Friday, March 28, 2025

The Time We Rented A Hotel Room For An Hour To Spice Things Up

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Mar. 28, 2025
The Time We Rented A Hotel Room For An Hour To Spice Things Up
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The Time We Rented A Hotel Room For An Hour To Spice Things Up

Today, an anonymous mom has written about that time her husband surprised her by booking a post-early bird dinner hotel room for a quickie. It's a funny story but it gets to the heart of the practical necessity of sometimes scheduling (and paying a babysitter ahead of time for) sex. Such is life as busy (pun very much intended) parents. Perhaps you, too, could spice up your next Friday night date night.

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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Please Consider This My Formal Petition To Bring Back The House Phone

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Mar. 27, 2025
Please Consider This My Formal Petition To Bring Back The House Phone
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Please Consider This My Formal Petition To Bring Back The House Phone

I fully support the reasoning behind this article by Jamie Kaye Walters: She is sick and tired of being the intermediary between her kids and their friends. Just because she has a phone and her kids don't does not mean, she reasons, that she has to be involved in everything. This wasn't an issue when we were kids, she says, because we all had landlines and you could just dial a friend on up. So she's petitioning to bring them back. I'm sold.

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Personally, we're a pets-allowed-on-the-furniture house, but I didn't really grow up in one. So I understand the impulse to keep pets off the damn couch, I just don't subscribe to it. But if you do, here are some helpful tips to keep Fido on the floor.

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