Every visitor for the baby brings sweets, and I can't stop judging other people's laddoos

violet_trail_85398 Jul 2026

The baby turned one month this week, and the visitors have properly started now. Every single one arrives with a box of sweets, which is very kind of them and I'm not complaining. The problem is that I make sweets for a living. So I'm sitting there feeding the baby, smiling, and in my head it's 'too much ghee', 'this besan isn't roasted enough', 'who puts this much cardamom in anything'. My partner has banned me from reading the labels out loud while guests are still in the house. Nine boxes on the dining table and counting.

3 comments

juniper_compass_86608 Jul 2026
Freeze whatever freezes and give the rest to your building staff and the delivery boys. We did that with festival boxes one year and nobody ever said no 🙂 And don't let the visitors see your face while they eat, they'll stop coming and then you'll miss them.
fig_bottle_46518 Jul 2026
Free market research, delivered to your sofa. Note down which shops people are buying from. That's your competition list.
marigold_window_238 Jul 2026
In Vijayawada these boxes never get eaten, they get forwarded. My mother once received the same box of kaju katli back from the neighbour she had given it to, same ribbon and everything. Mark yours before you pass them on.
- ochre_pool_7559 Jul 2026
  Or skip the colony and send them to a school staffroom. Teachers will finish nine boxes before the second bell, and nobody will ask about the ghee 😄
- violet_trail_85399 Jul 2026
  Replying to @ochre_pool_755
  The nearest staffroom we have is my partner's office, so four boxes went there this morning. I kept one, purely for research. It was very good, which annoyed me more ❤️