Our 12 week one looked exactly like this. Thus, our baby girl was dubbed "Skeletor."

This is part of the reason I decided to get off the internet/outside world and just be with my daughter this summer. I have spent whole days reading picture books, walking on the beach, taking naps, picking berries, baking cakes and teaching her to ride a bike. I've tried to be insular and shelter our whole family…

I've totally done this experiment. It's totally psychological because in the winter (when I'm not in a swimsuit frequently), my body hair does grow normally. In the summer when I shave more often, it feels like I need to shave more often simply because I'm bothering to look and notice that I need to shave.

I love that you take your cats to the beach. That is awesome.

People falling down will never not be funny. A+

Yeah, that was the part I found totally stupid. She wants us to believe that an industrial tycoon/self-made billionaire did it on $100K after only a year or two of college. That gave me a major case of side-eye. He clearly should've been at least 35.

She absolutely loves stuffed animals which is my saving grace.

[wets pants]

I have a parenting issue in that my daughter wants dolls, but I find them horribly creepy. I bought her a Merida Disney toddler doll which is just about all I can manage, but she threw a tantrum at a shop over the scariest looking Bride of Chuckie-esque one the other day. What is it about those ones with the…

Welp, if being a hamster consists of stuffing one's face in every room of one's 3 bedroom house, my spirit animal is clearly a hamster.

Um, thanks. I was totally confused how that was at all related to my comment. Glad you're on the case.

A friend growing up had a dad who raised exotic animals for meat (think ostrich steaks and stuff), and he decided to show off their pet joeys. He tried to do this and the thing's claws came out like Freddie Kruger and scratched his arms so badly that he had over 100 stitches. #notalljoeys

Thankfully, the UK has banned them all from coming here, which I think is great. They wanted to picket the royal wedding or something a while back.

They certainly are! I'm lucky to have big families that love me on both sides of the Atlantic.

I live in England now and sold many of my books before moving over here. As a surprise for my birthday a few days ago, my husband and his mum bought me the entire set in the blue Harper dustjackets and box like I had before I came here. Though common in the US, they are pricier and hard to find over here. It made…

This is going to sound dumb, but after hearing this is the first time that I realized Bey and Jay are supposed to rhyme. I thought it was BEE and Jay all this time. <oopsgif>

Good grief. I get my matzo meal, dumplings and egg noodles there. Which are made in ENGLAND. If they want to boycott Israeli stuff, they need to take fruit and veg off the shelves, as that's what is from there at Sainsburys.

I say this all the time. A friend of mine once saw a woman in a department store whose son was grinding a donut into the carpet and clothes, so she decided to say something. Turns out, the woman's husband had just died unexpectedly, and she was buying a dress for his funeral. She tells that story any time someone…

There is a very close-knit Eastern European community in my English town, and while lots of people complain about them, I love that I can go to our park next door and know that their kids will watch out for my toddler and play with her while I nod along and try to chat with their mums. And if someone falls down, ALL…

I read Hopgood's book when I had an infant (thank you public library "parenting" shelf), and it really actually helped me have some perspective. I'm American in England, and despite a mostly shared language, they have some very different views on childrearing. The book was great about saying "This is what people do…