hactar42

Sweet girl. I bet you it felt good on her joints. And she honestly looks great for her age. She must have a loving family :)

Now I can't unsee that

I really wish a platform would come out with a "I like this song, but not so much that I want to hear it everyday, maybe play it once a month or so" button

GNU Terry Pratchett

My wife went into labor with our second child and like 3 AM. I load our 4 year old and her into the car. A little while later Grandpa shows up and takes our son home. My wife gives birth to our daughter. I go back home that evening because Grandpa has to drive an hour back to his house to feed his horses.

Go to put my son to bed and his brown blanket that he has slept with every night is nowhere to be found. I knew he loved this blanket and knew this day would come, so I had a spare hidden in the house.

I march proudly in and hand him this blanket. He looks at it, looks at me, and says, "old brown blanket". For context he is autistic and had a severe speech delay, so it was kind of shocking to hear him say that. I explain he can have it tomorrow and that this one will do for tonight.

I go to turn on his noise maker which he has slept with every night of his life and it won't turn on. Turns out our cat picked that day to chew completely through the cord and then continue to munch on it making it unrepairable.

So in one day he got drug out of bed at 3 am, got a new sister, lost his brown blanket, and his noise maker wouldn't work.

Luckily I had my box of cables and found one that worked with his noise maker. I was so excited when I ran up the stairs with his working noise maker.

He is 15 now, still has his brown blanket and still reminds me about the time I tried to give him "new brown blanket." But not that his noise maker had a new cord.

You've got to expand on that

I definitely wouldn't say it is selfish by any stretch of the imagination. But I can see how someone would get offended if you forgot theirs.

I'm horrible with names too. I'm just up front with people about it. If anyone gives me a hard time I tell them I'm face blind. That usually ends the discussion or them trying to give me tips.

I agree saying someone's name over and over feels creepy. I know why they do it, but it comes off super unauthentic.

I'm fine with my own name, but I have a very common name that is always shortened. For some reason it makes me want to crawl out of my skin when someone says the shortened version with my last name.

I can't say if it's a common ADHD thing. But you can add one more ADHD (probably somewhere on the spectrum) person who is in agreement with you.

That's wonderful advice. Luckily my mom will be back Tuesday to take it back over. The spray she left is a mixture of water and peroxide, she said to help prevent fungus. It's been a bit of a learning experience for us both because she moved from Texas to New England. The summer was so humid she basically never had to water it. But of course as soon as she left winter hit and the air dried up. There is a good chance I've overwatered it. I'll hold off on doing anything else until she gets back.

She already has one of those. Plus the dog sleeps in her room every night too. She loves everything

Thanks 😊 I think she's ready to have her own plants now too

Yup it's a Pothos

My mom has several offshoots of it around her house. Before she moved last year they took up nearly an entire wall in her house. She gave them away to friends just in case the ones she brought didn't survive the move halfway across the country. But this one is basically plant zero, so even though they say they are nearly impossible to kill, I've been known to have the worst luck with plants.