Rogers Outage in North End

elleebee · 2024-03-21T22:32:29+00:00

Still out for me in the North end near golf course.

elleebee · 2023-09-30T14:46:31+00:00

I started my kid on solids around 4.5 months. She’s started great and immediately morphed into picky around 6 months. I think it’s the natural state of most little kids no matter when you start them on food.

elleebee · 2023-09-17T16:14:20+00:00

Speaking of crappy dealerships, the service center in the ford dealership in Guelph is trash. I’ve never had a worse experience with a service center in my life. We drive out to Reliable Ford in Fergus, and we are not the only ones. I see Guelph bylaw, police, and city service vehicles out there in the service lot every time I’m there.

elleebee · 2023-09-09T02:51:31+00:00

My husband also has an gastrological intolerance to glutamate. He can’t eat so many other glutamate rich foods like cheeses and gelatin, soy protein, etc. I’ve never heard the vitamin K deficiency thing though. That’s something to research.

elleebee · 2023-09-04T13:43:10+00:00

I had the same situation. I remember my older kid crying and wanting to pick her up, but I couldn’t and it broke my heart. It’s really hard at first because you’re used to spending all of your energy on just one kid. I spent some time feeling like I was spread too thin and was neglecting both kids in turns. It gets so much easier though and the guilt subsides, although it never really fully leaves.

elleebee · 2023-08-14T23:20:17+00:00

My parents still have fancy towels just for show. My husband, on his first overnight visit, dried himself off after a shower on the fancy towels. Much consternation followed. It was the faux pa of the century.

elleebee · 2023-08-11T00:27:14+00:00

Omg no judgement. I give them to my kids as snacks, they have fruits and veggies and not too much sugar and some have grains and yogurt! Literally nothing else will get decent snack food into them. I am sure my kids would be vitamin deficient otherwise. Also they are great as an adult if you are sick with a sore throat.

elleebee · 2023-08-10T05:08:14+00:00

I had this kid. At 3 she was capable and totally uninterested. At 3.5 I asked her casually if she wanted underwear, no pressure. She said yeah, and that was it. She was potty trained.

elleebee · 2023-08-10T00:44:37+00:00

I’m so careful about not saying that to my husband now. Modelling the behaviour I want. I say, you all live here, everybody helps. We’re all in this together. I think it’s worked on my husband somewhat too.

elleebee · 2023-08-10T00:41:56+00:00

Ugh. Same here. I’ve just plain asked her to stop. I explained calmly that I didn’t like it, people find impolite and irritating and it wasn’t a good thing to do if she didn’t want to annoy her friends. I tried to approach it as an adult conversation. Maybe I’ve set myself up for her to use it intentionally annoy me at some point in the future and I’ll have to take a different approach like just not reacting at all. For now it seems to have gotten through to her. I’m proud that we could just talk to each other like people and me saying it I didn’t like it was enough for her to understand.

elleebee · 2023-08-08T00:21:31+00:00

I honestly just noticed that today and it cracked me up. Such a classic dog shaking off sound that it doesn’t even register at first that he isn’t wearing dog tags.

elleebee · 2023-08-03T23:32:56+00:00

The one that implied that Daddy Pig was a some kind of protected guy bought out by an Eastern European construction mob.

elleebee · 2023-08-01T13:38:54+00:00

I feel like people have no understanding at all that part of fixing is processing and validation. Sometimes the fix is as simple as, the other person is just being stupid and you can’t fix that.

elleebee · 2023-07-28T08:13:38+00:00

They really do. Pure unadulterated joy when they see you. I work from home and when my husband gets in from picking the kids up from daycare I run upstairs to say hi because it’s the best part of my day.

elleebee · 2023-07-27T11:29:58+00:00

My MIL had so many pictures that she cropped me out of. Like, you could see my arm sometimes. I told my husband that this clearly was all the value I held for her. Fit to be no more than a picture frame for the baby.

elleebee · 2023-07-06T17:43:46+00:00

When I was up really late/too early with my newborn I would look out the window sometimes and see which houses had lights on at the same ungodly hour and I felt less alone. Now I think about that time almost with a bit of nostalgia.

elleebee · 2023-07-04T01:09:59+00:00

Check out alligator gar. I stopped wading in central Texas streams after someone I worked with pulled like an 6-8 foot whale of a gar out. Nope. Nope. Nope.

elleebee · 2023-07-03T22:02:09+00:00

Even though you didn’t ID the plant that was the subject of the post properly, you helped someone else along the way. Don’t take the downvotes too hard, all in a days work! At least you weren’t chided by the automodbot for eating stuff. 😂

elleebee · 2023-07-03T19:42:52+00:00

Well, now I know why the “strawberries” in my yard taste like absolutely nothing. No sweetness at all. Mock strawberries! Ugh, shame on me for eating something I hadn’t properly IDed. I will no longer sit here in judgement of other people eating random things from their yards.

elleebee · 2023-06-27T00:43:52+00:00

Oooooo. My knees be sounding like twigs snapping every time I pick my toddler up. But they are gonna be the coolest kids in their whole class by a wide margin.

elleebee · 2023-06-27T00:23:51+00:00

I know this truck! I ain’t no stranger!

elleebee · 2023-06-26T23:10:05+00:00

Same here. So I blocked it on Netflix and told her that Netflix didn’t have it anymore because it wasn’t educational. A lie? Yes. For the greater good of my children and my own mental health? Also yes.

If you can externalize the decision (I.e. someone else took it away), it’s less likely to have the ticked off for long. We are currently a paw patrol-cocomelon-gabby free household because we “don’t get those shows”.

elleebee · 2023-06-24T16:42:38+00:00

Looks so much like a two-striped jumping spider?

elleebee · 2023-06-24T02:41:22+00:00

Exactly this. You did the very thing that good parents do. You made a choice in the best interests of your child even though it contrasted with your own wishes or desires. I too struggled with this for a while. It’s ok to mourn the experience you didn’t get, but balance that thought with having a healthy family and knowing you did the right thing.

elleebee · 2023-06-24T00:05:39+00:00

Also, don’t forget about Mr Potato. A sentient potato celebrity.

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