I envisioned random drive-by forced baptism by a stranger, not relatives. But a stranger who deliberately makes physical contact with a kid without the parents’ consent certainly runs the risk of legal problems.

Uh, 1) I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t even hold up as “real” in Church, and 2) I hope she gets sued for assault by a parent.

That sounds like she was grasping at straws to convince you to get them baptized. Does she relentlessly ask you to do it? Or just once?

Never read the comments (except for here).

I know you’ve already gotten a ton of replies letting you know that you’re not alone, but here’s another! Our 3-year-old has preferred Daddy since around 18 months. It does sting when he insists “No, Daddy do it!” for nearly everything. He sometimes has meltdowns when it is my turn to give him a bath.

It was no secret that I wore flats for my wedding. They were still nice-ish ballet flats and not Chucks.

I had the same reaction as Hugh Grant. I can pretty much guarantee I'll never text, email, or otherwise talk about Windows outside of this comment. But I am in an industry where I'd be more likely to discuss actual glass windows.

Fascinating. How do they not end up with the genetic issues that humans have with inbreeding? I could probably Google all this but I'm procrastinating enough by Jezebel-ing instead of working (deadlines don't care about holidays!) that I don't need to get sucked down that Internet rabbit hole.

He really should have just owned them like Jewel did.

So then Nemo would mate with his father? Do they have incestuous breeding IRL?

The clip *does* show two human women at an aquarium. Ergo, lesbian.

I realized tonight that we've been doing this potty training thing off and on for over a year now. FML

I wanted to like it, too. Think I only got through 2 or 3 ep before giving up.

At this point, I’d be accepting of my kid pooping outside because then it wouldn’t be in his diaper/pull-up. Even tried bribing him with ice cream (something I said I’d never do) and he still just said “um, no fanks.” *facepalm*

I don’t think that eggs are an acquired taste like wine and beer. Either you like ‘em or you don’t (like me).

False, they are every bit as gross as other eggs.

I was a couple months away from 18 when I met my first “real” boyfriend (read: person I lost virginity to). I had those same concerns even though we talked about marriage and kids. He’d even called me out of the blue to ask me what I thought about a particular name should we ever have a daughter. It royally sucked…

I basically live in Cacique (Lane Bryant’s brand) bras and wait for their buy one get one 50% off sales. They can have wider bands depending on the style but they also have less matronly styles.

I used to haunt some LJ comms. I’d actually prefer their commenting system. I get a little lost here sometimes trying to figure out what posts people are responding to when a few threads get going.

I posted this elsewhere tonight but I’m @JuneBug_of_J on Twitter. Made that account especially for this purpose.