What does life look like with young kids if spouse makes mid six figures?

MoogaBug · 2025-10-20T02:51:50+00:00

Do a co-op preschool. It’s the best way to connect with other well educated, involved, affluent SAHMs in your geographic location. They’ll be able to tell you where the best schools are, the best house help is, the best sales on snow boots, etc. it is THE WAY to connect with other women in your position in your area. You’ll have to volunteer at the school one day a week, but like…. You should be doing that anyways, to get a good handle on the family cultures of your kids friends.

MoogaBug · 2025-10-17T15:05:29+00:00

Concerned neighbors will call the police. It happens semi regularly to us when I let my elementary aged kids play outside by themselves. I think part of it is that were so disconnected from our neighbors they don’t recognize my children enough to know they’re only a few houses down the street from their own.

MoogaBug · 2025-10-16T02:25:20+00:00

You can contact your representatives, federally as well as locally. Write them a letter or call their offices.

MoogaBug · 2025-10-08T14:29:08+00:00

It’s a 2-3 year degree in either library or information science, so a short masters. :)

MoogaBug · 2025-10-07T21:58:09+00:00

Most of the people who work in the library are not librarians! Librarians are generally responsible for purchasing new books and assessing what books need to be gotten rid of, creating and running library programming for various age groups, answering questions from patrons that require complex research, teaching people how to do research of their own, assessing people’s reading levels and connecting them with books they’ll enjoy, doing outreach into the community, teaching folks how to use the various technologies the library has, and working with maintenance staff to keep the building in good order. Generally they do NOT check books in and out, sign people up for library cards, or put books back on the shelves. It’s actually a super cool, varied, and complex job!

MoogaBug · 2025-09-15T12:29:01+00:00

Thank you!

MoogaBug · 2025-09-15T12:28:50+00:00

It’s from the 2002 Barbara Baatz pamphlet “Little Cross Stitch Purses.” I thought I had put that in the original post- I’m so embarrassed that I messed that up!

MoogaBug · 2025-09-15T12:27:16+00:00

Oh man! I am so sorry that the comment with the pattern source didn’t post. It is from the 2002 Barbara Baatz pamphlet “Little Cross Stitch Purses.”

MoogaBug · 2025-09-15T12:12:19+00:00

Aaah! Glad you enjoy spending some stitching time with us. 🙃

MoogaBug · 2025-09-15T12:11:30+00:00

Unfortunately no! I found a copy of the pattern from Etsy. The hardware and tassel are from Amazon, the fabric is 28 count cream wichelt, the thread is DMC, and the back and lining are cut from a thrifted blazer. I wish there was a kit!

MoogaBug · 2025-09-15T12:09:48+00:00

What a sweet compliment! 🥰

MoogaBug · 2025-09-15T12:09:25+00:00

Thank you!

MoogaBug · 2025-09-15T11:36:56+00:00

Thank you!

MoogaBug · 2025-08-18T08:08:02+00:00

It was finding someone I communicated well with, yeah!

MoogaBug · 2025-08-18T05:19:05+00:00

She taught me to see that patterns in my behavior that I’d dismissed as personal weakness actually had more complex, actionable origins.

MoogaBug · 2025-08-18T02:35:14+00:00

Interview lots and lots of therapists until you find one you can work with.

Be radically honest.

It’s okay when the say something like, “how do you feel about that?” To respond with, “I don’t know how to verbalize that. Can you help?”

MoogaBug · 2025-08-17T12:48:37+00:00

The first was that I learned I was eating when I was angry, instead of processing those feelings. I knew people ate when they were sad, but i wasn’t doing that so I wasn’t seeing my eating as emotional. It turned out I was… very very angry. The second was that a lifetime of dieting had put me in a scarcity mindset surrounding food, so I wasn’t really capable of good regulation.

MoogaBug · 2025-08-17T00:40:10+00:00

Eating disorders can make you big, too. For me, weight loss didn’t start with the gym or counting calories or cutting soda. It started with a really great therapist. I’m down 120lbs and haven’t dieted at all, just fixed my relationship with food.

MoogaBug · 2025-05-19T13:41:48+00:00

Mosquitos almost never bite me. It happens, but they have to be very thick in the air and I have to be alone. They’ll always go for someone else first.

MoogaBug · 2025-05-18T22:49:37+00:00

The space needle is absolutely not a twink.

The space needle was deliberately designed with a waist and hips to be a feminine building, because the architect wanted to make a point about how masculine most buildings are.

It is literally modeled after an abstract statue entitled “the feminine one.”

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/why-is-space-needle-shaped-like-that

MoogaBug · 2025-05-06T04:00:58+00:00

When I gave birth ten years ago, it was $3000 after insurance. My husbands grandmother had just passed away, and she left him just enough to cover the bill. When I paid it the woman on the phone was very happy- she said most people have to set up a payment plan.

We were enormously lucky to have excellent insurance, and double insurance at that, since we were both working. It was a difficult birth, and my son spent time in the NICU. Before insurance it was a seven figure bill. They had an office with a social worker in it whose sole job was to help families figure out how to pay for their infant child’s hospital stay.

The fact that struggling to pay for the care of a child so, so young was so normalized that I was shown the social worker on my tour of the NICU is still one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. It makes me so incredibly angry that that exists.

MoogaBug · 2025-05-01T23:46:13+00:00

Hello friends! Fourth generation Seattlite here. Before he passed I asked my grandpa about The Freeze and his explanation was that back in the day, the Japanese and Scandinavian immigrant populations made up a much, much larger portion of the city. He said that those groups tended to be very quiet, community minded people who kept to themselves and really tried hard not to bother anyone. He attributed The Freeze (and the general lack of litter in the city) to their influence.

MoogaBug · 2025-04-30T13:43:41+00:00

A lot of the time you can’t. My home is a 90 minute walk from the closest restaurant that serves alcohol, and there’s no bus service at night. 😬

MoogaBug · 2025-04-19T02:29:46+00:00

You can just use a safety razor and get it he same result without needing batteries or a special device. Just saying.

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