She's the 20th century Mitochondrial Eve

I am a sucker for seersucker. I immediately assumed that this ban was because stripes look weird and wavy on TV. They clearly do not realize how many young, hip Southern men and women rock the seer. And with good cause, it is light weight and devilishly handsome!

I am a liberal southerner and I LOVE seersucker! I will NOT let conservatives ruin it for me!

Well, it is after labor day.

Yes. I believe that was the idea. Clearly not a GOOD idea, but an idea. I get them sometimes.

There was a horrid smell in my kids' room and I couldn't figure it out. My 5 year old said that his 2 year old sister was using the Milky Way. It took me a moment and then I realized he meant microwave; the toy one in their play kitchen. I opened it up and there was the nastiest, slimiest, most rotten banana on Earth.

My daughter learned the hard way that when you turn down the burner, "9" is not down. That led to her learning why we do NOT decide to fix pancakes when mom is in the shower.

"We sincerely apologize on behalf of McKenna Peterson's feminism. Please accept these complementary pom pom's as our way of saying we look forward to seeing you on the field. They're pink!"

With two months left in mine, I've been told to make a birthing plan. 99% of the plan goes out the window. So with that in mind, I agree with you. Whatever gets him out safe and soundly. Also: My first meal (assuming I'll be able to eat solids) MUST be a COLD roast beef and cheddar sandwich on a pretzel bun. I'm…

Do you really think hospitals and doctors suck? I had two babies in two different hospitals in different cities, and I thought the hospitals/ staff were pretty damn awesome, actually.

THANK YOU! I have become a passionate agnostic on all issues relating pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and breastfeeding. Are you meeting your baby's basic physical and emotional needs? Are you not making yourself too crazy or miserable in the process? Well then, Congratulations! You're doing it right. And any…

The "birthing experience" seemed like a means to an end: the end being a baby, who is awesome, and who I was very excited to meet.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT? MUST HAVE!!!

My garlic peeler (I don't bother to cut the ends). Funny enough, this is the exact one that I own.

Hehe. If Benedict Cumberbatch and Maggie Q got married they would be...

Red herring - no one is having abortions past the second trimester for non-medical reasons anyway.

Except even if you do believe that fetuses are people, abortion is still not a genocide, unless your understanding of abortion is that every woman who has one does so out of a desire to wipe out fetuses as a class of people, as opposed to a particular fetus for a particular reason.

Hi, Jew here checking in. I'd be wholeheartedly very happy if people would stop taking this bullshit approach of relating something they think is bad to the Holocaust. Fuck this noise, fuck Jill Duggar, fuck it all.

It's inevitable. My daughter is currently obsessed with "American Ninja Warrior" I mean, it's a far cry from Disney anything, but she literally gets out of bed at 5am on weekends to go downstairs and watch back-to-back episodes while mindlessly spooning Cheerios into her mouth until my wife or I get out of bed and…

I actually know a lot of deeply religious people who support reproductive rights and struggle with reconciling their faith and their political/social beliefs. I think they are absolutely capable of intelligent discourse and have witnessed it many times.