Starred for “poo-packets.”

So, I’m going to get a bit dark and deep here.

You are correct that Mischa’s lawyer doesn’t play - Lisa Bloom is Gloria Allred’s daughter.

Little Pea was long my son’s favorite book. Amy seems to have really understood children, and their parents. What a loss to her family, and to the world.

Except there is a federal hiring freeze ...

Oh no! I was just reading excerpts from the modern love article to my husband over dinner on our date night, but I hadn’t realized that she was the author of Little Pea, our youngest son’s first “favorite book” that he could read on his own - it has such a special place in our hearts. That made this even more…

My 6 year old son would LOVE this. He’s obsessed with spiders and insects - every week it’s a new book from the library - he even has me convinced that jumping spiders are pretty cute now, too.

Oh god, I’m from NYC originally, and lived in FL for a few years, so I’m unfortunately intimately familiar with both kids. I once had a medical-grade panic attack/nervous breakdown/screaming freak out at 2 am when a water bug/palmetto bug (hideous roach) flew right onto my face when I was sleeping at my house in FL.…

I love this meme so much.

Trumpsingles.com - I imagine this is pretty much just another Easter European mail order bride site.

FortunatelyTheLemons, you are so kind - thank you for what you said. I really try so hard every day. Parenting is hard for most people, but for those of us from fucked up families, truly, the decks are stacked against us. My kids are sweet and good-natured and have forgiven me when I’ve yelled in the past, but I am…

This is the thing that haunts me. I don’t ever hit my children, because of how deeply that traumatized us as kids, but I know that I can still (albeit very rarely) have a verbal temper sometimes - I’ve yelled at them, and I hate myself for it. I have spent many years working on improving this, and I married exactly…

Thank you so much for posting this - I am interested, even though I realistically may not be able to do this for a few years (I have two small kids & work full-time with a long commute - I feel guilty about how little time I have with them already). But, they won’t be small for long, and I would really like to help…

A bit like the Dave Chapelle white supremacist skit.

Kellyanne, love your handle.

BreakerBaker, the prosecutors would have given them 2-4 years (like their friends got) if they had taken a plea deal. However, they chose to gamble with the judge. Their arrogance (on top of the crime) is what got them the longer sentence. They totally had the option to be reasonable, own up to their actions like…

I totally agree with everything you said - and am just adding that they chose not to take a plea, where they could have gotten sentenced to somewhere in the neighborhood of 2-4 years instead. Gambling with the criminal justice system is serious business.

It’s the very definition of terrorism. There are plenty of presumed Islamic-extremist terrorists serving longer sentences at Gitmo for doing less.

Well, if someone pointed a gun at my kids while shouting verbal threats, I would think that 13 years sounds exactly right.

Meh, as the mother of a 10 year old and a 6 year old, I can only imagine the terror of those poor kids, and the lifelong PTSD they’ll have - especially associated with birthdays - so fucked up. These idiots have children, too, so there’s no way they didn’t realize the consequences of how their actions would affect…