arieladventures

When my first born was in NICU for a month, I made sure to watch the nurses to learn as much as I could for her care. One thing I picked up that I try to teach others as much as possible, is to always lay the new diaper under the old one when changing. It may not seem like such a… Read More

This is not that weird except for the sheer all-consuming enormity of it. I wanted mint chocolate chip ice cream. Not just any kind - I wanted Turkey Hill Choco Mint Chip. And I wanted it and nothing else. I'm talking, buying a new quart every other day. I was eating a huge bowl every… Read More

I've been to that crater! Very cool. The scale of it is mind blowing. It's hard to comprehend how huge it is while standing on the edge. But they've got a life-size astronaut mannequin standing down in the center of it that just looks like a tiny spec from the viewing platform.

#6! My sister was about 5 and we were standing in a gift shop, watching a glass blower while our parents were shopping on the other side of the store. A group of male Asian tourists came in, spotted my sister, and immediately rushed over to us. I guess because she was a blond, blue-eyed… Read More

omg yes! I have in-laws that put their baby in the car seat and set her out on the covered back porch, with the door shut. So they don't get disturbed while in the living room. And they act like I'm the crazy one for being upset about that! Thank you for this comment, I feel so validated!… Read More

the one that immediately makes me livid is "Don't pick your baby up every time she cries. You're just teaching her how to manipulate you.". Said about my 3 week old. As if a newborn would be learning how to game the system. An infant communicates through crying, what do you expect… Read More

I was at a block party with friends. There was live music and the restaurant hosting it had waitresses walking out through the crowd in the street to take drink orders and bring them out on trays. A guy who worked on our campus saw us there and joined our group to dance and when he… Read More

The owl one is so funny but also so true of a lot of moms! I feel like moms just get assigned an animal early on, then all presents relate to it. For example, my Dad was interested in beekeeping and so I also took a beekeeping class to learn with him and got my own hive. Then I had… Read More

I did! After college, I lived in the Caribbean for a few years studying coral and sea slugs :)

when I first moved out on my own, I would always try to "stock up" at every grocery trip, thinking that if I shopped less frequently, it was being more frugal. But, in reality, I was wasting more food as it went bad and ended up relying on plain pasta and rice to get me by instead… Read More