Mine was pretty good, although the Weight Watchers pretty much went out the window. We went to a party on Saturday night at our friends' house. They were celebrating the beginning of their adoption process; they're going to get a baby from Vietnam. So all the food was Vietnamese: spring rolls, spicy crab cakes (mmmm!), this noodle stuff with ( Read more... )

From UPI:PUEBLO, Colo., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Police in Pueblo, Colo., arrested a woman and charged her with using her 5-month-old son as a down payment for a car ( Read more... )

Please, Dame Helen, give me more reasons to want to be you when I grow up:Oscar winner DAME HELEN MIRREN is glad she doesn't have any children of her own - because she has no motherly instincts at all. The British star has never had the desire to start a family with her husband of 10 years, American director TAYLOR HACKFORD, and she warns that ( Read more... )

Wow. As someone opting out of the kids thing, this Salon article terrified me. I'm so glad I didn't have to be in this situation. The writer was at the time a 35-year-old (hello!) woman looking on online dating sites and found...At first I attributed my dates' decade-plus age gap to male swagger and the desire for a midlife ego boost. But after ( Read more... )

From Yahoo News:ORLANDO, Fla. - AirTran Airways on Tuesday defended its decision to remove a Massachusetts couple from a flight after their crying 3-year-old daughter refused to take her seat before takeoff ( Read more... )

Snagged from krustukles, a link to American Prospect Online and "The Mommy Mantra":In preparation for her all-but-announced 2008 White House run, Hillary Clinton has re-released It Takes a Village, her 1996 tome on child-friendly public policies. The new cover depicts the senator from New York dressed in hot pink, bathed in sunlight, and surrounded by six ( Read more... )

You know how you go for weeks or months without seeing any of your friends, then you have three get-togethers in one weekend? That was us. And now I'm totally pooped. Friday night was dinner with friends J and M at their house. Their little boy is a funny kid. Dinner was yummy and actually fairly healthy, but of course I completely negated that by ( Read more... )

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From Yahoo:...In some ways, it's simply part of a kid's natural journey toward independence. But child development experts say that physical and behavioral changes that would have been typical of teenagers decades ago are now common among "tweens" - kids ages 8 to 12 ( Read more... )

From Dear Abby today:
DEAR ABBY: I'm in a relationship with a man I'll call "Dominick," who was arrested a few years back, but he refuses to tell me what he was arrested for. I have two children, and I don't want to continue this relationship if Dominick is a child molester.
Do you know where I can find out what he did? -- UNEASY IN SANFORD, FLA.

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