I was at the Saturday taping. The program looks like a true mixture of both nights. The opening number and some of the others were performed in full but cut down for time. Her parents were truly delightful. She did preform Heavy Boobs but mentioned it might not make the final program. The best moment was Rachel…

I’m a 12 and I scour Nordstrom Rack. They usually have some 13-14 sizes.

Christmas dishes!!! I’m aware of my storage and budget limitations, but I would collect multiple patterns if I could.

It ended. I had to borrow the last volume from another library as mine didn’t carry it.

I’m gifting 2003 me the time to watch Banana Fish next weekend. I’m old and haven’t kept up on anime or manga much in the last decade but I loved Banana Fish.

When I was in middle school we were the Trojans. I’m sad that the school has since chosen another mascot. Making fun of the name was part of student school spirit!

Visits are tough. I adopted the oldest in a sibling group. We try to keep in contact with the others for birthdays, Christmas, and big milestones but it’s complicated. As mine is the oldest she has the strongest memories of their time together. But I can see the stress it causes on the younger ones as it dredges up…

Our safety and social programs absolutely focus on minorities with a punitive effect but I don’t think these stories did a very good job to showing that. Maybe the next ones in the series will. Middle-class and upper-class families can more easily hide the destructive behaviors, lawyer up, or have other family members…

I’m also have a hard time with this. I adopted an older child who was in the system and I’ve seen the effect this behavior has on children. I totally empathize that the parents do not want to lose their kids and the system itself can can do harm to the kids. It’s often not done out of malice but from a lack of…

Leap Day William still makes me laugh and all the episodes with Steve Buscemi.

We started the series as part of the 12-year old well-child visit. It was a pain to come back and the get the second and third but we scheduled as we left so we wouldn’t forget.

Probably be playing Breath of the Wild.

The article is not about whether or not you support your teenager as they become romantically and sexually active, it’s about if you will let them have sex in the house. We talk about the physical and emotional aspects of sex. Probably more than she wants to. My stance is still that she is not an adult and there are…

To me, there’s a difference in teaching and discusssing about how to be safe and saying “you may sex in your room”. We have talked about birth control and how to use it. In addition there’s the consent, sexting, and many other conversations to be had, usually several times.

Nope. Figuring how to get alone time without your parents knowing is a time-honored rite of passage. It builds problem-solving skills.

I have a family member that exhibits behavior/symptoms that are indicative of BPD. We got her into Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and it has really helped. DBT focused on stress tolerance and how you react to situations and relationships with people. Hopefully you can find a therapist familiar with it. You might…

Oxford Book of Quotations has “turbulent”. It is from an oral tradition so I’m sure it varies.

I’m an adult thats loves Disneyland and has gone regularly even without my kiddo. I’m so okay with this and surprised it took this long. I love that scene but that mainly driven from nostalgia. Critically I know it represents human trafficking but I also know the whole ride is a romantic, glossy story.

This story is a perfect case study of how the moral majority wants it to be. Everyone shall live by an arbitrary set of rules. If you break those roles you shall be shunned, imprisioned, or whatever. HOWEVER if I, a person in power, or someone dear to me breaks those roles we must show compassion and bend the rules…