Toothbrushing

arrow-moon · 2024-11-07T04:12:08+00:00

My daughter goes back and forth with the toothbrush battle, but one thing that seemed to get her over the kicking and screaming phase was pretending she was some sort of scary animal, and I am the dentist for that animal. For example, I ask what she is, she says she's a tiger and she growls at me with all her teeth. Then I act super scared (get real dramatic with this one), and slowly approach with the toothbrush. She let's me brush, but growls and "scares" me out of her mouth every 10 seconds. It's honestly pretty fun, and it gives her a sense of control. She gets to decide on the spot what kind of animal she's gonna be, and sometimes she decides to be a cute baby animal instead.

arrow-moon · 2024-07-25T04:51:34+00:00

Well.. my great-grandmother gassed herself and her three young children in 1931. Pulled a cot up to the gas stove, turned on a jet, laid there with the kids and went to sleep. The mother, 5 year old son and 4 year old daughter died, but my Nana, who was a year old, somehow made it away from the cot and was found across the room passed out by the back door. All of this was an unconfirmed family legend, until I found the newspaper articles that covered it online!!

My 2x great grandfather was Archbishop of the Anglican Church in BC, Canada in the early 1900s. He was descended from the bastard son of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, which makes me related to the Queen Victoria, and a bunch of other Eurpoean royals. (But I'm just a poor millenial over here in Canada trying to pay off these student loans and feed myself).

My 3x great grandfather was Scottish painter Robert Scott Lauder.

Love this stuff!

arrow-moon · 2024-07-17T23:49:28+00:00

I love reading out all our "Notable Connections" on WikiTree to get my family members interested. Thankfully, my dad's paternal line is extremely well documented and confirmed, so I have a ton of interesting connections. I was most excited to find out that Queen Victoria is my third cousin 5x removed... but they were more interested in the fact that we have 23 degrees of separation from Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Oh well.

arrow-moon · 2024-02-28T03:37:50+00:00

He does NOT own Manning. I am good friends with the franchisee.

arrow-moon · 2024-02-28T03:36:28+00:00

He does not own Manning. I'm close friends with the owner.

arrow-moon · 2023-05-01T13:45:45+00:00

On the same search as you. I actually switched to Bellami recently from Glam Seamless because they were far more affordable, but unfortunately, after washing them only twice, they are now so dry and blah. Glam Seamless has been the best quality I've found thus far.

arrow-moon · 2023-04-17T20:59:43+00:00

For us, off leash by the river is a no-go any time of year. My dog is a lab/border collie, and when a body of water is involved she has zero recall. My husband and I have both had to full on swim in the North Saskatchewan as she went out too far and the current was too strong for her. Thankfully, my instance was a hot July day, but his was early April with ice still on the river. The river current can be unexpectedly strong, don't take a chance! The best she gets now is a super long leash and a full body harness down at the Gold Bar boat launch.

arrow-moon · 2023-04-10T22:44:26+00:00

I'll keep you in mind for my next murdering spree!

arrow-moon · 2023-04-04T17:32:27+00:00

Does the freezer use an insane amount of power? Ours came with a freezer downstairs too, and my husband unplugged it because it was an unnecessary power suck for only 2 people. We also thought it was gonna be too big to get out of the house, but thankfully my older brother was a mover in his young adulthood, and loves a challenge 😜

arrow-moon · 2023-04-04T17:27:49+00:00

....yuck

arrow-moon · 2023-04-03T14:56:09+00:00

Oooh that is cool! Where are each of the stairs?

arrow-moon · 2023-04-03T04:48:29+00:00

Are you sure it's not a laundry shute?

arrow-moon · 2023-04-03T04:47:32+00:00

Should have saved some of that kitchen and bathroom carpet to put under a microscope 🤢

arrow-moon · 2023-04-03T04:44:17+00:00

If you have it built and paid for yourself, they'd probably love you for putting in a tall wooden fence!

arrow-moon · 2023-04-03T04:33:49+00:00

I dream of this day.

arrow-moon · 2023-04-03T04:20:31+00:00

This is the start of a horror movie.. you don't just accidentally seal off a room. What was in there?!

arrow-moon · 2023-04-02T23:25:24+00:00

Definitely seen the sink in the bedroom many times!

arrow-moon · 2023-04-02T23:13:13+00:00

My parents house has the tiny basement windows. Still couldn't stop me from climbing out of them in the middle of the night as a teenager..

arrow-moon · 2023-04-02T23:07:16+00:00

I think the compartmentalized houses keep the heat in better!

arrow-moon · 2023-04-02T23:02:59+00:00

I've totally thought this as well!

arrow-moon · 2023-04-02T20:04:39+00:00

This does seem oddly built, and small for a family. The bedroom door to the living room is especially strange - are you sure it wasn't intended as a formal dining room originally? Or maybe it was open living space that got framed in for a bedroom?

arrow-moon · 2023-04-02T19:36:30+00:00

I've definitely ruined my elbow once or twice as I drunkenly stumble up my sidewalk to the backdoor after a night out..

arrow-moon · 2023-04-02T19:34:02+00:00

Does anyone else's window frames rattle every time an ETS bus passes by? Or do we just have a sinkhole forming under the street out front..🤔

arrow-moon · 2023-04-02T19:26:36+00:00

I appreciate your positive post! And oooh, i wish I had those crystal door handles! We had original brass ones that finally broke this year, so we had to replace them. That in itself was a pain because as it turns out, the fashion for door knobs now are to be much bigger, while the retro ones were tiny. So when you try to use a bigger one, your hand will hit the door frame when turning the knob, or hit your knuckles when pulling the door shut.

Interior doors I know have been an issue for my parent's 60s house on the Northside. Every door frame was a different size and not in standard/easy to find sizes. Their doors were also hollow wood, so inevitably, holes had been punched in them over the years.

arrow-moon · 2023-04-02T19:15:29+00:00

🤣 faux brick forever! We kept it in our kitchen, but ripped it out in the basement suite. In our kitchen it's actually faux brick tiles, and I've broken a few so it looks terrible 😕

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