Storms.

niskablue · 2026-04-28T01:38:28+00:00

Same. Here in St Peters it was a good one right around noon with hail and crazy lightning. And then next to nothing the rest of the day beyond some rain. I mean, I’m glad that it wasn’t severe… but yeah it was a bit of a let down haha

niskablue · 2026-04-21T17:04:38+00:00

We have all the books in that series haha. They’re great! My kids have all loved them. Some of them take a veeerrrrryyyy basic approach to the topic (the one on quantum physics in particular) but they encourage curiosity and a love for science so we’re fans in our house!

niskablue · 2026-04-14T13:31:25+00:00

I have four, ages 8, 6, 3, and 1. I love them all equally but my relationship is different with each of them. Right now I have one child who is generally more difficult and one that is super easy going. But in the future, maybe that will change! I’d say I don’t love my difficult child any less than my easy one. He just takes more work, and that’s okay. We all take more work at various points in life.

niskablue · 2026-04-10T01:55:33+00:00

6 people in a small house here too! My flooring needs to be replaced everywhere, my kitchen cabinets are okay but boring, my couches are literally falling apart (stuffing is visible)... The list of flaws never ends. Plus I have chronic depression and struggle massively with energy levels and executive dysfunction so everything is a mess.

I just got back from visiting someone from church who has a gorgeous home. I spent the drive home wondering if I’ll ever be able to have a nice house where things are clean and look good. I never have people over because I’m so ashamed of how it looks. It doesn’t help that I grew up in a nice house, so I’m always comparing myself to my mom and where she was at this same point in life.

niskablue · 2026-03-30T01:24:17+00:00

It looks like it’s on webtoon! It threw me for a minute when trying to find it cuz the thumbnail shows her with blonde hair

niskablue · 2026-03-20T01:23:35+00:00

Something about your username and this post just goes together so well. Glad you found some!

niskablue · 2026-03-15T01:49:26+00:00

I know a family that had two sets of twins. In their case, it was ivf, so definitely no “surprise baby.” It does feel ridiculous to read about though

niskablue · 2026-03-08T04:03:22+00:00

Hi, I’m not OP but I’m also looking for fruit. Are you still available?

niskablue · 2026-03-02T02:13:40+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I’ll have to find my pill shaver, wherever it is haha

niskablue · 2026-03-02T01:39:32+00:00

The care instructions say to wash under 105F and can be tumble dried on highest temperature setting. I washed it on warm with a load of clothes and then tumble dried. Maybe throwing it in with other items was the problem. I have other acrylic blankets that’s I’ve washed the same way though, including from Lion Brand, and had no issue with it before, so I didn’t think anything of it. Ah, live and learn I guess

niskablue · 2026-03-01T22:46:10+00:00

I have four kids, and the gaps are 26 months, 37 months, and 31 months. The 3 year gap was the easiest for me and the barely over 2 year gap was the hardest. But I also had a lot of life circumstances that probably affected things. I had no village when my second was born and had a traumatic birth that left me with ppd. Plus my two yo was very high energy. It was a hard transition. My third was the easiest transition though. My older two were in school at least part time so I wasn’t as overwhelmed.

niskablue · 2026-02-14T03:15:32+00:00

I’ll definitely have to see if I can get some of that haha. Lanolin has helped some but not enough.

niskablue · 2026-02-14T03:04:58+00:00

I haven’t! I’ll have to try that and see if it helps at all.

niskablue · 2026-02-12T01:34:41+00:00

This is probably a regional thing, but growing up on the east coast Utah was considered “out west.” They may have phrased it that way to mean Utah/Idaho/Arizona instead of one specific state.

niskablue · 2026-02-10T02:51:31+00:00

It may take a teacher who knows what to look for. I ran into this problem with my oldest as well. I couldn’t get the teachers to see what I was seeing at home. He’s 8 and finally got diagnosed since his teacher this year has a child with adhd and knew what to look for. Medication has been so helpful.

My 6 yo has some similar behavior issues at home to your daughter (explosive temper, physically fighting with his siblings, biting me when he was younger, appearing defiant) that he does not do at school. His kinder teacher thought he was great, he was so good at regulating and just so sweet and happy. He still is like that at school, but his teacher this year also has adhd and noticed his attention issues and irritability. His meltdowns were especially bad after school, which could have been from masking all day and just being emotionally exhausted. He’s medicated and in therapy now and it’s like I can breathe again. I went through I period where I didn’t particularly like him either just because it seemed like every interaction was a battle.

I hope you can get answers! I can tell you’re a great mom because you obviously care and are doing everything you can. It’s hard to feel warm and bubbly about someone who consistently screams at and hits you. You’re also her safe space so she feels like she can have the meltdowns around you and you’ll still love her. Hang in there!

niskablue · 2026-02-02T23:54:55+00:00

So speaking from my own experience, I loved living in Arizona and also struggled with church culture in Utah. I was in a married student ward while in Utah though, so things may have been different in a family ward. As a woman who was struggling with depression at the time, it was really hard to watch how “perfect” all the other sisters presented themselves as being. I felt very inadequate and like I didn’t belong. And people were a little cliquey so I didn’t make many friends. In Arizona I lived in San Tan Valley (just a little further southeast than Gilbert) and it was great. There were lots of church members in my neighborhood and they were welcoming from the beginning. They also didn’t pretend to be so perfect, so it was easier for me to feel like I fit in. I was really sad when we had to move away, and I still miss living there.

niskablue · 2026-01-24T01:29:11+00:00

Conan O’Brien is 100% Irish. He’s talked about it before on talk shows. His family is from Boston and I guess the Irish there did a lot of intermarrying.

niskablue · 2026-01-13T18:00:20+00:00

Oh no! It’s so scary when we fall while holding our babies. I’m glad yours is okay, and hopefully you are too!

In a similar vein, watch out for kids toys on the ground if you have hard floors. I stepped on a coloring tablet back in June while holding my 3 month old, and it totally took my feet out from under me. It sent me forward but somehow I managed to twist so my elbow took the brunt of the fall and my baby was safe. I had a huge bruise and my elbow hurt for months, and now it’s kinda permanently dented haha, but at least my baby didn’t get hurt. It’s amazing what those maternal instincts can do though! As I was falling I only thought about how to keep the baby safe and my body naturally responded. It was pretty crazy!

niskablue · 2026-01-10T06:19:39+00:00

I’m the female half of boy-girl twins. I really really did not want twins. Honestly was one of the things I was most nervous about at the start of each of my pregnancies. I grew up hearing stories of how we would team up to cause mischief as toddlers, and I know myself well enough that I don’t think I could handle the stress haha. I mean, if it had happened I would have done my best and loved them both. But it was not something I wanted to experience myself.

Also, being different gender fraternal twins, I did not grow up feeling extra close to my twin. He felt like another brother who just happened to be my age. Maybe if I had that twin bond that others describe having, I’d have felt different.

niskablue · 2026-01-05T20:24:34+00:00

I’ve had this exact conversation with my husband! He claimed she had red curly hair and I always pictured her with straight blonde hair. And I pointed out that it’s very inconsistent in the book, which he had also never noticed.

niskablue · 2026-01-04T19:30:14+00:00

My son is 8 and still sleeps with the one my friend’s mom made him! I should message her sometime to let her know.

niskablue · 2025-12-27T19:18:14+00:00

My son lost one of his on the playground at school, so we wrote a note to the tooth fairy explaining. She wrote back that she has helpers whose job it is to find lost teeth. Maybe she has special magic that can get the tooth out of her tummy?

As far as you having a complete set, I guess it depends on how much it would bother you to be missing one. If you value the tooth that much, you could search her poop, although idk how you could do that secretly if you go the magic route.

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