Recently I've been seeing a comment on my posts when I first open Amethyst, but when I click on it there's nothing there and then when it loads it goes away. Is it someone I've blocked? Or is it just a weird glitch? And if it's someone I've blocked, who is it? Are they kind and misblocked, a bot, or bad actor? I kinda wish I could see the username of blocked people who still leave comments. I don't want to see their profile pictures though, cause sometimes that's the reason I blocked them in the first place.

One of the keys for a long lasting marriage is when you know how to reconnect with yourself, and your spouse. Feelings of love follow action, so if you don't "feel" in love, love your spouse through an action you know they enjoy and the feelings will spring back to life for you as well. This is one of the keys I cover in "How to prepare yourself for marriage," because I don't just want to help people find a mate and have a wedding, I want to aid in happy fulfilling and connected covenant marriages. If you'd like to get this book, you can find it through FikaTimeBooks.com

You get what you fish for, and some women don't realize that fishing with their bodies won't attract the good and competent men with good character.

Last night we went to In-n-out for a chocolate milkshake. I sat down on the red bench facing the workers and kinda zoned out watching their well oiled machine of 3 people who have clearly been there for a while, making burgers and fries and putting the orders together. Atone point the guy I'd sussed put to be the manager asked me if I had ordered something (seemingly to check that they hadn't missed something) I'd sat there alone for awhile waiting for my husband who had ordered the shake while I used the bathroom and when I came out, he was in the bathroom so I didn't know he had picked a table. I'm not about to risk taking someone else's milkshake! 🤣 But when he asked me, he broke the 4th wall, revealing that I wasn't watching TV, but was in fact there in person 🤣🤣 Then hubby came out and showed me the milkshake and then we both sat down and watched as I introduced hubby to what I'd been up to, and while we sat there, a newlywed couple came in for a late night snack after their wedding with 150 guests! We chatted with them a bit and may have found some future buyers of our books 😎 Marriage is great! Being parents is the next amazing adventure! Both I highly recommend! 🤗😎

So, the baby changing tables sometimes have liners like paper towels in the center of the changingtable wall mount. this seems like a convenient thing and place for them, but if it's convenient for a parent... it's also convenient for a baby, and babies LOVE pulling out things and tasing things. I managed to reduce the amount of liners my son tasted today by putting them back and then he grabbed the same ones later when we came back... 🙄 I always bring my own pad cause I don't know where I'll be when I need to use it. Also, I went to a Starbucks ones that didn't have changing tables in either of their bathrooms, so I used a clean section of the floor and definatly put my son on my own pad that time. But yeah, seems convenient, but actually just adds to the difficulty of changing a sqirmy baby's diaper as now I also had to keep an eye on where his hands were going 🙄🤣🤣😅👶

Chatted with my hubby earlier today, and he pointed out that "you get the salary you agree with." This after having seen the ddue who burnt the TP factory because they "didn't pay a living wage" or whatever garbage he used as an excuse. I fully agree with my husband on this. If I ask for a raise and the compay doesn't want to pay it, I can go somewhere else that will pay what I think I'm worth. It's not that company's responsibility or requirement to pay you what you think you're worth. This is why my husband has been doing UberEats all over the country, and why we're not working at home, but come down to the greater Phoenix area when we need to make money, cause here we can make $150 during one dinner shift mid week, while at home, we might reach $50 having at the app on all day! Plus, my husband knows not to take garbage orders, he doesn't blame the person who isn't tipping, or Uber for allowing them to not tip, he simply rejects bad orders and accepts good orders. $2 per mile, never under $5, now nothing under $10, cause there's only so many hours per day, and a 2 mile order takes the same amout of time if it pays 5 or 10 dollars. We've come across delivery drivers who are upset with Uber for not paying enough, and we both wonder, "Why do you accept garbage orders? You're kinda doing it to yourself." Also, if an UberEats order doesn't get filled by a driver, it will increas in price, so if no one takes bad orders, a lot more orders will end up being worth it. (Except the $20 for 30 mile type orders, caues they'll expire before they reach $60) All this to say, You are powerful, and you can change your circumstances if you want, it's not someone else's job to playcate your entitlement. I think this is also why most of us are here on Nostr, cause we know we're powerful! 😎

So, our son just got his first girlfriend, an "older woman", he's 7 months, and she's 10 months old. They actually looked at each other and smiled multiple times. She had a similar dinasor squeal as our son, and then I found out she's part Swedish! In fact, her dad's mom lives less than an hour away from my parents! There are not a lot of people in the North of Sweden where I'm from, so to meet someone who married someone from that close is so much fun! The baby's mom said they had the wedding in that town, so she's clearly been in the same area we were when we had just gotten married. Sometimes, the world seems big, other times, it seems tiny! 🤣 I think this was the first other baby our son reacted to, he usually flirts with gradma and grandpa looking people 🤣 Apparently, so does his girlfriend. 🤣👶

So, today we confirmed that we have in fact raised a cat. Our son was sitting in a high chair with his toys on the table, and one by one, he reached for them, and knocked the off the table. 🤣🤣👶

White men are awesome!

Ever thought about how the Sybertruck kinda looks like a human sized toy truck?

In case you didn't know, the small salsa cups are also great baby drinking cups. @LeviJohnson.net

Our son hasn't quite learned English yet, or what things are. Yesterday he got some beans, and this morning he grabbed and started eating a beanie... I think he may have mixed them up 🤣🤣🤣

Our son woke up and stayed awake, but needed to go back to sleep as he got stuck in cryie whiney mode. We tried a bunch of different things. I sang the Swedish "Little frog" song and got a little laugh out of him before he went back to whiny cries. That's when I grabbed a banana and while he opened his mouth to cry, I shoved a spoon with some mushy banana on it into his mouth! I did it maybe 3 times before he turned his head, kinda still whining, then he turned it back and he got a 4th taste, and then maybe a 5th one before he turned his head and got quiet. I'm not sure if it was that he needed something more to eat, needed banana specifically, or that I told him that I'd keep feeding him banana unless he went to sleep and he chose sleep cause he didn't want anymore banana. 🤔🤣 Point being, being a mom is great, constantly learning new tricks helps get the little ones to be quiet faster. 🤣

I touched grass today! AND flowing water that didn't just come from the sky 🤯 We've been in the dessert for too long!

Our son reacted to a dog for the first time today! He's been checking out humans for quite a while, but basically ignored furry creatures until today! 🤗 he's growing up!

So, our son gnawed on my heel today, he definitely has teeth now! 🤣 just the two bottom ones, but I could tell 🤣🤣🤣

Our son got his first tooth a 2.5 weeks ago, and after it was out but not fully up, he started drooling a lot more and being fussier, which is what I'd heard they'd be BEFORE the tooth pokes out, not after. I checked today, and yep, the other bottom tooth has just started to break through the gums. I guess when I told him that he couldn't have my food yet cause he didn't have "teeth" yet, he saw it as a challenge and started pushing out another one. 😅👶🥰🤣

Phrases that mean something different if you're talking to a baby: I let him down. He's getting on his knees a lot lately. I gave him the finger. He had a blowout. He wants the napkin... (to eat, not wipe with!)

About to head back out after about a week at home. Last time we headed home, we were tailgated by a drunk female driver for at least 5 minutes at 55mph on i40 (it's like 75 there!) I saw the car go into our shadow multiple times, but I didn't mention it to my husband who's turned the mirrors to avoid seeing tailgaters he needs to forgive all the time. Had I said something and he slowed down at all, we could have been hit. He only found out when she finally pulled up next to us, and he thought she was punishing the semi behind her, before she reached out a hand towards us making a strange hand motion while smiling. So, first he thought maybe she was trying to tell him something about our car, but she didn't try to say anything. Then after a while she pulled back behind us and then stopped following us as we hit some hills and were able to drive faster thanks to gravity. A while later she passed us and then tailgated and apparently break checked some other driver who passed her and then she swayed between the lanes behind a semi for a while in front of us and then she was gone. We saw a cop in the median and then crested a hill and there was a fresh accident. A man was walking up the road so gunny yelled out "are you okay?" And he answered that he couldn't hear cause of chock and that some lady rammed them and to not let her go. We pulled off in front of a semi who's driver got out with a bundle of blankets for the driver and his lady and daughter. Hubby went over and chatted with them as we went through something similar a couple of year ago, though that driver wasn't drunk and we didn't flip over like 5 times! The driver was a ways up the road in the median. When we eventually passed it we saw how smashed the front passenger side of the engine was. The driver texted my hubby later that evening and let him know they were all okay (just some cuts and probably bruises) A cop called us for a statement the next day and at the end let us know that she was drunk. We'd assumed at the very least she had contaminated thinking! So, hoping we won't encounter any more weird driving experiences this time! Happy to talk to the cops that time too, usually I don't like it

We revamped hubby's new book to be more aligned with what the book actually is. "How to Become Relationally Intelligent - The 12 vantage points that transforms your perceptions of people you think you know" Do you like it?! 🤗😃 Find it through FikaTimeBooks.com or DMs for 10k sats for the PDF @LeviJohnson.net