait lists for day cares are absolutely insane, and they’re expensive to boot. Usually two families will team up to share one nanny for two to three kids total. The hourly rate is probably comparable to what you’d pay at the average day care…

Thank you for saying this - it makes me feel really good about our situation. How wonderful that your son had such a great connection with his nanny!

I agree that the headline is misleading. Our five month old daughter is in a nanny share with a wonderful nanny and two older children who she loves. I stayed home with her for more than four months (thanks California for actually having somewhat reasonable parental leave policies) and certainly would have stayed…

I used to be a big makeup person, but now that I have a baby, spending all that time in front of the mirror in the morning is not a priority. I’ve replaced my AM primping ritual with a many-step Korean-style skincare regimen in the evenings after she goes to bed. It fulfills the same self care urge, and my skin has…

I also love the UD Eyeshadow Primer Potion - I need waterproof eye makeup remover to get it off without scrubbing. I especially like the Sin shade, because I have a baby and no time in the morning, so when actual eyeshadow is just not happening (most days) I put that all over my lid and smudge a darker brown shadow…

I’ve tried their lipsticks and their lip crayons and like them both quite well! The color payoff is good and they aren’t patchy. The only downside I’ve found is that sometimes they can feather a little bit.

I am starting to think I attracted a motherly ghost companion toward the end of my pregnancy. In my last trimester, the lights in the baby’s room started turning off and on over and over at random. At first I chalked it up to living in an old building, but when I went back to work, the lights started malfunctioning in…

Isn’t it depressing?! I live in CA now but go back a few times a year and I don’t think I’ve even bothered to set foot in there apart from the brewery in years. My mom says its because the new owners have set exorbitant rents, by Keene standards anyway. On the bright side, Main Street/Central Square is a lot more…

Haha, small world! I worked there from 1997-2000 if memory serves. I’m guessing I’m older than you but knowing Keene we probably at least know each other’s families IRL.

I only remember getting concerntrolled for my eating choices once while pregnant, and it was by a coworker who offered to get me a drink from Starbucks and then seemed perplexed when I accepted. I made it a point to very ostentatiously not give a fuck though. I had to attend a multiday sales meeting at about five…

I just kept telling myself that no self respecting ghost would choose to haunt a windowless conference room in the middle of an office park. I was pretty freaked out though - we have a light that flickers at home too and I was starting to wonder if I was haunted!

I was reading them while pumping in the mother’s room at work when the light went out and wouldn’t come back on! It’s on a motion sensor but usually waving your arms turns it back on. This time, even the light switch wouldn’t work! After about five increasingly harrowing minutes it just randomly turned back on. I’d…

It’s a bottomless pit! Good luck... :-)

Another good site to order from is Jolse. Most of the Korean sites base shipping costs on weight, so if you are ordering a lot it makes sense but can be expensive for just an item or two. Jolse rolls shipping costs into the item price, so they are more expensive for large hauls but make sense for just an item or two.

Hahaha, well. I kind of overhauled my entire routine. I started introducing AHA and BHA products a few times a week to increase cell turnover and unclog pores (Mizon 8% AHA Peeling Serum and good old Stridex pads respectively). Then probably the two other products I saw the best results from are Cosrx Galactomyces…

This. My husband and I spent the entire episode joking about how he had clearly taken a few too many uppers.

I love the Snail Bee Essence! My skin looks so great since I started using it (along with a few other Asian products, since snails pretty much sent me down the rabbit hole).

Haha, in the end I chose not to hyphenate for that very reason. Now I get people wondering why on earth I decided to keep my long complicated Polish name rather than adopting my husband’s short and relatively common Irish one. People are assholes.