so, a funny thing happened to my spouse the other day. funny like i laughed until i cried when i heard about it, but also funny like jesus fucking christ our social norms are all kinds of fucked up.

so.

the backstory on this is that he is the primary caregiver for our kids. there are a lot of reasons for this, but it essentially boils down to the ( Read more... )

my son has a horrible cold right now, and he keeps coughing himself awake, crying about it, snuggling me for like thirty seconds when I go in to get him, then pointing at his crib and sobbing, so i set him down, he falls asleep, and like twenty minutes later he does it all over again ( Read more... )

It's both hilarious and kind of tragic, teaching my son how to interact with animals. With my daughter, it was never really an issue; she's the first grandchild on both sides of the family, so she was absolutely swamped in adorable stuffed animals from day one, most of which she ignored. She and the cat reached a fairly civil détente early on, and ( Read more... )

When I was pregnant with my first kid (who is almost five now, holy shit), I signed up on BabyCenter, since I'm one of those people who has to obsessively research everything when faced with a new situation, and I never bothered to delete my account, so they still send me weekly updates on developmental milestones and shit for my kids. I don't ( Read more... )

 I just picked up Gemma Hartley's Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward. It's like reading dispatches from the Twilight Zone.

My thoughts so far:

If I was married to her husband, I would probably have smothered him with a pillow long ago. What's almost more incredible is the fact that she describes him as liberal, progressive, and ( Read more... )