I’m used to preparing multiple kinds of food at pretty much every family gathering. My SIL has celiac disease, my youngest kid is a vegetarian, my mother is on a sodium-restricted diet after her heart attack, and my husband and son are all about meat (preferably red). It’s actually kind of fun - no really! I have a…

But see, that just makes using the quote even more perfect.

As a parent I try very very hard to let both my kids know that they do NOT have to show physical affection or hug anyone, ever, if they don’t want to, including relatives - including me.

I believe you 1000%. 16 years later I still have aftershocks from the delivery of my first kid. Childbirth can be extraordinarily traumatic but no matter how bad it can be, people always act like you can just forget the trauma because hey you got a baby at the end, so everything’s fine now, right? Wrong.

There are very few things that might convince me to subscribe to CBS’s streaming subscription... this is probably one of them. Damn you, Peele!!

I’ve seen a friend of mine get REALLY into pole dancing and OMG the amount of strength, dexterity, and actual dance talent you need to do that. I know people look down on pole dancing and laugh at it, but it really does have a long history that goes way beyond stripping (and so what if it IS associated with…

See, this is why I’m willing to put up with my MIL’s insanity. She’s all alone. She’s been divorced from my husband’s dad for over 40 years, never remarried, and at her age (82) her few friends are beginning to die off. And although she has two sons, she has a crap relationship with both of them (lots of bad family…

Indeed they are. Which I had to explain to my MIL several times when I told her my son was getting this vaccine.

It’s weird, I thought she got much better in that role over the last few seasons of the show, but that 4-part special? She was just... awful. I saw it before I saw Handmaid’s Tale and I was sitting there thinking “maybe she’s just always been awful or something, and I never noticed because of my affection for the…

Seriously, he looks JUST like my son did on his first day of Kindergarten. Only my son also silently burst into tears as he was being led into the building. I held it together until I got back in my car and then sobbed into the steering wheel.