I’ve been applying for new health insurance. I KNOW. But after doing just ridiculous amounts of research (and getting awesome tips from all of you), I discovered something important. California is requiring private insurance companies to offer maternity insurance by July, but none of them have to advertise that they will offer it until then. [...]

Mike laughs at me about all this Christmas stuff, but it is so important to me. Some of my best memories of childhood have Christmas at the center. Everyone would gather at my parents’ house – my grandma, aunts, uncles, cousins. We’d open presents and eat all day and laugh. There was so much laughing…I [...]