If I was capable of posting a pic of an upside down blizzard, I would.

I did this one year at thanksgiving with the green bean casserole since it finished well before the rest of the mael was ready. The entire dinner was delicious, and as I was going to bed that night, thinking of the wonderful food and my stuffed belly, it suddenly hit me: the green bean casserole was still in the…

No, there was a 3% fee, but that was better than paying interest for 18 months. This isn't an ideal solution, but it helps me pay off more and more each month.

Yeah, Bryan, but do people at work look at you with surprise during your third trimester and say, “YOU’RE still here?”

I recently opened a new credit card account with 0% balance transfer offer, and went to my two other credit card companies and explained that I would have to transfer my balance unless they could adjust my APR. Amex dropped my APR two points. Citi said they couldn’t change the rate. So I immediately transferred all of…

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I say both of these things in my office all the time. Along with, “HOW CAN HE/SHE BE SO STUPID?”

Wearing my naturalizer maudes right now.

Wearing my naturalizer maudes right now.

We went to the Cancun area for our honeymoon, and while we enjoyed our time at our resort, everything outside the resort was a joke. We didn’t even get outside of the airport before someone tried to scam us on some timeshare crap. And then when we’d walk around the markets, vendors would approach us with, “Are you…

I studied for a semester in Prague, and it was customary to only do a day or two’s worth of shopping per trip (as opposed to a week like a lot of US households). But if you got to store too late, they were simply out of things. Nope, no chicken for you tonight. And you’d better make do with the selection of just four…

Are we married to the same man? Does yours also get frozen mini-tacos and propose “Appetizer Night” as a real meal?

I have Grocery Gadget on my iphone and ipad. I update the list during the week (oh, we just ran out of butter spread, better put it on the list) and then make most of my list by scanning through the store’s specials and coupons (another app for my particular grocery store) to come up with recipe ideas. I also have a…

There was a wonderful piece on Jez several weeks back about a Doctors Without Borders physician in a maternity ward in Liberia (I think?). I’m on my phone so I don’t have the link. It was heartbreaking to hear of all the mothers and babies who died during the course of this “natural” phenomenon. We really are lucky…

My mom and dad are 68 and 71, respectively. My mom recently underwent spinal surgery, so I went to visit them to help out. My dad has health issues of his own and I didn’t think he was capable of helping her like she’d need. Mom would need laundry done, ok, yeah sure, I’m there to help out. I honestly thought my…

Parenting is hard. Everyone knows that. But until you’re in the trenches, you don’t realize how hard it really is. I would absolutely lose my mind if I stayed at home. I love my kids dearly, but they’d have to lock me up in a looney bin if I were with them day in and day out. Even if it made financial sense for me to…

You forgot the $13/year for annual subscription to Parents magazine which you’ll use to find new craft projects and recipes to fill your days...

An affinity for black clothing and a Black Lab. Done. (Except that I have another dog who has black and white fur and I sometimes where colors other than black.)

For a bunch of misogynist asshats, they have fine penmanship. Perhaps they have experience in making banners promoting the rape of teenagers.

Yes, human mothers are cursed by our babies’ giant heads and our bi-ped hip structure. Animal mothers have that part much easier.

What the actual fuck was that?