Strange things started happening to me after my daughter was born as well - not figures like you describe, but odd things happening with lights mostly, and only while I was nursing the baby or pumping. Both at my apartment and at work in the mothers’ room, which also made me think it was possibly a family member since…

This needs more stars - it’s one of the scariest things I have ever heard in my *life*.

Me too. In fact I actually had to go check my Goodreads to ascertain that I had in fact read it - the broad strokes of the plot sounded familiar but I remember basically no details.

I just added pretty much this whole shelf to my want-to-read list - thank you!

Yes! Why is the only canned sparkling water they sell Spindrift?! I am sure it is delicious but I am not spending $1 per can.

They’ve had a line at Kohl’s for a while now!

If anything I would think that would weaken her claim that it’s fair use - like, if the song minus the sample already existed on its own, and she just tacked the sample on for the video, how is that transformative of the sample?

That’s so funny - I was also raised Catholic and although our church didn’t do anything along those lines, my parents were super sensitive about any sort of sexual content. TV shows that were banned at various times in our household for being “raunchy” (in my mom’s words) included Friends and Family Matters. We also…

They actually do have an online presence now! www.pluggedin.com. It’s pretty entertaining. No idea if they did back then though.

When I was newly out of college I worked at the front desk of a company that did business with Focus on the Family - tech support type stuff, not related to their mission in any way. Every month like clockwork, literally dozens of copies of Brio and its companion publications would appear in our mail bins and we would…

I did more or less the same, and it is honestly the best decision I have ever made both for my family/home life and my own personal well-being.

I think it’s neither bad nor abnormal! I got off the ladder and gave up my full-time salaried position to contract remotely for the same company about five months ago. I still work 40 hours most weeks but I don’t have to, and I no longer have to deal with a shitty commute or all the miscellaneous expenses that go…

I mean, we had a family friend who had met her husband in the same way and it was treated as a meet-cute. Like, oh, haha, how romantic that he saw her in her car and just had to pull her over to meet her! So at the time I thought of it as me just being mistaken for someone older and him handling the situation…

This happened to me a few weeks after I got my driver’s license. When he realized I was 16 he gave me his card and told me to call him if I ever got in trouble. At the time everyone acted like it was some kind of compliment, and I honestly didn’t even think that much of it, but 15+ years later it creeps me the f out.

I knew this was in Arcadia as soon as I saw the headline. There are literally hundreds of them and they just roam!

I love the Babyganics spray. It’s not a mist like an adult spray sunscreen would be, but it has a convenient squirt top and the sunscreen itself is thinner and absorbs more easily than a lot of the super-thick physical sunscreens out there marketed for children.

I totally agree with this. I had my daughter when I was 32, and for me that hit a pretty good sweet spot of having been able to live the life I wanted to live up till I was 30ish, while still being young enough to handle the physical aspects of pregnancy and parenting a young child pretty easily. It’s certainly easier…

My daughter is a Juniper too. We mostly call her June, but a huge part of why we chose it is so she can decide between June, Juniper, and Juno when she’s older.

The is amazing, thank you! We’ll be heading to the area in a few weeks to start scouting housing, and I will definitely keep this in mind. I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, my husband will be working in Sorrento Valley (though not typical business hours, so rush-hour traffic is less of a concern) and I work from…

Yeah, and at 9 months, she shouldn’t necessarily be nursing the baby back to sleep four times a night just out of concern for her teeth - there’s a lot of sugar in breast milk! Sounds like dad needs to get in there and try some cuddling or rocking.