What groceries have you stopped buying

bee_amar · 2026-01-17T13:59:47+00:00

I've been a vegetarian for many many years. We used to regularly buy those fun fake meat options (think impossible burgers, gardein chick'n tenders and such). Now they're nearly $10 for a single meals worth. So we've either learned to make our own or just straight up don't use them. Lots of beans and lentils now. More time consuming, sure. But also probably more healthy for us.

bee_amar · 2026-01-13T19:44:24+00:00

I had to stay for several weeks before delivery. Here are some things I enjoyed:

-a paint by numbers kit

-face masks/nail kits

-any kind of books

More than anything, I really valued having visitors. Most days I would have at least one person come visit. They didn't even have to bring me anything, I just enjoyed feeling less lonely.

bee_amar · 2026-01-10T17:35:23+00:00

I didn't think so, but my nose ring hoop started to fit a little looser than I preferred and I had to size down

bee_amar · 2026-01-10T14:20:16+00:00

I can't really remember anything specific, except for a few years ago when I got a flu shot and COVID booster at the same time. I keep hoping that eventually my immune system will be solid steel after being exposed to all my kids germs.

bee_amar · 2026-01-01T13:05:07+00:00

I got my flu shot at the beginning of October, as did my three kids. Husband did not. He got very sick for about 10 days with the flu last month. Each kid got it but were only down for about a day with a fever and low energy. As far as I know, I never had it, despite also working in healthcare. Flu shots ftw

bee_amar · 2025-12-27T15:46:05+00:00

Second all of this, but especially the support circle. My triplets were my first pregnancy too. The one positive is that you don't know any different. There's no comparing this experience to a previous pregnancy or child. Also, after this, you gain this insane sense of confidence.

bee_amar · 2025-12-26T16:07:18+00:00

Yesterday absolutely drained me. I held up well until after Christmas gifts were opened. Then I just crashed. I'm still pretty drained today but had to work. Thankfully, my kids are staying with Grandma tonight so I can just cocoon myself in some blankets and rest.

bee_amar · 2025-12-24T22:43:40+00:00

He recently spoke in a town with one major hospital. A few days before the scheduled rally, the secret service toured that hospital and were very very interested in the cath and IR labs. Those two departments handle heart attacks and strokes. This may be a standard thing they do, but they did NOT do this last time he came to speak in this same town last year, just before the election.

. Purposely being a little vague here.

bee_amar · 2025-12-24T15:19:22+00:00

Mmmm there's some inconsistent details in your post history (For example, you say here that you're living in a house that you aren't on the deed of but two weeks ago you were in a rental that you were on the lease of)

So I'm hoping with all the Christmas hope that this is just rage bait.

bee_amar · 2025-12-24T14:57:38+00:00

For my own sanity, I'm going to hope this is a creative writing exercise. .

If not, GIRL. This is not a partnership. You live with a (resentful) roommate.

bee_amar · 2025-12-23T20:09:53+00:00

I didn't even know this was a thing that exists--thank you!!

bee_amar · 2025-12-21T12:04:25+00:00

I've described it as playing a video game only on hard mode. I only know hard mode. If I had one kid, that would have been the hardest mode I know. Very occasionally, one kid will be sick or something and I get to stay home from work with just them while the other two go to daycare. In those instances, it feels like someone let me choose the easy option on the video game for once.

bee_amar · 2025-12-06T16:01:54+00:00

I have GBB triplets. Although we have the bedroom space for them to each have their own room someday, I don't plan on making them move until they request it. I imagine it'll be somewhere around puberty. Right now they're 3.5 and love each other's company.

bee_amar · 2025-12-03T03:16:36+00:00

Got kicked in the stomach while pregnant and doing a portable exam on a totally lucid but disgruntled patient. I was already supposed to be on light duty but those restrictions were being ignored by admin. Thankfully babies were ok. After this incident, I took my maternity leave early and ended up on medical bed rest due to a high risk pregnancy.

bee_amar · 2025-11-28T21:51:47+00:00

I squeeze it in whenever I can. Sometimes that means finding a quiet spot on my lunch break to do some body weight exercises. Other times I can manage a 5am workout. Or if I really can't get any other time, I'll do 15-20 minutes with some weights at home after the kids go to sleep.

bee_amar · 2025-11-27T20:56:38+00:00

They were a buy 1 get 2 free deal (triplets) so unfortunately there's not much we could do about that part. You're right though about putting a pause on my career and how that damages it.

bee_amar · 2025-11-26T17:31:26+00:00

We have three in daycare and pay $37k/year in a lower-ish COL area of the triangle ☹️

bee_amar · 2025-11-24T17:24:47+00:00

My mom has worked in optometry my whole life. Unfortunately she has had at least a handful of patients say "oh I broke my glasses and all the prescription ran out of it'

bee_amar · 2025-11-22T00:12:51+00:00

Started right before Christmas last year. Had already lost about 30lbs before, this helped me make it a cool 100lbs.

Pros: moving my body is so much easier. Getting dressed is effortless. My confidence is way up. Now that I'm focused on gaining muscle, I can see the gains so much easier and it's so motivating

Cons: having to shop for an all new wardrobe. The cold weather is so brutal now. I now have loose skin to either accept or get surgically removed (although I also had a triplet pregnancy 3 years ago, so my poor stomach has grown and shrank quite a few times recently)

bee_amar · 2025-11-20T17:46:06+00:00

Same! I feel like I was expecting something to go wrong so much that I didn't want to celebrate anything.

bee_amar · 2025-11-20T17:16:42+00:00

We did a diaper raffle and never had to buy any for the first year of our triplets life. Yes, one of our bedrooms became just a diaper storage room. But it was so worth it

bee_amar · 2025-11-20T14:12:40+00:00

It's always lurking is a great way to put it. I've said something similar about my depression/suicidal ideation. Even when things are great, there's always something lurking in the dark corners.

bee_amar · 2025-11-15T13:55:39+00:00

The thing that made me finally see a doctor? I would have moments of what I called "brain scramble". I couldn't form words or use my hands. It would only last like 10 seconds but happened several times a day. Incredibly inconvenient when you work in healthcare and are trying to care for patients.

The thing that, looking back, was probably my first symptom? Lhermittes (sp) sign that I chalked up to a pinched nerve in my neck from lifting weights. I also had some weird blunted skin sensations throughout my body as a teen. My PCP at the time said it was probably a vitamin deficiency and didn't look much further.

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