To the other married women who follow me, I’d like to ask an honest question: Are your husbands as oblivious to dirt as mine seemingly is and my dad was? I’m not talking about not cleaning up after themselves or complaining that there’s no clean laundry, I’m talking about the dishes that come out of the dishwasher needing another wash getting put back in the cabinets, or the ring of soap scum and dirt in the shower, or the grease splattered all over the kitchen counters from pan-frying a steak.
I’m wanting to figure out if I managed to find the negative trait my dad and husband share or if I’m just crazy persnickety about the dirt and tired of dealing with it.
Not married but you knew that already, my dad is somehow both oblivious to and easily annoyed by dirt. He doesn’t seem to notice dishes that need another wash, but he gets upset when there’s grease/dirt/scum on the countertops or other surfaces. He tends not to clean it up though, but I think that’s more a function of it technically being our job than him being oblivious or intentionally messy.
Juicebox, have you ever had home-grown yellow pear tomatoes? Because I have found that many tomato haters enjoy those specifically.
I’m sorry, I can’t get past PEAR tomatoes. PEARtomatoes??!? W-what does that mean???
They are small, bite sized tomatoes that are literally pear shaped. They’re an heirloom variety, which means you don’t generally find them in stores. (Heirloom tomatoes, like most heirloom seeds are superior in taste.)
They’re juicy and a little bit sweet. Very good as a general snack, but also decent in salads.
Given adequate plot size, one plant can produce enough fruit for a whole summer for a family of four, IMO, so don’t run out and buy a plant just to try! A farmers market or the like might have them.
Are those the ones you gave my family that one time because if they are, can confirm they are frickin DELICIOUS.
New hobby: going on Twitter and responding to every doctor or medical/public health organization currently warning moms not to make homemade formula with this:
Give families a legitimate recipe. Their grocery stores are out of stock. Their food banks are out of stock. No pediatrician has enough to feed all their patients for weeks. Give parents an option, or they will find one themselves that you don’t like. Their babies are hungry.
Interesting that the WHO PDF on how to make a breast milk substitute, posted since 2006, was taken down in 2020. Here’s a link from the Way Back Machine.
Long story short, you mix water and either goat or full cow milk in a 1:2 ratio and add 1g of sugar for every 10ml of milk used.
As an example, a one month old should have 40ml milk, 20ml water, 20ml of (boiled) water, and 4grams of sugar.
Or you can use powdered full cows milk. A 1 month old you’d mix 5g powder milk with 60ml water and 4g sugar.
Check it out for yourself. Don’t question why this was taken down in 2020 and we’re being told this isn’t okay anymore though.
I downloaded the pdf of that link for you all.
Honestly I think part of this is that the establishment doesn’t want to acknowledge that this is an emergency, that these guidelines meant for disaster zones are what we need right now.
They won’t admit that it’s really that bad, but it is.
Blog where I either fangirl unapologetically about a number of seemingly random things, or reblog cool stuff that comes across my dash. Also I sometimes post art, but that doesn't happen often.
