Pregnant Chicken

When I worked in an office, my coworker Maria was one of the nicest people on the planet – the kind of person everyone in the office genuinely loved – so when I organized her baby shower, the usual $5 chip-in turned into $10, $20, and one guy handed me $50 cash without blinking. Before I knew it, I had $800 in an envelope and a big problem: her giant family had already swept ...

Thank you notes are one of those tasks that sounds simple but somehow ends up on your to-do list for three weeks while the stack of cards sits on your counter judging you.

You're exhausted, possibly enormous, and you have to figure out something heartfelt to say about the sixth set of burp cloths you received. I get it.

Thankfully, you don't have to be a poet. Yo...

When I was pregnant, I tried every single one of these with both of my pregnancies. The ring test, the Chinese calendar, the heart rate theory. All of it. And both times, I was convinced I was having a girl. (Spoiler: I have two boys.) So take all of this with a giant grain of salt and enjoy it for what it is.

That said, there's something deeply human about wanting to ...