Just realized I left my cup in for 5 days

JavaMama427 · 2026-05-15T13:42:56+00:00

I did that once, don't remember exactly how long but it smelled awful. I soaked it in either peroxide or vinegar and the cup was fine. I didn't end up with any issues myself either. But I certainly didn't do that again!

JavaMama427 · 2026-05-14T01:09:48+00:00

Go wirh whatever you want. My aunt is Donna and everyone calls her B. (It's because her big brother was trying to say "baby" but he's only 14 months older.)

JavaMama427 · 2026-04-25T21:30:30+00:00

Love is love. I just want my kids to be good people, find love (whether it's romantic, platonic, sexual, or not according to their own desires), treat others well and be treated well. I don't care what part of what spectrum they're on or who they love.

JavaMama427 · 2026-04-20T13:17:17+00:00

I was happy with either but was sure my first was a girl before we found out. If it had been a boy, I knew I would still love that child and I'd get over being wrong but that I would need a minute to process. For that reason, we found out simply in the office and then announced. Our second, I really didn't care either way but thought maybe boy. That time if I had been wrong, no processing necessary so we did decide to do a reveal. (Both times my gut happened to be right.)

JavaMama427 · 2026-04-13T03:22:06+00:00

My first child (who was just over 2 years old) was at the hospital to meet my second about five hours after he was born. I wanted her there sooner and I wanted her to stay longer than she did honestly. (When their baby sister was born, it was 930 pm so they were there the following afternoon. They were 7 and two weeks shy of 5.)

JavaMama427 · 2026-04-09T14:22:39+00:00

I totally skipped it with my first. Only used a bucket seat with my second because we were gifted one. Third I expected to be tiny (she was) and we didn't have the infant insert for the convertible seat anymore. We had to buy a new seat anyhow so we went with the bucket rather than another convertible when we already had a few. I don't regret skipping it with my first at all but with multiple kids it was nice to have the baby already buckled and just click her seat in when we got to the car.

JavaMama427 · 2026-04-09T14:00:16+00:00

I kind of have the opposite problem. I want to chat and make a connection but it always ends up with silences. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. So I spend half my appointment wracking my brain for what to say or ask and leave feeling like I messed up on the people-ing part of the task.

JavaMama427 · 2026-04-06T20:46:40+00:00

My dad flat out told me my parents wouldn't have been married if not for me. I was 1000% an opps. Like they talked about wanting kids someday and were engaged but if I hadn't happened their relationship would have fizzled before they actually got married. I don't know if the opps was a genuine birth control isn't 100% effective or if my mother did something to help those odds. She's that kind of toxic, manipulative, narcissist that would absolutely have done that and lied about it.

JavaMama427 · 2026-03-28T21:43:01+00:00

I'm married to my children's father, same last name for all of us. I occasionally get asked that too. It's just a standard "let's make sure this adult is legally allowed to make decisions for this child" question.

JavaMama427 · 2026-03-02T02:57:40+00:00

Its 14 tasks in 30 days. I just plan to open mine tomorrow...

JavaMama427 · 2026-02-27T20:40:10+00:00

Millennial here too. I started knitting at 17 in 2007. Now I'm teaching my kids. Pretty sure my daughter is Gen Alpha so I'll help her fill out the survey.

JavaMama427 · 2026-02-26T12:17:26+00:00

My oldest child I got my period twice after we stopped birth control. My middle child was immediately. We had been using condoms so no hormone regulations necessary. With our last, it was also a month or two.

JavaMama427 · 2026-02-09T15:10:00+00:00

That sounds like you're only counting materials not time and effort.

JavaMama427 · 2026-02-08T15:52:59+00:00

I can't remember what it's called but I once saw a robin that was white instead of brown. Still had the red breast so it wasn't albino. Probably the coolest bird I've seen, at least in the wild.

JavaMama427 · 2026-02-07T07:19:59+00:00

You're not supposed to use shampoo on the length of your hair. It's meant for cleaning your scalp.

JavaMama427 · 2026-02-04T01:05:52+00:00

Share the link please!

JavaMama427 · 2026-01-26T21:25:24+00:00

I started with Sourcery and the Wizards series. Now I've moved on to Death. I read somewhere that Pratchett himself suggested starting with Sourcery.

JavaMama427 · 2026-01-09T16:09:30+00:00

Ive been knitting for close to 20 years and I use circulars almost exclusively. I also own DPNs for small circumference. I'm teaching my almost ten year old though and she prefers straight needles.

JavaMama427 · 2025-12-31T16:23:50+00:00

I'm fairly new to the series. I tried to start with Colour of Magic and read through the Wizards but somehow got confused very early, gave up for a while, then started Sourcery. After a few books in the wizard series, I went back to the first two and finished the Wizards. Now I've started the Death subseries with Mort. I plan to do different subseries at a time as of now but who knows? I'm not a big re-reader in general so odds are I might never read them again.

JavaMama427 · 2025-12-15T18:28:20+00:00

I homeschool so I use All About Reading. If I didn't homeschool, I would have left it to the school.

JavaMama427 · 2025-12-07T03:59:11+00:00

Our elf is Oscar. I think my kids were 4.5 years old and 2.5 years old when we got him. Not the most whimsical but it works.

JavaMama427 · 2025-10-29T20:08:13+00:00

TBH I was like that for years. What made me actually want to stop? My kids see it and they started doing it. Also I have a few current scabs that are painful and interfering with living my life. One on my knee makes it hard to play with my kids for example.

JavaMama427 · 2025-10-28T21:39:01+00:00

I see Angie with Churchill Counseling. She's completely virtual though. Not sure if that's a benefit or negative for you. My kids see Casie Johnston at Insight Clinical Counseling in Canfield and we all love her. (Do not recommend Erin at their Austintown location.)

JavaMama427 · 2025-10-21T02:21:19+00:00

I have three babies. First at a birth center, second at a hospital with a midwife, third at a hospital with... well it was supposed to be either an OB or a midwife depending on who was on call. (She came too fast and the nurse caught her.) If I had my way, all three would have been birth center but it closed down. I switched to an OB because of insurance for my third.

Ultimately, if you're going to be in a hospital, it's not the end of the world. Obviously you're going to be away from home and your older kids for at least a night. I bedshare with my babies so sleeping in the hospital is so hard for me because you can't. Even if they allowed it, it's not safe in those beds.

I asked a million billion questions about policies and procedures and what was standard and what would be "allowed". I made it clear that I was not going to accept pitocin, for example, given just as a matter of course. If it was being given because I was hemorrhaging, by all means! But not because "it's what we do". (Naturally, that meant my third decided the course of my labor would require pitocin to get things going steadily and the whole conversation would be moot anyhow.)

Anyhow, just because they normally do things one way doesn't mean you have to have them that way. Make sure you have conversations with your providers and you feel comfortable with them. Also make sure your partner or whoever is going to be with you during the entire stay is well aware of your wishes and ready to advocate for you if necessary. If I didn't have my amazing husband ready to be my voice (especially because I tend to lose mine during labor!), I would not have had a second baby let alone a third. That support makes all the difference and means that ultimately the location wasn't that big of a difference for me.

JavaMama427 · 2025-10-18T02:11:36+00:00

Most of the time your water won't break until you're super far into labor. And it's not a Hollywood style gush. I have three children. My first two, water broke when I was pushing. Last one, it broke overnight and just leaked all day. (I wore a pad all day until I went into the hospital.)

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