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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Gonna go against the grain here with something classical: Pachabel’s Canon in D. I liked it when I was a kid, for at least the first 10 or 20 times I heard it, but since then I’ve probably heard it thousands of times, and I’m not even a strings player. I’m not exaggerating either; it’s in so many commercials, weddings, movies, just over loudspeakers in the grocery store… ugh it’s inescapable. Pretty the first few times, sure, but it’s so aggressively bland.



  • My husband has been wondering if he should get formally diagnosed for ADHD now that our kid has been. (Talk about a carbon copy of a parent, this kid, geeze.) This explains a lot about the way he cooks. He always says it’s because he “needs more practice” but all I see is a chaotic stressful experience, and of course if I try to help him I just get in the way and make him irritated that I seem to think he can’t manage it on his own. Anyway all I’m saying is that it’s interesting to read your comment because I wonder if that’s my husband’s trouble, too.







  • One other possibility to consider: sleep apnea. Around age 2 or so, my daughter would wake up screaming in the middle of the night, and by my memory it seemed like she was crying so hard that she couldn’t catch her breath. Eventually we’d calm her down and she’d immediately go back to sleep. Later that year, we went on vacation and all slept in the same room, and her snoring was so loud. My 3 year old said he couldn’t sleep because she was so loud. And it definitely sounded constricted. So we knew we had to take her in. I’d had my tonsils and adenoids out as a kid so I wasn’t super surprised when the doc said that her tonsils were huge, and she had the surgery shortly after her 3rd birthday, after a sleep study that confirmed apnea. All of those scary wakeups stopped. She was also a less difficult toddler because she was sleeping better and generally happier. So if any of this sounds similar, definitely talk to the doc!