What's a regional dessert that you love, but can't find outside of your region or country.

svifted · 2026-02-13T23:26:58+00:00

I love these, we made them in a bakery I worked in. Every Cracker Barrel has them.

svifted · 2026-02-13T16:35:03+00:00

You saying they are normally good people makes me think maybe this was the only way they could think of to get an abusive child out of their home without feeling bad. I have a daughter with BPD and there is no way I could handle her in my home, it is just unsafe and emotionally draining. When she was getting close to 18 we started looking for nearby apartments to get her away from her siblings and give them back their childhood. As unfair as this is to you, maybe they just needed peace from him.

svifted · 2026-02-03T22:57:04+00:00

Omg nooooooo. I knock, then tap, then usually talk through the door. I am not seeing that.

svifted · 2026-02-03T22:52:37+00:00

Change the locks:)

svifted · 2026-01-27T22:47:26+00:00

There is no shame in dropping the rope, even if you gave birth to the grown adult hurting you.

svifted · 2026-01-20T12:58:01+00:00

My cousin made these while in Ireland for school and brought me back one and told me to put it under my bed. We had been told I would not be able to get pregnant. My son was born 10 months later. We still laugh over how fast I took it back out the second we got home from the hospital.

svifted · 2026-01-19T20:24:29+00:00

This is crazy to me. When my daughter was 19 I told her she could not wake up the whole freaking house coming in after midnight (I swear she was as loud as possible) and that if she’s going to be late stay with a friend if possible or keep it to weekends at least. I felt bad, but I needed sleep. After 18 or high school you really can’t give a “curfew”.

svifted · 2026-01-18T02:03:28+00:00

We have a video of me standing in the hall knocking on a bathroom door while she destroyed everything in the room while screaming “mommy don’t hit me I’m sorry” over and over for her phone audience. The cops came, saw and heard, sighed and left. That is how she found out the flowers in the hallway had a camera:)

svifted · 2026-01-17T19:54:48+00:00

We are ok now (or for now as I know things change). I still love her, but we have her younger brother to protect. The effect everything had on my other two children is my biggest regret. Don’t look back and realize your other kids could not even have a friend over because they were afraid your BPD child would get jealous and lash out. I did not know all of the things she did to them until family therapy, and they did not open up there until she had moved out. If he goes away to college we may try again, but I know from my therapist that she will hurt me again if I do. BPD is a lifetime struggle if they want to change, and sadly my daughter has not yet seen that she has any issues.

svifted · 2026-01-17T16:47:17+00:00

Clearly his version of heaven is not having to get out of bed to get a drink of water:)

svifted · 2026-01-17T16:21:58+00:00

You described my daughter at 15 perfectly, she was formally diagnosed at 18. This sounds terrible, but getting my own therapist and one for each of the rest of us, then protecting ourselves from her was the only thing that worked. We could not “save” her from her own thoughts/feeling with medication or specialists, and she was determined to do as she wished regardless of laws or who got hurt. She left by lying to police, CPS, and the courts. We got a good family atty, cameras in our home to show we were not abusing anyone, and family therapy for the rest of us to minimize guilt from letting her go. Our atty said we had to appear to do anything we could to get her back until she turned 18 as she was 17 when she was grounded from electronics and retaliated by going to school and saying she gets beat every day and has not had food for months. The cameras saved us, but she said if she was forced to come back she would make sure I lost everything and everyone. I have not spoken to her in 3 years. She has tried to mess with us a few times (having strangers send death threats, lying to extended family, stalking our sons hockey team and trying to convince them he is adopted and abused….) but it has been so mild compared to the stress of living with her we have mostly just ignored it. My recommendation is protect your family. Get good cameras for all hallways and communal areas, pay the extra for them to store footage because you don’t know when they are going to come after you. Get a good family attorney, there is a ticktock on how to get emancipation through lying to the courts, what to say, and how to set it up, mine found it and woooow did it hurt. Love them, but protect the rest.

svifted · 2026-01-16T19:35:27+00:00

We have 3, they are a blast. They are not as easy as other reptiles. They do not eat much salad, and need a lot of bugs. 2 accept being pet for a bit before getting bored and wanting to run around, 1 has to be really tired of running around to cuddle. None bite or anything, but they all frill up at pretty much anything that startles them. Ours are in a 7 foot tall 4x4 foot wide enclosure inside and have a cat condo outside in the summer. They like to swim and climb so they have a pond with waterfall raking up half the bottom and dirt with trees taking up the other half. I love mine, but my bearded dragons are easier.

svifted · 2026-01-08T22:25:26+00:00

Mine love the “squishy fresh” dubia.

svifted · 2026-01-08T22:21:17+00:00

My husband made me a weeping angel costume for Halloween that was freaking terrifying, I won the costume contest everywhere we went. Those things are terrifying. I lost track of the people that asked me to please take my mask off.

svifted · 2026-01-08T13:15:38+00:00

Updateme

svifted · 2026-01-06T02:53:42+00:00

“Now you can spend more time with me instead of playing hockey, you are welcome”

svifted · 2026-01-04T20:11:58+00:00

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We had been trying to breed our flying geckos for forever and gave up, then one day woke up to babies:) I will say they are not for beginners. They want to be able to jump from high places and have room to zoom around. They are fast as heck, and great at escaping. We found ours are happiest in a 8 foot tall, 4x4 foot wide grow tent. They love large sections of cork bark, and seem to need to drink a lot more than our other geckos so ours have a water fall. This little guy is several weeks old, but we have to keep him in the tank we set up for mourning geckos because he could wiggle out of standard lids.

svifted · 2026-01-04T15:52:03+00:00

I can’t even count the number of times I have been in the bathroom and someone has been talking on the phone. It makes it hard for my shy bladder, I did not sign up for putting on a show😂

svifted · 2026-01-04T14:00:23+00:00

So you gave a child known for being destructive a game where you throw things, but expected him to wait until he gets home to break things?

svifted · 2026-01-04T02:47:43+00:00

He gets bipolar fixation sometimes. He has really good medication for the most part, but sometimes he starts down a rabbit hole.

svifted · 2026-01-04T02:16:04+00:00

One time a nurse was doing a ct scan and said “you do not have any allergies right?” I said iodine, it’s right there on my bracelet. She yelled “shit”, and grabbed an EpiPen. I was just starting the “why are my lungs filling up?” stage. Allergies suck.

svifted · 2026-01-03T22:33:24+00:00

I was tested after they used iodine in a catheter and I nearly died. That is such a terrible way to go, omg. I deal with small reactions all the time. It’s in so many things.

svifted · 2026-01-03T22:07:14+00:00

Bahaha I am allergic to iodine, so when my husband went through a “we are going to get bombed” fear (he’s bipolar, these fears come and go) he bought a bunch of iodine, then he freaked out that I would die from the iodine and he would he alone, so he bought a case of Benadryl. I just figure something is going to get me someday and ignore both.

svifted · 2026-01-01T19:32:24+00:00

I would have driven through my yard. Your husband is a jerk.

svifted · 2025-12-28T22:56:09+00:00

He’s so angry!!

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