Thank you for mentioning this! I loved that article, I think about it a lot, especially when I was deciding where to apply for kindergarten for my son last year. I will definitely look for the new one you mentioned.

The schools are already serving breakfast and lunch everyday. The same staff and space will be used going forward. The only difference will be the money. According to the press release announcing the change, some of that will be offset because the city won’t need software and staff to process and track payments.

I know this is not what’s happening, but I’m just going to indulge in a little fantasy in which the GOP is setting Trump up. I mean, they’re going to take aid away from Texans to build a border wall in Texas that Texans don’t even want?Can a Republican presidential candidate win without Texas? If they do this and…

As a mother, I am both amused and horrified that this literally never occurred to me before. (To be fair, I haven’t thought about the Parent Trap since I was a kid.) Because, yeah, that’s nuts.

It’s his backpack. Probably a habit left over from when he was little and she had to carry his stuff for him.

I just figured she has resting bitch face (who wouldn’t, after spending some much time around Donald?). But that does look like a pained expression, so who knows?

Here’s a picture of her picking Barron up from school wearing flats. They’re just clueless and stupid.

Theocratic zealots aren’t an active threat? I guess you aren’t a woman with a functioning reproductive system.

I love putting together Ikea furniture. It’s like Legos for grown-ups.

I don’t know, to be honest! That image is from the blog McMansion Hell. The woman who writes it seems to focus mostly on enormous houses made with cheap materials and bad architecture. I just couldn’t resist because of the live, love, laugh wallpaper.

Image from McMansion Hell— a live, love laugh wallpaper border! Also Mickey ears above the fireplace. I’m not sure which is worse.

I guess this is a bit different because he does actually look like a baby, but in general if I heard that people were sending a woman pictures of babies that look like her husband, I would assume the subtext is that he fathered those babies.

...And somehow it never occurred to me before that an air conditioner might fall on my head. Damn it.

This doesn’t surprise me at all. I used to live not too far from there and the mosquito situation is horrible. I used to kill multiple mosquitos in my house everyday between May and October.

The woman lives in New York City. There are upwards of 100 languages spoken here, and I’m sure she has many opportunities to interact with people whose culinary tastes have evolved past the toddler stage.

Yeah, as a parent of young children about the same age as Kate’s, that is the shortest hemline I’ll wear if I’m going to be around them, because it allows me to bend down to deal with them without flashing everybody. So that part of it makes sense to me.

I was thinking middle-aged white suburban Middle America moms, for their college-aged daughters who aspire to be like Ivanka?

Definitely not just conversation. Both literal and figurative shit-talking. So judgmental, and at church of all places! ;)

The only thing I can think of regarding that IHOP tweet is based on the name of the pancakes, Spring Fling. Like, a spring fling is not the real deal, but these pancakes are. This made more sense in my head when I first saw it and assumed it is spring break and people would be having random hook-ups. But it isn’t so I…

Yes, you’re totally right— the career sacrifice is huge and a lot of the benefit goes to the partner who continues working. He never has to leave early to deal with an emergency at school, or take a day off when they’re sick, or whatever.