We’ve worked hard at maximizing the money we spend. We get a museum membership for a birthday every year and then use the passport program to visit other museums for free. Plus the membership does swaps occasionally so sometimes we get a month of the botanical gardens, aquarium, or zoo for free too. One of my hobbies is amusement parks, which is obviously expensive, but I get passes that work for many different parks and we always pack snacks and meals. We’ve also been spending a lot of time at playgrounds too. We invite a whole playgroup and whoever can make it will come and it’s a lot of fun. We try to limit our consumerism because it’s definitely everywhere

Surprises have an end. Secrets are forever. A surprise is a secret for now, but I can tell you later. Secrets are things I can never tell, which can be dangerous.

I would kill time with this for a little while but over the last few months the audio lag has made it unusable in my opinion. After opening and pressing play it would take a few seconds for it to start playing, and then after swiping to the next one the audio from the previous one would keep playing for a few seconds. I could swipe through like 4 or 5 videos until the audio would catch up. Also, the hashtags are nice but at the moment they function where I have to select one, watch it, swipe back to the hashtag page, select another one, and repeat. I want to just be able to scroll through hashtags or someone’s account instead of clicking on individual videos (like you used to be able to). My following page gets stuck after a few videos where I can’t scroll anymore too. I’ll reopen it when the update drops, but there’s definitely issues to iron out.

I call my mom “mom”, but now that I have a kid I use her grandma name more frequently. Honestly it’s a little easier to call her that, I have some unresolved stuff and while we’re friendly the mom term is a little much. My daughter calls me “mommy”, but usually doesn’t enunciate so it’s “mah-ee” most of the time.