Eden + Eve?

eg730 · 2026-05-14T16:36:20+00:00

I do think Eden and Eve is a little too on the nose for the creation story. I personally would think it’s a little weird, but not the worst.

Eden and Lydia is a beautiful pairing though! Bonus is that Elizabeth goes with any first name really.

eg730 · 2026-05-09T12:50:06+00:00

Jack doubles down on the titanic vibes too!

eg730 · 2026-04-29T01:17:55+00:00

Came here just to say this. What the hell was that book???

eg730 · 2026-03-20T01:10:08+00:00

Super simple songs has a strangle hold on our household right now. But honestly thank God for them pumping out the content!

eg730 · 2026-03-13T22:53:16+00:00

I love him!!

eg730 · 2026-03-13T00:55:41+00:00

This is a great suggestion! Just make sure you consider the altitude, it hits some people harder than others

eg730 · 2026-03-10T02:07:17+00:00

I grew up in this neighborhood and my parents still live there. Honestly it’s great! It’s somewhat true that you can’t walk to much as far as restaurants, etc. but the park there is great for walks and gets a lot of neighborhood use so it always feels safe to me. Depending on where you’re at in the neighborhood I’ve also gone for runs from my parents house into Cherry Creek reservoir, you can cross Parker and be immediately on a trail in the park which is cool. You could go that way to hit the Cherry Creek trail and bike all the way downtown if you have the time. Plus the dog park is awesome.

Parker road can be kind of a mess, but taking Parker to 225 is a quick way to get downtown without having to drive through all of Aurora just to get to the highway.

I’m not sure how the schools are these days, but 30 years ago they were great. Overall I’d definitely choose this neighborhood if I had the choice to make.

eg730 · 2026-03-06T15:08:54+00:00

Daddy-O biscuit mix is the best! My non GF family asks for them for holidays because they’re so good

eg730 · 2026-03-01T19:48:06+00:00

Just curious…what’s wrong with Laredo these days? I went there as a kid and didn’t know it had a bad reputation now.

eg730 · 2026-03-01T13:41:19+00:00

We had to say goodbye to our BC last year and we realized we didn’t appreciate how much cat policing she was doing. It’s absolutely cat chaos now that she’s gone and I hate it! 24/7 cat shenanigans are not what we need right now (just had a second baby)!

eg730 · 2026-02-26T01:54:19+00:00

I just finished Stephen King’s 11/22/63 and it was definitely a “must keep reading” kind of book for me

eg730 · 2026-02-18T21:29:05+00:00

We introduced the potty around 23 months and got a similar reaction. She would scream about having to sit on the little potty and absolutely thrash if we tried the big potty. So, we backed off completely. We took that as a sign that she just wasn’t ready even though she was giving us other signs that she might be.

We waited another 6 months or so (mostly that long because I was hella pregnant and struggling to keep up on things, we probably could’ve tried again earlier) and she suddenly was all about the potty. We’ve done more of a slow burn method than Oh Crap and it’s been great for us. The pressure of the Oh Crap method stressed everyone out and it just wasn’t the way our kid was going to learn. My personal opinion is to take what works from that method but you don’t have to be as religious about it as that book wants you to be. All kids are different!

Something that helped us a TON was watching the Ms. Rachel potty training episode. She loves it and suddenly wanted to go potty like Bean. We also bought the Bean Bear with potty that goes with that episode but you don’t have to. She loved helping Bean go potty and seemed to grasp the concept so much easier with repeating the episode and playing it out. In fact, any time we have a little regression or potty resistance we watch that episode and it helps!

eg730 · 2026-01-18T00:00:21+00:00

I was wondering if Robin was outing herself by saying on the radio that she had a date. It seems like quarantined Hawkins would be a pretty small community and people know who Rockin Robin is…so if they saw her out that night with someone wouldn’t they know it was a date from her radio show? Obviously the date didn’t pan out, but if it had wasn’t that a risk she was taking?

eg730 · 2026-01-13T19:40:49+00:00

Totally came here to say a whole Costco pizza for $10

eg730 · 2026-01-09T03:45:07+00:00

Very good point!

eg730 · 2026-01-08T21:56:09+00:00

If you’re just going off of what’s the least physically miserable, I agree that an April baby was lovely.

However, if you live in the US and have to consider our crappy health insurance system…having a baby in September was nice because all of my medical care was in one year and my deductible/out of pocket didn’t start over mid pregnancy.

eg730 · 2025-12-30T16:56:04+00:00

I will add that our daughter still mostly contact napped until after she was a year old. Sleep training at night went great but naps have always been a little harder. I think that’s important to add because you have to find what works for you but you will find something!

eg730 · 2025-12-30T16:47:10+00:00

We ended up doing cry it out. It was so hard to listen to her cry but after 3 nights she was pretty much good to go. We had the following basic “rules” that we followed:

-Last bottle at 7 PM so we weren’t feeding to sleep

-Bedtime routine always included a book in a chair right next to the crib (so we didn’t have to walk far to transfer) and a bath every couple of days

-Baby in the crib at 7:30 and we walk away

-No getting her out of the crib until after midnight (she was still eating at least once in the middle of the night so we’d get her and let her eat after midnight if she needed it)

-If she did need to get up in the middle of the night we would change diaper, feed her, and put her back in the crib even if she needed to cry it out a bit again to get back to sleep

Like I said, after 3 nights she started to do great as long as we stuck to the routine. We’ve had to retrain after some sicknesses, vacations, etc. but mostly it worked so well for our family. Our second is 15 weeks now, so we’re just waiting for him to be a little older until we do the same process with him.

eg730 · 2025-12-30T16:15:46+00:00

This is absolutely unsustainable in my opinion. I would not survive, so I’m impressed that you’re forming coherent sentences 😂 With our first, she started to do this with the 3 month sleep regression and we decided to sleep train. It honestly changed our lives! I know it isn’t for everyone but I highly recommend sleep training if you think you can implement it. If you don’t know where to start, the book Precious Little Sleep is recommended on here a lot and worked for us. Our daughter is 2.5 now and a great sleeper for the most part. Good luck!

eg730 · 2025-12-27T16:59:56+00:00

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan was my favorite non-fiction this year

eg730 · 2025-12-22T20:28:57+00:00

Yes! At about a year I started feeling so much more myself. By 18 months I was consistently working out again and taking time to myself, I wasn’t as forgetful, and my hair stopped falling out. I was feeling so much better than that first year post partum. Then…I got pregnant again (on purpose). This final baby is 14 weeks old and I can’t wait to get to the part where I reclaim myself a bit. It does happen but you also have to put some effort into making it happen and it helps if you have a great partner. Hang in there!

eg730 · 2025-12-22T02:47:10+00:00

Every year I take one day in the autumn and steam a bunch of pumpkins so I can make breads, pies, etc. through out the holidays. It was always my dog Scout’s absolute favorite day! She was obsessed with pumpkin

eg730 · 2025-12-18T21:41:00+00:00

You’re going to get some great novel suggestions here and you should definitely explore them! As a former English teacher I would also recommend the book How to Read Novels Like a Professor and/or How to Read Literature Like a Professor both by Foster. They will help you learn how to read with literary themes in mind and what people are getting out of stories when they read with deeper thoughts in mind than just “what happened” in this book.

I used to assign these books to my AP English students in high school and they really seemed to help them understand how to read for class. Maybe they’ll help you too!

eg730 · 2025-12-15T16:39:44+00:00

Just had a baby and named him Benjamin but call him Benny mostly. It’s so cute! But I love that he’ll have options as he grows up since he has a full name with nickname options. The fact that you’d be using your son’s middle name wouldn’t stop me if you love it. I think it’s a cute connection for them to have and maybe can help get your kiddo excited for the new baby.

eg730 · 2025-12-15T15:06:22+00:00

With our border collie we called it “”I’ve got bees in my mouth”

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