This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.

True love, and what it is, and how do you know what it is. Is it just chemistry, or is it years and years of commitment and being together and hanging in there building a history? And how do you find both?

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.