Echoing what Kaete said about Asheville, and wanted to add that Chattanooga is lovely as well. :-) It’s a beautiful area.

Honestly? Nudie-butt time. Put down an old towel or cloth diaper and let them air out for as long as you can stand it.

I got the giraffe as a gift, and my son was not so into it. But he didn’t really like any teething things. Thumbsucker from birth.

Curly?

I adore being Episcopalian. The pageantry! The liturgy! The wine and mini-quiches at extra-special receptions! What is not to like??

Not on that stove, it’s not. *shudder*

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Thank you for posting this. I certainly hope more people see it.

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I have a two year old, and the only thing I see in my feed from my friends are pictures of babies on their Easter finery. I think it’s pretty tacky to post braggy gift pics (and luckily my friends seem to agree!)

Wow. Facebook is so not the place for that.

Yes. If you lose enough weight, your brain starts to go haywire. I had an ED in high school. At one point, I was consuming 300 calories a day, and when confronted with worried family and friends, I decided that upping it to 800 was a reasonable compromise. Your definition of normal is way out of whack when you’re in…

I have fine curly hair (3a, if you know the lingo on naturallycurly.com), and my routine is:

Aw, congrats on the little one! Are you planning on going back to work? I have a 22 month old, and stayed home his first 4 months. A lot of my post partum teariness/anxiety/inability to leave the house went away when I went back to teaching.

Yeah, that's the difference for me, too. I also never by linens off other people's registries for that reason. Towels are ephemeral, flatware is forever.

I was shacking up with my partner before our wedding, too. My rule was you couldn't use it until you sent the thank you note.

That's how I picked our pediatrician. Someone else at open house night asked about vaccines, and he replied that while they can accommodate alternative schedules, if you don't vaccinate at all, then it's not the practice for you. Sold!

No idea.

I made the cookies, but was too lazy to find the right yeast. They were still delicious, and baby had enough milk.

Kind of like a meaty jellyfish.