Do any of you get your cats tested for heartworms and/or give them monthly heartworm preventative?
I think this is specific to dogs. My cat is 15 and has been to several vet clinics and no vet ever mentioned anything about this in 15 years. The marketing products I see for heartworm at the vet are all for dogs.
When will I stop feeling like a total mess of a parent now that I have two children? And I mean a mess in all ways - I look a mess, my time management is a mess, I'm always forgetting SOMETHING, etc. etc. forever. DD2 is only 3 months old so I know it'll be a while yet, but what kind of timeframe am I looking at here? Lol.
Do any of you get your cats tested for heartworms and/or give them monthly heartworm preventative?
I think this is specific to dogs. My cat is 15 and has been to several vet clinics and no vet ever mentioned anything about this in 15 years. The marketing products I see for heartworm at the vet are all for dogs.
Thanks. My friend has never had a cat and was interested in getting one. She messaged someone about a cat up for adoption and asked if it was heartworm neg and if it had been on preventative it's whole life. My friend was kind of flabbergasted when the owner was like "lol no" since it's all she's ever known with dogs and ask me about it. It had never occurred to me to put my cats on any preventative and I was starting to worry I had failed as a pet parent.
If you use self tanner, do you get a separate kind for your face and your body? I'd rather not buy two bottles but if it's better to get one specifically for your face I will.
I don't use self-tanner on my face. I tried a few times but I never had good results (weirdness around my eye brows and lips) and/or it would make my face break out (more than it already does). I used to use tanner on my body and then a bronzer mixed in with my foundation (or mixed in with just moisturizer for non-makeup days). I like Sephora's Bronze Perfect CC Cream.
I buy an expensive tanner for my face. It's by Lancôme and is a gel. I spread a very little over my face and the beginning of my neck and it looks like sun powder. I don't apply every day - it takes an hour to see the subtle difference.
Is there an easier way to zest citrus? It takes me forever with my regular old zester. I want to make homemade lemoncello and need to zest like 15 lemons.
I'm probably too late, but this is how I learned to do it in Sicily - with a simple knife (big peelings). Just make sure you don't have too much of the white under the skin.
I have two boys with the same age spacing. I was an inferno of hot messes and I'm usually the one of all my friends and family to have it together the most. I had a baby that liked to cry a lot and a 3 year old that loved to run from me in all public places. It gets better with time. Can't say how long it took for sure but the baby is almost 8 years old and i think I finally have my shit together again. Seriously though, go easy on yourself. This mom stuff is hard work! Do what ever you have to do to make it easier!
Linie, that makes so much more sense. Using a microplane will be great if I'm using the zest in baking or something like that, but I wouldn't need it that tiny to flavor alcohol, especially since it has to be strained out afterwards. Thanks!
I have two boys with the same age spacing. I was an inferno of hot messes and I'm usually the one of all my friends and family to have it together the most. I had a baby that liked to cry a lot and a 3 year old that loved to run from me in all public places. It gets better with time. Can't say how long it took for sure but the baby is almost 8 years old and i think I finally have my shit together again. Seriously though, go easy on yourself. This mom stuff is hard work! Do what ever you have to do to make it easier!
Haha, thank you! I do feel like I finally got into a good rhythm not all that long ago with just my oldest, so I know I definitely need to allow for more time, but this morning I was extra aware of what a damned mess I am right now so I'm trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel.