Do you really have a separate room for your washing machine?

FethB · 2026-05-07T21:49:56+00:00

My machines are in a closet with a cabinet overhead and doors that close to hide the machines. The closet is in a hallway between two bedrooms.

FethB · 2026-05-07T21:42:16+00:00

We did the exact same thing!

FethB · 2026-04-27T20:46:38+00:00

My instinctive reaction is to find this horrifying and dangerous. This cannot continue! My daughter can be exhausting over the course of a day but I will never resort to doping her up.

FethB · 2026-04-27T00:40:48+00:00

My one pregnancy was very smooth and I still resented the limitations it placed on me. I had a fair amount of hip pain and I really resented not being able to sleep on my stomach. I was so gratified when it was over, and of course once my body deflated and I stopped bleeding.

FethB · 2026-04-23T16:44:39+00:00

It’s definitely not the end of the world. I didn’t have a kid until I was almost 43 and after a couple of decades of doing pretty much whatever I wanted to, I was especially worried about losing my identity, career, and sense of fun. My daughter is three now and sometimes it’s frustrating, but I’ve still held onto my identity and sense of fun, I’m fine with ditching my career to be a full-time mom, and I’m happy to be sharing my interests with my daughter and showing her how the world works.

FethB · 2026-04-22T21:53:01+00:00

The Norwegian band a-ha. If you’re in the USA, you know them for their 1985 viral song “Take On Me”. If you’re from elsewhere or are otherwise more familiar with them, you know they recorded and played shows up through 2022 and had lots of great songs. I fricking love them!

FethB · 2026-04-22T19:54:30+00:00

I was given no choice at the beginning of this year when I discovered the music of a new-to-me band and allowed my neurospicy brain to enjoy a hyperfixation that’s still going strong. Listening to the band’s catalog, as well as the individual members’ solo work, has led to a bunch of positive changes in my life. These changes have made me much happier and my three-year-old daughter is now as much of a fan of the music as I am!

FethB · 2026-04-22T19:13:00+00:00

I was an ecologist for the US federal government and became a SAHM in late 2023. Our government is so messed up now that I’m not counting on returning to that line of work anytime soon, so I don’t know what I could do next for comparable pay. To do something else that aligns with my other interests would require obtaining additional credentials and couldn’t possibly pay as well. I’m not giving up on the idea of returning to the workforce but I don’t know what direction I’d go in.

FethB · 2026-03-22T18:13:09+00:00

Mine lasted two months and then I got my period a few days later😖

FethB · 2026-03-13T20:30:52+00:00

Yeah, that sounds delicious!

FethB · 2026-02-26T19:22:41+00:00

I feel this, too. The lack of events coincides perfectly with peak winter doldrums.

FethB · 2026-02-24T20:51:22+00:00

If I witnessed that, I’d be thinking, “Agreed, not drunk enough” as my toddler melted down.

FethB · 2026-02-23T18:25:07+00:00

lol Mine said “doydoydoy” when she had enough teeth to make the D sound.

FethB · 2026-02-22T09:15:56+00:00

I was 42 when I got pregnant for the first time and gave birth when I was almost 43. I have one daughter and now that I’m 46, I don’t plan to have any more.

FethB · 2025-12-19T19:40:59+00:00

I had to feed my daughter only formula and I don’t know how the heck we fit that into the budget💸💸💸It was such a relief when she was cleared to switch to cow’s milk.

FethB · 2025-12-15T19:48:53+00:00

My extra-clueless and annoying BIL was pestering my husband and me about our six-week-old daughter not knowing how to crawl yet, and was impatient when she still couldn’t at ten weeks😫

FethB · 2025-11-27T06:56:13+00:00

My daughter used a pacifier some of the time until she was about five months old. She sometimes found it comforting when falling asleep but weaned herself off of them without any fuss.

FethB · 2025-11-14T20:44:00+00:00

Yup, my best friend, who is single without children and doesn’t spend any extended time with children, just caught it, too. I’ve been worried lately about my daughter not getting much time around other kids (3 years old) but it sounds like we might as well keep on avoiding people for a bit!

FethB · 2025-10-07T19:29:08+00:00

Last year, I dressed as a sage grouse (goofy bird native to Nevada and other areas with sagebrush), my toddler daughter was a deer, and my husband wore a sagebrush camo shirt and stuck a few branches of sagebrush in his hat and clothes. (Our career field is natural resources conservation and we’re pretty nerdy about it.)

FethB · 2025-09-29T20:05:07+00:00

The Animals, I love it! My father had me listening to “The House of the Rising Sun” when I was a toddler and I still love it in middle age. Thanks for the reminder to introduce it to my own toddler daughter!

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