I just came here to say - I wasn't expecting the Lee Min Ho picture, but I'm appreciating it and missing his old face.

I had a long, complicated dream last night where I told off a Sunday School teacher for shaming teenagers about birth control and condoms. Even my subconscious can’t handle this BS anymore.

And all God’s people said: A-men.

No kidding right? I can barely make it through a couple of sentences with my kid around. Trying to work and watch him would be the height of insanity.

Wait, upset why?

RIGHT?! Where are all the awesome clothes hiding? Do the Monsters, Inc. guys steal them in the middle of the night?

I love kids in hats. I’m so grateful my son will keep on a hat for a while because he is so, so cute in a hat. Personally, I like those baby newsie hats. :-)

We decided that our friends weren’t exactly bouquet toss people and I am not into the garter toss, so we scrapped both. Absolutely no one complained or commented at all. I’m pretty sure they didn’t even notice

We did this too - at the time my grandparents had been married for 63 years so we knew they would win! They’ve been married for 69 years now...

Definitely possible but it wouldn’t be fun. That is part of why pumping and or feeding needs to be done regularly - mom gets uncomfortable. Also, eventually you might leak if you don’t find a way to express milk otherwise

I knew a Noah in high school and it was definitely considered weird at the time. How things change...

We went with exactly that for my son - a relatively rare but classic name (shows up in 19th century British literature). I get a lot of “is that a family name” which I’m pretty sure is a nice way of telling me that my baby sounds like an 85 year old man, but I love his name and he can choose from about 6 reasonable…

I am 30, I have no idea who these people are, and I still think I’m not old. :-) I could easily live to be three times my current age, and it doesn’t seem possible to be old for 66% of my life. Also, from observing my grandma it appears that being old just means you travel more and give zero fucks, and I can get…

I honestly teared up. I can’t imagine the agony of losing a beloved partner in life so soon, and I thought her tribute was lovely.

This.

I hope my kid is the one trying to correct the teacher with scientifically accurate information. :-)

I have to admit I’ve been more focused on what is to come in the book and whether (and how) it might be different. About 50 pages after this part of the book I had to set it aside for about six months and I’m just not sure I’m ready for it onscreen. I suspect the approach of the show may diverge a lot.

My kid is too little for this yet, but at this point I’ve considered keeping him out of sex ed because I’m afraid some idiot will tell him that masturbation is bad or scare him out of using condoms. And don’t get me started on the “no longer sticky” tape and all of that BS.

Congratulations! Seriously, those things take a lot of patience.

Ikea is actually where my husband and I had one of our first married fights - over dining chairs. For the record, still happily married and the chairs that I wanted are still going strong in our dining room five years and a kid later. :-)