YES! So what, Ina’s rich. She’s a good cook and a good TV personality. And she owns it. Unlike Pioneer Woman and her fake homespun persona/story.

Yeah of course you love your children from the first, but it’s nice to know that cleaning up their vomit and poop and feeding them and being woken up at all hours of the night, and worrying about if they’re going to get into/eat the cleaning supplies under the sink, and coordinating playdates for them with peers so…

Because as eager as people seem to be for dog lovers to shut up about how their dogs are like children to them, there is evidence to suggest their brains literally react to them they way they would to their own children.

I mean, you can ask that about children too. It’s the same connection. It may not be a rational debts/credits scenario where they say “well he destroyed a 50 dollar box we bought to keep him out and 30 dollars worth of food but he gave us 80 dollars worth of laughs and love in the last week...”