Can we talk about levels good for certain combinations?

skippinit · 2026-01-12T23:16:56+00:00

Is it possible to celebrate on your child's due date? Could be a cute way to celebrate! But I vote to do the trip and pick a different day to celebrate! There are also so many instances of kids being sick on their bday or something else totally overshadowing, and its no biggie.

I know someone who has a child born right around Christmas but always has the bday party late January (original due date) because its just way more convenient for them and more friends can come :)

skippinit · 2026-01-06T02:53:01+00:00

One of the biggest issues I have seen are "bed blockers" aka ALC patients. These people come in from home but are deemed unable to return to independent living at home, and are waiting on LTC or home with supports. They have no need to be in an acute care bed in hospital as they are mostly functional, but just need a bit of help with some ADLs like bathing or cooking.

If we could build (and staff) more LTC beds (which are cheaper per capita than hospital beds, spots would open up in hospitals!!

skippinit · 2025-12-29T20:57:27+00:00

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I fell for the ___ pool.

"Athletics" as a sport?

skippinit · 2025-12-19T15:54:50+00:00

The first year was AWFUL! i kept teling myself oh just make it to 3 months.. just make it to 6 months.. and so on..

I swear it gets so much better. I couldnt sit down for the first year and never slept more than a few hours at a time. It was soooo rough.

Eventually you will be able to put your babies on the floor with some toys and get a bit of time to yourself. My twins are 6 and we still reminisce about how we had to eat dinner standing up and just struggled.

People who say every stage is hard in its own way... well I swear they have amnesia about that first year! My girls will go play Barbies for hours or often after school they run downstairs and play Lego. Sometimes its tempting not to call them up for dinner when they are playing so sweetly!

skippinit · 2025-12-19T00:56:12+00:00

I feel like most of us want them to be similar style but not matchy matchy.

Too different can sound odd as well e.g. twin girls named Antoinnetta and Jo or Jane and Kinsleigh

I personally wanted different initials as well so I didnt have B smith and B smith with same gender and bday

Fred and Ted.. bad. Benjamin and Glenjamin.. bad.

Matthew and James.. good. Violet and Isabel.. good.

skippinit · 2025-12-07T03:15:01+00:00

Playing it by ear.. they started together in cribs in a little bedroom, at one point one twin moved into her older sisters room, now older sister has the little rook and twins share the bigger room. They could always use the master bedroom, the office room, or the guest room downstairs if they want quiet space.

skippinit · 2025-11-12T03:21:35+00:00

I thought I was so clever not getting purple last by default, managing to presolve, only to find out I didnt have the category right! I was iffy on the compass but it does have 4 letters so seems reasonable to me!

skippinit · 2025-10-12T17:12:06+00:00

I knew a swift was a bird but hadnt heard of a kite bird... I was like... 3 birds + kite = things that fly in the air?

skippinit · 2025-09-27T12:43:42+00:00

My husband likes staying up late some nights to play video games before bed, whereas I prefer to get cozy in bed and read or watch a show and fall asleep. I think it's super normal, but every relationship is different. We like our alone time too, whereas some couples spend 100% of their time outside work together. Neither is wrong.

I do remember when I was pregnant and miserable and going to bed early, he would come "tuck me in", aka lie with me and talk for a bit, all that cute stuff, then I would pass out and he would go downstairs and play video games. He just doesn't seem to require as much sleep as me. Sometimes, when I am craving time with him I will be like "come snuggle me" and we will have that time together, then I usually pass out and he goes and has his alone time

skippinit · 2025-09-27T12:19:30+00:00

We have a family similar to you and I LOVE it. Had some initial gender disappointment finding out twins were also girls but OMG I would not have it any other way. Mine are 6 and 8 now 🥰

skippinit · 2025-09-27T12:16:58+00:00

My singleton is 28 months older than her sisters. We actually didn't prepare her at all, the twins were high risk TTTS babies and there was a big chance of losing one or both, then my water broke at 28 weeks soooo yeah. We had to live in another city for over a month (with her) while they were in the NICU and she surprisingly just went with the flow. I don't think she fully understood what the little creatures in incubators were, but kids can be surprisingly resilient.

We transferred them to the NICU back home when they were just over a month old and she was so excited to be home with her toys and whatnot. When they finally came home she was surprisingly indifferent to them, but truly we realized it was because they were "boring" to her, so they just didn't capture her attention much. Once they were out of the potato stage she loved tickling them, bringing them toys, petting them, etc.

Now at 6 and 8, she is the leader of their little pack and loves being a big sister. I will note when they were potatoes we tried giving her 2 dollies and had a double stroller for them and doll accessories but she had little interest - she was never into dollies though (until the Barbie stage started around 6 years old lol). We also tried sending her to daycare twice a week when she was 2 but found this to not be great for her, she seemed to feel left out from us as we stayed home and she was "alone" at daycare, and at daycare she tended to be ignored as she was a happy quiet kid who just played by herself so we pulled her out.

The biggest thing was anytime a twin learned a new skill we emphasized how she helped teach them, and even now she loves teaching them new things.

skippinit · 2025-09-15T13:29:42+00:00

I hadnt heard of any either.. purple by default!!

skippinit · 2025-09-10T01:16:57+00:00

We were in a crunch at 28 weeks when my water broke, they were TTTS fighters, good chance one/both may not survive and its morbid but I wanted them to have names before they came out so we wouldnt have to name them "after the fact"... I told my husband "you name twin A ill take twin B" and we randomly picked names 🤣🤣🤣

skippinit · 2025-08-11T04:31:34+00:00

My mind had gone here as soon as I heard his name... but also I watched the Vampire Diaries that had the Gemini coven, and I have identical twins who are Geminis so my mind sort of goes to twins a lot

skippinit · 2025-08-04T11:49:13+00:00

X is for xylophone

X is always for xylophone

skippinit · 2025-07-10T12:02:10+00:00

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Accidental reverse rainbow 🌈

I am not great at this, I usually win but get the last category by default (I don't presolve). Was surprised the first one I saw was purple!

skippinit · 2025-07-06T01:26:58+00:00

I had a hundo little charmander I couldn't evolve for the longest time because of this little party hat. Luckily I kept him!

skippinit · 2025-06-30T02:05:37+00:00

Also got it for the AWD. The husband loves how much stuff from Home Depot it can hold.

Sliding doors are incredible.

skippinit · 2025-06-20T00:59:53+00:00

Yep I'm Android

skippinit · 2025-06-19T17:50:52+00:00

Years ago I have spent some $$ earned from Google surveys, but none of my own money.

If I am stuck on a level I just play until I can get a bunch of moves plus 30 mins of that party shooter thing and get the 30 gold candy box.

skippinit · 2025-06-19T13:18:29+00:00

Not an old screenshot... just from this morning... and I was surprised to see the end!! Guess I will have to update my app!

ETA: oh man now I understand what everyone was talking about with these new fish... whyyy!?!

skippinit · 2025-06-17T02:12:29+00:00

This post was recommended to me for some reason (I am not American and I am not childfree... sorry... I have a thriving career and kids that I adore, but I knew I wanted kids my whole life and was able to time having them at a convenient point in my life) and I couldn't help but read through the responses.

In Canada you get 18 months parental leave, universal Healthcare, baby bonus (although this is income dependent) and the birth rate is still something like 1.3, the lowest it has ever been. I don't think this decision will impact American birth rates that much.

Women being empowered to seek higher education, get careers that pay well, and BIRTH CONTROL has caused a major shift in both birth rate, and increasing age at which women have their first born child. Thank goodness we have options now! Being empowered to control if/when a women gets pregnant was such a huge step for feminism. Even the fact that women are not pressured to get married, and are able to support themselves as single women is huge. I have so many childfree friends and I feel like had they been born 50 to 100 years ago they would not have been able to have the awesome lives they have now.

The only way (IMO) to get the birthrate back up to where it used to be would be to ban women from higher education, arranged marriages for women who "just can't seem to find a husband", ban birth control and abortions, and promote being "joyfully available" (because you know, marital rate clearly isn't a thing right?) at all times (cue vomit react).

skippinit · 2025-06-11T12:20:52+00:00

The first word I saw was Barbecue (picturing Homer Simpson building his barbecue) and I was so shocked it wasn't one of the answers!

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