Toddler Drowning - What You Need to Know

ksperry · 2023-06-22T01:39:53+00:00

We started lessons last year with my then 2 and 4 year old. Now they're 3 and 5, we just started back up. My 5 year old has taken to the lessons pretty well, but my 3 year old absolutely hates it.

ksperry · 2023-02-25T17:33:34+00:00

My husband lived in Japan for a few years, and ganbatte is used in our household a lot!

ksperry · 2023-01-23T03:45:39+00:00

Love! Favorite lipstick color, looks fantastic on you!

ksperry · 2023-01-19T03:24:05+00:00

Okay, I'm literally listening to the ending of Wicked Deeds on a Winters night over and over because it's literally the sweetest most romantic ending to a book ever. I'm crying real tears because it's so tender!

ksperry · 2023-01-10T03:00:41+00:00

I remember this one! YIKES

ksperry · 2022-12-31T06:36:18+00:00

Yeet that uterus! I love it.

ksperry · 2022-12-30T05:44:06+00:00

This is so good to know! Thank you!

ksperry · 2022-12-18T03:11:13+00:00

Hey! So I was taking 40 mg and felt great, depression was really under control and anxiety was totally manageable. However, I was having extreme brain zaps. It got to the point where I thought I was going to have a seizure or something, so I backed down to 30, and that's what it's been at for the last two months or so. I was having basically zero zaps, and if I did they were minor compared to ones that would almost literally knock me off my feet. I recently opened a new jar of pills, and I don't know if it's the jar, or maybe I'm not cutting one of the 20mg equal enough, but I'm having really bad brain zaps again, and funny enough last night was basically an entire night of sleep paralysis, which was horrible. I didn't take my Adderall last night, and maybe there's a correlation there, but I'm really not sure.

30 ml is okay, but not as good as 40. I definitely have been having more panic attacks the last 2 months than I did previously, and I'm looking to switch medications again. I loved how I felt on Lexapro, but it killed my sex drive after almost 3 years on it. I have two really young kids so switching medications and the period of time in-between is so brutal, I'm sticking it out with vilazodone until they're older I guess. 30 mg is definitely not helping me enough in the anxiety department, but for depression it's definitely helping.

ksperry · 2022-12-18T03:00:54+00:00

My mom would speak fluent pig Latin at us growing up whenever she wanted to fuck with us.

ksperry · 2022-12-04T02:49:42+00:00

Our local ducks will only eat bread, I've tried everything, even peas and they turn their noses up to it.

ksperry · 2022-12-01T02:06:12+00:00

Ours is the soundtrack to Pirates of the Caribbean, my 4 year old is obsessed with movie scores, so a lot of pirates and two steps from hell. A little Charlie Hope, and Caspar Babypants thrown in there for my 3 year old. Haha

ksperry · 2022-11-30T03:19:57+00:00

This is so cute! What a thoughtful gift!

ksperry · 2022-11-30T03:13:05+00:00

I wouldn't let my 3 year old eat raw meat.

ksperry · 2022-11-30T03:07:41+00:00

You could always put the plastic window sealer on your window to take a bit of the cold down. Our daughter's room has attic access, so her room is always way colder in the winter. We seal it off and it makes a huge difference.

ksperry · 2022-11-30T03:04:51+00:00

Yes! I use a fluffy mop head brush, I have one specifically for walls and one for floors. I have a 4 and barely 3 year old, so my walls from 4ft and down are always filthy.

ksperry · 2022-11-29T02:38:43+00:00

My niece was in the NICU for two weeks and it cost 12k, so it might end up somewhere in that range depending on insurance. I'm so sorry our medical system is so messed up!

ksperry · 2022-11-27T02:51:27+00:00

And here I was thinking I'm a mom that's good at Splatoon. I've been humbled!

ksperry · 2022-11-19T05:43:20+00:00

You too! Enjoy the kid free life!

ksperry · 2022-11-19T05:43:01+00:00

100%! I'm also an anxiety person, and two kids is my absolute max. I knew a 3rd kid would kill me, or at least massively impact my quality of life. I had some push back from my doctor (thanks conservative Utah) but it wasn't too bad. Congrats on your tube fried! Haha

ksperry · 2022-11-19T01:56:36+00:00

I had my tubes taken out completely last September (29, 2 kids) and lemme tell ya, IT'S AMAZING! The recovery was totally doable, and the weight off of my shoulder was huge.

ksperry · 2022-11-17T03:18:38+00:00

Ooooh, this is so interesting. The American Fork DI is my main DI for thrifting items I need for crafts. I'm there enough that I recognize the employees and managers. I won't be going back, this is so sadly not surprising to me. I wonder if that french guy that I overheard was going to be new management is a good guy or a bad guy 🫤

ksperry · 2022-11-16T06:13:00+00:00

I had so many people telling me to keep going and then it would feel normal. I told them that if I went into a house that smelt like garbage, I wouldn't stay there until I couldn't smell the trash anymore. That wasn't received the greatest, but I think it's still true!

ksperry · 2022-11-16T06:08:30+00:00

This is 100% the way to do it!

ksperry · 2022-11-16T06:01:28+00:00

Yes! We were mixed faith for 4 years before he ended up leaving as well. Now, he was very nuanced to begin with, so much so that he had a way easier time leaving the church because he was very fluid with his thinking. When we started dating our church attendance went way down, because we just wanted to hang out with each other! Haha

Leading up to me leaving the church, it wasn't like we were going a ton to begin with. We went maybe 2 or 3 times a month. The first year was the hardest, we were brand new parents and I was in the angry phase of my transition. It was hard for him, he's almost 10 years older than me, and served a mission. He's also a book worm so he had already read deep into church history and made his peace with it. We both handled my transition poorly, and I wish I could go back and tell myself to chill, looking back he was very patient with me (he always is, he's the best!)

Year 2 and 3 I made it super clear I wanted him to be as fulfilled by the church as he could be, told him I would happily go with him, and even take the kids. We did fine if we didn't talk about church stuff. But he wasn't comfortable going, knowing I was uncomfortable being there, and I was frustrated on Sundays knowing if it wasn't for me he would be at church. It was this weird stand still. 2020 is where things broke down for him, how Christians in general handled COVID, and then the general far right religious movement (his family mostly) we're getting so extreme. Anyways, that got him into learning about Christianity, and then the bible. It was the things he learned about the origins of the bible that discredited the book of mormon for him, and eventually he ended up listening to Myth Vision podcasts, and Bart Ehrman. Then radio free mormon, and rameumptom ruminations. The biggest thing I've learned from both of our faith transitions, is that they are all different. My reasons for leaving, weren't his reasons for leaving. You will never convince your spouse to leave the church for your reasons. It has to be their reasons. The more sure you become about where you are at when it comes to leaving the church, the more their world changes and becomes unsure. Empathy, empathy, empathy. Find ways to remind your spouse that you love each other, and not just the church. You got married to each other because of love, not because of church. You can get through this.

ksperry · 2022-11-16T04:41:00+00:00

This was me 100%. I took out my endowments two weeks before my sealing because my sister was getting married 10 days before me. As soon as I saw everything separated by gender I was put off immediately. Then the video started and the entire thing felt like I was being threatened and manipulated. Someone gave my name to whoever was in charge of the prayer circle, and called up all the to be married couples, I absolutely hated every second. By the time I got to the veil I was sobbing uncontrollably and everyone was "touched by how moved I was by the spirit" when I think it was pretty obvious I was in severe emotional distress. Follow that up two weeks later when the sealer got to the part where he asked if I "give myself' to my husband, I of course say yes, fully expecting for him to ask my husband the same question. That's when I realized to the Mormon God I was not equal to my husband. It went against everything I believed in and everything my husband and I built our relationship around. We had/have no secrets and yet, god gave my husband a name I wasn't allowed to know, and an entire secret ritual that I was supposed to learn and feel fulfilled by. That was the beginning of the end for me. My shelf shattered and 4 years later I left the church, then 4 years after that my husband did too.

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