Keep Don Knotts’ name out of your mouth.#fife4life

He was my little gal’s favorite JoBro. When she was around six or seven (she is 14 now) we took her to NYC and we ran into him and his wife at a B’way show intermission. We told him he was her favorite; he got down on his knees, hugged her, and asked her a million questions and they had a good talk. Ever since then…

“We wanted all of our kids to grow up learning that fairness, justice, equality, and truth were important virtues. Now they all believe that shit and we have no idea where they’re getting it from!”

It’s only going to get worse. Just wait till ALL of Trump’s america get their tax returns back;

Damn, hasn’t this woman been through enough without also having to watch Trump talk for an hour?

Bobby Hill has given far, far more this world than Louis CK ever did. 

I hate that the women in his life seem to be held more publicly accountable for his actions than he is. We either have articles asking women to answer for his crimes, or articles asking when CK and men like him are allowed to return to their “rightful” place in the spotlight. Why do women have to answer for the…

Job update: I did not get the job. *sad trombone*

My week sucked. I was mugged the other day and lost my bag, purse, keys. I had to wait 3 hours for the council to gain entry to my flat, then the food bank couldn’t help me and I was not in the mood to argue the fact, I was weepy and upset. I nearly put my phone in pawn to afford to get through the next few weeks but…

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…

The most over-the-top baby shower I’ve ever been to was in a rented mansion, decorated in specific colours (not Pantone, but still), catered by two different restaurants, had an open bar with six different types of brown liquor, a selfie spot, a table with a wall of presents about six feet high, and all the women…

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…

So, not over-the -top, but at a cousin’s shower, all her husband’s relatives WOULD NOT SHUT UP about her size. She was carrying twins and she has an eating disorder. It was a tough pregnancy, and the eating disorder is a life long struggle around food and body image. Did no one notice the showeree was only eating dry…

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…

So I’d say my first baby shower, or should I say my husbands baby shower, was a bit over the top.

Okay, this was not over the top, but I bet I can take the cake for most pathetic baby shower. My twins had just been born super early and in dire condition. They were the size of squirrels and ensconced in the NICU unable to breathe on their own, but my aunt insisted on going through with the shower she had planned. I…

At my brother and his wife’s baby shower his MIL spent the entire time bossing everyone around while drinking vodka out of a water bottle. She yelled at her husband to go out and get more when she ran out, and then proceeded to vomit all over the one bathroom in the building. The entire shower was made up of mostly…

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.

Thankfully, I’ve never been to an over-the-top baby shower, but I will say that at MY baby shower, my insane ex-mother-in-law walked in after not having seen me since I became pregnant, immediately knelt on the floor in front of me, and began whispering and kissing my belly. She was like, making out with my belly…

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.