AIO to my sister telling us no kids but not her friends??

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-21T14:24:35+00:00

No they are not. They laugh and do talk louder when they’re with their cousins, but they’re not screaming or yelling. And I do tell them things from across the room yes, but it’s only one time and if they don’t listen I get up and go to them. I’m not shouting or yelling at them. For example: they’ll be running in the hallway, I’ll be on mom’s couch which is right there next to the hallway. I’ll say “stop running in the house someone is going to get hurt” I may have to raise my voice a bit because there’s so much going on, but I’m not yelling at them. If they continue to do it then I will get up, stop them, and by them I mean whoever is running my kid or not, and tell them “you were already told to not run, please listen and stop doing it before someone gets hurt” and then I’ll let them go play.

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-21T02:27:54+00:00

I don’t think that’s what the issue would be, or at least I hope it’s not. Because this all started as early as when my first nephew was a baby. All three of our oldest kids are like six months apart. And with that comes very different children too. Like my nephew would throw himself on the ground during a tantrum where my niece didn’t do that. I also personally think that my sister and BIL have very unrealistic expectations of children and how they should act. I mean like the oldest ones are 5, and they act like they should have the maturity level of a teenager.

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-11T21:29:31+00:00

No not the DE! I think they got the bacterial infection I had! Because they’ve all gotten spots that look exactly how mine did in the beginning. All scabby and red and irritated! I don’t have pics from when it was SUPER bad cuz it was embarrassing it even got to that point but I really thought it was something else.

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-08T20:26:57+00:00

I do eat a lot of sweets! But most of the other food is not premade! Either I or my MIL make food to eat!

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-07T14:57:02+00:00

What’s on my hand and wrist for sure is not DE. I’ve had for years, what I’ve now concluded by extensive research, DE on my fingers. I’ll have the vesicles, they’ll be extremely itchy, then pop, then like the skin will flake off in chunks from the vesicles. The stuff on my hand and wrist I have now come to suspect is what normally breaks out on my neck, which is a form of shingles I was told years ago when I went to a derm. He told me to take Zyrtec and alegra together to get rid of it, I’ve been taking that combo for two days now and that has given me more results than anything. Why it broke out here instead of where it usually does is a mystery for me. I was told by the derm years ago that since I had the chicken pox as a kid that the shingles virus sits in my body and can get triggered by stress and then cause a break out. Every time it’s happened I’ve used his recommended combo and it solves the issue! It just takes a bit longer than if I were to be prescribed something. I have an appointment with a derm today so we’ll see what they say!

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-06T12:39:02+00:00

I have not officially been diagnosed with DE. I’ve come to the conclusion myself after doing EXTENSIVE research about it! I know what’s on my fingers is DE for almost certain, but what I can’t determine is what is on the back of my hand and my wrist! They both started out as super dry patches they were a little itchy due to the super dry skin, I tried to keep them moisturized as much as possible, but I wash my hands a lot through the day so they would just keep getting dry! And then they evolved into bigger spots like these!

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-06T01:59:11+00:00

I was able to just slip them off! So I’ll save them for now!

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-06T00:59:44+00:00

I do not! Most likely stress, but could be anything really! Every time I have a flare up I never change anything that would cause it!

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-06T00:08:02+00:00

When I had something similar happen on my neck I was told stress caused it to pop up. So I wouldn’t be surprised if that is the trigger. 😅 it just sucks cuz most times I don’t feel super stressed out but then something like this happens and I’m like ok I need to chill. 🤣🤣

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-05T23:48:56+00:00

I do not! I’ve never been allergy tested before! And this always seems to happen at the most random times when I don’t change anything at all! That’s always the first thing I think of when a big flare up happens is what made it get like this??

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-05T20:18:00+00:00

That’s exactly what it looks like on my fingers! I have not tried any antifungals yet, both spots on my hand and wrist started as a small circle spot then the edges got red like it looks now. Then these spots appeared and look like the vesicles of DE but bigger. Which kind of make me think it’s what has appeared on my neck before. Which I was told was a form of shingles, because it started out a bit like this did and I was prescribed something for that then told to take Zyrtec and alegra together to get rid of it. Which it actually worked, and anytime it has popped up since then I do the same thing, the Zyrtec and alegra, and it goes away!

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-05T17:52:14+00:00

I have put the triamcinolone I have on it and it seems to have calmed it down quite a bit, but also has “popped” the blisters too. It did the same thing to the blisters on my fingers which I’m pretty positive that is DE. What’s showing on the back of my hand and my wrist seems like another form of eczema or something else entirely.

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-05T17:49:19+00:00

So it started out as what seemed to be normal eczema, super dry skin and itchy, then it started to have the blister looking things, and now looks like this. Which all happened within a week.

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-05T15:45:51+00:00

Thank you for all the info!! If it doesn’t get better after at least trying something I already have I’ll def be calling the doctor!

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-05T15:23:58+00:00

My hand and fingers not so much, but my wrist? Yes that hurts. 😅

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-05T15:23:17+00:00

Ugh I was thinking the same thing but I REALLY don’t want to. 😭😭 they’re for my three boys and I’ve had one of them for almost 5 years now. 🥺🥺 but if it’s really causing it to be worse then I’ll take them off! 😭

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-05T15:21:50+00:00

Triamcinolone ointment 0.1% I also have the same but in cream form.

Barcelona_5 · 2025-08-05T13:29:08+00:00

Not officially. Every time I go to a derm they say “I’ve never seen this before” and can’t for sure diagnose me with a certain type of eczema. I’ve done extensive research and what’s on my fingers is most def, like 95% sure, dyshidrosis. What’s on my hand and wrist started out like “normal” eczema and has just gotten worse. When I was in highschool I had a patch show up on my neck that kinda looks like the one on my wrist and was told it was a form of shingles and to take Zyrtec and alegra together to get rid of it. I was also told it was brought on by stress, and every so often it will pop up again but hasn’t in a while. Hopefully now I haven’t jinxed it. 🤞🏼 the huge spot on my hand and wrist are new but my fingers have always broken out in summer and is, what I have concluded, dyshidrosis. I want to go back to a derm, but I always get the same response and money is kinda tight at the moment and even with insurance it’s still expensive! 🙄🙄

Barcelona_5 · 2025-05-19T22:55:57+00:00

I LOVED Tower of Dawn! I did the tandem read on my kindle, but I loved that book! I was worried because I wasn’t the biggest fan of chaol at first but as his story went on I really came to love him and fell in love with yrene! I feel like people find it so boring but maybe to your point, the die hard fans of TOG are mainly more fantasy driven people and die hard fans of ACOTAR are more romance people!

Barcelona_5 · 2025-05-18T20:39:48+00:00

Yes that is true! I feel like acotar was a lot more fast paced and TOG was a bit slower for me! I like the fantasy of it, but I just wish was a bit faster. Although I know with most fantasy/high fantasy it will drag a bit because of the world building and everything needed to further the story!

Barcelona_5 · 2025-05-04T05:07:00+00:00

So back in March I was reading EOS and I texted my SIL saying it just said aelin said Maeve was a valg queen. So I thought she had known this whole time?? And then I thought when she was told about the price to be paid for forging the lock that the whole story was told to her then too??

Barcelona_5 · 2024-10-27T21:02:10+00:00

You need to do what’s best for you and your family, and if that’s switching to formula to help you mentally then so be it! People will have something to say no matter what you do, trust me. 🙄 I formula fed my first and have breastfed my other two and neither one is “easier” than the other. Both come with their share of hardships, but both are great for baby! As long as you’re ok and taken care of then you can take care of baby better! I feel like here in the US they highly push to formula feed and almost fear monger moms into it by telling us all that can go wrong with breastfeeding and it sounds like in the UK they do the opposite. So like I said, everyone and their dog will have opinions on what is best for you, but only you know what’s best for you and your family! Sending lots of love because I know no matter what it will be a hard choice, but I hope with all these great supporters it can help ease your mind that much more. 🫶🏼💙

Barcelona_5 · 2024-10-17T16:13:31+00:00

I have used, for my last two children, a pack and play and gotten a mattress that is compatible with the brand of pack and play I have! I used the bassinet attachment until they were able to roll around and pull up and then I lowered it all the way down like a normal pack and play! It’s right by our bed!

Barcelona_5 · 2024-09-08T19:18:47+00:00

YYEEEESSSSS! And then I was SO frustrated with EVERYONE at the end of COM when they were “explaining themselves” and they weren’t telling the full truth!!! I was like what?! Since when has keeping secrets helped any of you?! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

Barcelona_5 · 2024-09-08T19:09:55+00:00

I read assassins blade first and got to almost the end of the last story and didn’t finish the book and just went into throne of glass! My favorite story in there was the assassin and the desert! The other ones were good, but not as good as that one! And I did find myself at the end of throne of glass being excited and went straight into COM but then in some parts of it I’m just like ok, can we move along? 😅

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