I found out I was pregnant on my husband’s birthday. I made him a cute treasure hunt to find his gifts, ending with a baby onesie. He was very confused until I also showed him the positive test/pee stick.

Christmas in CT is tied with White Christmas as my favorite Christmas movie. (Eloise at Christmastime gets an honorable mention.) Our annual tradition is Christmas in CT on December 23rd, White Christmas on Christmas Eve.

I can go with that on Belle, but Ariel gave up her voice for a man. Her voice. No amount of plucky quirkiness can undo that damage.

Excuse me, but Elsa is a queen! My four-year-old will not let that one slide, but at least when strangers call her “princess” she tells them she's not, she's a queen. If you're going to be sucked into the princess-industrial complex, might as well be queen, I guess.

I feel like my world is crumbling around me. Next you’ll be telling me Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson weren’t fighting over the same girl.

Next have a US website.

Ugh, primark is the worst. Horrid clothes, zero sense of responsibility to workers. Just terrible.

Interesting conundrum... Trump’s assholery has been (more or less) concentrated in this year, while Cosby’s has been largely spread over the past few decades and only widely discussed within the past year or so. I vote Cosby gets a Lifetime Asshole Achievement Award, and Trump gets Asshole of the Year (but we all know…

I have this case, which I chose mainly because of aesthetics but which I find very practical:

Try not to sweat the gestational diabetes test. I am overweight, too, and had gained waaay more than 5 lbs. at that point of both my pregnancies, and my blood sugar stayed fine (currently 34 weeks with my second). I also knew a really tiny lady who ended up with gd—so my point is, body type is not destiny!

THIS. I had one and had a remarkably easy recovery, but I took it easier than I wanted to/felt like I could. It is major abdominal surgery. We think of it as routine and low-risk, and the surgery itself is, but that doesn’t mean recovery can be skimped. Better safe and bored than sorry—and nestling down with your…

I agree! And I’ve had one of my own! Couldn’t smell it even then. I’m also not a newborn person—I felt a protective, almost feral love for my daughter when she was born, but real love and connection took time to grow. Maybe there’s a correlation there?

I definitely don’t think a five-year-old drew this alone. I’m wondering if it is a collaboration with an older student—which would be awesome and should be encouraged. Older students teaching/helping younger ones benefits both. But then why not say that was what happened? As a parent, I’d be thrilled. As a…

It sounds like you ended up trying to reconcile society’s expectations and your parents’, and then feeling guilty when you couldn’t. There’s definitely a lot of pressure that tends to go along with being an only. I see it in my husband, who is super smart and driven but always feels inadequate. So, I guess what I take…

To be clear—starred for everything other than the part about being pathetic, which I do not agree with.

Question: did they downplay your looks specifically, or just not talk about looks in general? Sorry to ask a personal question, just trying to feel my way with my own kid, and this struck a chord—I’ve been going down the deemphasize-looks route. And I’m so glad to hear things are getting better for you!

I worry about this stuff a lot—especially since my daughter started asking me if she’s pretty, or saying that she’s pretty now that she’s put on a dress. She’s four. *screams internally*

I’d like to move that the belt-buckle-flashing gif be mandatory in any article that mentions Trump, effective immediately.

Me, too. Sadly, my daughter is old enough now to have “opinions” about what she “likes” and what is “uncomfortable.” Hey, kid, don’t you know it’s all about what I want?!

I wish I had given all of my daughter’s candy to her... but mostly because I ended up eating the lion’s share of it.