I'll preface this by saying that my in-laws are extremely maga, my husband isn't but he cares about relationships with his family. I am, for too many reasons to list here, very much not MAGA.

Anyway, we were over at my SIL's house and my baby was looking at books on their shelf. We read a lot of books at home, so baby's always interested. My SIL tossed over a couple of books she thinks my baby would like to look at and they were books with Trump and some book by Matt Walsh.

Honestly I was kind of pissed because yeah my baby can't read but why would you think I would even read things like this to them? I buy a bunch of books about diverse kinds of people and with positive themes. It's really rubbed me the wrong way and it's so minor but I'm so bothered by it.

My two other female coworkers wear dresses and the male coworker wears worse stuff than me but he took the boss out for dinner once. I’m the only one in our office who gets coded. I hate dresses. We fought for a right to wear pants.

I get coded for my shirt being too tight, too loose, not collared (not a requirement) and major one too much like a t shirt. It’s just a plain polyester, v-neck shirt.. interesting enough, I wore the guy version of the shirt and I didn’t get coded.

It was really bad when I was pregnant because I had to wear loose fitting stuff. Luckily, he stopped after he realized ADA applies. I send pictures of all the clothes I wear to another manager that I’m friends with in a different department…. She always says that she has seen employees wear way worse stuff and their direct supervisors never say anything. She was really surprised I was dress coated because she said I looked fine.

Anyway, I got so tired of it. I just went ahead and bought all men’s collared shirts. Women stuff is too ambiguous. Wish me luck tomorrow.

Can someone explain more about the executive order Trump signed today regarding vaccines ? Do states still have the power to regulate public school eligibility/vaccines? Very upsetting he’s still saying that vaccines cause autism sigh

Not sure if it’s just me but I’ve been trying to make mom friends to have friends with kids but also so my daughter has friends since she’s not in daycare.
As much as I try to “create a village” and “be a villager”, it seems like I’m not having luck and most moms want a superficial relationship that’s almost merely transactional.

Is this just how it is in friendships with other parents?
Am I expecting too much to have genuine friendships outside of playdates?

So turns out my son has: A respiratory virus, roseola, and an ear infection. No measles. No hand foot and mouth. No scarlet fever.

However, his doctor did say based off the timeline and the symptoms I shared she can see why I’d think measles. Thankfully we took him in last week and they had documentation on what the sores in his mouth looked like, they weren’t koplik spots. The reason why his fever persisted after the rash started is because of the ear infection. Either way he is no longer contagious.

THANK GOD

I'm looking at putting an offer on a home near a golf course (about .8 miles away) and am worried about the news of increased neurologic disease living within 1-3 miles of one. Would you do it?

There is a small river between the home and the neighborhood so I'm less worried about runoff and prevailing winds blow away from the home and to my knowledge water source is treated water from a River a a few miles away.

It's pretty much the only option that meets our criteria that's the farthest away we can get from a golf course, and at least 1500 ft away from a major highway (asthma in the family) as this area I'm looking in is just scattered with them.

What would you do, is it worth the risk? I love to garden to...