Weekend & Family Friday: Key Lime Pie on a Stick (and More!)
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My husband and I just came back from our vacation in Key West (without the baby — woo!). Before going, I geared myself to eat a MINIMUM of one slice of key lime pie per day. On the first day there, I found they sold key lime pie slices dipped in chocolate on a stick. Come on! They were as good as they sound, and I’ll confess I sometimes ate two in one day. YOLO. Googling around, I found this company, Goldbelly, that can ship them frozen to my house. This would be my holiday treat to myself, but perusing the website, I can see that this site has a ton of fun ideas for gift giving, client gift giving, or hostess gifts. (Their tagline is “The Best Gourmet Food, Food Gifts & Mail Order Foods Shipped Nationwide.”) I can guarantee that you’ll be hungry just by clicking this site! My choice is Kermit’s Key West Key Lime Shoppe, but I am sure you’ll see something that will tempt you. Key Lime Pie on a Stick
Totally frivolous question for a slow Friday: is there any meaningful difference between UGG and ugg-like boots for little kids? Grandma wants to buy my 3 year old some warm winter boots as a present and she suggested UGGs but I’m wondering if Bearpaw or Emu or whatever would be just as fine? It’s a gift so I’m happy to let her decide, just curious if anyone has found there to be a difference. Thanks!
Anyone have experience with low-lying placenta relatively early on? At my 16 week scan, the Dr. noted that it’s covering the cervix, but wasn’t concerned since I guess they often move up on their own. I just am very prone to worrying and had such a great vaginal birth experience with my son that I’d love to have the chance to try it again this time. Anyone been there? Any words of encouragement?
Thank you so much for your comment yesterday “we are all doing what we can within our own constraints and priorities.” I’m still within my first year of motherhood and finding it SO much harder than I ever anticipated and I realize I have it easy compared to many others. I have a low stress job with very normal hours and an easy commute and we have a nanny, which means there is less prep than daycare, and honestly reading this blog often makes me feel totally inept since many of you have “big” jobs or spouses that travel more than mine does or are single parents or wake up each day to go for a 5 mile run before work. I also realize that i am so so privileged and there are people out there who are working 2-3 jobs to provide for their families and do not have the funds to outsource anything and i honestly do not know how those people do it because I am already exhausted all the time, collapse into bed each night and feel like i have no downtime. i really do need to remind myself that it is not a contest and it doesn’t make me a weak person or a failure because i find it hard. it is ok that i need 7-8 hours of sleep to function, do not have the energy to workout every day or cook gourmet meals or meditate daily.
Another travel question! My BFF is having a baby (yay!) but she lives in Hong Kong…I obviously want to go see her and baby, probably a few months after baby is born. But I have a baby (really a toddler) myself and am not comfortable leaving her for the 5 days minimum required for such a trip. So, that leaves options of either not going or taking a nearly-2-year-old on a 15 hour flight. We would go direct. Is this an absolutely insane idea? The long flight plus jet lag is not at all appealing to me but neither is missing out on my BFF’s baby or leaving my own kid for that long.
What’s the etiquette for taking kids to a play date when they have a bit of a cold?
Oh man. I loooooove Key Lime Pie but am definitely not a fan of mixing citrus and chocolate, so this would not be my jam. This website looks cool, though!
Aaaaaand I just shipped my parents a cake!
I was on a rare early morning work call from home this morning, and DH decided to go for a run and forgot to disarm the alarm system. I had to end my call to deal with a whooping alarm, a screaming baby, a barking dog and a call from the alarm company wondering if they should send the police. At least it’s Friday….
People with more flying-with-kids experience, please reassure me. I just checked in for our cross-country flight tomorrow and they assigned our family of four (including one lap infant) two seats next to each other and then …a middle seat, halfway across the plane. This is very far from ideal — I am low-level panicking at the idea of dealing with a squirmy 11-month-old ALONE in a middle seat (and I especially don’t want to nurse him in a middle seat).
Based on your experience, will the people working at the gate take pity on us and move someone around so we can all be next to each other? It is definitely a full flight.