My dad started working from hom when I was about halfway through high school and his method is to just be so unbearably loud on the phone, everyone else in the house either leaves during his calls or runs to safety outdoors. hah!

My dad worked from home and the rule was if the door to his office is shut, do not go in ever. It worked well for us. The trick is enforcing the rule without hurting people - when your family breaks the rule, you have to be kind but firm when you explain it again. They’ll learn eventually. You just have to have a…

I don’t know that I have advice, given that I’m a teacher myself...but I am fascinated by the resentment, because I’ve often wondered if my husband feels that towards me (he works insane numbers of hours).

You manage to have fond memories over something that your mother made sure you and your siblings never felt scared about. Your mother kicks serious ass.

Mom of two here, and by the tenth day of our annual two week road trip, I am trying to get left behind. I would find a quiet place and just bask in the non-fighting lack of sound. My husband is getting suspicious and keeps asking why I carry a book and my knitting into bathrooms.

Your mom is a rock star.

Not my story (since my cake was amazing) but my friend’s. And she doesn’t know it’s a disaster. Northern California wedding. No sugar cupcakes. Perhaps they are gluten free also? Who knows with Northern California. Really pretty cupcakes baked by a friend of her. My daughter picks the chocolate cupcake (of course!!).…

no disaster! we had a chocolate cake our firend made for us anda sheet swedish princess cake from our favoriate bakery. it was huge because it was like $20 more to get the XL size. we ate it at the wedding. , and the next day at a bbq and then took the last square on our honeymoon.

We had a beautiful arrangement of delightfully decorated cupcakes. They were spiraled around on a display and then we had our “top tier” that my husband and I were going to freeze. My husbands idiot family started helping themselves even before dinner was served. My organizer from the venue did her best to chase them…

I’m looking at that pure gallium as a no-occasion gift for my sister’s kids. And it’s on sale for like $10.99. Not $24,000. Oh gosh what nerds are we that might buy novel products for a dozen bucks that may enrich and interest others.

This actually happened to someone I know. If it’s like her case, it’s a combo of

As a Disney fan, more specifically a little Mermaid fan, this delights me to no end.

How much did you marry for love, and how much did you marry for the sake of making this perfect cake topper? 60/40?

The future hubby and I are HUGE Star Wars fans, and there are going to be Star Wars touches in our wedding...and what better way to show the fandom than with cake toppers! Plus the “I love you” “I know” was part of our engagement photos/save-the-dates, too. :)

My cake topper had lightsabers!

I made cake toppers for three awesome couples (see below). So many people want their pets and/or hobbies included which is a fun challenge and keeps things fresh for me!

Etsy had a ton of adorable cake toppers like these but they were way over budget, so I bought the blank people from a craft store and painted them myself. I already had most of the paint so I think they cost about $10? I secretly hope if we ever have/adopt kids they’ll enjoy playing with these someday.

Hubby and I are big D&D geeks, so we had a dragon-themed affair. It was a golden cupcake thing and two dragons guarding their ‘hoard’. Used two of our colossal miniatures that we had at home as cake toppers, and a sword letter opener (found Game of Thrones’ Ice at Chapters for $16) embedded in one cupcake as a…

I’m a knitter, so I knit a tiny bride and tiny groom and affixed them to a small slice of wood, which was actually from a set of coasters I found on etsy. I glued a lid from a can of something (beans? who knows) to the bottom so the wood would not sit directly on the cake.

What i want to know is if that law firm then had a talk about unacceptable male 'dos.