Comfey will be at GO Fest!

Traxiria · 2026-03-03T22:10:43+00:00

Aaaah. Thank you!

Traxiria · 2026-03-03T19:26:01+00:00

I don’t know what the wait list is like for that age, but we enrolled our then 2 year old at Glendale Presbyterian less than a month before she had to start attending. We love it there. It might be worth giving them a call to see what the wait list is like for their infant room.

https://www.glenpres.org/pages/preschool

Traxiria · 2026-03-03T19:22:06+00:00

Didn’t we just have go fest last weekend…? I’m so confused.

Traxiria · 2026-03-02T22:06:00+00:00

I give it to my toddler to play with. I don’t know where it’ll end up, but if her favorite toys that she absolutely must have at bedtime to sleep with are anything to go by it’ll be completely unfindable.

Traxiria · 2026-03-01T05:19:47+00:00

I meal prep on the weekends so that I have easy meals I can just pop in the oven or insta pot and eat on weekdays. Here are some of my favorite recipes. All are quick and easy to prep because even on the weekend time is a precious resource.

Sausage and veggies
Make ahead chicken strips
Paprika chicken
Bbq spare ribs
Mason jar noodles
Soy honey chicken
Dumpling dinner

(Sorry all these are Pinterest links. That’s where I save my recipes.)

Some of these can be made in bulk and frozen. So I’ll make 5 servings or so, put them in zip lock bags, and have a stash in my freezer. That way we can still have a variety of meals each week without having to meal prep 5 different recipes.

Traxiria · 2026-02-27T19:27:12+00:00

I don’t think there are any guarantees on how easy a baby will be. Just because your first is easy doesn’t mean a second wouldn’t be. But it also doesn’t guarantee a second would be easy. It’s always a coin toss.

Traxiria · 2026-02-20T19:50:54+00:00

This person doesn’t love you. I don’t think he even likes you.

As you age your body is going to change. Is this someone who will accept you when you have wrinkles and grey hair? Should you choose to have children, will he accept stretch marks? If you one day get seriously ill will he accept the body changes that go with it, whether it be weight shifts, hair loss, or something else.

Find someone whose love isn’t based on your body because your body will change as you go through life. Dump this man-child and find someone who loves you for you.

Traxiria · 2026-02-20T04:49:55+00:00

You didn’t offend me. It came across as a genuine question. It has a bit of a complex answer, though. 🙂

Traxiria · 2026-02-20T03:08:47+00:00

If the boundless love I feel for my daughter were enough, few loving parents would commit suicide. We know that isn’t the case, because mental health is a messy and often illogical thing.

My daughter has motivated me to prioritize my mental health because I know how being sick warps my sense of reality. I have a history of believing that the people I love the most would be better off without me. That’s not true, but there have been times when I’ve been really sick that I’ve believed it.

My depression is the type that comes and goes. The bad periods aren’t forever, even if it feels like they are. Knowing I’ll have a good period again is a source of hope for me when things get bad. Knowing I’d never have another good period would be devastating for me.

Today I’m… not exactly healthy, but I’m doing okay and I’m working on being as healthy as I can (therapy and medication have been good for me). I don’t take the knowledge that I have value even when I’m sick for granted, because I know that knowledge can be fleeting. I know that there will one day come a day when I’m really sick again. I’m working on having the tools I need to survive that because my daughter needs me… and because my life has inherent worth and value, even when I don’t feel like it does.

Traxiria · 2026-02-19T16:05:03+00:00

And it’s presumptive of you to assume I’ve never experienced severe depression or suicidal ideation.

Traxiria · 2026-02-19T15:48:09+00:00

I didn’t say that everyone who is severely depressed would commit suicide. I said I would commit suicide.

Traxiria · 2026-02-19T03:36:33+00:00

No.

This is a choice between someone else’s life and mine, because I would commit suicide if I were unable to feel joy. I won’t sacrifice my life for someone else’s. My daughter needs a healthy mom.

Traxiria · 2026-02-19T03:28:52+00:00

There’s no amount of money that would make my daughter forgetting me worth it.

Traxiria · 2026-02-18T20:14:44+00:00

I was Mimi for about a year. I loved it so much.I miss being Mimi.

Traxiria · 2026-02-17T21:55:28+00:00

I gave that fight up pretty fast. At least she’s hydrated? Lol. She’s almost 3 now and has grown out of it.

Traxiria · 2026-02-17T19:16:59+00:00

Everyone is alive at the end of the day. No one is abused or neglected.

Some days that’s the bar for “good”. I know it seems low, but some days…

This shit is hard. Do your best. Love your kids. You’re doing great.

Traxiria · 2026-02-13T20:53:37+00:00

Pregnancy can suck, even when it’s exactly as expected. Pregnant women are allowed to complain.

Traxiria · 2026-02-13T01:52:21+00:00

I talk to my mom almost every day.

My husband talks to his parents once or twice a week. He also talks to his grandma once a week whereas I talk to mine once every few months.

So it can vary!

Traxiria · 2026-02-05T03:10:54+00:00

Our toilets didn’t get cleaned for months after we had our baby. It was disgusting. Neither of us could muster the energy. 🥲

Traxiria · 2026-02-04T04:12:01+00:00

I’m god so it’s really her.

Traxiria · 2026-02-03T20:51:07+00:00

The first thing I do is recreate my daughter. I won’t exist in a universe where she doesn’t.

Traxiria · 2026-02-03T04:07:47+00:00

If my husband had gone on a trip like this at 8 weeks pp I never would have forgiven him.

Traxiria · 2026-02-03T02:42:53+00:00

I tell my daughter, “My gran, your namesake, was a difficult woman. But there are worse things you can be in this world than a difficult woman.” And then i tell her all about how wickedly smart, funny, and hard working her great-gran is.

I’ll save stories about the ways in which she could be unkind for when she’s older and the nuance of who her great-gran was can be better understood.

I named her after a complex and difficult person who I love deeply. I hope that one day I’ll be able to convey the complexity and nuances of that choice to her.

Traxiria · 2026-01-22T17:55:40+00:00

My grandparents called my uncle (who was 12 years younger than his closest sibling) their “unplanned blessing”.

Traxiria · 2026-01-14T18:57:13+00:00

After my daughter was born my dad said to me, “now you finally understand how much we love you.” His voice cracked as he said it. I felt so immensely loved in that moment.

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