u/SimoneShots

I’m trying to start building a decent wine collection, but I have one problem: my husband and I actually really enjoy drinking wine. 😂 Every time we “stock up,” we eventually drink through what we bought instead of actually building a collection.

We live near Fredericksburg, TX, so we frequent the wineries and have a few wine memberships. I’m pregnant right now, so I haven’t been drinking, which has actually helped because I keep our membership wines and they’re finally starting to accumulate. Lol but not for long after baby is born lol

For those of you who collect wine but also drink it regularly, how do you do it?
Do you buy by the case?
Buy multiples of the same bottle and designate some for drinking and some for saving?
Use wine clubs or certain websites to stock up?
Set a monthly wine budget?

I’d especially love recommendations for good places to order wine in store or online at affordable prices 10-25 per bottle and any strategies you use to build up your collection over time without feeling like you can’t touch it.

Basically… how do I get from “I have wine” to “I have a wine collection”? 😂

For moms who work full-time from home and have multiple young kids, I’m curious how you’ve made childcare work financially and logistically.

We can afford daycare for one child, but once we get to 2 kids it would be pretty hard financially, and 3 in daycare at the same time would be REALLY tough.

For those with 2-3 kids:
-Did you put all of them in daycare while you worked from home?
-Did you keep babies home for a certain amount of time before starting daycare?
-Did you space out when each child started daycare?
-Did you use a nanny, part-time daycare, Mother’s Day Out, or another option?
-If you had multiple kids in daycare at once, how did you make the cost work?
-At what age did daycare costs finally start getting easier?

I’d especially love to hear from moms who had their kids fairly close together. We’re trying to figure out what this realistically looks like with 2-3 little ones while both parents are working.

Moms who started having babies at 35+ and have had 2–3 pregnancies pretty close together/back-to-back, I’d love to hear your experiences!

How old were you with each pregnancy, and how close together were your babies?

How did each pregnancy compare? Did you find pregnancy got harder with each one, or was it pretty similar?

I’m especially curious about recovery and healing after each birth.

I’m 35+ and will have my first baby at age 36.

Thank you!

I’m 18 weeks pregnant and have not the best teeth. Can I chew xylitol gum and use xylitol mouthwash during pregnancy? I’m a naturalist so I don’t like fluoride or any of that (please don’t judge). Want encouraging helpful responses. Thank you