Birthday

It was my bday yesterday. We took my daughter to great wolf lodge for the weekend and I was happy to see her so happy all weekend. I am trying to not take that for granted. We check out day of my bday. Get home and my husband sleeps on the couch while I take screaming toddler and newborn to the store to get myself a cake. Then I come back and let him sleep. Its now 6pm and I tell him forget going out to eat lets just get take out im too tired at that point. It takes him till 8pm to get home with dinner. He did absolutely nothing all day for me. I cant help but feel so hurt. I am a twin so I never got my own bday cake growing up, so this just feels extra hurtful. Am I wrong to feel so hurt and unloved?

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What's your list of things to bring when travelling?

We're going to be travelling for the first time next month and we're taking the plane.
What would you recommend to take with us?
(Pram, car seat, bottles and bottles warmer etc etc....)
Do you have any tips to keep baby happy?

Other mum disciplining daughter in front of me

I have a mum friend from the kids swimming. Our daughters are 3. We have caught up maybe 5 times. Last time at the park though she thought it appropriate to talk sternly to my daughter on multiple occasions when I already had a hold of it. Her daughter was in a standoffish mood and didn't want my daughter near her a lot of the time but was chucking tantrums when my daughter was walking away. Anyway, her daughter was on a piece of equipment and my daughter tried to get on with her and I was saying my daughters name and that her daughter didn't want anyone on there and she needed space. It took only a second before she got off it but this friend yelled my daughters name and said to get off the equipment now! And another time my daughter went to get on something next to her daughter and her daughter pushed her away and my daughter said you dont push people and she said no sweet you were pushing my daughter first! She wasn't but maybe she meant like being in her space. Its really put me off her. We see each other each week at swimming but im not keen to see her again outside as the way she was talking to my daughter was so harsh. Yes if I wasn't there it would be more excusable but again, not in her tone if voice. She has mentioned before she doesn't really have any friends in our town since she moved here 15 years ago and im now wondering if thats why. She has said before she likes to tell it how it is but this is more. What would you do? Just try to make excuses when she tries to catch up? Or flat out tell her? Feel she would be very abrasive. Also should mention im a very hands on mum and don't just let my daughter get away with treating other kids badly. She doesn't though, she just wanted to be near her friend

Am I being selfish? (Little one just gone 3 months)

Yesterday my mother in law suggested a family trip next year to centre parcs with our little one and wanted to book straight away, we've said no due to only having one wage and wanting our first holiday to be just us three

(She then asked if she could just take him after us mentioning money)

She just seems to be so pushy since having my little one, I get it's her first grandchild but some of the comments are coming between me and my partner and it's not fair!

The first instance was when I was 1 week postpartum constantly asking us to go over for tea, then once I caved and went over ( I shouldn't have at the time cause the driving caused me pain as it's a 20min drive) it's now when can he stay or when can she have him alone but it's constant, however, she's took it upon herself to get a cot and has decorated a room for him which is lovely don't get my wrong but me and my partner just feel as though we're being pressured by her

Random vent

Do anyone else feel like your an aggressive parent? And you have to be because the other parent is more soft than you? I don’t know I currently have a 4 year old , a 9 year old , 9 month old and currently pregnant with another boy! And my boys are ROUGH I love my babies but their “ BOYS “ constantly fighting constantly crying constantly breaking things constantly talking back and the list goes on I feel like I can’t be the soft loving parent at times or instead of yelling I can’t sit and just have a talk becasue it doesn’t work AT ALL my house is never quiet and dad is the complete opposite of me he HARDLY gets onto them for their wrong doings and his baby them which is fine at times but there are times where discipline is needed etc etc and I have to be that parent and it sucks.

If you spend the whole day with your toddler, how many times a day does your child want you to do imaginative play with them? Playing house, doctors, shop, etc?

My son wants to do it all day everyday and I’m tired 😪 Even when we’re out at the park or a play centre, he still tries to initiate imaginative play. Yesterday I took him to a play centre with climbing equipment, crafts, a Lego club and all we did is sit in the one of those buggy storage spaces pretending we were fish in our undersea fish house.

Just wondering what’s normal for a toddler?

Smoothies

I use to give my children a (happy monkey) smoothie every day until I seen a video about the amount of sugar in them and how it's better for them to have fresh made smoothies even using frozen premade bags. After that I brought frozen bags an a blender.... It's been a week an then blender is still in the box 😬. I want to start doing it as they use to love smoothies but I don't know what I'm doing 😅. Can anyone help? I was going to ask on the video I watched but can't seem to find it anymore 😑 so not sure where to ask.