So we shot a book trailer for 32 CANDLES yesterday against a green screen. It’s going to be dope, but more important than that, our friend Nicole B made the mistake of taking a pic of Betty on the green screen’s green floor and then sending it to my husband and myself. Apparently she underestimated [...]

So one the of things that attracted us to our church as a then-childless couple was the promise of a nursery during service. However, this was before we found out that the one thing Betty would not “grow out of” was her aversion to being handled by strangers. She likes to look at new people, [...]

Dearest Betty, Sometimes I wonder if you might want to be even a little bit cool when you grow up, and then I feel sorry for you because I know that you’ll be afraid to bring your popular-kid friends home for fear of them finding out about your nerdy lineage when they meet you’re not-even-trying-to-hide-how-geeky-we-are [...]

Hey Guys, I’ve decided to abandon the Month of Advice, because on second thought, I wasn’t all that excited about it. So if you’re wondering, “Hey, why no advice?” That’s why. In other news, a dilemma did come up yesterday. I took two pictures of Betty of such everlasting cuteness that I wondered if I [...]

I just wanted to thank you guys once again for making our Month of Minefields so ridiculously awesome. I really appreciated reading your comments on a range of topics that we hadn’t really talked about before, and I am convinced now more than ever that Fierce and Nerdy has the best readers in the history [...]

Greetings from St. Louis! I’ve been here for three days, and I must say that being with family now that I have a daughter of my own has been an interesting experience. First of all, there is something about a baby that turns your family into a font of unsolicted advice. There was the 30 [...]

So by far one of my most popular posts has been “Raising Biracial Children,” which I wrote before I had any actual Biracial children living outside my womb or the gleam in my eye. I suspected as I was writing it that my perspective would change once I actually had said child, and I have [...]

So it’s been interesting having my BFF and her husband in town for Betty’s baptism. Quite frankly, I understand why community living was so popular in the 70s. It’s been really nice always having people around to pick up the extra slack. I ran around after by BFF’s 18-monther while she and her husband negotiated [...]

It’s funny, because when we were getting ready for Betty to come, we often told people that it was like throwing a wedding all over again. We had a list of weekend-consuming things that we had to buy for the big event, lessons and all sorts of consultations, and a pre-party thrown by others. If [...]

So this Wednesday, CH and I are meeting with a lawyer to draw up a will. A will is suggested for everyone, and once you get married, the gentle suggestion becomes a little firmer. But once you bring children into the equation, well then you start pressuring yourself. Usually, I love planning for a worse-case [...]