Your story sounds like mine. I’m sorry it is hard right now and I send you internet hugs. Are you seeing someone for mental health? It took me a while to work up to it, but that hour twice a month became non-negotiable time. Also - when I started seeing a therapist my husband seemed to finally understand that I was…

We had two babies while my husband was doing his PhD - the thing that saved us was that I had worked my way into a flexible job and could remote work. We moved three times before he ended up in his TT position. He still doesn’t make as much as me but the long-term stability will be great for our family. Our youngest…

Thank you! We purposely give all of my husband’s contact info instead of mine. I was blown away when the school started contacting me instead. Apparently I returned the call faster.

I feel that way about shorter wrap dresses generally (ie. that they are great for maternity)- but for some reason maxi length wrap dresses are magical! I feel like a flowy Greek Goddess when I wear them.

My MIL begged my husband to shave for our wedding. He did - I hate our wedding pictures. I love the man, but those pictures look like I’m getting married to a stranger. My daughter was even furious with me when she saw the pictures because she thought I had married someone other than her daddy :(

thanks! I’ll admit, as a Hoosier by birth I sort of swooned over the Indiana specific logo. The font is very similar to some old Indy 500 advertising but in Pacer colors.

Also former midwesterner - I love it!

Funny - I really dug Mayor Pete’s logo. I am also a kid from Indiana who had a Harvard pennant on my wall. I feel so seen!

I agree for the most part. But I’m talking about Trump voters though. I think the thought was that as a VP Pence could do less damage (at least directly to Indiana), we could still get a Republican president, and replace Pence with republican Gov. who wouldn’t be such a bonehead. This was a triple win for Indiana…

I agree for the most part. But I’m talking about Trump voters though. I think the thought was that as a VP Pence could do less damage (at least directly to Indiana), we could still get a Republican president, and replace Pence with republican Gov. who wouldn’t be such a bonehead. This was a triple win for Indiana…

That’s how people were with Pence in Indiana! Now that he’s VP they like him again, but back in 2016 I heard more than one person say “If he runs for VP at least he won’t be our governor anymore.” 

meh- agree to disagree? There are some kids with bigger emotions and comprehension who aren’t developmentally ready to deal with the implications of those things. Asynchronous development is a minefield for parenting.

“Her orientation is vengeance” - perfection! Makes me want to create a tinder profile just to use it.

We purposely bought an old house (built to catch breezes in the summer) in a walkable area where we could reduce our dependence on cars. We would 100% lean in to public transportation if it was available (and have used it in any area we lived that had it). We also community garden and are planting all of our home…

A+ parenting (both in watching as a family and the decision to not watch anymore). I also have a highly sensitive kid and exposure/trigger protection is hard but worth it for these amazing kiddos.

I cried so hard when the Polar Bear starved in Planet Earth that I can’t even bring myself to watch this new series. Just typing this comment is making me tear up :(.  Dear people - please look into switching your electricity to a renewables provider. The option is available basically everywhere and is just one small…

I have a list! Flowering tea (when I want the ritual of a cocktail), bullet journaling, taking walks with my dog (even if it is 10pm-luckily I live in a very safe town), float therapy, baths with a fancy bathbomb,and rereading beloved books from my childhood are a few things I’ve landed on.

It is hardest right when I…

Agree with all you’ve said. DH and I were talking about how you used to read about people in Russia or other struggling populations drinking themselves to death. And yet when drinking increases in America (and let’s not even get started on the opioid epidemic), we don’t tie it back to the very real structural and…

ugh- ^this is me, I am a hugger. I will lean in to hug complete strangers. Now I find myself leaning in, remembering not to hug, then leaning out, and I just say “Sorry - I’m a hugger, I forget not everyone is” and then I offer my hand. The joy of getting into your late 30s is that stuff like that doesn’t embarrass…

re crazy things: I once dozed off on the NYC-Boston leg and was using my balled up coat as a pillow. All of the sudden I felt my head hit the arm rail and frantically looked around. I saw a pantsless man running down the aisle trying to wrap my coat around his lower half. Weird! That was a decade ago and I had totally…