People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either one being made. FACT.

We had our belated Valentine's dinner. Seared sea scallops, orange-braised fennel, and linguni with tarragon alfredo. Though my favorite part was that my 9 month old INHALED his little plate of said deliciousness. NOM.

My baby is almost 10 months, too! A boy. Sometimes I look at the little girl clothes and yearn, but then I feel thankful that so much boy stuff just seems... neutral. Practical. I would definitely feel okay dressing a baby girl in most of my son's clothes. (Although little girls' clothes are soooo very frilly,…

Oh no!

I just took that quiz. And like, five others. I am: Captain America, Lady Sibyl, Robin Sherbatsky, and Josh (Clueless). I also have a problem.

Actually I think the urban legend has gotten widespread enough that some parents-to-be are like, what the hell. Like it's clever or something.

I will never not love this.

I caught it midway through on tv the other day. It's terrible! Still watched it to the end, because my snow days are never going to be over.

It SOUNDS regressive, sure, but now that I am paying daycare costs for my first, I know that having more kids would force me to at LEAST downgrade to part-time, if not stay home altogether. (These snow days we've been having are proving that I would not fare well as a stay-at-home mother. Hats off to anyone who can…

At first I read that as "self hair dryer" and I was like, well sure. :)

I courageously gave myself a bob last night. Never cut my own hair before, so I felt quite brave. Beer helped.

Not grading, but your story reminded me of something that has been bugging me for weeks now.

I get a whole lot of "don't you just wish you could stay home." No. My husband works Tuesdays through Saturdays, which means every Saturday I get a taste of stay-at-home motherhood. By the time he gets home, I'm practically throwing the baby at him as soon as he's through the door. Same goes for breaks and snow…

Breastfeeding is appropriate wherever bottle-feeding is. Full-stop. No one would bat an eye is she were using a bottle in the courtroom.

Have you read "A Murder of Crows"??? Because you should. Or anything by Aurette on Fanfiction.net. Loten is another good Snape/Hermione author.

I like it! And who cares about the Charlie Brown reference? Anytime you pick an actual name, you're going to have associations like that.

Yes! Margaret means "Daisy," which was a common nickname. Then you add the change-the-first-letter phenomenon (Rick-Dick, Meg-Peg) and you get Maisie.

This may sound weird, but the most convincing Hermione fics I have read pair her with... Snape! But only if he doesn't die. (Because seriously... Potions Master spying on a lunatic with a giant pet snake. Why no antivenin, Rowling??) And only if Hermione is WELL out of school age. (Because ick.)

Story time! A few months ago, my husband told me he was making liver for dinner, and I thought he was joking. When I finally figured out that he was for serious, I started to do that hysterical laugh-cry thing just thinking about how gross liver was. I had never tried it, nor did I want to. In exchange for making…

Gross to think about, but the acid in your stomach probably 'cooked' the tomato enough to make it more palatable.