Thank you so much for responding. I have four children — three biological and one foster — born over a very large time span. The eldest is 34 (and has a child of her own) and the youngest is 12. I’ve been raising children without a break since I was 18, and while I’m thankful every single day for how extraordinary…

Tough question!!! Honestly, I had the pregnancy and labour from hell. When moms “bond through their birth stories” I always go last cause I know I will win in a competition that really really sucks. Woohoo!

LOL damn.  Did BioWare beat you up in an alley at some point? You are relentlessly negative about this game.

Not sure I’d say the flying is “limited situations”. From what I’ve seen it’s basically all the time. There is a limit on how long you can fly without cooling, but that has been pretty easy to manage.

It was lovely! (And oh my god my post has so many typos!) - but it was excessive! She was this tiny little 6 lbs thing with more stuff than most adults, and two! Pintrest ready parties well before she was even here. It was kinda surreal. My clients still bring her presents though. 

Ok but this is lovely and sounds like you know great people!

Dude, I kinda had over the top showers. I didn’t mean to (I mean, I had no hand in planning them). But I wasn’t supposed to be able to have kids, we were turned down for foster care & adoption, and then by some miracle had to window to try for pregnancy, had a miscarriage and then ended up pregnant and it was the…

Please find some way to get the story of this shower to the masses. I would delight in reading any boots on the ground you have.

If you see her at the next family funeral you should say, “when’s it going to be your turn?”  

I was so startled that I blurted out my next major life goal, “I’m going to Hawaii. You?” (I was an extremely awkward teen.) (But she was an extremely awkward senior. So.)

I was friends with a woman that bought a house at the same time she found out she was pregnant. She had registered for an expensive set of knives, a microwave, other housewarming type gifts on her baby registry. As I was shopping at Target for a gift, I am internally screaming about how tacky this is. I show up to…

Speaking of baby showers... About two weeks ago I went out to dinner with my mom, and asked her if she would hold a baby shower for me. She said no, resulting in LOTS of tears and hurt feelings on my part (eventually she was better able to articulate why and now I completely understand and am not hurt at all). After…

Okay, now I just want to know if the baby was healthy and if motherhood ended up suiting you? The people I’ve known who were reluctant but did it for a mate are split about 50/50 — some were surprised by over-the-top joy, others are like, “meh.”

In the same room as the shower? With a person, or using a turkey baster? With their partner, or a random person? So many questions!

I AM TOTALLY WINNING THIS ONE.

When I was 15 I was at my aunt’s baby shower and an old woman in the buffet line told me I was next.

The time a certain relative got so upset about a younger sibling getting pregnant first that she decided to get pregnant as well. During the shower.

I’ve never worked in retail, but with the advancement in technology and cataloging largely moving online, how does a major retailer oversell an item where they have to start cancelling preorders?

“And I dropped mayo on my PS4 last year so I also needed a replacement.”

Before BOTW came out, I preordered it on Amazon, as they offered release-day delivery; and booked the following day off work. The day before release, they fucking delayed it.