I ended up doing it on the 16 month old this weekend. It was literally like a fountain of snot that came pouring out. He hated it and screamed his head off but he was calm within 10 minutes in a way that he hadn’t been in days. I wish he was as calm as this baby.

I’m all about the pseudoephedrine. Every time I started to feel a cold coming on this season I took a dose or two and some generic honey cough drops and I never got sick enough to miss work or feel truly miserable. I even took it in very small doses when I was breastfeeding even though it’s good at drying EVERYTHING…

I’ve heard good things about that saline rinse. I really want to use it on the toddler but I’m afraid they’ll feel like I’m drowning them. But something has to be better than the combination of saline spray, nose frida, and constantly wiping snot off their upper lip.

I don’t know, i’ve had this stuff at farmer’s markets and now they have it at my local Winco. https://www.thehummusguy.com/

My obgyn does the same thing. Definitely makes me feel more comfortable.

I don’t know if I remember all my “rules” for baby names but I’ll try:

My mom was super permissive, she took me to see Temple of Doom when I was 4 and my first R-rated movie was Broadcast News when I was 8. I was the English Patient and The Piano with her in the theatre. But for some reason, she didn’t want me to watch “Prime Suspect” on PBS Mystery.

My mom used to teach “Wizard of Earthsea” to freshmen or sophomores. She fell in love with the whole Earthsea ‘trilogy’ but despised every attempt at movie adaptation.

Do they pronounce Willamette correctly in the movies? I listened to the audiobook and the butchering of the word almost made me give up. It’s Willamette, damn it.

yeah, no. The kozii bottle warmer is pretty amazing (though you have to be diligent about keeping it clean). https://www.amazon.com/Kiinde-Kozii-Bottle-Warmer-Breast/dp/B005G3QSF2

I love group training classes but I’m not surprised that they underpay the instructors.

That’s impressive. Do you have kids? It’s the daycare expenses that really keep us from maxing out anything. Even with a relatively inexpensive daycare I’m paying about $19K/year for the two kids combined.

I love win+arrow to automatically move the window around. win+left arrow pushes it to the left half of monitor. win+up makes it full screen. win+down minimizes.

I love Shift-F3. Similarly, I like using F4 in Excel to rotate through all the absolute reference options in a cell.

Thank you for writing this. I definitely fell into the baby blues the first two weeks, more so with baby #1 than baby #2. I remember writing an e-mail to my mom when she was 6 days old about what a failure I was and how I’d made a terrible mistake. She was up every two hours to nurse and I felt like I needed to clean…

I disagree, we’ve had fraud three times on our chase checking and I’ve been the one to find it each time. Close account, reopen new account, do it again two years later.

I wonder how “rural” is “rural.” Like, I grew up in a small town (6,000 people) and it was very agricultural but it was also only about an hour from a major city and another larger city. I think the early sex is just part of the lack of things to do and lack of motivation to think bigger. They aren’t going to college…

I got one for Christmas too! I had put it on my amazon wish list just to keep track of it and my mom up and bought it for me. :) I think we’ll replace our old George Foreman with it.

I love Winco! Ours is walkable from our house, if you count 1.2 miles.

but I’m not even sure anymore what counts as an itemized deduction or what the limit changed to. The bill was like a moving target, hard to keep track of. I think we’ll have our $10K in SALT and another $8K+ in mortgage interest but I don’t think there’s anything else that would put us over $24K. so I guess we’ll be…