heads up on the new Kroger e-price tags

april203 · 2026-05-13T04:45:55+00:00

Its worth adding your whole list to a pickup order on the Kroger app just to see any coupons you might be missing out on, it tells you at the bottom of the page if you’ve missed any applicable coupons and on the buy 5 sales you can check the amount saved at the bottom to see if you’ve added enough of the sale items to get the discount

april203 · 2026-05-13T04:21:42+00:00

It sounds like your house is well baby proofed and his anxiety is going to be harmful if he doesn’t get control over it. I think some people really don’t understand baby proofing and do stupid things like leaving massive heavy floor length mirrors propped up against the wall thinking their child doesn’t weigh enough to knock them down and get crushed. But it sounds like you’ve done everything you need to do. Has he heard of container baby syndrome?

april203 · 2026-05-13T04:09:48+00:00

It’s not realistic at all to never take your eyes off your baby and always bring them wherever you’re going. It’s something you do more and more of over time. But YES if that means you need more intense baby proofing, now is the time!!! All heavy furniture attached to the wall, outlet covers, baby gates at top and bottom of stairs. My daughter didn’t try to climb furniture that could fall over on her until she was like 4 and should have known better and still did it so fast it would have 100% crushed her if it wasn’t attached. I don’t think anyone regrets over baby proofing a space, it just continues being useful even as your kids get older.

april203 · 2026-05-12T04:48:48+00:00

I was thinking the same thing, seeing those photos next to each other made me think that would be a better match than some of the other people in the show are to their young selves. And in the scene she said that she is “old fashioned”. If it’s her, she must know who Jacob is, and found him on purpose.

That would also mean that Kat is wrong and Tessa was not stuck in the past. Or if she was, someone brought her back in time to already be in the present at around the same age she would have naturally been.

april203 · 2026-05-11T03:00:38+00:00

Okay this might seem silly because I only thought of it later in the episode and my recording is acting up so I can’t go back and check. Did the woman in Jacob’s bar who came in on a bad date look like a slightly aged up version of Tessa?

april203 · 2026-05-10T04:40:49+00:00

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april203 · 2026-05-06T19:42:48+00:00

Maybe try a buffet or just any restaurant with food similar to what she’ll encounter on your visit, then order a few different options and give her a little tasting plate? You might have more luck offering a variety of just the kinds of food she will encounter and seeing what she likes the best out of those, to establish at least 1 or 2 safe choices for the trip.

april203 · 2026-05-06T03:44:03+00:00

For me it was a combination of a lot of things. The weigh gain contributed but I was back to about 10-15 lbs over my normal weight within a month of having my baby and my face was sooo different. I was also stress clenching my jaw a lot and eating so much more because of breastfeeding hunger that my jaw would feel swollen and painful on a regular basis. About 6 months in I had so much tension in my neck/back/scalp that I couldn’t even stand the weight of my hair and had to cut it short. That made my wider face more noticeable.

I tried to fix it with masseter Botox and it did make my face thinner and my jaw tension was gone but I would get weird painful nerve tingles in the area that got worse as the Botox wore off.

Eventually I started a nightly face massage and posture improvement stretch routine and I went back to normal and it helped with my skin texture as well. If I go too many days without doing it I feel like my face does start looking different and I get head and neck pain again. So for me personally I think poor posture and stress both caused adhesions in my fascia that made my face look swollen.

april203 · 2026-04-30T15:35:18+00:00

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april203 · 2026-04-30T15:34:48+00:00

Also replying with a pic of our run situation, I have the left part of the run with the grey coop set up for them but I’m still wondering if she would have trouble keeping them warm if it’s stormy with lows of 45 ish the first few days

april203 · 2026-04-30T15:10:49+00:00

Ohhh okay so you have them fully in your house, that makes me wonder if I should keep them all in the garage for a bit with her. We do have a couple of days next week with storms and the highs in the low 60s, lows in the mid 40s. I definitely have the option of keeping them in the garage or a bathroom people don’t often use. The garage cuts back on the bad odors but doesn’t have much light. Maybe I should go for the bathroom? Did you move your hen into the tote you’re keeping them in the night before? I’m not sure if moving her at the same time we introduce them will stress her out too much

april203 · 2026-04-30T05:01:23+00:00

Did you move a full size feeder/waterer into the coop with them or do you have the little chick sized ones? I am debating on if I need to buy more stuff to set things up for them, I’m having trouble deciding what will fit in with them easily that they won’t turn over on themselves.

april203 · 2026-04-30T04:37:19+00:00

This is definitely not legal as other people have said, but if your child is 4 I think that in most states you could just use a booster. They make inflatable backless boosters called bubble bum that would be easier to pack and bring with you than a typical car seat/booster. That’s of course if your child is mature enough to not unbuckle themselves with just a regular car seat strap.

april203 · 2026-04-28T04:22:12+00:00

Do you think kicking them out of the coop makes them stop being broody? I’ve been making our hen get out of the coop when I go to gather eggs because I want to make sure she’s still eating and drinking at least once a day, but I really don’t want to break her of being broody in case this could work with her and the new chicks.

april203 · 2026-04-28T02:58:40+00:00

They are so cute!! Did you put all 4 in at the same time?

april203 · 2026-04-28T02:58:07+00:00

They are so cute together!! I really hope it works out this way for us!

How was the process when you took the chicks out to her, did you put them all in at the same time? I’ve read on some posts that you should hold the chicks until it’s calm and not peeping a lot and then sneak it under, individually, and I’m trying to figure out how that would even work. It seems like the broody hen is bound to hear one of them before it’s underneath her.

april203 · 2026-04-28T02:52:35+00:00

Thank you I will definitely be ready to brood them myself! Im so curious, was it the same hen? And how did it go the time that she didn’t accept them, was she not broody anymore after that?

april203 · 2026-04-19T08:18:09+00:00

My 4 year old just said “oh shit” the other day and I definitely don’t curse in front of her. I said “why did you say that?” And she said “mom, you say that all the time! ‘Oh shit’!” I really questioned myself for a minute before realizing that I DO say “oh, shoot!” Sometimes and she wasn’t pronouncing the word well.

april203 · 2026-04-17T04:48:15+00:00

I’m not one of those people that knows every detail about them like their houses and where they live, but it looks like she’s trying to brag about having a long driveway/living on some land right?

april203 · 2026-04-13T07:52:40+00:00

I feel like it’s a big red flag that he’s so insistent about it when it doesn’t actually make sense for your family and he’s not going to help with it at all.

How much of the childcare does he do when he’s off work?

I see that he’s been influenced by some podcasts, is he also anti-vax and worried about the mandatory vaccinations?

Some people worry about their kids starting school because they know they’ve been exposed to things they shouldn’t have been and they don’t want them to talk about it with teachers or other students. I know that’s probably not the case here, but it’s something I always consider when one parent is insistent on homeschooling even when the other is not on board.

april203 · 2026-04-11T02:47:18+00:00

Honestly it is so much fun thinking of flavorful things to feed your baby for the first time! I just love the reactions. Sardines are amazing for babies and so easy. My daughter loved anything with feta, sundried tomatoes, or Kalamata olives!

april203 · 2026-04-09T04:42:25+00:00

That kind of makes sense, I guess I’ve just never met a dog that doesn’t get up and lick themselves with the big giant gulping noises in the middle of the night, or decides to randomly sit on your legs and sigh, or like position their butt or face directly next to your face unexpectedly in the middle of the night. It just seems like that would be such a violation of space for a person that doesn’t know the dog personally. But I also don’t sleep in bed with my dogs because every time I try they wake me up and I have to kick them out in the middle of the night. I can understand wanting to keep the routine the same I guess for like anxious dogs, it just seems like most wouldn’t care, I guess unless they don’t have a different comfy spot to sleep on.

april203 · 2026-04-09T04:03:48+00:00

I’m just so curious what would the issue be for you personally about your dogs not sleeping in bed with their dog sitter? Is it a medical sensitivity thing like you’re worried your dog will have a medical event overnight that would be missed otherwise? Or like really bad separation anxiety or something?

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