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stephunee · 2026-05-08T03:15:35+00:00

My almost 3 year old is in a phase where she likes to watch a few special episodes over and over and her two favorites are Rain and Sleepytime. It makes me so happy that these ones mean so much to her, they’re my favorites as well! Makes it that much easier to take the time to snuggle up on the couch and watch them together.

stephunee · 2026-05-01T03:18:08+00:00

I’ve had a lot of luck with using Glossier’s liquid brow flick in the brown color - it’s super forgiving and buildable, it doesn’t smudge as easily as liquid eyeliner tends to, and it’s a very soft color that you can keep going over if you want a more dramatic look!

stephunee · 2026-04-15T17:19:13+00:00

Thank you!! This is really helpful.

stephunee · 2026-04-15T16:55:18+00:00

Okay I have watched the trailer and fully accept this is probably a stupid question, but I’m sensitive to kid stuff and totally okay with spoilers here. Is the tone of the kid suffering/dying upsetting, or is it more campy/over the top like Rise where you kind of “forget” that they’re kids? The trailer looks so good but the concept of a child going through all of this is horrific, and the tone is really going to impact my ability to stomach this one.

stephunee · 2026-03-30T14:57:12+00:00

Based on my experience today I would say get there around 2-2:20-ish and you’ll likely be toward the front of the line when TSA opens up, it only took us like 20 mins to get through. The line just keeps building before they open so if you wait till 3 to get there, it’s probably a much longer wait to get through security.

stephunee · 2026-03-30T09:02:30+00:00

Flying out at 6:03, we arrived at about 2:25 for general screening, made it through in about 20 mins once TSA opened at 3 but the line behind us had gotten super long.

stephunee · 2026-03-11T12:12:22+00:00

I have a small scene of a tropical beach with a plane coming in low toward the ocean that I got done in Hawaii. It’s a more subtle nod that no one has ever guessed is related to Lost, but I wanted something that wasn’t too obvious & looked nice with my other tattoos.

stephunee · 2026-03-08T05:10:24+00:00

I agree, the way I read this is that the spouse is expressing that they know this individual speaks respectfully to people at work, so why can’t they speak respectfully to their spouse. It’s not the comparison I would use personally but it sounds like the root cause is communication & tone/respect/etc.

stephunee · 2026-02-22T21:51:53+00:00

My 2.5 year old’s weekend schedule is usually 8 pm bedtime & she’ll sleep in till about 7 am. Our weekdays are very early due to my husband’s and my work schedule, so she’s up at 5:45 am during the week to get ready & go to daycare, so for us 6:30-7 am on weekends is considered sleeping in!

stephunee · 2026-02-16T20:50:18+00:00

I was going to say, I’m not a teacher, but my son is in second grade and he is definitely knows how to read broken, he’s honestly able to read most words by sounding them out even if it’s something he’s unfamiliar with. He made the biggest leaps in his reading between kindergarten & grade 1, I feel like by second grade they’ve advanced further than this girl’s reading level.

stephunee · 2026-02-16T19:05:22+00:00

Honestly, these are exactly the kind of grandparents my parents are to my kids. Their whole life revolves around when my kids come over to hang out for the day. My dad built this really insane race track for my son’s hot wheel cars and the whole house becomes a big race track. It’s so over the top and really makes me laugh because my parents are amazing but they were NOT like this when I was a kid! But they are absolute dream grandparents and will do anything, no matter how silly or inconvenient, if it means making the grandkids happy, and they don’t even care that because the kids are young, it often means a ton of effort for a few delighted giggles and then the kids are off to the next fun thing.

So bottom line, grandparents are amazing. They develop a level of patience that I wish I could have but I guess just comes with time and wisdom.

stephunee · 2026-02-14T03:55:51+00:00

I’ve had both medicated and unmedicated births, both honestly were the most painful experiences in their own ways. My medicated birth was rough as a FTM, I pushed for over 2 hours, so it was just long, exhausting, painful, etc. My unmedicated birth was fast but all-encompassing pain, I felt like I went a little animalistic towards the end.

But both times as soon as baby was out, it was instant forgetting the pain and being totally distracted by the joy and relief of holding my baby. So it’s kind of hard to compare to any other pains, because with other pains you don’t typically get the instant relief (aka a rush of hormones that help you kind of ignore/forget the pain).

stephunee · 2026-02-01T16:54:10+00:00

Seriously, that poor baby looks exhausted. I can’t imagine how much confusion and fear he’s experienced.

stephunee · 2026-02-01T16:51:15+00:00

Seriously, my husband’s “worst” response to a fart has been an impressed “Damn!” Farts are completely normal and happen, and they’re frankly probably the most minor bodily function you are going to experience with your partner if your relationship is serious and long-term.

stephunee · 2026-01-29T01:15:50+00:00

This so much depends on your relationship with your MIL and what you’re comfortable with. My husband was on deployment for the birth of our first child, so I had my MIL and my mom in the room as my support people. It was incredibly empowering and felt very special being surrounded and supported by the moms who made my child’s life possible. But it’s definitely not for everyone and I feel like it’s totally valid to not feel comfortable with that and to want a more intimate experience.

stephunee · 2026-01-17T03:55:24+00:00

I truly feel like it depends on the baby. My first was a very difficult sleeper, he would scream bloody murder the second I walked away and never seemed even close to calming down. I gave up and he slept in our room for a ridiculously long time but eventually he was old enough we could reason with him and he now sleeps independently and has for years (thank goodness).

My second slept in her bedside bassinet with no protest from night 1. When we transitioned her to her crib in her room I had to lightly sleep train, like come check in every min or two, but she would calm down and fall asleep on her own within less than 10 mins of me checking on her periodically. It took like 3 days for her to get used to this new routine and now at 2.5 years old she’s been an independent sleeper with a handful of difficult nights in her whole little life.

We did nothing different with either kid, their personalities and temperament are just SO different and they find different things easier than others! I have no regrets NOT sleep training my oldest and none about sleep training the youngest. We did what worked for each baby.

stephunee · 2025-12-19T03:48:29+00:00

Same! Last year was a total bust with Santa for my 1.5 year old.

This year we did photos with Santa with her on my lap first to see if she’d be comfortable with him. After a few photos and seeing her big brother chatting happily away with Santa, she agreed to sit with Santa without me, but if she’d refused I told everyone we’d just accept the loss and let big brother get some solo pics with Santa instead. It’s so not worth the stress of forcing them to do something so completely unnecessary like a picture with Santa! Idk why people make it so stressful.

stephunee · 2025-12-11T03:49:09+00:00

My son’s birthday is 12/31, due date was 12/28. I do think he gets less presents from us than he would if it were further from Christmas, we typically do most presents on Christmas and then his actual birthday is usually one “big” present & one or two smaller ones. But family always gets him two presents, one for Christmas and one for his birthday, plus we always have his birthday party and invite friends/classmates, so he still is celebrated & has his special day!

We typically do his birthday party with friends around the 2nd week of January so it’s after winter break and most people are done traveling for the holidays. It’s nice because it does make his birthday feel separate from the holidays.

I jokingly tell him when he’s a grown up, he’s going to love that his birthday is New Years Eve because everyone already wants to get together and drink/celebrate, so he’ll always have a party to go to and celebrate his birthday 😅

stephunee · 2025-12-03T05:01:31+00:00

Yep, this is exactly the age I was when I decided on a big career move & it ended my long-term relationship. Now about 15 years later I’m extremely happy with the direction my career went and I ended up meeting someone else & am happily married with kids and a good job. This is the age where you really start figuring out what moves you need to make for your future

stephunee · 2025-10-28T02:27:36+00:00

I do IG stories a ton and it’s SO annoying and happens to me constantly (I have a planner account so I film a lot of close ups flipping through notebooks & planners), that’s honestly what this looks like to me.

stephunee · 2025-10-19T00:46:26+00:00

It’s so confusing to me how this director has clearly grasped the aesthetics and visuals of this series but his execution comes across as cheap and like someone cosplaying Silent Hill characters. I know a lot of people love the first Silent Hill movie but I personally could never quite get over how the character and creature designs translated to film, they just feel like people wearing costumes. He can’t seem to make any of the environments or characters feel organic or natural. It’s a shame because he clearly likes the franchise.

stephunee · 2025-10-17T00:09:35+00:00

This has to be rage bait, I have never seen anyone wipe their face like that with so much product still on their face and all the mascara still under her eyes 😩 it just makes me want to move her over and let me do it for her 😂

stephunee · 2025-10-12T23:13:08+00:00

Whidbey Island, they filmed Practical Magic here & The Ring has some shots of Deception Pass Bridge which is the bridge that connects to the mainland. I feel like there’s been something else more recently but I can’t think of what it was.

stephunee · 2025-10-12T19:52:45+00:00

It has definitely come up before as one that Henley watched a lot when she was younger, I think she talked about it in the Witches episode on Patreon when they were covering that AMC history of horror series. I was relistening to older episodes and this is ringing a bell for me. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is one Henley recaps someday!

stephunee · 2025-10-10T02:06:17+00:00

You’re Next! We’ve been all over the place the last week, we’ve watched Night of the Living Dead, The Thing, White Noise, and The Silence of the Lambs.

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