Your new hair is amazing! Sexy. :) & a $10 KitchenAid???? That is awesome!

Happy Birthday Schipul! & great post Katie. :)

You're my kind of woman! ;) I really love this & need to do something like this. As my therapist says, self-knowledge is one of the best things you can have.

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MAKE THE CUTENESS STOP. MY UTE CANNOT HANDLE IT.

I just want to say: thank you. I am not a mother yet, but as I approach that time in my life where my husband & I are talking about having a baby in the future, I get scared. I have been depressed for much of my life, & I just assumed that with having a child, PPD (in some form) would come along with it. This is something I've never said out loud, just thought quietly to myself. And still, PPD might be there & I might have to bash its ugly head in, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. It's just SO refreshing to read this & know that for many people, you can just MAN UP & put on your big girl panties & even when you are covered in baby poop know that you are exactly where you need & want to be (maybe not at that particular moment, but overall).

I think it's a lot like marriage. Are there times when it's hard & I think "I wish I wasn't here"? Of course. But overall, I know that I am exactly where I need & want to be, & anything else is just The Crazy talking. :)