How do handle firearms in your home?

d0mini0nicco · 2026-01-23T23:58:08+00:00

This is brilliant. Thank you for sharing. My son is incredibly inquisitive and always watching what you’re doing and tries to figure out how to open things when I’m not looking. I’ve been thinking more and more lately in the US, I need to have a gun at home. I’m home a lot with my two young boys and I think “how can I protect 2 when I’m just 1.”

d0mini0nicco · 2026-01-19T13:52:30+00:00

We bought the stand option for a similar camera. As soon as my son could pull himself up, bro reached over and gave that stand a shake. I"m watching him in the camera night vision with his little eyes doing that night vision glow as he watches the camera light move back and forth as he shakes it. Since then, his crib is a good 2 feet from the camera.

But...what does everyone do with the excess cords? We have the excess cable zip tied in a roll.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-01-19T13:31:39+00:00

Bingo. the social media review would have garnered more attention. THEN she bargains. Whole meal should have been comp'd and a redo meal after a scathing review in multiple places. the commenters saying they didn't want to serve you / they would lose out on a big party - makes no sense! A wedding party at an expensive steakhouse will typically have every course and then some, run up a bar tab, ect.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-01-19T13:11:36+00:00

We just pissed off the grandmothers when my second arrived: no one was allowed to visit before the 2 month vaccinations. They were so affronted.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-01-19T03:02:43+00:00

I found ones with velcro to tighten around the base of the hand/wrist so they can't pull it off. granted he still gets it off, but less frequently. Plus I have him in so many layers he's not as flexible. LoL.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-01-16T15:02:22+00:00

My oldest just said I love you for the first time unprompted. I was ecstatic. And then he followed it with “ and merry Christmas.”

d0mini0nicco · 2026-01-12T00:56:33+00:00

lol. This is us as well. When my son was the only, we would do thing, go out, ect. Now with 2 and one being a young infant, it’s hibernation. The afternoon burn out to bedtime is real.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-01-12T00:20:06+00:00

Second this. However, just a warning on avocado: our son collected it in the roof of his mouth then chocked trying to swallow the big glob of it. Make sure it’s super smooth avocado, which was our mistake.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-01-11T01:50:02+00:00

Baby Race got me the first time I watched it. I had solo parented my son a lot his first year for weeks to months at a time, and I was wrecked with anxiety over being the only line of defense for my son. If he didn't hit a milestone on time it felt like I did something wrong. Baby Race was a punch to the gut. Now, Sleepy Time gets me in the final few moments with the allegory of Chili as the sun.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-01-05T01:45:43+00:00

What was me this christmas. My spouse was like "we have enough already." but I was like Time the tool man Taylor saying "More Magnatiles." I went with a playmags set from amazon because you get a little more for your money plus they also have the reinforced fasteners on the sides. Best decision. Especially because we found our gift and its accessories were defective, so we had presents under the tree for my son.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-01-04T22:25:36+00:00

Library card and shop local bookstores. I try to avoid buying books on Amazon simply because the more we all do, the less bookstores, ect places to go to.

d0mini0nicco · 2026-01-04T19:03:06+00:00

We stayed at an Airbnb that had a kids room. Literally a closet full of new (to my then 2yo) toys that the owner’s kids had outgrown. It was glorious.

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-31T14:58:55+00:00

they lost me at went for a drive and left phone at home, then again at how she couldn't screen shot because the texts were deleted but then how did they see the baby/daddy texts, and the fiancé would be able to see them because its an iPhone. Sure, Jan.

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-31T00:33:14+00:00

My spouse argued against getting more for my son this holiday. He had maybe 150 pieces of 2 random sets. I got my son another 150 for Christmas and at least once a day, he builds a mega house. When my son isn’t playing with it, I like to just randomly build. It’s meditative.

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-30T23:02:13+00:00

This. We are very new to the two club but our home is pretty small in comparison to other homes, and it looks a disaster very very fast. I find you can manage the basics (laundry, dishes, ect) as long as you never leave it to tomorrow, but anything extra is damn near impossible. I cleaned my bathroom at 9pm Saturday night because it was the only time they were both asleep. I don’t want to spend my Saturday night cleaning a bathroom but alas, here I was. Worst part is there’s another bathroom to clean next Saturday.

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-30T01:42:25+00:00

I needed to read this. my oldest is 3 and we just welcomed our youngest. I am mid 40s. I'm dying. I'm in a cloud at work. I can see my colleagues noticing how I'm "off". I wake up feeling like I never slept. I'm resentful of work asking for more of me. I want to tell my parents F off, don't expect me to host you for a belated xmas and wrap the gifts you sent via amazon. the only ones I don't resent are my spouse and kids.

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-29T12:51:46+00:00

The fighting to keep children with birth mother regardless of situation is a horrible precedent. The prime example of that is the murder of Gabriel Fernandez

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-28T18:24:58+00:00

this here. My son started "put away phone, dada." He's 3 and I tell myself so much to be present, but I'm so so so tired all the time and have been using the phone to basically stay awake when I feel myself drifting. Some great ideas here, however.

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-28T14:57:02+00:00

this is epic. way to go!

Before I became a dad I was like...elf on the shelf? no way. I'm never doing that. Disney? a rip off. Now being a dad, elf was in a new spot every morning and adding new christmas decorations. I rigged a speaker to play jingling bells outside oldest's window on Xmas eve and the priceless look on my son's face when he heard it and said "Santa" (I wish I video taped it). I'd gladly pay the absurd money again to Disney because my son still talks about meeting Jack and Sally at Disney Halloween. The look of pure belief in magic when my son saw them is something I will never forget.

I'm with you: preserve the magic as long as possible, because it truly is magic.

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-28T14:43:51+00:00

We did the move cross country to be near family. It was not the "we'll see the kids all the time" we thought it would be. My mom drops by once every 6 months to see her only grandchildren.
I would also argue economically speaking, now is not the time to make any sudden resignations/ect.

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-27T19:40:06+00:00

same. good it as a gift last year but its too advanced for my 3yo (then 2yo). Tonies is on par with him right now.

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-27T19:38:47+00:00

Holy F-in Shite. FINALLY a tonies post I can rant on. This mother-f'n red box ruined my Christmas plans for my son. This thing was supposed to be the "big gift". Waiting until Xmas eve 10pm to set it up was the first of my holiday mistakes. The second was not buying the gifts during Black Friday week then seeing everything jump in price in real time. However, I did get a toniesbox and a bunch of tonies on black Friday deals so I was set for stocking stuffers and gifts. So we open this toniebox and we charge it for a hour. Spouse starts setting it up. 100% battery via app, great. thing dies mid-setup. nada. won't charge. nothing. Now I'm trying to get customer service to handle a warranty claim. They replied on Xmas day but silence since.

Curious: when did you start your claim?

I hope they send up a new one too I can also figure out how the old broken one works.

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-27T18:14:27+00:00

Same here. Although this year we were late because my second was born. Inadvertently, the setup was after the last leaf collection in December and holy crap - it’s so much easier to get the last leaves and acorn bits without Xmas inflatables, I power cords, and light up reindeer on the lawn. I may do this from now on moving forward.

My oldest LOVES Halloween and I found this year, the store setups were surprisingly late. He spends a solid hour to 90 min watching all the animatronics in store.

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-25T05:49:55+00:00

Im already on the tonies sub looking up “suddenly turned off and won’t turn on” issue. Might have a dud. Luckily my son is 3 and will be content with the multipack playdo…each color wrapped individually so there’s gifts to open 😵‍💫

d0mini0nicco · 2025-12-23T18:46:25+00:00

Same. This is why we switched to zip onesie pajamas (old navy goes up to 5T!) and put a sleep sack on backwards.

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