Science: It’s magic!

I had Raspberry Something (top row, 2nd from left) and I can smell her in my mind right now. Isn’t memory an amazing thing?

My mom totally would have done that. Not because we couldn’t afford it at the time, but because she wanted us to have childhoods as miserable as hers was.

Yes! Since I moved to the DC area, I thought that was the most unabashedly racist thing that reminded me that I am, indeed, in the South.

I totally agree about community college - I started at a very expensive private university when I was 17, and I totally blew my first year - too immature. We live in VA now and have two kids - my older one will probably go to a VA state school, and we have an awesome community college program in VA - if you do well…

My husband, a native Virginian, was offered a scholarship into the honors engineering program there, and turned it down because he disliked the atmosphere so intensely. He ended up going to a far more fucked-up school, IMHO, but he still has a bias against VA Tech.

Just have to chime in to say how much I love the name “Orfanello.” Which is even more hilarious because when I was typing it my computer auto-corrected it to “Organelle.” Wouldn’t they make the cutest set of twins?

“and then she raised her sons to be good, gentle folk-rock hipsters and they honor her matriarchy to this day.” We may share the same brain - this is great.

You know what? Despite the fact that I liked having the kids farther apart, my husband would’ve liked them closer together - it was harder for him to be free of diapers & night feedings, and then have to go back into that. I vetoed him though, because at the time I was staying at home, and he was always at work, so he…

I always wanted 2 kids, but for the first few years after my first, thought I wouldn’t want another, for a few reasons, but the biggest being that I just loved him so much, I was afraid that I couldn’t love a new baby as much (and I was initially ambivalent about ever having kids at all - I was using BC when I became…

Agreed. I live in the DC area, got pregnant at 29, and had my first son at 30 (and the second at 33). In our over-educated upper-middle class neighborhood, I was treated like a teen mom. Almost everyone else I know didn’t have their first kid until their late 30s.

I have a confession to make, and this seems like an appropriate venue. I had a wide excision surgery on my leg last year, and a few days after the surgery I took my son to a kids’ party. I was walking with a cane and obvious bandages, so to break the ice, I tried to share an amusing anecdote from my surgery with the…

If you set up shop in the DC area I’m in ...

I was just thinking the other day that I wish I had a velour choker like the one I had in the 90s! I think that we are kindred spirits.

I was 11 when I developed a small goiter, and was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s. I will say that back in the 80s it was unusual, I guess, because every time i had a check-up at the teaching hospital where i was treated, they had, like, 20 interns come in to gawk at the “atypical” child with Hashimoto’s. It’s probably…

They don’t know what a “record store” is.

I’m 39, and I owned & read all of the issues you referenced. I do miss Sassy.

Be afraid. We conceived with condoms, and were shocked! My OB was not - she was all, “meh, they’re only about 80% effective.” I’m all “that’s not what it says on the box!” Our beautiful boy just turned 9 :)

You know, I thought the same thing, and then one of my older boy’s first words was “cold” when I wiped him once. I was wracked with guilt, knowing that he had thought they were cold for all those months and couldn’t say anything ... that was 8 years ago and I still feel guilty.

Ha! I totally would’ve bought that Keurig thing too though.