That's great. You did well. You also got lucky.

But that's unique to you. Nobody else can live your life. Also, even if they could, there's no guarantee anybody else will find satisfaction in your life enough to not be bored.

Not to bash, but just being honest to make a point....group hummus eating sounds like the 7th circle of hell to me. I don't make many deep female friends because I'm always categorized as a project or a make over. The more casual female friendsbips I have, I always become the source of support because they lack my confidence or my skillset. They're clingy like that. It never seems to dawn on them that if I wanted to do myself up in makeup or roll my hair every day, I'd do it. I've got the same 24 hr allotment they do and clearly, it's not like I sit around doing nothing. Right now, I'm taking a break from trying to fix Urchling's drone. Then I've got order her a new screen for her tablet because she broke hers. Actually, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to supervise her doing that because this is the second time she's broken the darn thing in 6 months. Time to step up and fix her own messes. So I'll be teacher her how to replace a screen when it comes in too. That's fun. Hummus, hair and makeup are not fun. Not for me.

It's great that it's your thing. But I'd gouge my eyeballs out with a pickle fork if that was my life. And I think I you can agree that trying to repair broken items, woodwork, wood burning, etc are not good things to do with an infant on your hip and in the way. There's a reason why these things tend to be handled by one gender and not the other, after all. It just shouldn't be forced along gender lines because you don't always have infants and small kids and men could take care of children too so Mom could do these other things as well.