On The Books Aren't Helping
People are like "Is it hard having a new baby?" And I'm all THE BABY IS THE EASY ONE. The other two who keep demanding to be fed, loved, picked up, homework-ed, soccer-ed, and refereed are the YOU JUST DO IT components.
That being said, your first baby really does seem complicated. Aww, new moms!
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On Hi, I'm Jane Marie...
I'll miss your name being read over the air every week, but excited I get to read you here!
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On So Long, Farewell
You were great! Thanks for the Internet memories. And also thanks for proposing a hairpinning in SLC, because I totally would have shown up for that. With my baby. At a bar?
Natural childbirth! YES!
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On So Long, Farewell
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On I'm Changing My Name, Again
@DenimGlow So I was on the fence because, like Feltes over there, I wanted to maybe possibly ditch my long maiden name for his shorter, but more Slavic name. I figured I could change it and then change it back later if I wanted to.
I WISH I HADN'T CHANGED IT. If you're not sure and brimming with love and desperation and singing birds to change it, wait. I wish I could go back and not change it to his terrible to spell, constantly mispronounced name. At this point with rugrats and more than a decade of ball and chain, it seems silly to change it back.
(But oh how I want to.)
Wait.
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On How to Upstage Your Friends at Their Weddings, I Mean, How to Make a Wedding Cake
Word, janeminty, word indeed.
Caution! Don't use a box mix for the *actual* cake; they are meant to be light and fluffy, they are hard to frost unless frozen, and end up falling apart when you start stacking the tiers. Also, no matter the flavor, they always taste like box cake flavor.
And! If you think you should skip the dowels or the cardboard/foamcore rounds, you'll be treated to what a cake looks like when it swallows itself in gravitational collapse.
Hooray Science!
Oh, and do use a long wooden dowel, sharpened on one end, to drive through all three tiers so the cake has a stable axis.
Yay!
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On The Real Reason to Give Up Your Seat for a Pregnant Lady
My favorite technique is to loudly offer my seat while throwing a stink eye around me to make everyone else feel selfish. My second favorite is to volunteer a young fellow to give up his seat for a pregnant or elderly person.
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On Make a Delicious Spanish Tortilla in 15 Grueling Steps
Broiler isn't the same, says the purist! Because when you flip it (I flip onto a plate and then slide back into the pan) the other side needs to get smashed into itself to form an even crust like the first side. Because if your sides don't match WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU it will taste WRONG!
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On Bathing Fashion of Yesterday
Maybe I made my baby a swim turban.
(Next time: A FRINGE.)