Baby Extra Pickles There's a little breakfast place near our house and every Sunday morning Skylar and I dress up our baby in cute clothes and walk to it with that
Baby Passports Skylar's personality for the past two months has been based off of getting our baby a passport as quickly as possible. I'm convinced the only reason
Baby The Nursery Last year when we found out we were probably going to become Hot Sexy Dads, Skylar insisted we dip into the savings account I painstakingly built up to send you
Salt Lake City Episode 273: The Great Salt Lake This time in Strangerville, people are giving Eli very annoying baby toys, gallows humor is our brand, and a story about an attempted swim in The Great Salt Lake. Listen
Skylar Formula Last week Skylar went out to get a pack of cigarettes and never come back so I was a hot single mom for five days. He had a conference in
Skylar The Possibility of Something Potentially Happening I just finished week twelve of my parental leave. Skylar likes to call what I'm doing "second wife life" because I don't have a
Skylar Literally Never Happened Last Wednesday Skylar walked into our bedroom at 6:30 AM and woke me, saying, "this has literally never happened to me before." In case you missed it,
Skylar Skylar's Birthday Surprise It was Skylar's birthday last week. It's hard to make plans for Skylar's birthday because every time I ask him what he wants to
Baby 2024 Yesterday afternoon I came home from the gym where I'm working on getting a Hot Single Mom bod. Skylar had the day off so he was home with
Baby Little Adventures When Skylar went back to work and I transformed into Hot Single Mom during the day, I decided to begin planning daily adventures with Mr. Baby. Nothing dramatic, of course.
Baby Paternity Leave Skylar went back to work last week after two months of paternity leave, which he has called "maternity" leave despite, and I think, in spite of my constant
Skylar Stench About two weeks ago a friend brought his toddler to our house to meet the baby. Toddlers are terrifying to me. There you can be, having a normal day, feeling
Skylar Mr. Baby Last week I became a dad. Obviously I was already a Father because I personally birthed Duncan and Louie. But I didn't have a human child until just
Skylar Totes Mask One of the things they don't warn you about when you marry a dermatologist is that they like to perform violent experiments on their faces. To be more
Skylar An Affair to Forget Skylar does this thing where he puts something on our shared calendar and tells me about it in person and then reminds me several times and then has the absolute
Duncan Having It All When I started working from home in Year of Our Lord Cher Two Thousand and Twenty, I thought it would be temporary. You see, there was a pandemic that started
House The Curb We think the junk in our garage breeds. There's no other explanation for how it gets filled up every six months. We have no memory of putting anything
Skylar Over The Hill I turned 40 on Saturday, which means I'm now officially pickled. I remember when my dad turned 40. I was seven at the time. His friends gave him
Louie A New Gate I'm not sure if I've ever shared Duncan's birth story here. Maybe it's all felt too sacred to write out. Basically an
Skylar Caftans It's now been like nine months since I first started going to the gym trainer I wrote about a while back, which technically means I could have become
Skylar A New Physician A few years ago my doctor just straight up quit being a doctor. She didn't quit working at her clinic or move away. She didn't retire
Ukraine L'viv This week for Strangerville I shared an audio version of the below story, published in text here for those interested in reading it. There is a long plaza in the
House Water Pressure When I moved into my house nearly ten years ago one of the first things I noticed was that the water pressure was essentially the strength of a Windex spray
Matt Bookends (Audio version above, shared on this week's episode of Strangerville.) By Eli McCann My great grandpa Hinkle built his own house. People sometimes talk about someone they know
Skylar Night Owl Skylar suggested we go to bed on Friday night at 8:30. I've forfeited a lot of things to this man's will. Being a night owl
