When do we get a spin-off blog dedicated solely to birth stories? Everyone's needs to be told and I NEED TO READ THEM ALL.
Feel affirmed! Feel very affirmed!!
Whaaaaaaaaaat!? (Immediately begins drafting various versions of a text to husband that will justify just not coming home from work tonight, even though child has ear infection...)
I didn't understand the Channing Tatum thing until I saw 22 Jump Street and then I was like, "Oh. Yes. I see now. Please parkour at me forever."
This brings me such joy and a resurgence of all the best Sassy feelings that died in me the day that the Teen-Stepford version was suddenly delivered to my doorstep with no warning. How do you just DO that to a 10th grader? It was all I had! (Really, it is only since the birth of The Toast that the wound has finally started to heal.)
You have just validated all my long-dormant teenage feelings of hatred. I just wanted to punch Holden Caulfield in the throat so hard back in the day.
“I love her so much but I miss you.” Yes. I think I said this exact thing to my husband when we decided that one child was definitely enough for us. Thank you for sharing this.
New International Version UNTIL the release of the New Revised Standard Version which became the ultimate in elite progressive academic Presbyterian bible-ing.
A friend I forwarded this to replied: "My main problem with that post is that it wasn’t 4x longer."
I agree with this so completely. I have a child, because I want to be a parent. Someone else does not have a child because she does not want to be a parent. Why does only one of these acts routinely get labeled as selfish? In both cases we are doing the thing we want to do. Unless these people making the argument are trying to tell me that they never wanted to be parents at all, but selflessly took one for the team to perpetuate humanity...
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