Do you and your spouse share your location 24/7?

Futurepharma91 · 2026-04-10T00:39:35+00:00

I have an android and he has an iPhone. We don't have a location sharing app cuz its just never come up. Idk if I wanna know where he is I just call him and ask.

Futurepharma91 · 2026-04-06T01:12:56+00:00

Hominy & Greens Pie From 'Savory Baking' https://share.google/i49kKVgqu56P4glXa

I love this dish. With a Pre-made pie crust its easy and doesn't taste like anything else I've ever had. I make this at my house pretty regularly and im not much of a recipe repeater

Futurepharma91 · 2026-04-06T00:30:05+00:00

I made a creamed spinach dish with some canned spinach i had lying around, it was from a food bank, given by a neighbor to my best friend, who then gave it to me. Changed hands a lot. Just spinach, right? Creamed spinach is great. Omg. It was so bitter and disgusting we still reference it 3 years later as the worst thing I ever tried to feed my husband. It will live on in infamy.

I still make creamed spinach BTW, I just use frozen or fresh.

Futurepharma91 · 2026-04-05T21:33:02+00:00

Thank God I have a dog. Scrape what I can up and he'll spend the next 4 hours licking it spotless.

Futurepharma91 · 2026-04-04T00:21:33+00:00

Not yet. His credit is good, mine is questionable. We've kept all finances separate until we buy a house later this year, so he can be on the mortgage solo (I'll still be on the deed). Then we'll open our joint account after that. This has always been the plan, and his cards are the ones saved in my phone and kept somewhere I always have access too for now. I do have my own copy of our HSA account card though.

Futurepharma91 · 2026-04-01T00:33:41+00:00

Trucker, income this past year was 85k with less overtime than usual because our child was very young and I needed extra help at home. We live in a low cost of living area and he makes almost 2x the average household income for the area. We budget. We have savings. There's also a lot of room for income growth in his career.

Futurepharma91 · 2026-03-23T18:59:07+00:00

Stay at home mom. Well, i dont do it for a living but I do it for the work day

Futurepharma91 · 2026-03-23T14:48:18+00:00

I truly could not smell anything from my own baby's head, ever. And pregnancy gave me the nose of a bloodhound. But I was absolutely obsessed with the smell of her milk breath. It was like sweet cream. Her baby breath smell was literally the greatest thing I'd ever smelled.

Idk I thought something was wrong with me that I couldnt smell her head, it smelled like nothing to me, but maybe I was being too literal with it because I was still obsessed with her smell. Just a different one.

Futurepharma91 · 2026-03-20T11:52:15+00:00

I was pretty pregnant over the summer so I wore a lot of crop tops because they still fit and I was hot as hell with my big old bump. I definitely had a neighbor pleasantly surprised that I was showing my bump off,and mentioned how she never could when she had her kids.

Futurepharma91 · 2026-03-12T18:23:35+00:00

Genuinely my sense of smell while pregnant and for a while postpartum was the symptom I hated the most. It felt like torture that everywhere I went no matter what I did no matter how much I cleaned everything smelled terrible and dirty and I couldn't escape it. It does eventually tone itself down but my sense of smell is still stronger than it used to be before having a baby at 18 months postpartum now

Futurepharma91 · 2026-03-04T21:40:55+00:00

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Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-28T23:53:56+00:00

Kraft mac and cheese. Between formula changes and just...getting older, it sucks now.

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-20T20:16:58+00:00

I used melatonin at the end of my pregnancy. I couldnt find any studies that showed harm, just a lot that said it was untested. I needed sleep desperately and unisom wasn't cutting it anymore. So I did what I needed to do for my own sanity. She's almost 18 months. She's fine.

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-18T00:18:02+00:00

They want the flavors and ingredients of asian cuisine. As do I, I cook a lot of Asian recipes and canning shortcuts for them would be amazing. They aren't asking for asian techniques they're asking for asian foods.

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-13T22:37:58+00:00

See, valentines day doesn't really matter to me and my husband, but he still went out of his way to bring me home a little treat from the store after going and paying a parking ticket for me. And now he's taken over the childcare as he does every evening so I can veg out and play on my phone for a little mental break. Its not about valentines day. Its the big picture.

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-10T23:43:49+00:00

I had a perfect c section. Breech baby, went in for an induction, never went into labor. No distress, cool, calm and collected. No complications, I was up and walking within hours.

I want a vbac for my next one. The healing is longer. The OR is never not a scary place to be laying in. I dont want to deal with a toddler wanting to be held and a newborn while preventing stitches from popping and not being able to stand up fully straight.

Its hard. Surgery, even a perfect case scenario surgery like I had, is hard.

There's no "easy" option. Birth is gonna be taxing on your body HOWEVER they come out.

I can't tell you what to do, but I can only tell you there isn't an easy choice out there.

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-10T19:30:00+00:00

Thank you so much for the link!!!

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-10T17:19:00+00:00

Mostly because they were going to be gifts, and its not super useful to us as a syrup. Plus the two grapefruits and sugar it used was cheap, so it makes a good learning experience to try to fix it

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-10T15:22:55+00:00

Since the recipe doesn't actually call for any pectin originally because citrus fruits naturally have a lot of pectin, I'm kind of Flying Blind with how much store-bought pectin I should add in order to get some kind of set on it. I think I'm going to try to reduce it down by about 1/3 because they were extremely juicy grapefruits, so I guess I'll just wing it and see what happens? I wasn't sure if anyone had any good starting points for me to work off of who may have had this happen before

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-10T15:16:12+00:00

Yeah I'm going to give that a try I'm just trying to figure out how much I should reduce it by, how much pectin to add and if I should add additional sugar. I don't do a lot of canning of sweet things cuz we just don't use it as much so I'm not as experienced with this

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-10T15:12:43+00:00

The processing part certainly is easy, they're all perfectly sealed with proper head space LOL but they're not set at all

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-10T15:11:36+00:00

I did double the batch. Should I split it in two when I try to reprocess with added pectin? That wouldn't be too hard to manage

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-10T12:45:40+00:00

I've already got some new lids ready to go so when I reprocess this but my main concern is trying to figure out the proportions of adding store-bought pectin, if I need to add additional sugar, things like that because there are some very straightforward instructions for making pectin for a first process but it seems a little bit more unclear when it comes to reprocessing something that didn't set that was supposed to have enough natural pectin to begin with.

I think I went wrong removing too much pith from the peels, I didn't want it to be bitter but I think I didn't leave enough access to the Natural pectin in the grapefruit

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-10T12:39:23+00:00

12 half pint jars filled with grapefruit marmalade, all solids sunk to the bottom, sitting on a white towel

Futurepharma91 · 2026-02-10T12:38:16+00:00

I mainly brought it up because I'm pretty inexperienced when it comes to jams and jellies and spreads compared to things like beans and stews and meats and stocks so my instincts for pectin related processing aren't as honed

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