@LAMillennialMom @brittilina On this track I would say I am more likely to make a meal for a new mom or a family that has less $ or help from family. I also just get stressed making meals for families of 8+ kids. Truth.
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@JenniferPropson
Catholic Wife and Mom of 7. I identify as Molly Ringwald.
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@brittilina I don’t want you to take this the wrong way, because everyone has different budgets and abilities, and I respect that you have those boundaries. But, could it be that the women who are getting the bigger showers/meal trains have contributed to others’ more in the past?
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BRAINSTORM WITH ME?
Okay, so some of the comments have inspired me.
I don’t go to every shower bc that would become a line item in our budget, and we don’t have that much wiggle room. I don’t participate in meal trains bc cooking is incredibly stressful to me anyway, and I don’t want to flake when ppl NEED me to follow through.
But! I can make an effort to ensure that our church (all the women, at least) is made aware of expecting mamas, and their registry, and try to standardize the meal trains so you don’t have some ladies getting six meals and some having the entire first month covered.
And I can maybe solve the conundrum of WHAT TO DO with mamas who are having their 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. babies.
QUESTION: If you have more than one baby, what was something that was really useful to you but is not considered a “baby gift”? What are items you HAD (maybe that you bought) that made postpartum easier? Are there other ideas I haven’t thought of that you would mention “This was GREAT when I was postpartum”?
Could range from like “paper plates” to “snacks the older kids can get for themselves” to “a twin mattress for the older kiddo so the baby can use the crib”. For the second part of that question (items you had), I’m thinking of my potty seat with a ladder and now I don’t have to lift my 3yo onto the potty when she has to go.
Brittany@brittilina
So this is me admitting to envy publicly, but also just feeling sad for missing out on … something. Might delete. At our church, we have a policy of letting small groups handle ministries like baby showers and meal trains and such. The small group I attend didn’t forget me or anything. They gave me a small diaper shower at one of our meetings and set up a meal train for four meals after we got home from the hospital. But it does hurt to see other ladies who were pregnant at the same time as me getting full-on showers with registry gifts (we needed actual baby things again, and $$ is tighter than it was w our 3yo) where the whole church was invited. Just now, the sister of a new mama posted her meal train for the whole church to participate in and it had a solid fourteen meal slots. We went to church with our baby for the first time this week, and one of the leaders of the women’s ministry told me she didn’t even know I was pregnant. Just feels like you have to be popular to get more support, and if you don’t have an advocate or want to toot your own horn, you aren’t as valued as other women. So now I’m midnight-nursing-ugly-crying over here. Don’t mind me. Most ppl don’t. *end self-pity vent* P.S. I had this same feeling with my last baby - the shower situation was exactly the same (our gap then was 5 years, so we had even less baby stuff then). We had more financial wiggle room, but I struggled postpartum and really could have used a robust meal train.
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@TrimpeChristine I just don’t understand how folks in MI are shocked by cold weather in April. It.is.always.like.this. Accept that consistent springlike weather doesn’t really begin until May and you will be less saddened by the cold in April.
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This is ridiculous! My furnace is running now.
JustAMom🇺🇸✨@JustAMIMom
Good Morning X fam. It’s 23 degrees in Michigan. I am not ok 😭 Coffee in hand ☕️ We’ve got this, right? 🥹
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Turns out that giving a mentally disturbed teen girl a double mastectomy and making them infertile with horrible drugs is actually deeply traumatic and doesn’t improve their mental health at all. It makes it worse. Who could’ve possible predicted this? 🤦🏻♂️
The Noticer@NoticerNews
Adolescents who claim to be "transgender" have significantly worse mental health after being subjected to "medical gender reassignment", a large Finnish study has found. noticer.news/adolescent-gen…
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“I'm a 23 year-old gay man who's never had an orgasm.”
Sen. Wiener, a leading advocate for sex rejection procedures, comes face to face w/the human cost.
I’ve never seen him squirm like this.
It took immense courage for @JonniSkinner to be public about this issue. 🙏 ❤️🩹
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@literaryeric @mizsarah I worked at Hudson’s in the late 80s during HS/college to help pay for school. No way would it have come close to covering the whole cost, even had I worked full time.
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@mizsarah My argument is that people who work retail have been poor as long as we have had retail work. If you want to poke holes in that, let’s hear it.
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In the 1980s, both of my parents worked in the mall. They had a house and three kids. I can tell you how they did it: we were poor. We had no money for anything.
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@CatholicSmark Like moving from imperfect contrition to perfect contrition as you grow in the spiritual life.
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As a Catholic, I think its a combination of people wanting ritual in a world of chaos, but also a lot of work happens outside that hierarchy which, combined with years of investment in time and treasure, has a reach way above its numbers.
Also grifters see where the traffic is
Erick Erickson@EWErickson
It strikes me as performative that so many of podcastistan identify as Catholic. It is a far more ritualistic denomination than most Protestant denominations (kneel, sign of the cross, etc), is perceived as more formal and refined, and is much more hierarchical. So the denomination choice mirrors the biases of the podcasters. (Edited to change performative to ritualistic because some online whiners got emotional over that word, refusing to look at the parenthetical to see what I meant by the word, because online people are insufferable whiners)
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@SteveSkojec The only ice cream w/out a bunch of random ingredients, too. I’d buy it more, but my 4 greedy children would disappear it quickly.
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Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream is ice cream par excellence. It's ice cream its Platonic form. You can actually taste the eggs, the cream, the sugar, like they're all separate notes in a symphony. I do not even particularly care for ice cream, and I think it's heavenly.
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@Themagicmuir Yes, this. I’ve had 7 babies naturally (some epidurals, some not), no complications. Some women have complications and C sections, but I know several who’ve have had 4 kids after c section.
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@Daniel_Druff1 @chirno_helmet Lots of Italians in Detroit and Chicago areas.
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@chirno_helmet Detroit??? Pizza???
Guys cut it out stop lying to the Japanese people
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@J0NNYBaseball @Daniel_Druff1 @chirno_helmet Way better than Chicago style! I’ve lived both places, too.
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@JustAMIMom The frost on the ground is catching the sunlight in a lovely way this morning. I have just learned not to expect spring until May. I’m happier that way! ☀️
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Good Morning X fam.
It’s 23 degrees in Michigan.
I am not ok 😭
Coffee in hand ☕️
We’ve got this, right? 🥹
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@adesertdryad No one ever did this for their grandchildren unless there was great need or they lived in the same home. There is a middle ground here (that routinely gets ignored for clicks): if you live nearby capable grandparents, it’s helpful if they can babysit sometimes.
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Wait a minute. I did not consent to this.
This is the same thing as somebody putting a drug in my drink to hurt me.
This is not legal, and this is crimes against humanity.
RFK Jr is supposed to be regulating our foods.
What the fuck is going on and who approved this?
This is ACTUAL DRUGGING of Americans.
Dr. Dawn Michael@DawnsMission
They’re putting vaccines in nearly all U.S. food now. One head of lettuce might be normal the next could contain a vaccine. We need to label vaccine-laced produce. You shouldn’t buy tomatoes and unknowingly get a polio vaccine.
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@thestustustudio Will give her a follow. Can’t believe these guys are getting such a platform at my alma mater. 😳 UMich, not surprised. I’d like to know what building it’s in to have a sense of the size.
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Jessica is probably one of my favorite people on X. Bigger accounts steal her work all the time, but she is the one actually doing the work.
Case in point: she is live on the ground at the Piker x El-Sayed rally at MSU.
Give her a follow. She rules.
Jessica Costescu@JessicaCostescu
JUST IN: Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who has said America deserved 9/11, is on stage for Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s packed rally at Michigan State University. Piker said “smear campaigns started shortly after Oct. 7.” @FreeBeacon
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@HistoryUnd I would visit them for 2 weeks every summer at their farm they bought in their retirement on one of the Great Lakes. We’d tend their garden, make applesauce, can pickles & fruit. I’d spend hours traipsing the creek. Then we’d watch Lawrence Welk. Only thing on!
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Remember when you would stay over your grandparents they would always put on the Lawrence Welk Show
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@roikfbuwgc254 Also no cars on the island. Even the trash is hauled off by large horse drawn wagons. Bikes and snowmobiles are allowed. The Grand Hotel is an experience.
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@EastTNMama God bless you for being open to the idea of another little one! ❤️🙏🏻
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@JenniferPropson That’s awesome. I’m a bit older. I can do it. I don’t know, though.
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I’m really thinking about having another baby and some of you know how old I am.
Kate 🍁☕️🌧️@_cotton_ball
I think the key to a fulfilling life is to toddlermaxx. 5 kids in 10 yrs. Continuous chain of overlapping toddlerhood. No sleep. Constant chaos. New baby every 2 yrs. Never ending floor meltdowns, imminent danger & low impulse control keeping you on your toes for a full decade
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@TheRobertBshow Focus on the basics: arithmetic, reading to your children, phonics. Don’t be a school at home and find community w/other homeschoolers.
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What advice would you give to a family who are deciding to homeschool next year for the first time?
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