Yes, most places physically hold your card when you open a tab. It’s very rare that a place has the set-up to be able to scan a card and hand it back to keep the tab open.

Ditto. If I won the lottery I would all about another kid-- as long as it had been born out of some other woman. This uterus is closed for business. 

Two things for your spreadsheet: 1) Your plan doesn’t mean shit, so be ready when nothing goes the way you want it to. 2) the first six months are just about survival. There’s zero judgment for whatever it takes to keep your sanity for the first six months. 

I was scared to rewatch this b/c I was worried it wouldn’t hold up and I have such fond memories of it. Thanks for the green light. 

That is such great advice. I would also add that it’s okay to not be in love with your baby on Day 1. Obviously women need to watch for post-partum depression, but there are a lot of women (me) who like their baby and then grow to love their baby over some time. 

And I think that speaks to maturity. I don’t know how old all of these people are but Pete and Ariana seem much younger to me b/c of their need for external validation (social media, tattoos, etc.)

I don’t think you need to spend so much time worrying about the choices your friends are making in how they raise their kids.

This bothers me far less than Ariana and the guy engaged to Ariana. But I agree-- who cares, be happy. Mazel. 

Braydon, Bray Lynn, Brendan, Brandon...

Because it’s a pain in the fucking ass and sometimes it’s not worth spending 45 minutes packing up a diaper bag, snacks, toys, clothes, etc. just to drag a child somewhere they don’t want to be just for them to fall asleep on the way back and blow their only nap of the day. Not to mention the state of my back after…

I’d rather name my child Kulture than Ash Leigh or Ginnifer. 

Taking my new baby to the grocery store gave me a panic attack. I realized real quick that we would not be one of those couples who could just “take baby everywhere” and live our lives like nothing had changed. 

The most surprising thing to me about parenthood is that every single thing that anyone ever told me about it was completely true. It is exhausting mentally and emotionally in ways I did not expect. The physical recovery alone took me 6 months.

I’d prefer if the present day weren’t so kind to them, they obviously don’t care about their “legacy”. 

No more men over 6' permitted to compete in basketball in the Olympics. 

“Someone stole my golf clubs out of my Mercedes. It was so violating— I feel like I was raped!”

It’s actually not much different in a bank. If someone robs a bank, the employees are not supposed to try and stop them at all. 

My response was to someone who was talking about how many people think it’s not “real rape” if a penis is not involved. So not just Turner’s lawyer. 

Ah, ok! Sadly I thought you were serious because there are people out there who are wondering why they didn’t.