I loved every moment of it. Having a toddler just brings you to appreciate the world with its simplicities. They have such joie de vivre. With every fire truck that drives by, or feat that’s conquered, I love the light in their eyes. This feels like the best time of my life.
I love the cigale. I love ostrich skin. I want them to make the bag in ostrich, but JWA has stopped responding to my text messages. Anyone seen this combo at all in their stores??
I’m at the end of my second maternity leave and I’m so so sad. I have a career I’ve worked so hard for and I’m so proud of, but these have been the best 3 months of my entire life. My first born was colicky and I was in a smidge of PPD, so I didn’t expect to feel this way, it’s a bit foreign to me. How do I cope with the heartache?
Trying to make an Italian dish with a goat head. Recipes are also welcome
Found out in my early 20s that I had a different dad than I thought my whole life. Worse yet, my “adopted dad” still doesn’t know I’m not his.
My bio dad meanwhile is worth over 10 billies but doesn’t want anything to do with me. He’s still married to his OG wife and I’m not sure if she knows anything about me. I DO know that my mom blackmailed him for all my college money (so I guess yay for no student debt).
I met him once about 7 years ago, and he said when he left “I could see myself getting really attached to you”. I have no better way of describing it other than we had a lot of chemistry. I felt like for the first time in my life someone really understood me and a missing puzzle piece clicked in.
But he’s ghosted me ever since. I’ve tried to see him at conferences etc, but he’s a bit slippery and hard to get in front of. And I’m not trying to blow up his life.
I have two kids of my own now and I wish I could share them with him.
It was my birthday and I miss that puzzle piece all the more around this time. All I know about when I was born was he asked my mom if I was a boy or a girl. Sometimes I wonder if he’d want to know me if I had been a boy.
I wonder if he wasn’t so rich/sort of famous (you probably haven’t heard of him unless you’re a nerd lol) if he’d feel more inclined to know me.
Dinner: free box of birthday chocolates from Neuhaus
Edit:
Going to give a bit more of the story here, just to tie up some questions etc, but (as you can imagine) it’s messy.
First and foremost, I’m no contact with my mother, infer from that what you will. Here’s the rough outline of her story meeting him: she fell for him when she was a single woman. She indicated to me that she didn’t know he was married “until it was too late”, but idk if you knew my mom you’d guess that that might not be true. My interpretation of what happened next is she rebounded to my non bio dad, married him and had a son with him. Four years later, I was conceived via an affair. There’s adultery all over this story, and I guess to paint everything in a fair light my non bio dad also cheated on my mom, not that it has any relevance to her own actions.
Back before 23 and me was widely recognized as shady for selling your dna, I took one of their dna tests and that’s how I was able to securely connect myself to my bio dad (but not from him, through one of his neices).
I’ll say I’m successful in my own right. I mean I don’t have fuck you money, but i’m able to afford my life, and some luxuries. I also see very plainly that an inheritance of hypothetically 100 mil is life ruining, for everyone in my family (see: all those stories about people winning a shit ton in the lottery). In fact, I don’t think that’s a value I want to raise my kids with either. I see the money as a piece that keeps me at arms length annoyingly. It creates more problems and keeps me at a distance more so than anything.
Lastly, just to shoutout Neuhaus, apparently if you sign up for their free reward program, you get a free box of chocolates on your birthday. I didn’t know this til day of, and they still honored it.
In Deathtrap (S9E19), Frasier and Niles tease that they’re interested in converting their old house into a B&B. Personally, I would have loved to see an innkeepers-esque episode where they saw this through.
My family has done ER villa rentals a few times and we really like it. They allow you access to the ER beach front and the hotel at large, with a concierge service as well. The pastry delivery is also a nice touch every morning. My only problem is with our second child having just arrived, the trek to St Barths feels even harder. This was made more clear to me in our last trip this February when our connection flight to St Martin was cancelled morning of and we had to ferry over. (It was a long travel day and I barely held onto my sanity while pregnant with a toddler). Are there any other places that offer this unique combination of luxury hotel property access + larger villa space? Bonus points for easy access from the east coast!