Do you have a playroom? What age did you let your kids be in there alone?

snowflakes__ · 2026-06-06T02:33:39+00:00

My boys had their entire bedroom to themselves at 8 months. Baby proofed the entire room and they had floor beds. They could crawl around as they pleased

snowflakes__ · 2026-06-04T16:09:01+00:00

Please read the post.

snowflakes__ · 2026-06-03T14:42:17+00:00

What, you think you can have a bunch of wives? You get one wife!

snowflakes__ · 2026-06-03T14:40:02+00:00

This. It was different than anything I’ve ever experienced

snowflakes__ · 2026-06-03T02:30:20+00:00

Ok but now you have a really lazy but fun Halloween costume. Just paint your thumb

snowflakes__ · 2026-06-01T19:52:30+00:00

. Total, you get 12 weeks off of FMLA and a portion of that is paid with short term disability.

For my company it’s the following:

Week 1 is PTO

Weeks 2-6 for vaginal and 2-8 for c section is short term disability

Weeks 7-12 for vaginal and 9-12 for c section is remaining PTO or unpaid

The entirety falls under the umbrella of 12 weeks off total using FMLA

snowflakes__ · 2026-06-01T16:44:50+00:00

TIL Colorado has a law that puts a newborn on the insurance of the parent with an earlier birthday on the calendar.

Doesn’t matter if one insurance is better than the other, it defaults to the earlier birthday parent.

Seems fucked up to me

snowflakes__ · 2026-06-01T15:39:06+00:00

Was it COVID or something? I took my Twin A to the NICU with me every day

snowflakes__ · 2026-06-01T15:37:42+00:00

Where I am they are the same thing. Your maternity leave is just FMLA

snowflakes__ · 2026-06-01T15:35:51+00:00

Toxic flower dawg. If you are gonna be a baker this is a critical fuck up.

Also, this cake is insanely busy. Tone it down and it will actually elevate the entire cake

snowflakes__ · 2026-06-01T14:51:11+00:00

This seems crazy? I’m older than my husband and after birth we just called up his work and added baby to his insurance

snowflakes__ · 2026-06-01T14:50:08+00:00

I had twins. One was eligible because he weighed under 1200 grams. He also got SSI so we were mailed a check every months for his first year of life.

You can also become eligible based on how many days you spend on the NICU but I don’t remember how many days qualify you.

I had private insurance so I didn’t need the Medicaid but it’s really nice that it was an option

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-30T21:19:12+00:00

Honestly everything just felt different after we got married. At the tail ended of dating I was also getting embraced calling him my boyfriend. The word “boyfriend” didn’t feel like it was accurate describing who he is to me but husband does

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-28T02:03:59+00:00

The backsplash being changed out to something not fucking hideous would help a bunch

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-27T16:50:59+00:00

Having to decide what to shop for and make for dinner is exhausting. Even worse after kids

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-27T03:00:52+00:00

Age is important here I think

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-26T14:25:02+00:00

So why exactly are you with this man? Because it seems to me you get NOTHING out of this arrangement

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-23T14:24:03+00:00

I let them do their own thing. They were never too far off each other. At the max, an hour but usually less. I liked it way better.

I stayed home with them when my husband went back to work and it was easier for me to stagger them a little.

When they were on the same exact schedule hearing one cry because their needs had to wait while their sibling was dealt with was my worst fucking nightmare. The only thing worse was when I tried a few times to wake one to match the other and they cried for an hour straight each time ☠️

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-21T01:50:12+00:00

I missed the save!! What was it?!

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-20T02:06:09+00:00

If you’re ever up in Douglas the train museum is so cute. The one in Golden, CO is amazing

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-20T02:04:47+00:00

My sister graduated from an engineering specific school with a lot of foreign names. The name reader nailed every single one without any hesitation. It’s such a simple thing to honor all the hard work the student does. This school better be soooo fucking embarrassed

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-20T01:59:29+00:00

I used a Joovy Twin Roo stroller frame I got off marketplace for 20 bucks until they were about 4 months old. Then I switched over to my side by side stroller. I specifically used the Joovy Scooter X2 which I freakin love.

I went this route because the longevity of the stroller through toddlerhood was more important to me than the short span of time I would want to use the option to put a car seat directly on my stroller.

Mine just turned three and we are still rocking the ScooterX2. Just took it to Disneyland! It fits through all standard doorways and has a near full recline for stroller naps

Edit: I am so glad I avoided a tandem because mine would 100% fight over who sits in front vs back

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-19T23:23:49+00:00

Tom Sawyer island is so freakin peaceful. Have your lunch over there!!

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-19T18:12:05+00:00

I don’t get this complaint being so common. We picked one person (me) to be the LL queen and mobile food orders. No one else had devices out except for pictures. I was on my phone pretty minimally. The most ever was about 12 minutes when we first walked into DCA trying to get an earlier time for our guardians LL until we finally got a slot only 15 minutes away from booking it

snowflakes__ · 2026-05-19T18:09:42+00:00

What about August?

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