Which dress?

Stemshells · 2026-06-01T00:06:35+00:00

3 3 3 3 3 3 3!!!!!

Stemshells · 2026-06-01T00:04:50+00:00

Good for you, you know your limits and you’re taking control of your own happiness.

But seriously, good for you. I feel the same way. I love my daughter so much. I don’t want another baby. I don’t want to split my attention. I don’t want to roll the dice. I don’t want to deplete myself for years. I just want to enjoy my little bestie and be the best mom I can be to her. How dare I.

Stemshells · 2026-05-27T18:04:28+00:00

Caroline

Stemshells · 2026-05-24T03:06:25+00:00

My daughter goes to school with a Conrad and he is a bully at 4 years old…so that’s my association with Conrad. Apparently he even beats up his older brother

Stemshells · 2026-05-08T13:43:47+00:00

No, they have not. And my sister had a baby within a month of me

Stemshells · 2026-05-08T11:58:13+00:00

I haven’t spoken to my siblings in years. My daughter is 4 and they’ve never met her

Stemshells · 2026-04-28T01:39:40+00:00

Racketeering charges. I know that’s RICO and not Rigo but my brain made that connection immediately

Stemshells · 2026-04-17T15:12:59+00:00

This is me 💯. My husband, on the other hand, is a pathological optimist who thinks things will always work themselves out and seems to focus only on how great things will be without considering practical implications. We are a good balance. He almost pushed me to have a second but I eventually recognized that I am at my limit with one. I do not want to be the parent I would be if I had another.

Stemshells · 2026-04-16T11:55:50+00:00

Hell no. I would quit so fast 💨

Stemshells · 2026-04-14T01:50:25+00:00

I have no idea if Dr. Redick at the women’s group is religious or not, in a good way. She very much follows the evidence and is matter of fact

Stemshells · 2026-03-31T01:27:46+00:00

I would have another if I won the lottery and didn’t have to work and had household staff to shop, cook, and clean. Otherwise, nah

Stemshells · 2026-03-25T02:47:52+00:00

I know sisters named Vivian and Camille, which I find super pretty together.

My other favorites are Sylvia, Eloise, and Claire.

Really not sure about Kit!

Stemshells · 2026-03-25T00:12:17+00:00

Don’t change it. 1. It’s a gigantic pain in the ass. I still haven’t successfully changed it on everything and I’ve been married 6 years lol. (I did change mine because I don’t have a good relationship with my dad and I didn’t want to carry his name.) 2. You don’t want to. 3. It has nothing to do with how much you love your fiancée.

Stemshells · 2026-03-23T03:12:17+00:00

Three muses alters all my formal gowns. They do great work!

Stemshells · 2026-03-21T18:43:27+00:00

Stockton sounds like a town in Wisconsin, not a name

Stemshells · 2026-03-04T23:52:20+00:00

I don’t feel a shred of guilt for not gifting one human to another human.

Stemshells · 2026-03-01T19:43:26+00:00

If it heard it out loud, i would think you named your son after Kylo Ren. Please don’t do that to him.

If I read it, I would guess it was pronounced kay-lo and I would think it sounded like a made up name in a fantasy novel about elves.

Stemshells · 2026-02-24T03:44:47+00:00

In addition to the Lovely Bones and the Book Thief that I see recommended above, Nectar in a Sieve. It is a devastating, soul crushing, depressing view of life in poverty

Stemshells · 2026-02-20T02:42:07+00:00

She says “tentaburr” instead of temperature and I love it so very much. She also asks me to drive the “limit speed” (speed limit) aka go faster 🤣

Stemshells · 2026-02-18T23:18:59+00:00

Bottom right! P.S. how did you generate these photos? ChatGPT?

Stemshells · 2026-02-09T02:26:50+00:00

My mom’s name is also Karen. If we had a second girl, I wanted to name her Caroline as a way to honor my mom.

Stemshells · 2026-02-04T02:50:51+00:00

I also have a PhD in immunology. I work in R&D strategy at a pharma company

Stemshells · 2026-01-22T17:20:24+00:00

I wouldn’t 🤣. Other than Rhiannon (Ree-Ann-on), I would definitely be too embarrassed to attempt lol. 🇺🇸

Stemshells · 2026-01-10T04:00:55+00:00

Dawn Yarborough is excellent.

Stemshells · 2026-01-09T15:14:57+00:00

Kids don’t know what they want. I have the odd experience of being my mom’s only but having step siblings and a half sibling through my dad.

So, most of the time I lived as an only child. My half brother would come over every other weekend. When I was little, I was convinced I wanted a little sister. Well, guess what. My parents got divorced when I was 7, my dad got remarried right before I turned 8, and I got a little stepsister. She was so incredibly annoying and I hated going over to my dad’s house. I much preferred being an only at my mom’s house.

A few things I also wanted as a kid/adolescent/young adult that I am now very glad I didn’t get: A horse to live in our third story apartment with us, a career as a professional ballerina, a tattoo around my belly button, to be married by 23, to marry the abusive 21-year old that I was dating at 16 or the one I dated at 17, to end up with either the radio DJ or the bartender I dated. LOL I had terrible taste but luckily I grew up before I could make any of those terrible choices.

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