I may be revealing my age here, but it’s just too appropriate.

I related to this viscerally. My mother was angriest when she sensed that we (and especially I ) were happy, and then the rage would take over, eclipsing everything else. Our childhood was spent in fear: the toll of which is lifelong.

Nonsense. Show me the studies that prove that a glass a week causes serious birth defects. Take your time, I’ll wait.

Am I the only person that thinks your behavior is actually supposed to change when you’re pregnant and want to carry the child to term (meaning at some point it really isn’t going to be solely about mom and her body?)

That’s the kind of behavior I’d expect from the kind of monstor who eats salad without cheese

You just BLEW MY MIND OPEN in dealings with our HR/billing/payroll/chief idiot. He’s so fucking reluctant to give an inch of info to me (anyone) and it’s definitely a power move. JFC I can’t believe I didn’t stitch this together sooner.

Newborns are so funny looking. They are either asleep, or PISSED. "Where am I? Why am I cold? What are socks?"

Boxy stuff doesn’t look good on anyone who isn’t thin and small breasted. With my boobs anything like that makes me look approximately 15 months pregnant, and my waist is pretty small.

Dan could also be my boss.

+1000 for delving deep into an album cut!

Excellent. My son didn’t have a birthday party proper until last fall, when he turned six. He did not care before that. My three year old still hasn’t had one. We have a nanny. It’s all good. Best advice I ever got, from my father: fit the kids into the life you already have. Not the other way around.

What’s surprising (but really shouldn’t be) is how improvised so many aspects of the the whole experience are, and how many random curveballs there can be, even though it’s something that happens so frequently, you’d think it would be routine. I blame television and movies for perpetuating the idea of the “routine…

I’m very similar to you except my husband stays home with the kids, so no nanny - but we seem to be similarly laid back about parenting! My little girls (4 and 2) wear hand-me-downs, haven’t ever had a themed birthday or anything over the top, aren’t over-scheduled, and dammit, they are happy. I know SO MANY…

The people who give you crap about your daughter who is in the care of a nanny not being “socialized” realize she is a human child and not a puppy, right? Also just, MANY rounds of applause for not throwing very small children huge themed birthday parties.

Keeping on not giving a shit. I think that’s key to happiness in life, with or without kids. My BIL and his wife are busy professionals with no kids and they are every bit as miserable and competitive - the competition is just different (cars, big ass trailers, fancy vacations!). My kids are 4 and nearly 7 and I am…

Not an attorney, but I had my daughter at the same age as you did after 10 years of marriage and MUCH ambivalence and deliberation. As much as I wish I’d had the energy I had when I was younger, the ability to have perspective and GNF because of age and experience has been invaluable. My husband and I are both well…

She didn’t care, she’s two.

So I think we’ve discussed this before, but I am future you. I’m a lawyer with two kids ages 11 and 12.5. People bitch too much— we are so lucky to have the resources we do. I really don’t think my life is very hard at all.

Are you me? I have a 20 month old and am expecting our second - we are both 34 yrs old and VERY busy professionals. I have a nanny and cannot believe that I get sh*t about that. If I had to take my son to/from daycare every day I would lose my mind - and it would not work with my busy work travel schedule. I am not…

That, and if you’ve been taken care of all your life or had things handed to you and now you have to be the grown up? Holy hell. So. Much. Complaining. The sacrifices! The sleepless nights! NANNIES WHO GET SICK. The struggle is real.