Im honestly at my breaking point with the soy/canola oil based dressings and about to try my hand at ranch or french. Ive made my own ceaser for a while now and it does take some getting used to learning how to properly emulsify the egg and oil. I use sunflower oil because it's very neutral and lets you actually taste the other ingredients. But food prep for ingredients does add up in time.
My almost 4 year old generally sleeps from 9:30-7:30 and stopped napping at 2 1/2. He has slept through the night alone in his own bed maybe 5 times in his life. New baby sleeps OK if I let her sleep in bed with me but then I sleep worse because I’m so anxious. If she’s in the crib she rarely goes more than an hour. So I just have a permanent eye twitch and a fair amount of word finding difficulty. Not looking forward to going back to work in a few weeks.
Our son is gonna be 18 months old soon, and the last few months have been much better with sleeping. Still waking up once a night every now and then. I think we’re still a little loose with our schedule, we have to get him to bed earlier. Two night owls having a kid when they’re turning 40…hard to break our habits.
Yeeeeesh, sounds rough. Glad I skipped the baby stage, married someone with "older" kids and went quickly to the "spoil the hell out of the (grand)kid" stage.
Our almost 6yr old still needs one of us to lay down with him for a bit and talk, but he's getting better and is usually out by 8:15 or so. Annoyingly is he's often tough to wake up during the week, but on weekends he's up, dressed himself and wanting us to get up by 6:05am. Meanwhile, it's not uncommon for our near 3yr old to still be singing songs to himself at the top of his lungs at 9:30. At least he's ok with being left alone in his room. Thankfully he's usually not overly difficult in the morning.
In regards to sleep after my daughter was born, the problem wasn’t our daughter it was my wife. For the first couple of months it was difficult getting my daughter to sleep, but then she settled down. Right off the bat she would sleep 3-4 hours at a clip, and by 6 months she was sleeping 6-7 hours at a stretch. My wife on the other hand had horrible insomnia, and went months getting only an hour or two of sleep a night. I felt awful for her and eventually she went to the doctor for help, but it was a rough time. I took over feedings and changing from about midnight on, and when she woke up around 4 each morning I’d get up with her. Eventually my wife’s medication kicked in and she was back to “normal “ sleep. She has always had insomnia, so normal for her is 4 to 6 hours a night, not consecutively.
Took lil B down to fish this morning with my neighbor for the first time ever. He hooked a rainbow trout and lil B reeled it in. Success! I mostly practiced casting my line because I'm learning, too. I'm ready to go fishing for pike minnows to collect the bounty.
My daughter starting talk with a slight accent here and there has been heartbreaking. It must have been like finding out your kid is gay in the 50s or something.
At least it's probably not a southern accent. I'm not entirely atrocious at writing things in English, but I sound like Jerry Wayne Longmire when I'm putting on airs or trying to sound smart. I can't move from the southeast, nobody would take me seriously.
Yeah man you need to fix that asap. I started life on the Cape and developed a Boston/Portagee accent. We moved to New London and the school made me go through accent reduction because 120 miles was enough for me to be unintelligable.
I have a recurring dream in which I discover that I have a whole bunch of cars that I’d forgotten I had. Not Ferraris, or Bentleys or Lamborghinis, just every day cars, with usually a pickup, a muscle car from the 70s, etc etc. They’re fun dreams to have. I think I’ve discovered the subconscious origin of those dreams. I’m cleaning out our office and the closet in that room, and I’ve found an absurd number of electronics that I had forgotten we had and don’t use. What’s more astounding is that I went through this process during the pandemic and apparently missed a lot. A handful of Kindles, more than half a dozen laptops, several digital cameras, a bunch of iPads and other gadgets. I’m not sure I even knew we had some of this stuff. Many of these things have to be gifts from my brother in law that we just stashed away. It’s amazing how much stuff we’ve accumulated after a quarter century in this house. After this it’s on to the attic.
The accent of a sweet southern belle like yourself is not the same thing as an accent from a man that grew up smacking a bull across the face with sticks because it charged him at feeding time everyday. It usually took just one smack and he would go in the barn. Usually.
I know there's a large Portuguese population around here, but how do you end up speaking a dialect like Portagee? Is that the primarily spoken one? My cleaning lady only speaks Portuguese, which makes sense when never really engaged when I tried speaking Spanish at her for two years.