Thank you, Maya <3 And I’m really glad you’re feeling better!

Ooh, fingers very crossed for you, ME! That sounds promising. The interminable waiting would drive you mad; waiting for fertile days, waiting to be able to test, acute waiting for the test to work... and then repeat if necessary. I really feel for you! 

~ Baby Thread! ~

Oh interesting, the version I learned was “find a penny, pick it up, all day long I’ll have good luck”, so the specifically _good_ luck is built in. Cause hard agree, fae are dicks.

I also pick my skin, turns out it’s called dermotillomania, and it’s a recognised disorder / compulsion! Not like, if you just occasionally pop a spot or pick off an annoying scab, but if you do it all the time, have rituals around it, hide the extent of it from other people, do it even if you don’t mean to or try not…

I have to do that for stepping on cracks; eventually the law of big numbers will ensure the soles of my feet have evenly touched cracks all over. But I still get skeeved out when I’m forced into stepping on one and not balancing it...

“Call a thing a thing” doesn’t work; the whole point is you’re using the correct specific name for something, not being vague or inaccurate or over- or under-describing. Calling something a “thing” is vague and under-descriptive.

Maya I’m going to email you. But join the Discord anyway while you’ve access to the links, so you can drop in to find us if you need, even for ten minutes on a Saturday. I’m just Kender over on the Discord. I don’t want to lose touch with you if Jez goes! 

I think most kids are used to adults inexplicably liking to eat gross things. I know I was baffled but accepting of my mother’s desire to eat curry, Brussels sprouts, and coffee. I just chalked it up to one of the many mysteries of adulthood. Course now I’m 29 and I still don’t like any of those things so it turns out…

I unapologetically love the jack-o-pepper, would and probably will make my own version, am irritated that this appalling administration has finally done something I can’t hate.

Eh, it is what it is. It’s not super pleasant. But it genuinely doesn’t trigger the (rational, hard-coded) disgust reaction of actual vomit. Cause it’s not vomit. It’s a lot more like getting a small amount of milk spilled on you. Would you prefer not to have it happen? Yes. Is it annoying and damp? Definitely. Are…

You do it because they like it and you love them and it might make them stop fucking screaming. They’re wearing a nappy and they’re not sticky. And baby sick isn’t like adult or even toddler vomit. In fact, it’s not vomit at all, because their stomach muscles don’t contract to eject it like vomit, it’s just…

She is a cool baby!

Yes, in the last couple of days, she’s consented to sleeping 3 hours with her father, and one amazing night, in bed so we ALL slept at the same time.

Good to hear! Thank you!

The feet-finding stage is excellent! Very much looking forward to it!

Thank you so so much for sharing this! This has made me feel much better, honestly. It helps me imagine what she might be like. Kenderín doesn’t mind noise at all, we’re listening to goth metal right now. But she does love (demand) snuggles. And she cries very dramatically but stops immediately once the problem is…

I laughed a lot at this story!

I would just like to drop in to defend beet sugar, as the child of a sugar factory town. Cheap is cheap, but beet sugar is not inherently bad. It’s the default here and you can get nice fancy high quality icing sugar as well as cheap-and-cheerful.

Maya I’m so sad things are being shit for you. The benefits system seems utterly ghoulish, that’s an appalling way to treat people! You were sick!! You need more help, not less help.