u/Calianna1915

I need cream cheese for both cooking and for eating fresh (like on a bagel).
And looking for more cookie options. Possibly a soft chewy kind.

I’ve did EVERYTHING (sign out and back in, restart everything, reset network settings, click my email under the iMessages setting and sign out then back in, 1.5 hours on the phone with Verizon to reset eSIM, and the Apple “enable Apple account to activate iMessages” thing) nothing has worked. I’ve reached the end of the 24 hours waiting period for the last one mentioned but still haven’t heard back from Apple.
Are there any other fixes I’m missing here?

My daughter is 7 for reference.
Typical little league ball game with siblings playing at the playground near the field. My daughter brought a paper plane and set it on the ground while she was swinging. A boy (around 7-8) ran over and grabbed it, ripped it up and then crumpled it in a ball. Then yanked the shoes off my daughter’s feet while she was trying to stop the swing and threw them in the nasty trash barrel. She was screaming like a banshee and my husband jumped up and ran over to her. He brought her back to our chairs where she told me what happened while bawling. She sat with us for a while and after she calmed down she asked if she could go play again. I said yes and not 30 seconds after she walked back over to the swings I look over at her and a boy has his fist pulled back about to punch her in the face while she has her arms up guarding herself and lunging away.
I went running over asking who his parents are but he wouldn’t tell me. I had my finger pointing and told him “don’t you EVER raise your fist to another person.” He said “I wasn’t ACTUALLY going to hit her, I was just playing.” I got my daughter and we both returned to the game.
After I calmed down I asked her if they were really playing or if he was really trying to hit her. She said “he was playing, but they play by hitting each other (this includes the boy from the beginning of my post) and he was scaring me.”
I now feel like I over reacted, but also not a single parent aside from me and my husband were even watching our kids. Or maybe I could have handled it better? But how?
Aside from letting her return after the first incident. Obviously a bad decision on my part.

I poured milk into my instant pot and pushed the yogurt button, it’s been warming for 2.5 hours now and I just realized I forgot to add yogurt (face palm).

1. Can I go ahead and add yogurt?
2. I usually culture for 9 hours, I’m assuming I’d just need to restart the 9 hours?

We tried methylphenidate (concerta) first. From day one my daughter was having crying meltdowns over everything (NOT something she did prior to the meds) we stuck it out for 4 weeks thinking maybe she just needed to adjust. She never adjusted and the meds didn’t help her adhd symptoms at all.
We switched to focalin and she had her first dose this morning and holy crap… I feel like I’m stalking her just waiting for symptoms and side effects to start showing but so far there’s been nothing.
After talking/yelling incessantly from the minute she woke up she’s finally quiet unless she genuinely has a question, she’s not running crazy and trying to backflip off the couch, not antagonizing her sisters, and was able to follow directions without getting side tracked or forgetting what I asked her to do or whining because she didn’t want to.

Loryna was like a miracle, I had a little break through bleeding and moodiness the first 6ish weeks of starting but after that everything was perfect! I take it continuously.
About 2 months ago I had breakthrough bleeding that lasted 2 weeks, so I took a week off the pills and restarted and everything was great again.
Now (as of yesterday) I’m having more breakthrough, SEVERE moodiness/anger, I’m so bloated that I’m in pain and now I don’t know if I should take another break or if it no longer works for me and I need to switch to something else?
My PPMD is relatively new (it started after I had a baby 2 years ago) so still kinda new at dealing with to it.

I had an older platinum sienna prior to this one, we traded for a 2026 and I didn’t want to give up the 360° cameras so I thought I’d get used to the obnoxious fridge sticking out. It’s now been 2 months and I hate it a little more every time I take my kids somewhere. Rear facing car seats, plus 3rd row passengers, plus the fridge obstructing the walk-way has me filled with regrets.

My daughter is very disruptive, inattentive and impulsive and has been on methylphenidate for 3 weeks now and there hasn’t been a single change in her adhd but she has gotten more emotional to an extreme and crashes so hard about 8 hours after taking a dose that she can’t fight the fatigue and will fall asleep where ever she happens to be.
We can’t work with a psychiatrist to find the correct med and her PCP doesn’t like medicating ADHD so basically I need to find what med we want to try next and present it to him.
*please focus on medications. Telling me to switch PCP’s isn’t possible and not helpful at all.

I’ve been sweating more at night but chalked it up to weather change and not wanting to lower our thermostat.
But today I was walking around the park with my toddler (mostly shaded and 67 degrees out) and once I started sweating it didn’t stop. Literally, we left the park at 1pm and it’s now almost 4pm and my scalp, chest and knee and elbow creases are still sweating and I’m definitely not overheated anymore and I’ve got the throbbing dehydration headache starting.
How do you manage this? If it’s this severe in the 60’s I feel like I’m going to have worse symptoms this summer than just trying to manage the POTS.

I had no issue on my 2024 sienna. Upgraded to a 2026 and every time I change the door lock setting to stay locked when I shift to park it only lasts while the car is still running. After turning it off and then starting again (like setting it before starting my drive, running into the grocery store and then coming out and starting the van again) it reverts back to the doors unlocking in Park.
How do I get the setting to stay?

Not stand out to catch attention, but stand out in your mom uniform to not look like a clone on a field trip where half the moms are wearing joggers, NB shoes, tee and chambray shirt. And the other half are wear leggings, Nike scrunch socks and a crew neck? 😅
Signed, the 11th mom in the joggers and chambray outfit.

My 5/yo daughter was prescribed 18mg concerta and she took her first dose yesterday morning.
She struggles with hyperactive and inattentive issues. Never moody or violent.
She’s cried about several things yesterday and today, the worst being last night she cried so hard I thought she was going to throw up because the compressor kicked on on the fridge to cool it down while she was trying to sleep, and then right now she’s currently laying face down on the floor sobbing after she threw her glasses across the room because she couldn’t get the paper off a sticker. Usually if she’s upset she wants held or hugged but trying to pick her up was a HUGE mistake.
Is this something that will mellow out or how do you know when to ask to try different meds?

I got an email from my credit card company and messages from the host through VRBO about my down payment not going through. I got it settled with my cc company but there’s no option on the app to send the payment again. After googling how, a result came up saying I’d get an email from VRBO to make the payment again but I still haven’t gotten anything.

Update to an earlier post.

My daughter’s school won’t do an IEP evaluation since she isn’t struggling or showing signs of a learning disability. I messaged the doctor with the update a few hours ago and I just got a notification on her mychart saying his sent in an RX for “methylphenidate ER 18 MG CR tablet” but I didn’t receive a phone call or any other instructions. Is that a normal starting dose? It seems high for her never being on a stimulant before. Also she’s 5 years old and TINY.

Idk, maybe I’m just overthinking it.

Is this normal?

After struggling for about a year I finally took my daughter to her pediatrician and he diagnosed her today. He doesn’t want to medicate in general, but he said if I really felt she needed it then he would, but he wants an IEP from her school first?

We already brought the Vanderbilt assessment from her teacher which says she’s doing above average academically, she is just very disruptive and doesn’t listen or follow directions if it requires her to sit still or take turns, and makes unsafe decisions the second we take our eyes off her (jumping off bleachers, climbing fences, etc). She also goes to a private school which doesn’t have to follow the laws pertaining to rights for IEP’s and other typical public school accommodations. Google also says that an IEP can take 60+ plus days and we literally have just a few days left in the school year.