I half wonder if he doesn’t actually believe this crazy shit but just says it to see what reactions he gets. I really really hope that's the case...

I've kind of internalized the "not a real mom unless you have more than one." I know women finishing Masters and PhDs while having more than one child. But I don't think I'm doing a good enough job with the one I have, why would I want to inflict myself on another unwitting soul?

Lies, I used my toes to work a fork until my dad and stepmom had my brother when I was 10.

My aunt would make snotty comments to my mom like that about me, the "one perfect child." She had four kids and her set of twins were pretty awful. My mom had my brother when I was in HS so she kinda ended up having two only children.

My mom and her siblings were pretty horrible to each other when my grandpa died. Yep, a ringing endorsement for giving my kid someone to share the "burden" with when my husband and I kick off.

This is really close to what I was thinking when my son was still only a few months old. I cried all the fucking time and was so worried that he wouldn't smile or show affection (JFC, he's two now and it still makes me tear up) when I was so goddamned sad all the time. I thought about therapy, but who would watch the…

Holy crap are you me? The only benefit I got from staying home was that I could nap during the day which was needed since my son slept for crap at night. And I didn't have to leave the house when it was crazy-cold or snowing.

Now I feel a bit validated in my way of trying to lessen my working mom guilt by saying I enjoy my time with my kid now unlike when I did the SAHM thing.

What's been done is done in this woman's case, but maybe an IUD or Nexplanon would have been a less invasive and certainly not a permanent option. The state doesn't have to pay for her prosecution, trial, etc which I'm sure is cheaper than any of these BC options (and probably surgery, too - anesthesia is expensive,…

I gave my husband some pretty specific parameters. I told him cuts that I liked, the one I absolutely hated, what carat range I prefered, and which metals I liked for the band. We had talked about this for years beforehand. I was still blown away (in a good way!) by what he chose. We picked out our bands together.

I'm kinda surprised that so many people are still asking about eggplant Friday given all the comments about it the last time it was competing.

I watched Teen Mom 2 quite a bit when I was home with my son as a newborn. One of the girls had her (at the time) under 1-yr-old in a forward facing car seat which is illegal in every state where I've looked it up. I know that these shows are documentaries (like the nature show filmographers letting the fox catch the…

Good luck! I met my husband on match.com. There are still some odd ducks on paid sites but overall better.

I presume that he would be staying with you if he were making the trip? That might be pretty awkward to have him there and basically kick him out because you just dumped him.

It slows down, I promise. Also, try to take pics of all the cute outfits the first day she wears a new one. Sometimes that'll be the only time she wears it before growing out of it.

That's the sound of my childhood!

You know what else is *fun*? Being tall, fat, and pregnant. I was just glad I wasn't required to wear dress pants to the job I had then.

I actually did refer to my son as "the parasite" when I was pregnant. I even used that term a handful of times when he was nursing.

Went to an indie burrito place the other night where they had a fairly large aloe plant on the shelf above the trash can. It's a little far away to be used by a potentially injured employee but it's a step in the right direction.

I was totally going to find this and post it!