Yesterday morning I came home from an appointment to find my husband already chuckling as he walked towards me with a manila envelope. He handed it to me and said, “You’re going to crack up.” And he was right. Inside was 3 year old Julesy’s progress report from preschool. It was filled with all the projects he’d done for the...
*Artwork courtesy of my 5 yr old. Notice the brain, lungs, and heart roughly 1/10th the size. **Post inspired by my facebook fans.
This week, amidst worldwide reports from exhausted mothers and fathers everywhere saying that their babies refuse to fall asleep, like, EVER, U.S. officials have issued a large scale recall of all babies issued between January and November of 2011. The commotion started earlier this month when a mother from Illinois says she took her daughter to the pediatrician after the...
Last year, around this time, I talked about that fact that we weren’t interested in doing Santa with the kids. We love the character of Santa, we just don’t pretend that he’s the one dropping off the goods. When I wrote about this, some people were like, “Right on! Us neither.” And some people were like “That’s cool, but we...
I can’t help it, I hold grudges. It’s just my personality to seethe over things when I feel like I’ve been dumped on, and it just stews inside my bones, boiling under the surface for months, weeks, years, decades… until I find a way to resolve my anger. I have a lot of unresolved rage over things that happened in...
Tonight, I was catching up on last week’s episode of Parenthood just before the boys started getting ready for bed. In the episode, one of the character’s catches a pregnant co-worker eating sushi — and freaks out about it. The drama here is that the pregnant character is giving her baby to the Pregnancy Police, so the adoptive mom is...
By Amber Dusick A while back, Gina (aka- The Feminist Breeder), emailed me to see if I wanted to guest post for her over here. And of course I said yes! I mean, this is The Feminist Breeder we are talking about here! She is kind of a big deal! She is like some sort of rockstar with a perfect...
