How is it that women in a load of states have to have ultrasounds or watch videos of babies to get an abortion, but no one has thought to make whooping cough videos mandatory viewing for anyone with a PBE?

A friend's mom got pregnant via IVF at 48 (and with a much younger partner) with twins, and she has found it so isolating. Can you imagine how odd it is to go to baby play groups and be the only person over 35? My friend's sisters are the same age as my two-year-old now, and her mom has been in hospital twice for…

My husband got his Marriage Book as a gift, and I stopped on page 3, where his pregnant wife got a haircut without asking him, then he talked about how he had to discipline her and made her cry about it. Real stand-up guy this one.

True story related to Qcumber: My two year old says cum-bummer. I have yet to correct her due to hilarity.

FYI Girl Meets Dress would make you pay for any Taco Bell-related stains. The fine print is not as good or versatile as Rent the Runway (America, how I miss you). I've gone back to eBay vintage evening gowns.

Unfortunately, it was with my first child, and everyone's like "when are you having another?" (she's 3 now) and I nearly barf at the thought of it.

Poor you. Take the drugs! All of them. I had it for nearly seven months, and you need them to eat food.

Here's a reason you shouldn't: I have an older couple I know who both never married and just enjoyed their lives, jobs and friends/family, then they met and fell in love in their late 40's. They are one of the most perfectly sweet (slightly sickly/lovey-dovey) couples I know, but they would both say that their lives…

My husband's old deodorant. It was Sure for Men in a red spray can, and when they stopped making it, I bought some on Ebay. It used to make my mouth water. So I wrote a letter to the maker and said "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE RED ONE?! My husband smells weird now, and we just had a baby so I need every ounce of…

Do people really "enjoy" those lovely fall coloured prints, which will be filled with yellow and brown?

Weirdly, this family are friends of a friend that I met at a party once of mostly theatre/actor/tech types, so I guess it's not unexpected that they would want to go viral/make a living doing it. My conclusions -

We basically had paper decorations and flowers and spent all the money our parents gave us to fly our friends in, who we love dearly. We just decided the stuff wasn't important to us, but the people were.

I totally agree about holiday weekend weddings, but then realized I got married on Easter Saturday. We basically sent emails to 20 transatlantic people and said "Which of these can you come to? We want you at our wedding/party? PS We'll pay for you to come to America." Every single one of them (plus most of my…

I totally agree, as my husband (British) basically is a stretched version of John Oliver. British guys with dark hair, glasses and big noses are a dime a dozen!

I don't know about everyone else on the list, but McKayla Maroney has only been 18 a few months. My hope is that that the photos, if real, were taken before her birthday so they can prosecute them for child porn distribution. That seems like a good way to shut this down.

While I was doing my master's degree abroad in Manchester, England, my mom decided to come visit me. Unfortunately, her cousin and the cousin's husband (a former pilot with a million airmiles) decided to come too. Thus began the WORST trip of my life. Everywhere we went, they asked for California wine - white…

My husband's best man went on a weekend surfing trip to Morocco. Once, when he was coming out of the water, a literal pack of wild dogs on the beach decided to attack him. They started biting him, and a total stranger had to throw rocks at them to get them to leave him alone. He ended up being bitten multiple times…

It didn't occur to me until reading this that flight attendants get air marshals to protect them from dangerous stuff and drunk people until now. Because I've got a number of flight attendant friends and family, I feel comfortable making this comparison:

Server at numerous restaurants: trained for a few weeks, given a…

Just give it time. Pet lambs last, oh, two months longer than market ones. (Unless it's a merino used for wool.)