These Speed Rounds have been a great way to learn little tidbits of info about our podcast mates. Like whether we use our nightstands to hold more than alarm clocks and tissue boxes. Do you also keep unexpected things in your nightstand? Share your answer in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

Sometimes we're thrilled to see a follow from a friend, colleague, or person we admire. It's a joy to return the follow then -- but what if it's an anonymous person with an egg for a Twitter avatar and a string of spammy posts? We talk about who we will and won't follow and why, and hope that we're still on each other's lists at the end of it. What are your follow criteria? Comment here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

We're tired, we're crierd, and we stink at self-improvement. Good thing we have friends to get together and commiserate with (or snark with). Here's your roadmap to our festival of self-recrimination and venting:

0:53: Intros and What's New With You — We recorded this the day before Terri gave up coffee for Lent. So really, what was her excuse for being so snippy?

4:11 Insurmountable Challenges — If you've ever tried to make a major change in your life and failed miserably, you'll feel for us as we share our stories of washing out of the Infomagical Challenge, Yoga Camp, Vegan Before Six, and making friends in new neighborhoods. (How could anyone not immediately want to be buddies with Nicole?)

17:53 Volunteer Fatigue — Kid stuff does not run without parent volunteers, and Catherine's about had it. Are you one of those parents who barely pulls your weight? Duck.

28:51 Interview of the Week — But wait. It's okay! We didn't mean to exclude you from the conversation! Pediatric OT Meghan Corridan makes us rethink all our sniping with a review of the children's book Be a Friend by Salina Yoon and a reminder that Valentine's Day is the ultimate inclusive holiday.

40:52 Shameless Self-Promotion — Amanda shares an older article on ways to volunteer without actually being in the classroom, Terri shares a new article on the 20 Questions You Really Want to Ask at an IEP Meeting, Nicole shares a plea to including everyone in the class when it comes to writing Valentine cards with your kids, and Catherine shares some fun games and activities for Valentine's Day.

Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our podcast and for our fun in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.

After talking about Terri's husband's cooking and meal-planning in a previous episode, we thought we'd see what the division of labor is in everybody's household, including the contentious issue of who exactly is allowed to load the dishwasher. (Note: Amanda mentions our group chat on parenting styles tomorrow, except what she really means is last week, because recording things ahead of time is confusing.) Share who does what around your house in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

So you make sure your kids see the doctor regularly and get things looked after, but how about you? Do you take care of your own health? We compare our personal conscientiousness about health care and wonder whether we should just have Nicole look things up for us on Web MD instead. Share your own health routine in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

For today's entertainment chat, we stayed up after the Super Bowl to talk over the ads that we loved, hated, never want to see again, and expect to be seeing again and again as memes and hashtags. Also in the Super Bowl discussion are Lady Gaga's anthem, the colorful halftime program, the coming triumph of Twitter as our Super Bowl humor delivery system, and .. oh yeah, apparently there was some football played?

When we've had enough of that big event, we move on to a big event for this podcast, which is our ongoing Parks and Rec marathon. This time around, we chat about "Leslie's House," "Sweetums," "Galentine's Day," and "Woman of the Year," and look forward to next week's lineup of "The Possum," "Park Safety," "Summer Catalog," and "94 Meetings." Watch with us, won't you?

In yesterday's speed round, we stole an idea from schools and proposed things we'd like to celebrate 100 days of. Keeping with that 100 theme for one more day, we wondered what we might have 100 of in our house. What do you have 100 of? Share your answer in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

Schools celebrate the 100th day of the school year, and it got us wondering whether similar celebrations could be designed for landmarks of grown-up life. Do you have a 100th day of something you'd like to celebrate? Comment here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

Hey! Welcome! We know technology is scary, but don't be afraid! Listening to a podcast is easy, and it doesn't require you to learn anything new. Just press play, and here's what you'll be listening to and when:

1:28: What's New With You? — Amanda thinks she's found a new system that will help her cut down on multitasking and focus on one thing at a time. Ha! Good luck with that. Meanwhile, Terri's focused on finding a human being on the Macy's customer-service phone line, and not having much success with that either.

6:20: Teaching Old Dogs New Tech Tricks — A forced conversion to Outlook is making Amanda cry, Catherine's still hiding out with in Yahoo! mail, Nicole just can't with this magazine website redesign thing, but Terri's willing to embrace the new even if it fries her phone.

16:18: Our Parenting Philosophies — We've been asked if we all share the same parenting philosophy or if we have disagreements, and what we mostly agree on is that there are as many right ways to parent as there are parents and children and families. Also, that the article going around about no rules making your kids creative is questionable (and reminds Terri of a West Wing scene.)

25:25: Interview of the Week — Robert Rummel Hudson joins Terri and Amanda for a chat about the value to parents of reading other parents' stories and learning from their experiences, even the bad and wrong and embarrassing ones.

37:47: Shameless Self-Promotion — Terri shared an article on "When Parents of Kids with Special Needs Are Each Other’s Worst Enemies"; Amanda: shared a checklist of "Questions to Ask Before and During Your Child's IEP Meeting"; Nicole was too busy working on her book to share, but you should check out her website The Inclusive Class anyway; and Catherine shared an article on getting your kid to drink more water.

Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our podcast and for our fun in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.

Are we rockin’ minivans or SUVs? Or have we been able to downsize the size of our ride as our kids have gotten their own? Listen as we chat about our current vehicles of choice, and share what's getting you around in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

When traveling with kids, not just any hotel room will do. For today's speed round, we talk about those things we look for when traveling with the family, from refrigerators to wifi. Listen in, and share your own lodging must-haves in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

Last week, we recorded a Round 2 not once but twice, and both times it got lost somewhere in Dropbox-land and never made it to our editor. Fortunately, we were able to salvage one of those recordings, and we've embedded it into this week's super-long episodes, which now includes two 4-episode installments of our Parks and Rec marathon as well as our impressions Grease Live. We hope this podcast is live now, too, something we're never going to take for granted again. (If you're following along in our marathon, this podcast contains last week's eps, "Kaboom," "Greg Pikitis," "Ron and Tammy," and "The Camel," as well as this week's, "Hunting Trip" (see video), "Tom's Divorce," "Christmas Scandal," and "The Set-Up." Coming up next week: "Leslie's House," "Sweetums," "Galentine's Day," and "Woman of the Year.")

It'll be Valentine's Day before you know it, and in honor of this month of romance, we chatted about our own personal love stories. Listen in, and if you've got a good how-we-met story of your own, share it in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

During last week's group chat, Amanda and her husband, Jon,  talked about birthday parties and kids with special needs, and that inspired us to talk more generally about some of the more over-the-top children's parties we've had the privilege of dragging our children to. Do you have a big-birthday-party tale to tell? Comment here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

It's been one of those weeks here in Parenting Roundabout land (an enchanted place that now spans four timezones), and so we come together for our group chat with a shorter attention span and a more meandering style than ever. But that's where your brain's at too, right? Here's a road map of this week's conversation:

1:43: What's New With You? — Join is in a moment of silence for Nicole, who has just had her parents in her house for FIVE WEEKS. And a moment of thanks for OnStar, which saved Terri from a very awkward conversation with a parking-lot attendant.

5:44: That Storm Was How Big? — You might have heard, it snowed a li'l bit on the East Coast last weekend. We talked about what counts as an OMG STORM! in our various parts of the country. (Visit the French Toast Alert System and a Facebook message from the Bangor Maine Police Department to laugh along with us.)

17:44: What's for Dinner? — A mention in last week's episode of Terri's husband's old-school paper-based meal-planning system inspired us to talk more about how food gets on the table in our houses. Debates over the appropriateness of breakfast for dinner, leftovers for breakfast, and calling ham Canadian bacon ensued.

28:50: Interview of the Week — Amanda chatted with her husband, Jon, about the various complicating factors of going to birthday parties with your child with special needs. (Like, should you go? And should you stay? And is it okay to give homework as a gift?) For more on over-the-top birthdays, listen to Amanda's earlier chat with Lexi Walters Wright on the subject.

39:46: Shameless Self-Promotion — Amanda shared an article on helping your child cope with taste sensitivity; Nicole shared an article calling for people to share their inclusion resources; Terri shared an article on 8 Ways to Make Parents of Children With Special Needs STOP Listening to You; and Catherine shared an article on active party games for kids.

Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our podcast and for our fun in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.

We've noticed some contentious opinions online about the inflammatory issue of wearing shoes in the house. Are we shoe people, slipper people, sock people? Is it permissible to bring your own slippers to other people's house, or refuse to expose your socks to their floor? Share your shoe preferences and phobias in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

You see them all over the Internet, and in piles on bookstore tables. Adult coloring books are having a moment just now, but can you color us interested? Listen in as we share our coloring habits, and give us your own take on the adult coloring trend in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

Yesterday we talked about bedtime routines, and today the subject of our quick chat is the stuffed animals or other comfort items our kids go to bed with -- and we lose or leave behind at our peril. Listen in, and tell us about your child's indispensable object in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

In a recent speed round, Amanda suggested that she would like a Fast Pass for her kids' bedtime, which inspired us to have this quick chat about what our kids' bedtime routines are like and what's particularly weird, wonderful, or time-consuming about them. Is there a notable bedtime routine at your house? Comment here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

Since we know that our listeners don't have much time to read because of all of their grown-up responsibilities (though we do hope you've found 45+ minutes to listen to podcasts), here's a quick roadmap of this week's chat:

1:49 What's New With You: Finding gifs has become a major pastime for us, but one out of four of us hasn't quite mastered the art of pasting the right one in.

6:38: Topic 1—Do You Still Read?: After blowing past quite a number of efforts to seque by Amanda, Terri finally gets the message to start our first topic, which asks: Do we make time for book readin'? Do we think it's important? Do we make it a priority for ourselves, or are we so busy finding gifs that we never get to it?

15:49 Topic 2—Do You Have What's Required to Be a Grown-Up Adult?: Jumping off from a Buzzfeed listicle on the things you need to be a grown-up, we talk about what we've got, what we're missing, and what being an adult really means. (If you like the sound of Terri's in basket, it's on the Really Good Stuff site.)

27:18 Interview of the Week: Catherine chats with grandparenting expert Susan Adcox about kids and concussions, and shares lots of great information on how to recognize your child or grandchild has one and what parents and grandparents can do about it.

39:51 Shameless Self-Promotion: Amanda shares an article on "How to Help Your Tween Get the Writing Bug"; Terri selflessly promotes Barnes & Noble Readouts, which delivers book excerpts and a serialized novel to your Nook or Nook app; Nicole shares her site The Inclusive Class; and Catherine shares some articles on concussions: "What I Learned From My Own Kid's Concussion"; "Concussions - Symptoms and Signs"; Cognitive Rest; and "Safer Soccer: No Headers Before High School."

Thanks as always to Jon Morin for producing our podcast and most especially for our spiffy new in-and-out music. If you're reading this somewhere without hyperlinks, come to http://parentingroundabout.com for the full recap experience.

We are there for you, for all your procrastination needs. But if endlessly listening to our podcast is not quite filling your work time sufficiently, we have some other black holes to leap down, including word games, Web MD, food videos, and of course constantly refreshing Facebook. What do you do to keep from doing those things you're supposed to do? Share in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

The family that plays together ... probably gets annoyed at each other a fair amount of the time, especially if Monopoly is involved. We talk about our favorite and most hated board games, card games, and other family amusements. Are you a game-playing family? Share in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

On this week's entertainment chat, Catherine reports in on The Martian, the box-office success and Oscar contender, which she watched in a hurry after her husband checked it out On Demand. Then Terri gives her take on The Last Five Years, the blink-and-you-missed it musical that she was inspired to seek out after a discussion on the Try it You'll Like It podcast and was happily surprised to find newly added on Netflix, for a rare "hey, the movie I'm looking for is actually on there!" search victory. Finally, they chat about the next four episodes in a Parks and Recreation marathon ("The Stakeout," "Beauty Pageant," "Practice Date," and "Sister City"). If you'd like to join in that marathon, up for next week are four more episodes from Season 2: "Kaboom," "Greg Pikitis," "Ron and Tammy," and "The Camel."

We all have one, right? A wish list of things that would make Facebook so much easier and more pleasant to use? A politics blocker? A suggested-friend limit? A hoax-buster? An auto-liker? Join us as we fantasize about our most-hoped-for Facebook features, and share yours in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.

In the time between our recording of today's Speed Round and releasing it this morning, it seemed like there was a new celebrity loss every day. We chatted about some past celebrity deaths that have been particularly unsettling, including Robin Williams, Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Natasha Richardson, and Princess Diana. What celebrity deaths have been milestones for your family? Share in the comments here or on our Facebook page, or tweet us @RoundAboutChat.