🍋The dark side of Momfluencers🤳

🍋 Lemon Mommys: The Untold Dangers of Being a Mom Influencer 📱🤳

By now, everyone knows what a mom influencer is. You may even follow a few. Watching other moms go through what we’ve been through and usually have a great story to tell is comforting. But there’s also a dark side to putting your family’s life online. 📵

That’s often the biggest challenge that mom influencers face, as their audiences want to see the reel, raw versions of their families, while the moms need to decide what’s just for their families and what is good content for their nearly 300,000 followers.

“Jo Piazza”, an Instagram mom of three and host of the podcast ‘Under the Influence,’ explains the world of mom influencers on her podcast. “There’s a lot of backlash against mom influencers,” Piazza explains.

Sticking to Your Baby’s Routine is Incredibly Draining (And No One’s Talking About it) 👶 🍼 🛏️

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Your baby finally has a routine! You did it, you beat the system. And while there are some outliers, a four a.m. wakeup call, a nap that lasts 5 minutes instead of 30, and an occasional late night, you’ve got it down, momma!

But your baby’s routine quickly becomes your routine. And while the endless cycle of wake up, breakfast, change, play, breastfeed, change, nap, play, food, and sleep can be oh-so interesting to a newborn, you’re slowly losing your mind and spirit as you try to maintain consistency in your child’s life.

Don’t worry, you’re not a bad mother for getting burnt out on your newborn’s routine. It just proves that you’re sane. Congrats! But it can be difficult when everyone around you is telling you to savor these moments and not take them for granted, while you’re secretly praying your little one falls asleep while they’re breastfeeding so you can finish at least one episode of The Great British Baking Show.

If you’re craving an escape from your baby’s routine, here are a few ways:

Halloween Group Costumes for Families 🎃 👻

If you’re passionate about Halloween and love going all-out with your family’s costumes, we feel for you. It’s almost impossible to find several costumes that make everyone happy and on a theme. That’s why we’ve rounded up the best themes for your family costumes!

Scooby Doo Baby Costume

Wednesday Addams Costume

Bluey Family Costumes

🍋Lemon Predict: A Solar Eclipse in Libra is Happening on Saturday, Here’s How You Can Prepare 🌑

We all knew that October would bring spooky season to our doors, but the sun, moon, and stars aligned perfectly 💫 to deliver us the most chilling month of the year. ☮️

This Saturday, October 14th, at 1:54 EST, we’ll see a solar eclipse in Libra.

It’s natural to feel untethered, disconnected, exhausted, or any other negative emotion, you may need to take a step back and reevaluate your life and priorities. ⚖️

Eclipse-related feelings are not just limited to the eclipse. You might experience these feelings for a few days before and after the eclipse. 🌑

This week’s solar eclipse occurs in Libra, you’re likely going to see several things that you want to change in your world. We encourage you to make note of them and save them for another date, as solar eclipses only occur during a new moon phase, which is not a good time to start something new. 🌙

You will learn about your relationships, both past and present, this weekend. Libras ♍️, Aries, Capricorns, and Cancers ♋️, will experience the most need for change.

Lemon Shots 🍋 🥃

🎤 Republicans nominate House Majority Leader Steve Scalise as the next speaker in a 113-99 vote. Scalise beat Rep. Jim Jordan in the race on Wednesday morning.

📵 Several schools ask parents to delete social media on their childrens’ phones. According to sources, Hamas terrorists will broadcast live executions of civilians soon. Telegram, Facebook, YouTube, X, and TikTok are the likely targets for these videos.

🪧 🎭 SAG-AFTRA members are still on strike after getting ‘bullied’ by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. AMPTP said the conversations between the two groups were not productive, while SAG-AFTRA shared their disappointment with the offer presented.

✈️ Israeli airline EI AI will fly on Sabbath for the first time since 1982. The planes will fly on Saturday, bringing back Israeli emergency military reserve duty. Israel has called ~ 360,000 reserve soldiers, the largest number since the 1972 Yom Kippur War.

💔 Jada Pinkett Smith revealed in her new book that she and her husband Will Smith have been separated since 2016. The two are not getting a divorce, but Pinkett Smith says that she is exhausted.

🪧 🚗 The Union of Auto Workers shut down Ford’s biggest plant on Wednesday when 8,700 union members walked off of Ford’s Kentucky truck plant. The plant generates $25 billion in annual revenue, but the company’s shares have already dropped since the walkoff.

🔴 🍬 Last Saturday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law banning red dye No. 3 in his state. The law also prohibits any food with potassium bromate, brominated vegetable oil, and propylparaben from sale or distribution in California beginning in 2027.

What Else

Friday Fun Facts

We’re in the thick of spooky season, and as we added a few Halloween costume ideas in today’s newsletter, we wanted to keep you in the know with some fun facts about one of our favorite days of the year.

1. The word ‘costume’ comes from the Latin word, ‘coctum’ meaning what?

2. What country was the first to record wearing masks in 1895?

3. What were the first mass-produced Halloween costumes created in 1913 and made of cheesecloth and aluminum foil?

4. How much money does the average person spend on their Halloween costume each year?

5. Women used to throw apple peels in hopes of finding what on Halloween?