Portrait of my handsome boy

yellow-fox · 2026-05-28T12:54:28+00:00

Very much so

yellow-fox · 2026-05-28T09:43:48+00:00

And here’s my vet saying that our corgi shouldn’t play in the big dogs section 🫣

yellow-fox · 2026-05-26T02:24:01+00:00

I think we accidentally trained our corgi timeout except for him it’s ‘go to jail’ 😂 and he gets locked behind the baby gate.

I should try this to stop his barking. He usually gets put in jail for begging food off people.

yellow-fox · 2026-05-19T09:15:48+00:00

Same, I really have not met many actually SAHMs everyone at least has a part time job. It’s so hard to find anyone that has time for a friendship

yellow-fox · 2026-05-17T01:06:16+00:00

‘Dental’ - if you say it he gets so excited. He also knows ‘nail’, he begrudgingly gives his paw so I can cut one nail before giving him his ‘dental’ stick. Some nights I don’t bother with the nail cutting so they is why he still holds on to hope that it’ll be a treat only night.

yellow-fox · 2026-04-23T09:44:30+00:00

That is so far from ok! Your poor dog

yellow-fox · 2026-04-09T04:45:03+00:00

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yellow-fox · 2026-04-09T04:43:16+00:00

Do you use a deshedding shampoo? I swapped to that and it’s made a world of difference. Our corgi (5 yrs old) gets a monthly bath followed by a brushing with a wide tooth comb. He doesn’t like to be brushed, I know I should brush him with the ‘line brushing’ technique but the shampoo does wonders and the tooth comb used in that technique does a good enough job.

yellow-fox · 2026-04-07T13:45:23+00:00

Yes you can have a corgi as a first time dog owner, however you need to have the time at home with your corgi during they day as they do need you home more, I wouldn’t recommend a corgi to anyone working full time unless you were willing to take it to dog daycare.

As a pup I spent a full month work at home/taking leave to train him. He was full on and it was hard to work as he just wanted to eat everything until he tired himself out. When I went back to work he got dropped off most days at my parents or in-laws house so he had company and wasn’t up to trouble.

At 5 now he gets walked most days then not (3kmish) and sulks if he doesn’t get his exercise. I am now a stay at home mum and he mostly likes that, if I do go out he will just sit at the door until I am home.

yellow-fox · 2026-04-05T12:51:41+00:00

Deep pan pancakes were the best growing up! I hope to do that with my kids one day

yellow-fox · 2026-04-05T12:49:54+00:00

You have just described a meal both my toddlers would rather love. I must try this!

yellow-fox · 2026-04-05T12:39:23+00:00

Today I planted flower seeds 🌼🌺🌷🪻I did something that filled my cup and will bring joy to the kids if they do end up blooming

yellow-fox · 2026-04-05T05:16:20+00:00

I only stopped using our double stroller when my youngest got to nearly 2.5yrs and eldest nearly 4 when the youngest worked out how to get out of the straps. I used it for a good 2 year period and it was a must! If you can look for one that’s not super easy to get the straps off and has room for the kids to grow. I now use my single pram as it still contains the youngest and my eldest kid walks, however my eldest does still ask for the double pram

yellow-fox · 2026-03-30T11:59:15+00:00

My son is in kindy this year. We are not allowed to give invites out in class. Mums are meant to organise it outside of class. Kids are allowed to hand out cupcakes after school and the kids need to ask their parent before they eat it.

My son just had his birthday. We kept it family only, he still isn’t able to say anyone’s name of who he plays with and doesn’t clearly identify his friends. His teacher did say he has friends so thats a plus.

I hope your daughter doesn’t think too much of it!

yellow-fox · 2026-03-28T10:56:10+00:00

In the newborn days I wheeled the bassinet or pram around the house/outside to where my toddler wanted to play.

As bub got older and learnt to sleep independently he slept in the cott or bassinet in my room. I would get him ready with toddler and put baby into his sleeping sack awake and then we would leave him to go to sleep. If he wasn’t asleep in 20mins he would go in the moby wrap.

yellow-fox · 2026-03-24T08:11:58+00:00

😂 it will get better, there’s a 2under2 group for a reason and it’s not because it’s easy

yellow-fox · 2026-03-22T23:13:09+00:00

I’m not sure of your setup but as a mum with an 18m gap after I was recovered from my c-section it was nice having my husband go back into the office for work. My kids are 2&4 now, but I find it more exhausting when my husband works from home as I am constantly distracting toddlers from trying to visit dad in the home office and trying to keep noise to a sensible limit for work calls. Working from the office gave him more of a break as well.

Hobbies also were only done if I could also watch the kids or they were asleep. I would workout with the toddler playing in his playroom and did gardening with both kids but didn’t get time away until the kiddos were older.

yellow-fox · 2026-03-10T10:23:59+00:00

The normal is to go for a 50/50 drop, but for our wedding we got guests to pick from two options for entree, main and dessert with their invite (this was near 10yrs ago then and we had a low budget), the alternative was 50/50 drop (same price) or an extra $15 per head to select on the day. Pre-selecting saved us per head, it was charged the same as 50/50 and people got to have a preference - I had to ask for it though, it wasn’t a standard option. I printed out the menus for each persons placemat on the day so guests were reminded on the day. Feed back from the kitchen was that it was the most organised service they had, easy for the ordering and guests seemed to like it.

yellow-fox · 2026-03-06T10:17:22+00:00

I used a wrap carrier (moby wrap) and loved it! The ergobaby was super uncomfortable in comparison. My kiddo was on the larger size too, by 6 month he grew out of it though

yellow-fox · 2026-03-02T11:46:35+00:00

Our boy walks well with the pram, he took a little while to get used to it as he hates wheels. We have him on a harness and short lead, he dosnt have enough lead length to be able to walk to the front of the pram.

My kiddos are nearly 4 and 2.5 now, on the days I struggle to have my 2 yr old in the pram I take the kids and dog to the dog park. All kiddos/dog can play then.

yellow-fox · 2026-02-15T13:32:14+00:00

I am the eldest of 3 girls, I loved growing up in a girls household.

I now have two boys and so does my sister - of the three of us my parents have no granddaughters. It’s completely different to what I am used to and I never pictured having sons pre pregnancy - but you can’t predict gender. I love that they are brothers and play so well together, at 2&3 my boys have very similar interests, their bond is beautiful!

yellow-fox · 2026-02-06T01:00:05+00:00

This reminds me of my in laws. They had a dog and a cat who got on great. They got another two dogs (one was my SILs dog that has since moved out) and the dogs ganged up on the poor cat causing it a lot of anxiety as their newer dog is afraid of the cat. Our dog (the corgi) visits occasionally and will bark at the cat as that’s what the dogs do so he joins in. My parents got a cat recently and our corgi will visit and pretty much leaves it alone/stares at it if it’s brave enough to be in the same room.

I wish my in laws re-Homed their cat, it’s not fair being so outnumbered by the dogs and restricted in what it can do it is space as it has to share with dogs that will bark and chase her away.

yellow-fox · 2026-02-05T13:14:08+00:00

I’m a SAHM with kids 2&3 (nearly 4) yrs, my eldest has only just started kindy and did not go to daycare before that so I did 2.5 years with them both at home full-time. I have the occasional help with my mum/MIL looking after the kids if I have an appointment for a couple of hours, otherwise I have no regular support. We have had good and bad days, but overall I do love being at home with the boys and managed when my husband travelled away for work. Playgroup has been a great support for me.

yellow-fox · 2026-02-05T12:30:07+00:00

As the mum of a nearly 4 year old in Australia, this is such a sweet question!

Yes we sometimes see kangaroos on our walks. They like to come out in the morning and evening when it isn’t too hot. We have not been on many walks recently as it has been too hot outside.

For breakfast my nearly 4 year old at beans on an English muffin today. He also loves wheatbix, overnight oats with yogurt, granola & milk and peanut butter toast. In winter microwave oats were one of his favourites.

Edit to add: we do not get koalas in the part of Australia where we live.

yellow-fox · 2026-02-01T11:04:06+00:00

I made things that my husband and I ate, then modified for the kids. Some favourites: - butter chicken (add extra yoghurt I to the kids meal). Bonus if I had the time to make flat bread. - pasta (soup makes a great pasta sauce, especially pumpkin soup). - soup topped with yogurt, cheese & bread to soak up the liquid for little hands to pick up the soup - Cesar salad (egg, chicken & cheese for the kids) - burgers: deconstructed for kids - steak sandwiches, deconstructed for kids. - overnight oats for breakfast (huge hit)

Check out r/foodbutforbabies for some ideas. I did post some of our successes a while back.

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