Ballerina Farm's Birth Story and Jodi Hildebrandt's $5 MILLION house for Sale

All the Updates! Happy Sunday friends.

It’s been a nice quiet weekend over here. We took our kids to the goat farm to recycle our Christmas tree yesterday morning. Yes, this is a thing you can do here in Philly.

And afterwards my mom took my big kids for a sleepover. You know what that means, hot date night! And for us, a hot date night is a trip to IKEA with just one baby. Honestly we had a blast. We bought organizing shit. We ate Swedish meatballs and we went to bed at a reasonable hour. Sexy!

I have heaps of Substacks planned for this week, including my dry January attempt, but I keep getting DMs about breaking influencers news (bahahaha this makes me laugh every time) so I figured I would recap what’s been happening to give you an easy scroll. Today we have updates on Ruby Frankie’s sidekick Jodi Hildebrandt who just plead guilty to child abuse and put her $5 million house up for sale. If you’re a nosy asshole like me you will Zillow it immediately. I am totally that person. I Zillow everyone and everything. I want to see the inside of people’s houses. Sue me!

We also have the whole Ballerina Farm birth story in case you don’t feel like plunging down that particular rabbit hole yourself on Instagram. Spoiler: She says she nearly delivered the baby in the toilet.

Today’s newsletter is mostly a paid subscriber one because they take a long time to compile. It usually goes to the end of the email limit. But as I mentioned before I am comping lifetime paid subscriptions to everyone who pre-orders my new novel The Sicilian Inheritance (because books are expensive and you deserve nice things). So if you order it DM me or email me and I will make sure we get you on the paid list. Signed and personalized copies available from Bluebird Bookstop.

OK, but first the Ballerina Farm baby update. Apparently labor took about two days and she had to race home 90 minutes from her midwife’s house at the end of it so she could give birth in her house (bath tub).