Dear Third Trimester, let me start off by saying, I’m scared of you. I’ve been scared of you my entire pregnancy, because—frankly—I’ve felt your presence for the last six months. And now, just like that, you’ll be here in one short week.

I’m a power-of-prevention, all-natural type, but I’ve been sucking up sore throats, headaches, congestion, and coughing for six days and counting, and, to be honest, I’m dreaming of the hard stuff. (What I wouldn’t do for some Theraflu right now…)

Thank you, New York Times, for publishing “A Truce in the Bragging Wars” by bestselling author and columnist Bruce Feiler. I couldn’t agree more with Feiler’s rules about bragging, and the one thing we can all agree on, in this social media-bloated age of parental judginess: “That parents should stop bragging about their children.”

Kaspar's almost three, and in about seven months he'll become a big brother.