My husband has decided to get the ol' snip-snip. I have thoughts about this. Many, many thoughts. I try to articulate them to him, but because I have the gift of never finding the right words when speaking, I figured I'd write them down instead. Here goes. Dear Husband, I understand you ... » Learn More about On the Eve of My Husband’s Vasectomy
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The Time I Ruined My Own Engagement & The Dog Ruined Christmas
A few days before Christmas 2004, my boyfriend of two years took me to a Christmas lights display. It's no secret that I'm like a toddler in an empty refrigerator box when it comes to Christmas, so the venue was perfection. The icing on the cake was that a portion of the entrance fee went to local ... » Learn More about The Time I Ruined My Own Engagement & The Dog Ruined Christmas
The New Face of Romance
A first true love is butterfly wings beating against the brain, clouding good judgement and all reason. An all-consuming, borderline obsession coupled with a physical ache that plagues the body. It's the kind of excitement rivaled only by a young child's on Christmas Eve. In a word, our first ... » Learn More about The New Face of Romance
This is What a Decade of Us Looks Like
10 years, 521 weeks, 3,650 days. A decade. I'm not sure what a decade of marriage looks like anywhere else, but around here, it looks a lot like three kids and two dogs a strict family budget ohmygod relax dinnertime trivia an obsessively landscaped lawn dog hair all over the ... » Learn More about This is What a Decade of Us Looks Like
This one time, I made a meme & more than 20 million people saw it
I've previously written about how my husband enjoys embarking upon irrelevant tasks at the absolute worst times (some of my favorite examples of his nonsense have been published in Jen Mann's humor anthology I Just Want to Be Alone), particularly while I'm in labor with our babies. One of his more ... » Learn More about This one time, I made a meme & more than 20 million people saw it