“You start off with the three month probation period, the most difficult three months in your career. Your boss is basically a jerk. He told you the hours were flexible and ‘family friendly,’ but what he meant was you’d be working overnight without double time or a toilet break.”
Having A New Baby Is Like Starting A New Job
‘We were only together a few months when I changed jobs. I quit because they weren’t treating me fairly. I was young and stupid.’
“‘Men don’t just quit their jobs, Brad… they find something else first and they stick it out. That’s just what adults do.’ She was worried because I wasn’t.”
‘He’s crushed and I’m dying laughing’: Dad hilariously replies to daughter’s tweet about his ‘disbelief, anger’ over Red Hot Chili Peppers concert instead being ‘PIPERS’
“I was driving around Evansville, Indiana, and saw a billboard for what I thought was the Red Hot Chili Peppers coming to The Victory Theatre in August. I didn’t get a great look at the billboard.”
‘I blurted out what first came to mind; I would have an abortion.’: Woman has miscarriage, prays for rainbow baby, ‘Those 10 days changed me forever’
“We watched our butterfly kind of stumble around a bit, until we said, ‘Mommy loves you,’ and ‘Daddy loves you’ The butterfly flew away into an overcast sky.”
‘My half-brother became an orphan at 2 years old, and was finally adopted after 458 days, by me – his sister.’: Sister adopts younger brother after father passes
“Easton attended the second most monumental funeral of his life before he could even talk in full sentences. He became an orphan, unexpectedly, in only 12 days. He’s now a brother to 4 sisters whom he is biologically the uncle of!”
‘I was an emotional blob who couldn’t peel myself off my couch’: After miscarriages, postpartum depression, mom loses 100 pounds ‘not for wife me, not mom me, but ME’
“During my depression, at its worst, I was sure I would be on an episode of ‘My 600-lb Life’ by the time I was 35. I am so glad I made a U-Turn in the right direction and I have made the changes to be a better me, wife, and mother.”
‘They each had handmade rings in their little hands and asked her to be theirs forever’: Dad and his 4 sons pull off perfect proposal for their future stepmom
“After his divorce a few years ago, Kevin had written a letter to his future wife. I hid that letter in a little mailbox just outside the barn. As she read the letter with tears in her eyes, all the boys snuck in and got down on one knee behind her.”
What I Want My Child To Know After They Screw Up
“In anticipation of an occurrence that I wholeheartedly hope never happens, but undoubtedly know will, I have preemptively drafted myself a script that I will hopefully remember in the coming years.”
How Busy Partners Should Answer ‘What Time Do You Think You’ll Be Home?’
“Don’t be like me.”
‘My mom even told the nurses, ‘Don’t feel bad you can’t fix her, we have accepted she will die from anorexia.”
“Just try and keep her alive for as long as possible and maybe some miracle will happen, and she will recover.”