What happens to the wedding dresses you don’t pick? They stay on your phone, growing weeds around them, gathering dust, until one day, you’re fat from eating too many of your toddler’s chicken nuggets and …
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it is you
Unloading the groceries yesterday afternoon, I had the fleeting thought, wow I’m tired, I really don’t want to figure out where to put this 40th jar of back up peanut butter, maybe the Grown-ups will …
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Nipples
Here’s something they don’t tell you about having kids: if you’re like me and don’t have a Garden of Eden flowing river of breast milk, so you give your baby both breast milk and formula, …
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what is pelvic floor
Here lies Woman. She died trying to engage her pelvic floor while emptying the dishwasher, trying to squeeze her abs and glutes while picking a piece of scrambled egg off the floor, she died. She …
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sometimes me
A friend sent Joe and Bob this book and I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t think Joe would be into it, given that there’s no cars inside, but look, don’t but your kids in …
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when
Do you have any questions for the doctor? YES, WHEN. When will my uterus return to its normal size? When should I start dinner? When can I workout again, when can I work again? When …
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if you give a kid a sister
One of the reasons we wanted to have a second kid was that so Joe would cultivate independence, know that the world does not revolve around him, not that it’s impossible to teach this to …
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his waffle
Today on why we had a second kid: Every morning when he wakes up, Joe gets a waffle. Simple, right? No. Hell no. Maybe it used to be? There was a time, oh, there was …
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her finger
Scene: Bobbie is 23 years old. We haven’t spoken in months, maybe years, after a mostly tumultuous relationship that only got worse once the girl hit puberty, and it was all downhill from there, and …
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half thoughts
Goddess / favorite playwright and mother of three Sarah Ruhl has a book called 100 essays I don’t have time to Write and it’s brilliant and it pops into my head multiple times a week. …