Yes! I’ve never understood the whole forgiveness thing. Not just in Christianity, but when people say you have to “let go” and it somehow improves your life or whatever? No thank you. Pretending I’m not bothered by something I’m actually really bothered by would NOT be good for my mental health, and I don’t know WTF…

Yea

We do 6 every summer, so the odds are okay... But the last one left me with a week of pasta and potato salads, so I’m not off to a good start.

That’s a tough call, but in any case, I’d blame the photographer, not the couple.

tbh I’m really regretting having a human bridal party at this point.

Yeah, this guy’s state, and I think more. I dunno, I’m from pinko Massachusetts, where we hate guns and love gay abortions. It makes up for the shitty weather. :)

Um... huh?

They’re not required to show it to you there, are they?

As long as it doesn’t encroach, I’d say it’s okay. We got engaged and planned for a June wedding 2 years later. Our friends got engaged... I dunno, 6mo or a year later and planned their wedding in August. That was fine. Then, with less than a year to go, a third couple got engaged and claimed July. Three weddings in 3…

I vote go for it, but either tell the family before or after the wedding. Don’t let anyone find out during. Or maybe ask the bride, and really emphasize that you are okay with her telling you to wait. Either way, congratulations! Fireworks, yay!

Depends on how mini? Three to five snaps is okay, I think. At my bff’s wedding, I was the MOH, my son was the ring bearer, and my husband was the flower man (yes). The photographer took a few shots of my family only... Then again, we’re always a family, and an engagement is, like, an event. So maybe not even three to…

Re: your mom’s cousin- my MIL had family from out of state for our wedding. Fine, they were invited. But then she asked if these people could stay in our home while we were on our honeymoon. People I’d never met, and my husband met them once as a child. Uh, no.

Your dad is quite possibly the best human ever.

I wonder if there are any compassionate doctors/ultrasound technicians that are finding ways around this. Like maybe doing a regular ultrasound and describing it to the patient as, “We are looking at a screen with some black and white shapes.”

Pfft, we were first.

I will never understand the logic of allowing the parent of a shitty person to raise their grandkid. Like, we’ve seen your results. You raise shitty people. Saw this firsthand.

Make the exact right amount of food so that I have leftovers for lunch and dinner the day after the cookout. No more, no less.

I took that super seriously and it was wonderful. Like a grown up version of those custom books where the hero has your kid’s name and face because you uploaded their pic to the website.

Right? I need to see how these words come to be. Like, some sleepy 15yo with their mouth full just completely bungles a word, but they’re popular, so the other kids don’t call it out and just start repeating out? “Mr. Hill’s history class is so blork.” “Yeah! Totally! So blork!” “Blork for DAYS, y’all.” “Blork to the…

I imagine it doesn’t come up often.