Why are you so weird? Ds at school by 6:45 for a field trip, picked up at 3:30, a half hour away from where I'll be, DD from volleyball at 4:00 a half hour away again. Really, this was supposed to be the easy day. AND Dh is gone from 6:30-7:30.
Signed, the mom
Dear parents,
Somehow, I am the assumed volleyball coach. If I can't get a response when I send out a txt about when would be good for practice and can anyone help, we're going to do it when convenient for me,and everyone else can deal with it.
Dear after school art club, I love the idea of upcycling. But what the heck am I supposed to do with 2 wooden cabinet doors that my children have painted on instead of canvas? Especially when they're going to come home with these once a month! I can not sneakily throw these out like the mountains of paper art they usually bring home. Do we build a new set of cabinets for the playroom, using these random doors that will now fill my house? Signed, Confused mom
Dear DH, This is why we read the fine print on clubs. We don't just sign them up for literally every club offered. Signed, The cabinets are your problem now
Dear coworkers, Yes, I very much realize that there is an issue with our website. It's why I'm shoveling money and resources at it frantically. I am not ignoring you, or not taking the issue seriously, or blowing you off, or whatever you think is happening over here. Emailing me EVERY DAY to tell me the exact same issue is still occuring does not help. Neither does emailing my boss because you want them to know about "this serious issue." They approved the budget to fix it, they're aware. It takes time, I can't work magic on a frankenstein of a website overnight. Signed, Annoyed
Post by erinshelley21 on Feb 14, 2018 9:39:02 GMT -5
Dear DH, I am going to go back to doing MOTN wake ups from now on. You getting an attitude with me at 1:30 in the morning because I asked you to get up with DD isn't helpful at all. So, even when I am still trying to sleep off a migraine and get rest so I don't get sick before or while you are OOT for work for an entire week, I will get up with her. I'm also not going to share this new plan with you because I don't feel like fighting about it. I do hope you recognize over the next few days that you got to sleep all night even though you don't work the rest of the week. Love, you are an awesome husband and father, but you just 100% suck at MOTNs and early mornings.
Dear Sickness, I just can't right now. Absolutely cannot. Signed, Come back at the end of March if you must invade my body.
Post by supertrooper1 on Feb 14, 2018 9:49:00 GMT -5
Dear DH, If you are going to sleep in the guest room, then don't wake me up going into the master bathroom at 3am. I know you think you were being quiet, but you still woke me up and then I tossed and turned until my alarm went off. Signed, Tired and annoyed with you
You were awesome last night at the restaurant handling our three kiddos including a screaming baby. Sorry I was 15 minutes late and thank you for not even mentioning it. You also surprised me when you said you called your mom about drunk brother and made an appointment for a vasectomy consult. I know it feels so final but remember tonight at the restaurant? Love, Feeling like a team again and this is what I love about your relaxed personality
Dear mellym,
I can’t believe you spent all that time getting dinner in the crockpot this morning and forgot to turn it on. Meetings and auditors all day so I can’t go home
Post by covergirl82 on Feb 14, 2018 10:57:56 GMT -5
Dear DS,
You had a good run of not being sick (where you can't go to school) this whole school year, until now. At this point, you'll be staying home tomorrow (and I'll WFH), but hopefully your fever breaks and you're feeling better by Friday! I'm sorry you're going to miss your Valentine's Day party at school, though.
Dear DH Thanks for the flowers. Why did you use your hydroflask as a vase? Also I really hope you enjoy the cold breakfast casserole which was supposed to be my lunch today which I would be eating in 4 hours all nice and warm and gooey. Sign Wife Who is eating a can of soup
Dear School District You are being bullied by a couple families in the district to cancel all holidays to make them happy. Ignoring the angry 100+ parents at the board meeting Monday night that is open to the public wasn't cool. Calling the cops to have them removed was even worse. Rescheduling for Thursday at the same time as 3 other school events again not cool. You have the media and reporters all reporting. It sounds like giant mess. Frustrated Parent
DD You have every right to opt out of whole school kindness craft and I hope you are right and Mrs J bucks the system and lets you guys celebrate. I hope the flowers you give her today bring a giant smile to her day Love Mom
Dear Coyote, I know you like our yard, but can you please move your den? Animal Control won’t do anything, and I would be fine with it except for the way you tease our sweet dog and make her bark while I am on calls. I’m too scared to climb into what I think is your den and dismantle it. Rabies seems like a bad idea.
Working Mom who totally is fine with you living here if you would go on your merry way
It's Wednesday... you know what Wednesdays mean for me now? It's offer day. We're writing an offer later this morning on a house that only hits on about 40% of our criteria, but we both really like. So if we get it, we'll be happy (and probably terrified), and if we don't get it, we'll move on to one that hopefully hits more of our criteria. The points that this house hits, it hits hard. The neighborhood is fabulous. The house is beautiful.
Signed, The crazily anxious nervous woman who's had about 11 mental breakdowns this week
Dear realtor,
The best news that you gave me is that even though we're extended our offer deadline on our house until tomorrow, I don't need to have the house show ready tomorrow. Thank.The.Lord. I never realized how exhausting making beds and getting everything perfect before leaving daily could be.
Signed, Not cut out to be Suzy Homemaker AKA the lady who randomly decided accepting offers on Valentine's Day might not be the best idea ever
I am so confused by you. Do you speak English as your primary language? Yesterday, I was supposed to go to a retirement dinner. But I got a migraine and started puking. When I texted you “FYI I’m coming home before dinner. Just threw up. Yuck,” how did you possibly read that as “I’m going to make a quick stop at home before going back out to the retirement dinner”? Why would I come home and then leave again if I’m puking? I was trying to make you aware that instead of getting home late, I would indeed be home before dinner.
Wife Who Was a Little Pissed You Didn’t Get Any Dinner for Me
PS MIL- Quit parking in my frigging parking spot. Period. I don’t care if you think I’m coming home or not.
Post by covergirl82 on Feb 14, 2018 16:23:50 GMT -5
mommyatty, your DH and MIL make me think of that commercial where the son gradually starts becoming his mom and by the end of the commercial they look and act the same.
Please just give me a good deal. I don't have it in me to spend all day haggling on Friday. I'm trying to line up the car I want for the price I want before I go in, and I'd appreciate it if you just agreed with me. I'm not being unreasonable. Also, my trade-in is a separate discussion. Let's nail down the price for the car I want, and then you can talk about what you're going to pay me for my awesome, but old, car.
Kthanx! Consumer that will help you make your target numbers.
Dear Elementary School It sounds like the kids pulled a fast one on you today. They turned your kindness craft into a Valentine's celebration. Gave out cards amongst themselves and had a good old day even with you fighting tooth and nail to not have it. I think you need to listen to the kids and stop listening to the "it's not fair parents" Mom who is happy the kids won today
mae0111- If there is a CarMax there, get an estimate for what they will pay you for your used car. We’ve been happy and shocked every time we’ve done it.
phdmomma, rumor has it a couple families are suing the district because it goes against their beliefs and to stop the lawsuit they want all holidays cancelled. The district keeps saying it is so everyone can be included and there are no exclusions. It seems that instead of making it inclusive they are excluding the majority of the students. I really hope what happened yesterday gets brought to the school board attention by each of the schools teachers/admin that they tried to undo Valentine's and the kids rebelled and turned it into it anyways.
Another district in town just changed on of the high school names from Axemen to Axe as it wasn't gender neutral. So they are now to be called South (City Name) Axe and it is going to cost almost 40K to replace uniforms, banners, etc.
phdmomma , rumor has it a couple families are suing the district because it goes against their beliefs and to stop the lawsuit they want all holidays cancelled. The district keeps saying it is so everyone can be included and there are no exclusions. It seems that instead of making it inclusive they are excluding the majority of the students. I really hope what happened yesterday gets brought to the school board attention by each of the schools teachers/admin that they tried to undo Valentine's and the kids rebelled and turned it into it anyways.
Another district in town just changed on of the high school names from Axemen to Axe as it wasn't gender neutral. So they are now to be called South (City Name) Axe and it is going to cost almost 40K to replace uniforms, banners, etc.
Mwahaha... People have too much time on their hands. For real..
186momx, That seems strange to me. And I'm impressed that anyone cares that much to try to cancel things. I grew up in a town where a third of the population was middle eastern and practiced Islam, so we did things a little differently (ie winter holiday part versus christmas party, etc.), but nothing like what you are describing. During the month of Ramadan they used to divide the cafeteria in half, for an eating side and a fasting side. I wonder if they could make a not party room, that they send the kids to from the families to do something else during the parties? While the people who are good with their kids having the holiday parties get to celebrate them?
phdmomma, what you described is how it was when I was a student in the district. We had a family that didn't celebrate anything or was allowed to say the pledge which we did every day. The child just step out in the hall and then came back in when we were done. Class parties were always the last 20 minutes so that family left early. We are a pretty poor demographic school district so I want to know who has the $$$ to actually sue the school.
They don't even do parties anymore and Christmas parties went away before I graduated. Lets see this year Halloween was totally ignored. DD's teacher did pumpkin counting, apples, and skeleton crafts/discussion and they went to the pumpkin patch. For thanksgiving they made math fact turkeys. Then they did a winter break kick off party with a pj day, stuff animal reading event, and gingerbread house making activity, and delivered candy canes to all the staff as a thank you. Her class was the only class in the entire school that did anything for the "winter holiday". They made peace doves for MLK day. Yesterday she came home with a ton of paper cards from classmates (we weren't supposed to send in), big class made cards, heart crafts, and they had cookies and punch. I think they did more yesterday than anything just because of all the fuss.
I always wonder what beliefs are violated - because I know many, many people who have religious beliefs around Christmas or birthdays or other holidays that celebrate secularly or won’t celebrate but aren’t going to freak out at a pumpkin craft. Are the people who object really THAT hardcore about EVERYTHING?? One year DD’s class didn’t get cupcakes and all the other classes did. Because of a food allergy. Not ANA and not airborne - the parents didn’t want to supply a cupcake and pitched a fit when the teacher offered to supply a suitable one. The parents claimed it singled out the kid.
So a mom brought 24 cupcakes to pick up for the class and the kid was more upset. Nice job all around on that one, parents and school.
What do people gain by ruining it for everyone? I really don’t grasp it.
My view on the cancelling stuff because of other people’s religious restrictions boils down to “I can’t do this because of my religious beliefs = ok. You can’t do this because of my religious beliefs =not okay.”
Virtually everything is banned by some religion. I went to Catholic school. During Lent Catholics who have been confirmed are supposed to fast on certain days. They didn’t shut down the cafeteria those days! Or cancel lunch. Do we have to cancel music classes because some religions think music is sinful?
Post by mustardseed2007 on Feb 16, 2018 7:44:47 GMT -5
I wonder if they are Jehova's Witnesses? JWs don't celebrate any holidays, but I don't know any Jehova's Witnesses that have gone this route. They leave class early or take the day off school or got to the library, etc.
Which, actually, does kind of suck when you think about it. But, my admin is a JW and she's said they don't mind b/c him leaving class is a witness to people. It sparks conversations etc. and they are all about that.
It makes me also wonder if they are atheists who don't want to celebrate holidays that have any kind of religious connotation.
mustardseed2007, I agree most JWs that I know like the statement it makes when they leave the class or have chosen to homeschool their children. DD's class is about 40% white, 40% Hispanic, 20% mixed race or other and I think that is what the school report card showed also.
Only thing I found out on the news about last night's big school board meeting was that parents wanted the district to communicate better, show the research/proof of why holiday celebrations are upsetting and that it should be a choice if families want their children to participate and that opting out is okay. Will be interesting to see what plays out over the next few months.