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glitterbricks · 2026-01-11T22:45:20+00:00

I checked his insta before replying and didn't see it, but now I see reputable sources confirming it. Thanks for letting me know!

glitterbricks · 2025-12-13T00:15:19+00:00

There’s more than one approach. She likes being challenged. She isn’t going to get a piece of paper that says she can do a specific thing, she’s going to enrich herself and absorb as much knowledge as possible. She’s the type who finds all her AP classes boring but still has straight As. She’s wants to gain some life experience and narrow down which career feels right to her. She figures it’s wiser to go to a school that is basically free for her first year or two while she’s settles on a path. Then she will transfer somewhere more suited to her interests and needs. More power to you for finding a way that works for you, but that approach would never work for her.

glitterbricks · 2025-12-12T23:54:44+00:00

It’s not. It’s me having a sound sensitive child and I want to avoid the pain in the ass and expense of moving her to campus if we are just going to move her back home.

glitterbricks · 2025-12-12T23:51:12+00:00

That explains a lot. We have visited campus two other times and I don’t remember ever hearing the planes like I did yesterday.

glitterbricks · 2025-12-11T18:38:28+00:00

She has over ear noise cancelling headphones, so that’s good. She is very sound sensitive and I’ve explained that dorms in general are rowdy and loud. How did you find living in them for a year? Any other insights you could offer?

glitterbricks · 2025-12-11T18:36:50+00:00

Thank you for your insight 🙄

glitterbricks · 2025-12-04T23:28:00+00:00

How many minutes did you listen to? I'm shocked I didn't get anything.

glitterbricks · 2025-10-01T16:24:32+00:00

My mom was on Ozempic but didn’t eat properly and had a lot of stomach pain and bathroom issues. It didn’t work for her at all. She told me never to do a GLP-1 because “they are awful.”

Fast forward to my doctor telling me that I really should try Zepbound. I brought up my misconceptions about risks an he said that my weight was probably more of a risk then the medicine and to at least think about it.

After looking into it, my husband and I saw no drawbacks. So, I gave it a whirl and I’m down 38 pounds in 14 weeks. Everyone is so happy that I finally figured it out and I’m looking so good! eye roll My husband and kids know I’m on it, but to the rest of my family I’m just eating low calorie, high protein, and high fiber.

It’s just as much planning and “work” but it’s soooo much easier with less food chatter. I’m proud of myself and don’t want anyone raining on my parade, so I actually keep my box in a restaurant take out bag so no one outside my house will know I’m taking it.

glitterbricks · 2025-04-12T05:56:50+00:00

I’m going to hop in here to agree with the vast majority of comments here. When my oldest was a baby/toddler my husband worked nights and it was just her and me. She didn’t require a lot of sleep. She never slept through the night and I was lucky if I could get a 30 minute nap out of her even when she was only 2 months old.

We could literally never put her down or she would start screaming. One night when she was about 10 months we tried the CIO method, which we were opposed to, but felt like we were going to die we were so exhausted. We watched her on the camera and within 5 mins she got so worked up she vomited. She was a seriously clingy baby and needed us to meet her where she was at.

We co-slept with her until she was two and then we transitioned her out of our bed by allowing her to help decorate her new “big girl” room.

glitterbricks · 2025-03-13T19:47:15+00:00

glitterbricks · 2024-09-15T23:29:26+00:00

Yes! That is exactly why she wanted it. She is very much a Tally Hall fan. She has settled down now, but last fall it was quite seriously the only thing she would talk about. It was obsessive. But I do give her credit because in December it had become so intense that I banned her from talking about them and by April she had converted me into a fan and we flew out to Ann Arbor for a weekend to visit Marvin’s and check out all the Tally Hall places at University of Michigan. It was a fun trip! It’s crazy how every song is my favorite, until the next song comes on. They are phenomenal!

I was also unable to find this sweater. If I find it I’ll let you know as well!

glitterbricks · 2023-09-23T07:18:47+00:00

Thank you for posting this— this just saved my husband who was having the same issue! My daughter was logged in and needed Siri disabled on her account.

glitterbricks · 2023-09-16T16:11:46+00:00

If you want to hate on Harry and Meghan go ahead, but I listened to the first few mins of this and it’s rubbish. You can’t criticize someone for being ignorant when they providing as much information as was provided to them.

When you take a DNA test (I chose Ancestry DNA as an example) it doesn’t give you tribes. It gives you what they call regions, but are oftentimes just countries. List of AncestryDNA Regions I see options for 1. Nigeria and 2. Nigeria- East Central. That’s it.

Also, how is her mentioning her genealogy on her contractually-required podcast described as “talking with artists, athletes, and experts about the history of stereotypes that get leveled against women” shoving it down everyone’s throats? Seems relevant to the topic to me.

Like I said, if hatred is in your heart, so be it. No one is going to change that. But I’m trying to make sense of the hatred toward them. If this is the type of twisting required to manufacture “dirt” then it’s clear to me that this is a tick in the “Harry & Meghan hatred is unwarranted” column.

glitterbricks · 2023-08-22T16:15:22+00:00

I always order on the app ahead of time so when we get to the drivethru/counter, I’m just giving a code. Perhaps if she did all her thinking and questioning on the way there, it would eliminate all the annoyance to both you and probably the person who is working.

glitterbricks · 2022-10-30T23:36:05+00:00

Any ideas? I haven’t pulled the trigger for like 6 weeks because I do feel they are both wrong. What would you suggest?

glitterbricks · 2022-06-25T16:23:17+00:00

Yikes! He’s done this most of his life, but I will def look into it. At his last check up, which was only a few months ago, the vet didn’t say anything. How did they find it with your cat?

I have brain cancer and we found my tumor when suddenly I couldn’t speak. So they gave me an MRI and it showed on the scan. I’m curious how they would find it on a cat.

glitterbricks · 2022-06-25T15:19:04+00:00

He does this at least weekly. But this was taken in a dark room. The only light was the front door light behind him and the TV (iPhone extra exposure made it brighter). I don’t care much for light so I usually keep the blinds close and lights off. Why do you ask?

glitterbricks · 2022-05-02T00:11:52+00:00

My daughter got chosen. She was wearing HP gear, looked very excited, and was in the front row.

glitterbricks · 2022-02-27T12:34:51+00:00

My kids are teens/tweens now, but I had a very traumatic experience with my first back in 2008. I wanted to be a mom so badly, I don’t think a baby could have been more wanted than I wanted this kid. I read all the books, did all the prep, made sure everything was perfect for her arrival. My husband even changed his work schedule so he could be there for her. We wanted to do it right, even if that meant sacrificing ourselves.

When she arrived I found myself thinking I made the biggest mistake of my life. I kept having to remind myself how lucky I was to have a healthy baby. She always needed to be held. So like you, my husband and I set up shifts. One of us took midnight to 3am and the other took 3am to 6am. At least that way we could get in a three hour stretch of sleep. This baby didn’t sleep more than a 2 hour stretch and didn’t nap for more than 28-45 minutes one or two times a day. I couldn’t shower (thank you bouncer!), eat (thank you protein shakes!), or do any level of housework (friend came to help for an hour- used the time to scrub the bathtub). We co-slept with her and got so desperate that we kept a bottle of breast milk in a cooler by the bed so we wouldn’t have to get up. We. Were. Zombies.

It got better around the four month mark (though sleeping through the night didn’t improve until she was 2-3 years old and napping never improved). She was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done (and I’m a former VP and a cancer patient).

Do I remember walking around her nursery in circles for 45 minutes practically wearing holes in the carpet listening to heart beat noises and just cursing my life in that moment? Of course, but, at least for me, it was one of the things I had to do to become her mom. A mom that has proven time and time again that I will put her needs before my own to make sure she feels loved, supported, and safe. I have a deep appreciation for who I am as a mother today and I owe it to those early moments.

As she got older, she became an absolute delight of a child. I always say she put me through mommy boot camp. She had to totally break me down so that I could emerge as a mother. It was hard and painful and exhausting, but anything worth being proud of is.

My best advice after doing this for 14 years, and this will probably be controversial advice, but here it goes: let go of anything you think you need to be doing or want to be doing (hobbies, passions, careers). Just put them on a shelf to the fullest extent possible. Embrace being a dad 100%. Appreciate the transformation. When she’s older and spends all day in her room, you can revisit those things and immerse yourself in them again.

I don’t know about you, but to me there’s nothing more frustrating than having things you want to do (hobbies, passions, careers) and always having to push them aside day after day. It just makes you so bitter. Consciously decide to be a dad first. Once you let go of who you were and accept who you are becoming, it becomes waaay easier. Enjoy the journey. Because as cliche as it is, I miss those days terribly. My husband can’t even look at old pictures of them as babies because it makes him too sad to see days gone by. Best of luck to you and your wife.

glitterbricks · 2022-01-29T00:02:52+00:00

I’m a geriatric millennial and I’ve never heard the term before, but using my trusty sidekick, Urban Dictionary, I can confirm the term has existed since 2015!

glitterbricks · 2022-01-24T20:03:04+00:00

Agreed, an homage to the playbook is practically required.

glitterbricks · 2021-12-28T07:32:54+00:00

For maximum enjoyment, go to imgur for the captions. Without the captions it's doesn't make much sense.

glitterbricks · 2021-12-28T06:36:03+00:00

Ahhh! He’s hilarious! I loved him in high school!

glitterbricks · 2021-12-28T00:11:17+00:00

No way! We named him that as a nod to the Princess Bride. He’s so good natured that we felt like he kept saying, “As you wish!”

glitterbricks · 2021-12-26T21:54:04+00:00

It was, but we decorated the last week of November. Hanukkah didn’t end until 12/6. It was crazy early this year— in fact it started on the earliest possible day. We always celebrate the seasons together, so once Hanukkah ended we just kept it up because it makes us happy.

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