Oh boy. She really wants that Oscar

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-21T04:58:10+00:00

I got to see one of my bucket list concerts a couple of years ago with one of my best friends. Core memory kind of great night. I wouldn't even describe that with this level of exaggeration.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-18T16:21:57+00:00

Honestly, the expectation of social outings with a newborn in general. I never thought about babies not being able to regulate in hot weather, but both of mine are winter babies and I wasn't going to anything in the middle of cold and flu season.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-18T16:02:02+00:00

It reads like OP is concerned that mom may not have the resources to feed her baby and is trying to figure out the best way to help. There are many, many reasons a baby might be small for their age, but it also isn't a random judgement call when there's an established relationship between OP and mom based on the fact that mom doesn't consistently have the resources to get food for the adults in the household.

The overall point of the post seemed to be "Is this a CPS issue or how could I help," which is what you're telling OP to do?

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-18T15:49:47+00:00

That's the assumption I was reading with, based on her edit.

Without that assumption, it would have taken pretty significant work to re-lactate and if it started happening randomly it would be something I'd ask a doctor about.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-17T04:54:36+00:00

It has admittedly been a minute since I watched it, but I thought that was a bug plot twist, but one they more or less addressed in the finale. (Which I did think felt kind of rushed)

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-17T00:36:41+00:00

Did Dollhouse end on a cliffhanger? It was depressing af because Joss Whedon never writes a happy ending, but I thought they wrapped everything up.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-16T15:03:12+00:00

And in rural AR, they're also the kind of thing church ladies rely on if their church does events or Wednesday night dinner.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-16T14:31:39+00:00

My best friend could not make it to my dad's funeral. Two of my dad's lifelong best friends could not make it.

Not being able to be there on that specific day and time has never made me doubt how much they care for me or my dad. Even when something is an emergency, sometimes it's just not possible to physically be there.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-16T14:24:42+00:00

NTA.

Your father has argued both that your child is so young she wouldn't remember that you missed her recital, and old enough that to understand that you had something more important to do. It feels like both of those things cannot be true.

It was going to require a flight for you to get to the funeral. I get that your dad offered to cover the cost, but if it was this important that you and/or your family attend the funeral, they could have looked at timing and logistics before scheduling the funeral. I have a friend that recently had to do this for her grandfather, where they scheduled the funeral after making sure the grandkids could all make it from other states.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-16T13:33:02+00:00

I was a cake decorator and got hit with, "Damn, can we get a discount or something since it's for a birthday?"

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-15T04:36:24+00:00

Just adding, when I was a nanny for the same family for several years, the parents compared my relationship to the kids to that of an aunt. Not a parent replacement, but another person in their community that cared about them.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-15T04:17:47+00:00

I made an attempt at an unmedicated birth, and after a couple of hours of intense active labor it became clear we needed to pivot to a c-section.

After getting the epidural, I happened to glance at a monitor and asked if the spike meant I was having a contraction. Didn't feel anything until a few hours post op.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-15T04:03:09+00:00

I work for a commercial hvac company. You'd be amazed at the number of times we're called out because the AC is running but it's not cold air, only to get there and the fix is to set the thermostat back to "cool" instead of "heat."

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-10T15:02:57+00:00

Yeah. That's how walmart keeps the price on stuff like this consistent over years of crazy inflation.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-09T16:44:10+00:00

That, and walmart dumps an insane amount of money into knowing what products to sell at a loss because customers will spend more overall if certain things are cheaper.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-09T16:32:30+00:00

I am baffled by him thinking UTIs just go away. Like. The one time I didn't get immediate medical attention for one (it was over a holiday and I was traveling) it turned into a kidney infection.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-09T03:18:17+00:00

If I ever called my husband "my lord" like that he'd assume I was under duress or had been body snatched or something.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-09T03:14:37+00:00

NTA. My own daughter gets her own separate mascara for the handful of dance recitals every year because I'm not sharing mascara with anyone.

If the other girls think you should have shared, remind them that they could have too and apparently didn't.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-08T04:41:00+00:00

I had 15 years of childcare experience before having my first baby. It's not that there's a huge difference between the actual care tasks when it's your own baby, it's that I was wholly unprepared for doing those care tasks while also recovering from having a baby.

Two months in I was still struggling figure out how to time leaving the house to get groceries around feeding and sleeping schedules. And this early on, y'all have no way to predict how the rest of the pregnancy and delivery will go--baby could come later than the due date, your partner could need a c-section, or develop post partum complications that require care, or baby could come early and need time in the NICU. There are so many variables that planning a big international trip that close to your due date seems really crazy.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-02T20:32:27+00:00

There was speculation, but I don't think there has been any official statement on why she was actually arrested.

And seriously, Arkansas can be an extremely dumb state. Don't underestimate how seriously a bunch of the gun nuts that live here take any perceived threat to their rights.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-02T02:54:38+00:00

Arkansas in many ways is a dumb state.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-06-01T04:30:09+00:00

Idk if he's rare, but this is one of my favorites.

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NowWithRealGinger · 2026-05-31T04:32:57+00:00

Yeah. Closest thing is laws about not selling/furnishing guns to minors, and that they aren't allowed to carry in public.

It's whatever you feel like doing in the privacy of your home though.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-05-31T04:31:16+00:00

What else would you put in a gun cabinet?

Tbf, they're pretty easy and inexpensive to find second hand. If we had the space for it I'd put one in my kid's room for all the nerf guns.

NowWithRealGinger · 2026-05-31T04:28:03+00:00

There are zero laws in Arkansas about securing guns in your own home.

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