midwesternmom's discussions

Ok, I love my Mimi, but anyone else think she's faking the flu to lower expectations about her annual holiday slurry song fest? Read more

I am so sorry. Read more

This is wonderful! It’s like a sitcom without the snarking and bickering. Read more

Well. someone left that damn cake out in the rain. Read more

“Don’t you find it suspicious that every time they dig for dinosaurs, they find them?” Twenty years ago, from my nieces, who were being sent to Bible School. They have since gone to college and grown into intelligent, funny, wonderful women. And I have learned to think twice before giving kids dinosaur books as… Read more

While the mean girls are shunning her, maybe we get her to eat lunch with us at the second-tier table. We need to move fast before she ends up with the band geeks. Read more

No sausage gravy segregation! I was raised by my uncle, who ate sausage gravy on everything. Including pumpkin pie, now that I think of it. He was ahead of his time. Read more

Yes, but pumpkin spice waffles deserve a “Bless your heart” and quick toss in the trash can. Too much flavor to compete with the side of sausage gravy I must have. Read more

My son, who is 10, really wants to see this movie, and my husband is excited to have a movie-going partner. The good mother in me wants to warn them, but the bad wife in me wants to see how Midwesternman will deal with this. Life-long trauma and fear of the sea versus me laughing at the look on my husband’s face.… Read more

Pinkham, I would follow you to Fox News for my Kitchette fix. Read more

She could post pictures tap dancing on her frozen eggs, and I would still like her. Not allowing him to procreate is a gift to all of humanity. Read more

Dibs if France passes. He looks so chill for a future badass. Read more

And he probably never will. The hard part is that you will feel like you lost something, but what you are really losing is your delusion and hope that he will ever be what you deserve. And he will get angry as you move past him. But you will, and you will end up in a great place. Read more

I dated my narcissistic alcoholic 20 years ago. The book Infinite Jest really helped me understand the alcoholic delusional personality. A fun read, but also bleak and dark and you realize just how awful their inner world is, and then you can appreciate not being part of the darkness. Read more

I am sorry that you are in so much pain. You will come through this and be the woman who sees through selfish narcissists in the future, but the journey through is hard. I am glad that your family is there for you. And that he is leaving so you don't have to force his ass to leave. Let him go, and be gone. You are… Read more

I have a great aunt who left the convent in her early 40’s. She wanted to be more involved in school policy, and was not allowed. She ended up working for a state education association, and built up a comfortable life, but those lost 20 years of income and retirement are obvious when you compare her to her siblings.… Read more

That makes perfect sense. She makes adorable bags just the right size so you could pop him in and carry him around. Read more

So, the biggest border problem is stemming the flow of radicals into Syria? Read more

My grandma always told me that giant earrings would make your ears droop, which is one explanation for her ears suddenly morphing into her jaw. Read more

Missing girls locked in basements are it. Read more