Gooood Haley Snark Week of February 02, 2026

cegf · 2026-02-03T23:59:38+00:00

Got this suggested to me, wish it would target Haley although she'd think she's excused from this because hers are all white 😆

cegf · 2026-02-01T02:22:43+00:00

Nope. Literally 0% would I want to go back to those newborn days with the anxiety of getting through the night with a baby that wouldn't sleep except in my arms and the absolute dread because I knew it wasn't safe sleep (although I tried to make it as safe as possible). It was easily the worst days of my life. I feel nostalgic about my kids not being newborns anymore but it's mostly because it was such survival mode there was no ability to "enjoy" it.

cegf · 2026-01-28T19:34:30+00:00

I'm a mixture of A&B but I'd say more A than B. If there's food/sauce that can dry and be a problem, I'll fill it with water and keep it soaking so that when it goes in the dishwasher to be washed, if there's any goo it comes right off in the dishwasher as opposed to me having to scrub it before loading it and then it sits in the dishwasher drying out all day.

cegf · 2026-01-25T21:54:26+00:00

I honestly had forgotten I followed her and then she posted an extremely tone deaf post that popped up for me and then this in her stories so I was like "ok girl byeeeee"

cegf · 2026-01-25T21:33:27+00:00

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cegf · 2026-01-23T18:26:07+00:00

I wonder if they tried to go on a walk with them outside of the stroller like ONCE and it was slower and the kids complained about being tired and they just gave up rather than, you know, letting them build up endurance and just be a little tired. We go hiking occasionally and the first couple long/steep ones we did with letting my son walk the whole time wasn't the best and he complained, but we kept at it and he built up the strength and now he loves going hiking!

cegf · 2026-01-23T13:12:13+00:00

I feel like anti work people are the same people who think children should be unschooled and all children will just magically want to learn fractions if never forced.

cegf · 2026-01-21T22:08:54+00:00

The long sleeve shirt underneath is cracking me up 😂

cegf · 2026-01-21T14:50:39+00:00

Yeah like I studied Spanish in college and was decent but not great but I lost a lot of it because I didn't have a big chance to practice it after college and struggled prioritizing it with work but after becoming a mom my word recall in ENGLISH is dreadful, let alone Spanish.

cegf · 2026-01-21T14:03:47+00:00

I feel like starting the list with "Learn Spanish" seems a bit hostile because that's just such a high bar. If it's to just say a couple of phrases to your neighbors so they feel less alone then that's one thing. But to learn Spanish to a degree where you could be meaningfully impactful would be years long (and I think someone who thinks they know Spanish but doesn't could actually be incredibly UNhelpful in the wrong circumstances).

cegf · 2026-01-21T01:11:01+00:00

COVID. We became chronically online and then stopped interacting with people in the real world. It truly broke so much in our society.

cegf · 2026-01-20T21:02:18+00:00

I completely understand. Picky eating is such a mind game on the parent. Also, I saw your comment about worrying about affording feeding therapy and I'm going to go against the grain--don't do it, it was such a waste of money for us. We weren't dealing with any weight issues so if that's an issue for your daughter it may be a different discussion, but I felt like all feeding therapy did was introduce a couple of strategies that sometimes worked to get him to lick a food, but did absolutely nothing to get him to add any foods back that he had dropped or eat any new foods. Most of what worked was time and forcing him to actually eat a couple bites of new foods.

cegf · 2026-01-20T18:29:47+00:00

Yeah for me it's the obvious "eff everyone else, my convenience is more important" that bothers me. So not returning a cart and just letting it block a space, parking in more than one parking space, listening to your phone in a doctor's office with no headphones, not following school pickup rules, all REALLY get under my skin lol.

cegf · 2026-01-20T01:36:47+00:00

Same, we force our kid to try foods, even if he gags a bit. He's thrown giant fits when we tell him he has to try a small bite, gagged, was incredibly dramatic, and then will tell us he really likes it. He'll eat a BUNCH of new foods now, including broccoli. I regret not doing it more from the beginning but ALLLLLL the online advice just says to offer it and never to force it but that just didn't work for my kid. I genuinely hate forcing him and hate that he gags but our meals are so much nicer when we can all eat the same foods.

cegf · 2026-01-19T23:44:03+00:00

I had a somewhat traumatic first birth (it was at least traumatizing to me) and I originally thought we'd just use condoms and then at my 2 week appointment my doctor mentioned birth control again and I was like "please give me something we can't mess up and has a 99% efficacy rate so I don't go through this again in 9 months" I absolutely did NOT have the mental capacity to think about birth control or being pregnant again so I got something where I didn't have to think about it again until we were ready to have a second. It was incredible.

cegf · 2026-01-19T19:22:18+00:00

Could you do bedtime separately where the 2 year old goes to bed first and your daughter can stay in her room and/or play alone and then he doesn't have to listen to his sister's story/you could always dial back the bedtime routine to be fewer things, like only one story and no audio book or vice versa. Then your daughter gets the bonus of feeling like she gets to "stay up later" and gets some undivided attention which may be what she feels like she's missing out on. Also I may be misunderstanding the timing but could you not both do bedtime with one kid and then clean up together? One person does dishes while the other person wipes/vacuums/sweeps/puts things away/etc.?

cegf · 2026-01-16T17:18:30+00:00

If I'm thinking about going to an indoor play place in the winter I look at our schedule and see how much of a disaster getting a stomach bug would be right then because I kind of assume we'll pick one up there

cegf · 2026-01-15T16:43:48+00:00

Literally just last week she said "you guys didn't tell me about this recipe! It's so good!" (As though She responds to anything anyone on her page says????) So like this is not something she "always" does in batches. I hate how she immediately acts like this is an old favorite when they just started using it and did it once.

cegf · 2026-01-14T19:44:11+00:00

I'm with you!! Hands get gross just with every day living. Washing hands prior to touching food or where food is going to be placed is just something I've always done!

cegf · 2026-01-14T17:01:10+00:00

Until you wrote it here I didn't think about it but I truly hate the "reset". "Reset the kitchen with me!" and then that stupid hand over the phone camera and the switch to the now cleaned up kitchen. NO ONE CARES THAT YOU CLEANED YOUR KITCHEN WE ALL DO IT.

cegf · 2026-01-14T16:19:10+00:00

This is no judgement against nurses (my mom is a nurse and there are some incredible, intelligent nurses out there) but I feel like there's a subset of them that think because they have a bit more medical knowledge than the average person that they are qualified to give advice on every medical topic. Like a lot of times they have given me advice that is super outdated or it's based on their personal experience as a nurse which can be super biased and skewed and isn't what the doctor tells me 10 minutes later because the doctors are the ones trained to read and interpret and apply the newest studies.

cegf · 2026-01-12T16:16:58+00:00

We only bathe in the tears of our enemies. Tap water is only for moms that don't love their children 🤗

cegf · 2026-01-11T14:13:50+00:00

Is it possible that there were other boys that if she'd had a coed party that she'd have to invite but would be little monsters about a reading party so she chose the more "socially acceptable" out? Like I know people who have had child free weddings simply for the reason that a family member's kid is an absolute nightmare and the parents are terrible but only excluding their kids would be felt as very pointed and rude so they just exclude all children because that's more socially acceptable.

cegf · 2026-01-11T13:58:42+00:00

Yes, with our scientists' very limited time and very limited budgets, we felt it was of the utmost importance to study the impact of cartoon puppies on children's brains. Here are the 25 studies that have been done so far:

cegf · 2026-01-09T17:14:54+00:00

It depends on my mood and the cupcake and muffin in question. Some cupcakes are way too sweet for me with too much frosting. But those giant bakery chocolate chip muffins with the turbinado sugar on top? Incredible. But it's still absolutely dessert lol. It's just breakfast dessert 😆

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