Fuzzy peach was so fun to make! Most were just peach icing, but I did melt down and liquify some actual gummies for a little center surprise. Tops are dipped in sour sugar (sugar+citric acid).
Cotton candy macs were absolutely gorgeous, but I only got that one photo from afar. The children at the event swarmed before I could get a good picture :P
How do you suppose this would look as a flat pattern? How is that little pleat done neatly? I can obviously think of janky confident-beginner ways to achieve it, but how would commercial production go about it? How would the seam look on the inside?
Picked up my groceries and didn’t notice until I got home. It tastes considerably more bitter the more bolted it is 😒
When I ask to hear the same playlist I listen to every morning and I’m home alone, it takes upwards of 10 tries to get it to play the right thing. Today it took 27 tries and a lot of shouting when at one point it just stopped listening to me saying “hey Google stop” and kept playing whatever bs I didn’t ask for.
When my husband is home, it plays what I asked for on the first try. Ugh.
News flash: she already knows she’s different 🙄
I’m an AuDHD private violin teacher (of a method where parents are an integral part of lessons and daily practice sessions) and of the 32 kids I teach, 24 of them are diagnosed, and 6 I have strong suspicions about.
Of those 6, I have a nine year old girl who I’ve taught since she was three. I’ve seen how her brain works twice a week, every week. I see her struggling to stay focused. I see the hypervigilance when speaking to adults. I see her intense anxiety and exhaustion, and her craving for love from friends that she never gets because “girls are mean to me for no reason.”
Recently, she was trying to tell me about car crash she’d seen on the way to pick up grandma that week, but her mum kept trying to redirect to just tell me about grandma. She kept circling back to what she saw. I could see so clearly she was trying to process the traumatic event with a trusted adult. Eventually, she turned to her mum who had kept interrupting and said bluntly “I don’t know what you want me to say.”
At the end of the lesson, when she had left the room, I mentioned to her mum something about her being very sensitive and attuned to everyone’s emotions (she has “spidey senses” like me—she walks into a room and feels everyone’s feelings). I asked if they had ever questioned neurodivergence, in case the mum wasn’t aware of its different presentations.
She said yes, we know she’s probably neurodivergent, but “when we tell her she’s tired, she behaves more tired, so we want to avoid telling her anything that will make her behave more that way.”
This kid is so on edge. She watches what she says always. She’s so “well behaved” on the outside, but when I ask her how she is, she can not tell a lie. She unmasks and lets it all out… until her parent tells her to put it all back in.
I’m building up the courage to tell her… something. Anything. And I believe she’d be open to it, but I’m not yet a parent and I live in this neurodivergent world and find it fascinating. If you’re a parent who has ever had this mentality, or a teacher, or anyone who has any suggestions for gently opening up the conversation with this parent again, I’d love to hear it. Or just commiserate in the irritation that someone doesn’t want to give their kid permission to behave a certain way 😒
For my husband’s 30th. I glued it in place, I did a mix of machine and hand stitching to secure it nicely. It wasn’t until I was completely done that I realized it was wonky 😭😭😭
(Just to make sure I’m following rules: 100% wool, made up the pattern on the fly so I have no measurements :P)
Trying to figure out if this is related to POTS, EDS, or my ADHD brain burning too many calories.
I wake up pretty much every night between 3-6 to pee, and if I don’t fall asleep within a few mins of getting back to bed, I have extreme hunger pain. It used to only happen if I had a sip of water before going back to bed, but now it’s every time. I keep boxes of nutrigrain bars in my bathroom vanity now.
I’ve also noticed that when I wake up and make myself eat even if I’m not in pain yet, I sleep in longer (8am vs 6-7am). Diet wise, I’m already doing everting google suggests for this issue.
Does anyone in this community relate? And/or have any suggestions?