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• Greetings • Trigger warning: Poop. Don’t worry. There are no pictures and I’m not going to talk about poop in overly graphic or cutesy ways. But if you hate poop, scroll on. In fact, maybe this isn’t your issue as we are also going to talk butts. There
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• Greetings • My three box service startup ideas, based on this completely unstaged photo in my basement (this I swear to you: I will never get good at internet photography): Old towels: When the sump pump breaks, the toilet overflows, someone is barfing on the floor, or the kids are playing
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• Year End Greetings • This is the last issue of 2018 so I decided that in honor of Baby New Year, I’d fire off a bunch of pieces I have about and by new moms. It is the great crossing over, and it’s so insane that even though this
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• (Holiday) Greetings • It was Christmastime, during my last few years of being child-free, when I first started thinking about having kids. I still shamelessly let my mom buy and wrap gifts “from Santa” for me but began to suspect this is for kids in a way that somehow led
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Greetings I am not going to get into Thanksgiving because haven’t you had enough already? What, do you need a recipe for a leftover turkey frittata? But I do want you to do me a favor this holiday. Most of you will be going to someone’s house for
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Greetings Date night fights. Do you ever have these? They began sprouting up in our marriage in earnest on my first kid’s first birthday. We went to a wedding, excited to drink and dance and have fun and wear fancy clothes for the first time in a year, but
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Greetings I have two pregnant friends, one on her second kid, the other with her third. Both are over 40, with advanced degrees, day jobs, little kids in school. Both have told me they feel bad because they’re not more excited or grateful about the pregnancy, which makes me