Post by covergirl82 on Sept 5, 2018 7:53:30 GMT -5
Dear DD,
I'm really enjoying our mom-daughter adventures one night a week while DH and DS are at football practice. It's fun to walk around our small downtown area and get ice cream, walk through some shops, and go to the library. I'm glad you're enjoying our time together too.
Love, Mommy
Dear DH,
Someday, will you please figure out how to access your paystubs? Your 2 deposits in August and the one pending for tomorrow are different than usually. I'm certainly not complaining, because the deposit is higher by around $300, but still...I'd like to know why.
Love,
Your wife, who submits the bills for payment and monitors the bank account like a hawk and likes to know these things
Post by librarychica on Sept 5, 2018 8:10:19 GMT -5
Dear YMCA,
I have been trying to cancel our membership for a week since I learned that the teaching pool is closed for at least three months so I can’t swim with DD2 while DD1 has her coaching session. Please do not give me any lip about sufficient notice tonight when I broach the subject in person. I’ve sent several emails and left voicemails.
Sincerely, You may be able to handle kids in 7 feet of water, but I cannot
You didn't follow your intuition and broke the cardinal rule of never working for private equity again. And now you are disappointed it didn't work out. You could have made it work, but the place sucks. We have had so much drama in 3 weeks. That is all the time you were there is 3 weeks and I have already had to talk you down at least 3-4 times. nope nope nope.
You old job gave you a 25k raise and you will be getting a sweet bonus according to your boss. Yes your old boss is super hands off, and you will get yanked off work you sold because guess what you sold it, onto the next on to sell, right? I mean that is the job. And if your boss is disappearing it is because you are a 40 ish grown ass man who has the education, smarts, and experience to do the job without him.
So I don't get why you are upset you couldn't make it work. If I went from my cushy job to working at a meat packing factory where I got meat juice all over me every day and smelled, I wouldn't be upset it didn't work out. So why are you upset that a crappy job didn't work out?
Also, you need to stop thinking about yourself and your career so much. There are people living in truly unfortunate situations- volunteer at a hospice or homeless shelter. Get some perspective!
Post by mustardseed2007 on Sept 5, 2018 9:21:17 GMT -5
Dear Robotics Enrichment Class,
I happen to know you are the SAME program we did at our old school, and yet you are 120 dollars more than at old school. DS has recently said he wants to join but I just don't know about you. :/
Signed, I see you bitch
Dear DS,
I think you're about to be over scheduled. Are you sure you want to do Robotics?
Signed, Mom who shouldn't have signed her science kid up for soccer
Dear DD,
I feel like I'm neglecting you because your brother has so much going on. But you're doing super well in school, you're still in montessori so you have no homework, your extracurriculars are all on the weekend, and you're taking two, inexpensive, enrichment things after school b/c that's what you're interested in...I dunno you're just easy right now. And bless you for it.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Sept 5, 2018 9:26:32 GMT -5
Dear DS' teacher,
The fact that all the kids have different colored folders for "take home" and "bring to school" is ok. The fact that you want us to only pay attention to whether the folder has a blue or green dot is not terrible.
But the fact that you gave DS a blue "take home" folder with a green sticker dot and green "to school folder" with a blue sticker dot is...lets face it...super confusing. Sorry to be critical but it is.
Signed, Mom who is going to get some stickers and switch that shit.
Post by erinshelley21 on Sept 5, 2018 9:30:38 GMT -5
Dear office building, We've been through some times together. Good, bad, sad, happy. All of them. You've seen me at my best and my worst. Some of my finer moments of intelligence have occurred in there along with some of my hardest days. You being the cause of some of them, like when I'm home with my 4 week old baby and a pipe burst or when I'm 8 months pregnant and the water is frozen with no idea where the pipes come into the building to begin thawing them. It's so f'ing fitting that after 2 water damage incidents that when someone who is actually interested in buying you, you decide to clog a freaking drain in the A/C, spring a leak and lose some ceiling. This is why we can't be together anymore. I hope we find you a new owner soon and that you're nicer to them. The person that looked at you Sunday might like you despite your leaky ceiling and didn't tell the realtor to go to hell yesterday when she shared the news of your ceiling. Knock your shit off and the buyer may leave you standing. I'd knock you down and start from scratch. Signed, erinshelley
Dear DH, Thanks for moving your Chicago trip in favor of my NY trip! I really appreciate it and promise I will book dog sitters, kid transport for DD to the golf course, extend the nanny, get rides to and from soccer and volleyball and I will drop off and pick up the dogs from their spay appointments the next week and already told my boss.
The fact that all the kids have different colored folders for "take home" and "bring to school" is ok. The fact that you want us to only pay attention to whether the folder has a blue or green dot is not terrible.
But the fact that you gave DS a blue "take home" folder with a green sticker dot and green "to school folder" with a blue sticker dot is...lets face it...super confusing. Sorry to be critical but it is.
Signed, Mom who is going to get some stickers and switch that shit.
Post by judyblume14 on Sept 5, 2018 9:40:10 GMT -5
Dear Universe, Thank you for letting me forget that I enrolled in the Dependent Care FSA through work. With the new $$$$ roof that's being put on in a couple weeks, this surprise $5K that I just submitted a claim for is a serious treat!
Dear Weather, Of course you are hot and sunny all week. And of course you are forecast to drop 20 degrees (!) from Thursday to Saturday. And storm all weekend. Just in time for DD's birthday party. Her POOL party. That was also rained on last year. Of course.
Dear DH, I got all of us red clothing for your grandmother's funeral, because your mom wants us to wear "red, yellow, or orange", do not complain that it is all red and does not include the other colors. If you would like us to wear something else, you can go and get all of it for the kids, yourself, and myself. I made time to do this, when apparently you didn't read the email they sent a month ago about this, and I just found out this weekend. Also, why can't we just all wear black or bright colors? Why this pain in the rear color pallet? Signed, Buy your own darn clothes if you are going to complain
Dear School Nurse, I am working on getting the form signed for DS's inhaler. It would be nice if the form was on the website with all of the back to school forms, and not one I had to wait for you to give me, and then am supposed to magically turn it around with a DR's signature. Signed, Put the form on the darn website
Dear Rain, Seriously stop, we have closed streets due to flooding, the other area schools are closed for the week due to our severe flooding. They have to decide wether to release water from the dam and flood more streets or keep it overfull and hope that the dam holds. Also the mosquito here are nuts because of you, I shouldn't have to put on bug spray to take my kids to the bus stop. Signed, Soggy
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the reminder! We have ours through DH's work and I don't recall ever seeing reimbursements hit our account this year. He usually sets up weekly reimbursements to correspond to daycare payments. I bet we forgot with having a newborn at that time.
Off to ask DH
Dear DD1, I'm so happy you had a fun first day of 1st grade even though none of your friends are in your class. I was nervous because you were nervous but you have a great teacher this year and you will do awesome things. We just need to keep working on reading and it will get better. Happy that you wanted to keep playing at After Care and not come home with me
Are we finally hitting the teenage moodiness, or are you just being difficult on purpose. I think we are going to have to have a attitude adjustment. Grunting is not an answer to the question did you eat breakfast.
Signed mom.
P.S. Eat breakfast.
Dear County Government,
I realize you have a schedule for meetings. Which is why it is upsetting that all of the sudden, you switch meeting dates. Plus all of the sudden call up an agenda item that requires my presence, next Tuesday night. I have a game. I am the coach. I set the game schedules, based on my availability. Now I am not available and it's too late to switch the game.
Post by traveltheworld on Sept 5, 2018 12:37:26 GMT -5
Dear DS's teacher,
Why oh why are you inviting all the parents to join the children for the first 15 minutes of class for reading time FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR?!?! Why is this a thing? Shouldn't parents be able to drop their kids off and then move on with their day?? Who has time for this?
Signed, Irritated mom who will now try to do this at least a few times, because: mom guilt
Dear DD's Montessori school director,
I love you. I'm impressed that even though DS was only at your school for 2 months 1.5 years ago, you still remember him and his interests, but at the same time, took the time to talk to DD and make her feel comfortable and happy. This is the first time I've been able to drop DD off at daycare/school/activity without tears.
Dear traveltheworld, DS teacher I really hope you misworded that note and just wanted to let parents know that if they want to stay for reading time they are more than welcome to at anytime during the year. Nope sorry any working parent who has to rush off to work won't have time to sit in at reading time but we will all feel guilty and end up trying to do it so our kid doesn't feel left out. 186momx who would be in the guilty feeling boat
Dear BIL, DH, FIL I really don't like not planning anything because something may go on with FIL and DH will need to drop everything to go move or deal with him. I get conservatorship takes time to get but can you please talk to each other and then let me know so I can think more than a week in advance. Wife who wants to plan stuff in October
DD I'm glad you had a great 1st day of 2nd grade yesterday. But trying to get around your teacher to avoid going to aftercare using the 1st day as an excuse isn't funny. Also you must do homework club at aftercare you should get at least half of your daily homework done before I pick you up which is important on gym days. Mom the time clocker
Dear 2nd grade teacher 30-60 minutes for reading or spelling and a page of math seems excess in time allotment. Then you want another 30 of reading on top of all of this. DD goes to bed early, I really hope this is the max time and not the minimum. mom who is shock on the giant homework increase in 2nd grade
Dear Summer 2018, You kicked my butt. School starts tomorrow and there is a suspected and anticipated reorg announcement tomorrow at work. Getting our old house on the market and functioning in the new one has been cathartic and absolutely exhausting. So ready to put my feet up and get into a Fall routine. Thank you for the full and blessed last three months. But now I need a break and some monotony. Signed, This tired WP
p.s. please get my cats to magically stop scratching my brand new couch.
Dear Kids, I just looked at Saturday and literally have hives. Fall is about to begin. Between the three of you there are 5 kid things - 8am - 4:30pm. Your grandparents arrive for your grandfather’s birthday at 4:00. We eat at 5:15 then it’s football snacks during the game. I’m exhausted in advance so please please be cooperative and make this all worth it. I need a good weekend as a proof of concept for surviving three kids in sports
Post by traveltheworld on Sept 5, 2018 14:18:06 GMT -5
186momx, and k3am, it is voluntary. So the parents don't HAVE to stay, but given that we live in suburbia central with lots of SAHMs and parents with flexible work schedules, I think lots would end up staying. I already saw a whole bunch of parents lingering around the classroom this morning. And it's across the grade. I just find the whole thing so odd. I mean, technically both DH and I have lots of flexibility so we could conceivably do it quite often, but what about other parents who don't have that flexibility? Why put in a policy that clearly differentiates one child from another? Just odd.
Dear Kids, I just looked at Saturday and literally have hives. Fall is about to begin. Between the three of you there are 5 kid things - 8am - 4:30pm. Your grandparents arrive for your grandfather’s birthday at 4:00. We eat at 5:15 then it’s football snacks during the game. I’m exhausted in advance so please please be cooperative and make this all worth it. I need a good weekend as a proof of concept for surviving three kids in sports
Well I think you are surviving but when you write out your schedule sometimes I wonder how.
I also wonder that about my schedule and we are doing about a third less than you guys.
waverly and sdlaura - ideally each kid plays only one sport. One at a time can play more than one, generally. All gear is kept in specific bags for that sport in the mud room. There is yelling if someone fails to put their stuff away.
The new wrench is not sports - it’s jobs for the oldest. My 8:00 is taking her to babysit, then getting to DS’ 9:00 game. Then I have to get oldest at 11:00 and feed her and get her there to coach DD’s game (and DD has to play) by 11:30. It’s this new layer of having a high school kid that’s killing me. (Typed as I waited for DD for golf).
Now I am with DS getting him a hair cut and then I will feed the kids and then I am walking DD’s schedule from 6-8. It’s truly having the high schooler that’s too much.
186momx, and k3am, it is voluntary. So the parents don't HAVE to stay, but given that we live in suburbia central with lots of SAHMs and parents with flexible work schedules, I think lots would end up staying. I already saw a whole bunch of parents lingering around the classroom this morning. And it's across the grade. I just find the whole thing so odd. I mean, technically both DH and I have lots of flexibility so we could conceivably do it quite often, but what about other parents who don't have that flexibility? Why put in a policy that clearly differentiates one child from another? Just odd.
Our assemblies are also not mandatory for parents... but they still rub me the wrong way.
I freakin paid you already. I have the receipt to prove it. Why are you sending me final notices. You will be getting an annoyed and if you argue with me nasty phone call tomorrow. Plus also I paid you over the phone when you called me about it, because you couldn't wait until I got my paycheck.
Signed,
Hate taking time out of my day to deal with crap like this
Post by ilovelucyvv on Sept 6, 2018 6:59:09 GMT -5
traveltheworld , that assembly situation would really irk me because my kid would notice that she was one of the only ones without a parent there and feel left out.
2chatter , does your oldest really need a job? Not that I am against jobs per se, but my parents were okay with me not having a job in high school because of activities and they wanted me to have enough time to focus on my AP classes. Since there is so much of a burden already on you, does it make sense for her to work a few hours Sat AM?
2chatter, ugh. I have no idea how you do it. My oldest SS just got his license and his mother said that it has been a game changer. He has his own car and drives himself and SS2 (14) where they need to go. She drives around their little brother (8). Let the count down begin?