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I'll start...

Harry Potter x3

Fourth Wing x2 (if you count listening to the Graphic Audio, then x5)

Hunger Games x3 (the trilogy...BOSAS & SOTR only 1x)

I just looked around and realized that it finally happened. I've got a WIP infection. 🤒 Currently in progress:

1. A doll-sized version of the baby blanket I made for my daughter

2. A lapghan that I'm probably going to frog because I hate the yarn but didn't know what else to do with it

3. An amigurumi bunny head to put onto the star lovey that I made at least a month ago (it's been stuck at "pink bowl made of cotton" stage because I hate the process of amigurumi due to my obnoxious tight tension issues)

4. A large blanket that I'm making with yarn my dad found and bought for me at Goodwill

5. A load of worry worms

I think my tipping point was giving birth, because before that, I'd finish one project before starting another.

How about you? When did your WIP bug hit and why?

My daughter is nearly 4 months old. My bathtub is a deep 2-person jacuzzi. Her infant bathtub fits inside with plenty of room for me, so she gets her water, I get mine, and once we're both clean I'll fill the tub with enough fresh water to let her float, assisted, while I support her shoulders and keep her head above water.

My son didn't learn to swim until he was 8-9 years old, once my parents installed a pool at their house. While we still have access to it, I'd love to give my girl a head start in comfort and water safety.

What exercises and techniques can I accomplish in this tub setup?

I decided to try this super-comfy position so many have recommended here. At first? "YES! This is comfortable! Oh man, I'm gonna sleep sooooo good now!"

I woke up maybe half an hour later, unclamped my forearm from my thighs, and my elbow was SCREAMING in pain.

I have an old overuse injury (colloquially, "tennis elbow") from attempting to do 208 - or however many sun salutations you're supposed to do - one New Year's Day maybe 5 years ago when I was really into yoga.

Constantly carrying my 4 month old has brought back a little of the burning pain, but sleeping like that woke it straight the hell up.

Back to the drawing board, I guess.

I don't know how else to describe this. And I feel like I don't fit in anywhere with this situation. 😕 Our son was born in 2010. We always wanted a second, but the timing never felt right, and the GAP kept getting bigger and bigger...until our daughter was born a few months ago. So there's a freaking 15 YEAR age gap between our kids.

I was an only child and had always wanted a sibling. Our son was extremely active and social, so I often wished he had a sibling to play with. Luckily when he was a child, we lived in a quiet neighborhood with a dead end street and plenty of kids to ride bikes and play with.

Now we live a few miles out of town on a busy road that I wouldn't feel safe riding my bike on as an adult. Lots of yard and woods in the back. There are a few kids nearby now, but we don't know our neighbors.

I feel like it's going to be like raising an only child again, because they're obviously not peers, and he'll probably be out of the house before she even goes to kindergarten.

I don't know where I belong in the Mom community. Technically we aren't OAD. But the dynamics aren't at all the same as having two kids a couple - or even several - years apart. We're like.. OA.. OA (one and one again??)

I dunno. I guess I'm asking if I can hang out here or if I should go kick rocks.

She sends viral baby tips instead of asking about the baby.

She hasn't come to see my daughter since May, hasn't asked a single genuine question about how she's developing, and doesn't know her routine at all.

Instead, she seems me out-of-touch Facebook reels about babies (that she certainly thinks are helpful), but most of which don't even apply to my baby or our situation.

For example, this morning she sent a video with the caption, "Accidentally slept 6 hours straight last night. Now they’re acting all crazy like I’m going to do it again." ...celebrating a baby sleeping 6 hours like it’s a miracle. Meanwhile, my baby has been sleeping 10-11 hours straight every single night for probably 2 months. She has no clue because she doesn't care to ask.

She lives less than 10 minutes away and has held her 3 times since she was born in April. The last time was May 4th. She was here to visit on May 24th, but had to rush out the door after 5 minutes because hey new husband (a rant for another day) called to say he cut his finger with a power saw.

My dad is here once a week or so, even if it's brief (they live a few doors down from one another) and this weekend she sent him with a bag of things to give us, which included a onesie that reads, *"I'm not SPOILED, my Grandma just* ***loves*** *me!"*

It pissed me off so much...and I put it straight into my donation bag with the things she's outgrown already. Like hell I'm going to put that on my daughter, who is going on 4 months old and her grandma who "spoils" her hasn't held her since she was 3 1/2 weeks!

She tried to visit on June 18th, by texting me, "coming up soon, waiting on Daddy!" and 2 minutes later, "on our way" - meanwhile I was frantically texting her back that it wasn't a good time, could we plan something, even later that evening? Or Saturday? She got out of the car, said that that night she had guests coming in and she had an event on Saturday. "We'll choose another time," she said. Then silence for a week until she sent more baby reels.

Practically the same scenario happened 2 weeks ago, except her response to my wanting to plan a little was, "is it okay to come see you guys at 1:30 PM on Friday?" - when I again suggested in the evening or on Sunday, same thing: guests checking in Friday, going to symphony fundraiser Sunday. "We will have to figure out another time," she says. I replied, "Okay, no problem. Let us know when you want to try for another time." She's texted me since about diarrhea lettuce, wildfire smoke, and of course, baby tips, but no scheduling a visit.

She can find time to be a church elder and an innkeeper and a historical society board member and a borough councilwoman and fly 3 states away to visit her new husband's family...but here I am right up the hill and I get the leftover, minimal effort scraps.

She sends viral baby tips instead of asking about the baby.

She hasn't come to see my daughter since May, hasn't asked a single genuine question about how she's developing, and doesn't know her routine at all.

Instead, she seems me out-of-touch Facebook reels about babies (that she certainly thinks are helpful), but most of which don't even apply to my baby or our situation.

For example, this morning she sent a video with the caption, "Accidentally slept 6 hours straight last night. Now they’re acting all crazy like I’m going to do it again." ...celebrating a baby sleeping 6 hours like it’s a miracle. Meanwhile, my baby has been sleeping 10-11 hours straight every single night for probably 2 months. She has no clue because she doesn't care to ask.

She lives less than 10 minutes away and has held her 3 times since she was born in April. The last time was May 4th. She was here to visit on May 24th, but had to rush out the door after 5 minutes because hey new husband (a rant for another day) called to say he cut his finger with a power saw.

My dad is here once a week or so, even if it's brief (they live a few doors down from one another) and this weekend she sent him with a bag of things to give us, which included a onesie that reads, "I'm not SPOILED, my Grandma just loves me!"

It pissed me off so much...and I put it straight into my donation bag with the things she's outgrown already. Like hell I'm going to put that on my daughter, who is going on 4 months old and her grandma who "spoils" her hasn't held her since she was 3 1/2 weeks!

She tried to visit on June 18th, by texting me, "coming up soon, waiting on Daddy!" and 2 minutes later, "on our way" - meanwhile I was frantically texting her back that it wasn't a good time, could we plan something, even later that evening? Or Saturday? She got out of the car, said that that night she had guests coming in and she had an event on Saturday. "We'll choose another time," she said. Then silence for a week until she sent more baby reels.

Practically the same scenario happened 2 weeks ago, except her response to my wanting to plan a little was, "is it okay to come see you guys at 1:30 PM on Friday?" - when I again suggested in the evening or on Sunday, same thing: guests checking in Friday, going to symphony fundraiser Sunday. "We will have to figure out another time," she says. I replied, "Okay, no problem. Let us know when you want to try for another time." She's texted me since about diarrhea lettuce, wildfire smoke, and of course, baby tips, but no scheduling a visit.

She can find time to be a church elder and an innkeeper and a historical society board member and a borough councilwoman and fly 3 states away to visit her new husband's family...but here I am right up the hill and I get the leftover, minimal effort scraps.

Going to do my best to put blinders on in here and avoid spoilers because this seems like the best place to ask...

In my Fourth Wing hangover, I gave ACOTAR a try, and I was having a hard time getting into the whole fae thing (romance/romantasy isn't my top genre pick). I tried the print version. I tried the Graphic Audio. But I kept stalling a couple chapters in.

I picked up Throne of Glass in the wake of that, loved the first book, and spent the following 3 months dragging through the other 7 books. I finished KOA out of principal, so I wouldn't feel so bad about wasting my summer 2025 on the rest of the series.

ACOTAR still haunts me everywhere I look, though, and the FOMO is eating at me.

Does it get better? Or does it sound like it's just not my flavor?