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I just picked up a couple more today. I swear these two are just playing despite this looking like the cover of Cujo Returns With a Friend. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Elizabeth McGreevy probably laughs when puppies die.

I'm pretty sure this guy was a character in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Am I having deja vu or didn't this happen a few years ago? Or maybe that was another family.

I will give Mikey that Marlon Bundo is, as John Oliver put it, an objectively good name for a rabbit.

Took the baby to a puppy party at Hearts and Paws last weekend. Now, I give you two minutes of puppies playing - be sure to watch out for the sneak attack around the 29s mark.

Can't embed but this dog on the agility course at Westminster is hilarious. All of Winky's sides are her good sides.

Yep. Pot committed.

I've always hated shopping because of the aforementioned bullshit. Now 90% of my wardrobe comes from Stitch Fix (they have men's clothes now btw) and I don't have to go to a store. I love living in the future.

BF=boyfriend; it's a relaxed cut. Rockstar is a super tight skinny cut.

I've had different sizes in different COLORS of the same exact item. Old Navy is the worst about that, although I do like their clothes in general.

I got those at TJ Maxx, of all places, as Christmas gifts for the other dogs in the family. Was never planning to give them to Edgar because he can destroy things of that caliber in less than 10 minutes. We forgot to bring them when we visited family and I came across them in after we got Rocket. How old was she when you took these? We're not sure when Rocket was born - there's a 4 week discrepancy between when the first shelter said he was born to when AHS said he was born and I"m trying to get a better idea of his age to gauge training expectations and whatnot.

This should end well.

Haven't read all the responses but this was me. High school physics was the first time complex math made sense to me. It was because I wasn't doing math just to do it - it was math with a purpose. I always want to know the "why" behind what I'm doing, and my math teachers were of the "just because you have to learn it" mentality. Math made sense when it was part of a bigger picture, not the picture itself. I admit that I don't always understand how my 5th grader has been taught to do something, and I find it frustrating, but when we figure it out I usually find that he's learning the number sense approach, which I never learned in school. My husband gets it right off the bat, though, and I suspect it's because he was like a lot of you and figured out the number sense part on his own. Whatever we call it, I'm happy with any method that helps my kids internalize and understand the work.

There was a Q&A this morning and my friend told me it "got heated." Lots of parents angry about him leaving. But the general impression of the new principal is good so far.

Yes, Rocket is the baby and every. single. thing. he. does. is cute. Tries to lick his balls? Gets unbalanced and falls over. Tries to walk in a straight line? No go - puppy uncoordination FTW. Naps on Edgar's dog bed? Last time he did it he rolled over in his sleep and fell off the bed. I mean come on. Drag your husband to the AHS Puppy Bowl next year. I was much less worried about a puppy after we trained Edgar from the ground up. Since we have small kids I prefer getting the younger rescue dogs that don't already have ingrained bad habits, and there are so many great opportunities in Austin for puppy socialization and training and whatnot.

Just saw that. It's weird, right?

Edgar has ignored Rocket since he came home despite the little guy trying to play with him at every turn. He finally tried playing with him today and got a taste of his own medicine. Also the little guy made a pillow from one of his toys and I swear cartoon hearts come out of my eyes when I look at this picture. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I need to take him outside to potty but... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I want them where they will thrive. I don't think I can make that call yet (for high school, I mean). If he gets into Kealing we'll go there but if he hates it or something (for reasons beyond snowflake issues) then I have no problem pulling him and sending him to Murchison and then Anderson. I'm just thankful to have some good options.

My kids' options right now are Murchison or Kealing and y'all aren't making either sound appealing. That sounds about right.

This happened on The Daily Show too. I believe Samantha Bee had that exact exchange with someone.

Both of my kids got RSV, for which there is no vaccine, as infants. My oldest was 6 months old when he got it, and since we were home for Christmas when he got sick, we ended up at St. Mary's hospital in Port Arthur on Christmas Day when he was diagnosed and admitted. He'd gotten pneumonia along the way. It took them NINE TRIES to get his IV in and on about try #5 I had to leave the room because I was about to lose my shit on every person working in the ER. He was there for 4 days. I had also gotten RSV and was staying in the hospital room with him because he was nursing. I would nurse him while sitting under one of those oxygen tents, which they put over the chair in the room so we could both sit under it. He had been in the NICU when he was born and I was petrified that we would end up back there. My youngest was 7 weeks old when he got it. By the time he got a fever, I hadn't slept for 24 hours (again, nursing mother and a sick baby who wouldn't sleep for long stretches). We lived near Cedar Park Regional at the time so I took him over there while HornOnTheBayou stayed home with our 3-year-old. They did an RSV test and while it was processing, the doctor came over to discuss the possibility of it being meningitis. If the RSV test came back negative, their recommendation was to do a spinal tap to rule out meningitis. I had to sign some consent forms, and they went over the details of the procedure, which involved holding my 7-week-old in a sitting position while they drew spinal fluid. They "highly recommended" I not be in the room when this happened. The RSV test came back positive so we ended up not having to do the spinal tap, but they did send him to Dell Children's via ambulance and he was there for about a week. All this is to say that the above happened because of a disease we can't really prevent, and it scared the shit out of me both times. I would never, ever, forgive myself if one of my children was seriously ill or injured by something I could have prevented with a vaccine. I am not a doctor, nor am I an expert in pediatric illnesses. I take my children to doctors because I do not have the time nor the inclination to become an expert in this area. I respect and observe their opinions regarding my children's health because they have expertise in this field and base their recommendations on empirical data. It floors me that some people rely on the internet and/or baseless opinions when it comes to their kids' health. If either of my children contracted a preventable disease and died or was seriously injured from someone who was unvaccinated for a non-medical reason, I would be out for blood. And I mean that seriously - just thinking about it makes me want to go on the war path and straight up murder someone. You do not fuck with a mother.

I was born in '81. I don't think there was a chickenpox vaccine then because I distinctly remember getting it (chickenpox) in 2nd grade and my parents would've gotten me the vaccine if it was available. I did have the measles vaccine, although I don't know if it was the MMR then.

This is my response to stuff like this. Oh, you never wore a seatbelt growing up and you're fine? Sure, because you weren't one of the many who died and whose deaths spurred legislation that keeps you safer. Dumbass. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk