Weekend Open Thread
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Feel free to tell me I’m overthinking, but curious what you would do. My daughter bought a diary that comes with one of those split heart BFF necklaces (using allowance money, we don’t pay for stuff like this) and wants to give it to her best friend on Monday at school. I think she should wait and do it on a playdate (they see each other outside of school often). She thinks I’m overreacting and “everyone does it, mom” but just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s kind! I get that everyone in their class knows they’re besties and they’re inevitably going to wear the necklaces to school, but it just seems nicer to me to do the actual gift exchange outside of school.
I’m 4 months postpartum and my hair has been getting super oily right after I wash it, when I used to be able to go 3 days between washes. I switched to a rosemary clarifying shampoo but it still feels like it gets dirty so fast. Any suggestions?
Am I being a spazz? A dear friend offered to plan my baby shower, which will be held at my house. We picked a date and I sent her the invitation list 6 months before the shower. All of our family is out of town, many a plane ride away, so I told her we want to get invites out pretty far in advance. I’m kicking myself for not setting a clear deadline.
We’re less than 60 days out and she hasn’t sent invites. Two months ago, I offered to take over invites but she declined. Every time I try to talk about it, she’s busy but “working on it.” I finally talked to her on the phone last night. She said she was planning to do evites and asked for everyone’s emails. I guess I wasn’t clear that I was thinking paper invites, though I gave her the addresses over 4 months ago. I don’t have emails or phone numbers for everyone, and some of them don’t even have email or smart phones. I said we can’t do evites, I need to get the paper invites ordered right away, I’m just going to take over. I asked how she wanted people to contact her for RSVPs and she said she didn’t know, she had to talk to my mom. I called my mom, she doesn’t want to handle RSVPs.
My friend seems to think 60 days is too soon to send invites. Maybe she’s right, I’ve never planned a baby shower before. I’ve already contacted out of town family so they have the date. The foot dragging is starting to really stress me out and I want to be done with it. Do I order the invites and put myself as the RSVP contact? Isn’t that kind of tacky?
Happy Passover to everyone celebrating!
My 6 year old has been asking me a lot about my mom, who passed away before he was born. I’ve told him the basics, that she used to live with Grandpa but she died, and shown him some photos of her. He still keeps asking when we will go visit her and where she is. Do y’all have any tips on how to explain it? Books to read? Thanks!