Stuff, Things, etc.: Friday things, 2/27

This week, I posted recent content again. Cannot recommend Paradise enough if you need a show to binge this weekend!

Linking up with Friday Favorites!

1. I have big, big thoughts about this:

Grown adults who are not or were not teachers have no idea how this works. My first year in the classroom, I was sick most of the year. Started with student-teaching. Literally the sickest I'd ever been to that point and still couldn't miss without a doctor's note. I had a cold or a cough, literally, for the next 5 years on and off. I had strep throat for the first time ever as a 25 year old. Scott would catch what it was from me and get it twice as bad. It never failed. His years in Afghanistan were probably a respite from the constant respiratory viruses, to be honest.

My point is, you have these people who haven't been around small children since they were a small child. They go to work in an office or something and then when they have kids post-25/30/35, they're all shocked and put out that they're getting sick again. Like, nope. My immune system did the work pre-30. So this does not apply to all of us. It's actually just showing a level of ignorance.

This is a result from a society being one where children are not considered to be a huge part of many peoples' lives. Birth rate is down, people think kids are too much work, no one wants to go into child-centered fields anymore, adults just want a dog or a cat and kids are too much of a hassle, etc.

At this point in my life, my kids get colds and coughs and low fevers occasionally, Scott will get sick for a day or two (not as much as he used to), and I'm usually fine. The one exception was when my immune system was definitely compromised during pregnancy exactly 4 years ago and I had a sinus infection for 4 weeks.

**Bonus comment regarding kids: You know how people are like "stop being lazy get up before your kids this is your own fault that you never get anything accomplished"?

Well, blogging in real time, I got up at 5:05am this morning to "get stuff done" and guess who was up by 5:20? My kids.

I wish all of those people nights of restless sleep and I hope their nannies quit because let's face it: the only way moms are "getting it all done at 5am" is if they have hired help. Change my mind.

2. I tracked grocery spending for February and the good news is that I came in at $699. I'm going to guess that a few expenditures would put that over $700 but that includes things like paper towels, toilet paper, hand soap...anything I would buy at Aldi. I made a few small Walmart runs because I will only buy name-brand in certain products (soda, sour cream, etc) but cutting out those $150-200 Walmart pick-ups made a difference.

3. Scott brought home a Dubai chocolate bar. I had no idea these were so stupidly expensive. But I really liked it. The irony of talking about it right after I mention I saved money on food this month is not lost on me. However, what Scott spends at gas stations is none of my business, you know? I was just tracking food and such. But anyway: I think a lot of people think Dubai chocolate is too sweet but I think it's just about perfect.