I’ve totally made that mistake with rice noodles. Now it’s my easy go to. Also I can throw together a few of those asian sauces so much quicker now that I’ve done it so many times. Whereas when my husband has to do it, it takes two hours and it looks like a bomb went off in the kitchen.

That’s totally my kind of recipe. I’m stealing that.

I’m no super chef, but I do get dinner on the table most nights after work. Under 30 minutes would include fish or shrimp tacos done on the grill pan with a veg that doesn’t take long, like sauteed green beans and this shredded cabbage I make with lime, olive oil and salt, then just like sliced avocado and jarred…

My favorite photographer got her start in a birth photography business. We only used them for family photos and I didn’t want the birth ones, but I always looked at her work with the birthing moms and just got weepy every time. It’s such an intense experience and they documented it so well.

I love this photo because it tells the story of that day— the reality of being in the hospital, brand new baby lying on you. That’s what you want in a photo, something that brings back that memory vividly.

Definitely not for social media, but I do love having those photos tucked away. I have one where I’m 42 weeks pregnant, in my hospital gown, standing sideways so you can see how FUCKING huge I was. I’m a very small person so it’s just funny to me. And the photos of the kids when they were a minute or two old, I can’t…

I had these big plans to have sushi and wine right after I delivered. I was so pissed that I didn’t feel up to it!

Thank you! I’ve squeezed out two kids, and while I didn’t look great the next day or the day after, I looked a helluva lot better than when I was still on the table, minutes after my stitches. And hey even then I lot I looked kind cute in a no makeup way. I love those photos, I don’t care how I looked.

Oh hell no. We cannot discuss prom and babies in the same paragraph. Maybe start showing her stuff about college and semester abroad. There’s a big wide world out there, girl, and what oldy oldsters like me wouldn’t give to be your age again. We sure wouldn’t spend it with some douchebag!

Ok good. I hope so. My baby girl, she is the type that throws her arms around you and spontaneously says “you’re the best mom in the world, I love you so much.” And my son, OMG. They are just at the best age, but I say that at every age. :)

Definitely. There’s likely a problem going on that makes them like that to begin with, and it’s not surprising that there was also addiction.

Agreed- I’m kind of like that with my parents, as an only child. My parents didn’t know what the hell I was doing in college. We did talk a lot on the phone, and I got closer to my mom around that time and through your age. But not daily!

Sorry, just choked back a couple tears. My kids are 10 and 11.5. It hurts to know it’s coming. I have no intention of being their “friend,” but I hope the fact that we’re a close little family and we do lots of stuff together will help.

I’m actually not sure I would say some of these people were “cool” with their moms. More like their moms had no boundaries and didn’t act like parents. Some were the BFF types, others, like my mother in law, were simply ineffective at counteracting their kid’s self-centered tendencies and instead allowed the kid to…

Setting aside the bachelorette issue, the women I know who are “best friends” with their mom seem a little off and so do their moms. Also, notably, their marriages don’t seem to work out. My sister in law is one of them. We’ll be at my inlaws when she’s not there and she will literally call 10 times in two hours. My…

Maybe he’s never around anyway and she gets to do whatever she wants with that boatload of cash. Although she looks mighty unhappy so it doesn’t seem to be helping.

Thanks! We’re going in February and we’re pretty all set. We’re in Bangkok four nights, but the first day is pretty shot because we get in at midnight, so probably just hanging around and maybe one sight, head to the crazy mall that’s across the bridge from our hotel, then hang at the pool and be exhausted. Then one…

I think that’s part of it though— people like HRC go to banquets of various types probably several nights a week. This was just another on the circuit.

I’d love to know the terms of her pre-nup.

It completely baffles me why anyone would want random politicians and famous people at their wedding. We have a friend whose parents are huge fundraisers for the DNC, and somehow became friends with the senator from our state. It was such a big deal for their whole family to have the senator and I think one other…