hahaha. My husband and I each owe about $200k in student loans for law school. If it wasn’t for income based repayment plans, we would literally be destitute. It’s stressful, but manageable ... until Republicans start talking about getting rid of income based repayment plans. Each time that happens, my stress sky…

One of my local newspaper columnists recently wrote that she always looks like she wants to see your manager, and won’t leave until she does.

I would drive my husband nuts if I did that. You think HE wants to make decisions? If I’m ever mad at him, I’ll just “submit”. Oh, sorry honey, my tiny woman brain can’t decide what’s for dinner. I need a man-brain to make decisions.

This is going to be a super kiss assey comment, but I really enjoyed this series and wish it got more attention! It was fun and it was a nice break from the horrors of what is going on in this country.

This looks good and also stressful. I will see it.

Agreed. I love my kid and all, but it wasn’t until about 6 months or so that I could in good faith say he was “cute.” Before that, he looked sort of like an animatronic mutant vegetable.

I’m a parent of two, both of whom came out pretty chunky to begin with (+/-9 lbs). But I remember with my first, all the nurses were ooh-ing and aah-ing over her (legitimately, other nurses were coming in because they heard she was cute), and I was like, “Ok? She mostly looks weird and splotchy and puffy to me?” Of…

I distinctly remember describing myself as a pregnapotomus once

I’m approaching 38 weeks right now, and heavily pregnant feels accurate right about now. Why is time crawling?!

Personal opinion: Newborns look strange and scrawny, like they’re made of sewn-together chicken wings. To me, they really get much cuter as they chunk up. Feet/toes included.

Pregnancy rumor magazines should be replaced with a babushka that says “she is vith child” under pictures of celebs

It accurately describes how you feel, though. The days after giving birth is a haze, but the one thing I remember with clarity is how AWESOME it felt to be able to get out of bed like a normal person and not roll out bed like a whale carcass being pushed out to sea

Most Babyfeet are precious, these Babyfeet are not.

“Child of mine! You lectured and ridiculed a US senator? Good for you! Let me take you out for ice cream. Wait, do you smoke weed? Let me take you out for weed, and then probably ice cream.”

You make a great point that’s often overlooked. Instead of having to sneak guns into school, students will know who has guns, and probably can make some good guesses as to where they’re kept. Putting guns in schools seems extremely likely to increase school shootings.

Heartily agree. I’ve been told by a few cop friends over the years that if you carry a weapon or keep one near you in the home (or, I suppose, at work) you must be prepared to use it and that a perpetrator will try to take it/use it on you. (I used to carry a knife in my purse and was basically told “if you aren’t…

Uh, the same Milgram experiments that wouldn’t pass any IRB today? No more damaging than that? Sure, sure. Good stuff.

I can’t tell you how much the actions of our nation’s teens these past few days have renewed my hope for the future. The kids are all right.

Okay but can we talk semantics? Is it because I am an old that these are yoga pants:

“...it means no unnecessary chit-chat is needed.”