Post by erinshelley21 on Aug 14, 2019 8:09:53 GMT -5
Dear kid in DS's class, I dont know you and by some small town miracle I don't even know who your parents are. But if you dont quit picking on my kid and are the reason he hates school, cut the crap please. It's the 3rd week and his desire to not go to school has only gotten stronger. Your name came up last week and then again today. Signed, dont be that way all year and for the next 9.
Dear SIL and ex-BIL, You two need to grow up and get your shit together for the sake of your children and the extended family since you rely on MIL to help often, which has an impact on SFIL and my family. SIL, I'm mostly looking at you since your kids' dad is afraid if I take your kid and mine to lessons that are 30 minutes away instead of each of us driving our own kid, it will be held against him. And I was only letting DS go because you have to pay for your other kid's spot to hold it while she plays a fall sport. DS doesnt want to go now and I'm not even going to encourage him to go since I think you guys are ridiculous. Signed, the whole family is tired of it
You took the news that I’m the one who wrote your negative review like a champ. I’m glad you didn’t shut down and leave my office in a huff. You can improve, but I’m seriously thinking you’re going to have to report directly to me. You and your boss (my direct report) are eating crackers with each other to such an extent that I don’t think you can get beyond it.
Post by covergirl82 on Aug 14, 2019 8:26:03 GMT -5
Dear MIL,
You knew this trip to visit SIL and her family has been coming up for months...why haven't you been saving money towards it? You are going to pay for part of the rental car and part of the gas, like you agreed to months ago. You've been enabled so much by your dad (and even SIL and BIL) over the years that you just expect people to give you free stuff and not pay for things because you don't have much money. Well, you've made some really bad financial decisions over the years (like last year when you bought a brand new car you had no business getting because you couldn't afford it, and it's already been sold back to the dealership, but you're saddled with debt from the depreciation), but those were your choices, and you need to be responsible for them. And if I hear one word about you going on a trip recently with your friend, but yet you tell us you can't pay us the $115 for your part of the car rental on time, I'm going to lose it.
Sincerely, DIL who is done with your attitude of entitlement to hand-outs from family
Post by librarychica on Aug 14, 2019 8:33:20 GMT -5
Dear school district,
I read an article today about a Boston district that used an algorithm to save money and time on its bus routes. Go borrow it or something.
Sincerely, Honk, honk what time will my kid be home today?
Dear WM board,
The new after school babysitter is embracing mid drifts like they're the only shirts available, complete with spandex pants. Do I care? It’s not an office, after all ....
Dear kids, I just decided to end therapy for you, since it's killing my work schedule and you seem to not talk about anything at all. You just like hanging out and playing board games with the therapist. And now suddenly you're spending all your time ratting out your dad for "bad things" he's doing, like giving you soda, staying up late, too much screen time, etc. while telling me I should yell at him for it. You're acting up and being completely obnoxious lately, which is really out of character. Doesn't help that he also bailed on a bunch of his upcoming time, so your schedule is completely thrown off. Can we just rally and get through this together, because I will lose my mind if I have to figure out how to add therapy back in. Signed, Feeling like a terrible mom
Thank you for taking my children from the hours of 8:10- 3:45 pm including busing. DH has been working from home, so for the first time ever (except for vacations) we have a childcare bill of $0. I knew this mythical day might come one day, and I expect to have to select the days for aftercare at some point in time, but I am enjoying it for now!
Love, Mom
PS. the month of form signing and sending $5 has officially started.
covergirl82, I didn't realize that your DH and I were siblings.
Dear DH,
When you are gone, 12 hours a day and pretty much no help, when I am frustrated and overwhelmed, your job is to listen, and say things encouraging. It is not your time to pile on. No you don't get to bitch too. As to your comment as to well is there a manual on this or something, as I pretty much lost it and screamed, "YOU HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 20 *&%$ING YEARS, YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW IT WORKS BY NOW" still stands. I think your marriage ability peaked around year 15 and now you are regressing.
Signed, your wife who is actively trying to speak to you for the next 20.
Dear soccer coach, Thank you for volunteering for this thankless position. However, I do not need a 5 paragraph rambling e-mail with your first practice assessments. Please tell me you are not sending out these debriefs twice a week. I literally do not care that some kids have natural ability and some have had soccer before. These are known quantities. If that 5 paragraphs is to explain why everyone won't play goalie, fine. However, everyone should have a chance to play once in the season for at least 10 minutes which I think you agree with. So in summary no one cares. They are 6. Figure it out and stop being extra.
Signed, don't have time to read lengthy e-mails for no reason.
Dear DS2, Why did you get up at 3am and refuse to go back to sleep? I tried for almost 2 hours and you were still wide awake! You do this at least once a week. This trend has got to stop or I will lose my mind. This also doesn't bode well for our mini-vacation this weekend. Signed, Y U No Sleep?!
Dear DH, I get it. You are tired. I am too and I still have to go to work this morning. You, on the other hand as a SAHD, can probably squeeze in a small nap at some point today. So suck it up and do your best to survive and I'll be home before you know it. Then we can (hopefully) crash as soon as DD goes to bed. Signed, Tired wife P.S. To be fair, I've been up since 3am, while I did you a favor by waiting to get you up at 5. Unfortunately, your effort to keep DS2 from crying was lacking. Usually I don't wake you when DS2 is up because you are a jerk when you are tired.
Dear DS1, You have had a low fever, sleepy, and not eating very well since Friday. This is so not like you. I hope you can get back to 100% because you have Kindergarten orientation tomorrow morning. Love, Momma
If It bothers you I would address it in the context of the kids. Like how your DDs aren’t allowed to wear those type of shirts to school so would she mind setting the example while with them? I wouldn’t care about the pants.
Dear babysitter,
I really appreciate you getting the kids to camp/daycare today, but it’s no fun to get a call that DS2 fell off the couch and hit his head while I’m waiting to take off and there’s nothing I can do about it.
Dear soccer coach, Thank you for volunteering for this thankless position. However, I do not need a 5 paragraph rambling e-mail with your first practice assessments. Please tell me you are not sending out these debriefs twice a week. I literally do not care that some kids have natural ability and some have had soccer before. These are known quantities. If that 5 paragraphs is to explain why everyone won't play goalie, fine. However, everyone should have a chance to play once in the season for at least 10 minutes which I think you agree with. So in summary no one cares. They are 6. Figure it out and stop being extra.
Signed, don't have time to read lengthy e-mails for no reason.
omg this cracked me up. "stop being extra" i love it. lol. Don't cha just love some people??
When you text, give me a call when you get a chance, I presume someone has died. You never do that. Instead it was about pizza. So next time, it should read, give me a call when you get a chance, no one is sick, dying, lost their job, etc...
Post by librarychica on Aug 14, 2019 11:08:17 GMT -5
sdlaura, trying to decide if it bothers me. The pants don’t at all but the shirts are more like bras — 6 inches of belly showing not 1 or 2. I am trying to decide if I care in relation to the kids or if I am just being prudish.
When you text, give me a call when you get a chance, I presume someone has died. You never do that. Instead it was about pizza. So next time, it should read, give me a call when you get a chance, no one is sick, dying, lost their job, etc...
erinshelley21, Talk with your DS teacher now. Tell her that he doesn't want to go and it is getting worse each day. When you ask him why he has said X is mean to him and anything else that is bugging him. 186momx who it took almost the entire school year to find out DD was being picked on by N and that was adding to her "I don't want to go to school".
librarychica, I would say something to her. Something simple as the girls are asking when they can wear tops like that to school and since those are against dress code could she try and set a better example. DD saw them in the store and was "mom they barely cover your boobs"!
Dear School What is the point of a 30 minute meet the teacher night that starts at 5pm? Me
I read an article today about a Boston district that used an algorithm to save money and time on its bus routes. Go borrow it or something.
Sincerely, Honk, honk what time will my kid be home today?
Dear WM board,
The new after school babysitter is embracing mid drifts like they're the only shirts available, complete with spandex pants. Do I care? It’s not an office, after all ....
Library
I have stopped caring what my sitters wear as long as they are reliable, don't play with their phones the whole time and the kids like them. A bare mid-drift is the least of my worries. While I am old and think crop tops are odd outside for the beach or maybe a club I see them everywhere even at summer camp where they seem highly impractical.
Post by covergirl82 on Aug 14, 2019 12:37:33 GMT -5
I have another one...
Dear school,
Thank you for confirming that small town politics are still alive and well. DS is going to be disappointed that he is not in a class with his good friends again, and will recognize that it's beyond coincidence that 2 boys are in the same class again for the 5th year in a row, and that these two boys just happen to have a friend's mom (mutual friend of DS's and these 2 boys) as their teacher.
Post by supertrooper1 on Aug 14, 2019 13:31:20 GMT -5
Dear supervisor at another location, Before you start bitching me out on the phone, please understand who I am and what my job is. Don't tell me that I failed to input the paperwork in the system when I'm trying to tell you that this is a system glitch and I'm working with programmers at HQ on this known issue. Signed, Had to interrupt to put you in your place
Dear mom and dad, Thank you so much for offering to babysit Friday night. Having you instead of a babysitter eases my mom guilt some. Signed, Excited to go to this concert
I'm 100% side-eyeing the fact that you'll have separate lines for boys and girls all year. I didn't see any other classes doing that. Let's hope this is the only place I question your classroom choices.
Signed, I don't scream down with the patriarchy, but still think it's pretty outdated.
Dear DH,
I know you mean well, but quit suggesting I quit my job and come work at your company. I know you love it there and it's a great place to work, but your skills are highly valuable there. Mine aren't. Pretty sure that will correspond to the compensation package. Plus with two kids, we can't have two parents taking a shuttle to work an hour plus away. Uber bills would get pretty expensive for the default parent.
k3am , are they going to the bathroom, that is the only reason I could see. Otherwise, who cares what their gender is for a line?
Nope. This is the morning assembly.. line up, say the pledge of allegiance, walk to class. My guess is it's in effect in other places as well, but that's the only thing I'll ever see.
You sent a “welcome to the class” email on Monday before school started. And a school supply list home TODAY, after everyone had brought in their stuff. And your list is different from the PTA list. Shoulda sent that out on Monday, yo. I’m not shopping for anything new or returning any extra stuff that “takes up space.”
Signed, Not impressed.
PS my sister, a teacher in your state, is also flabbergasted that you’d divide the class by boy/girl.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Aug 14, 2019 21:21:22 GMT -5
Dear DH,
I’m so fucking annoyed with you...it’s beyond logic at this point I know so I’m biting my tongue. But you walk in to pre school drop in day and see our teacher changing all the labels from DD’s name to her nick name...why the fuck did you not say something in the moment?
DD has never had her stuff labeled that way since she was an infant. I have no idea what idiotic administrator was making her change it but now it’s a job for her to change it back. You could have saved her 50% of the effort and me 50% of the awkwardness of correcting her. Stop being too scared to stay basic shit to people and leaving if all to me.
Signed Mom who is sick of having ever single conversation
k3am , are they going to the bathroom, that is the only reason I could see. Otherwise, who cares what their gender is for a line?
Nope. This is the morning assembly.. line up, say the pledge of allegiance, walk to class. My guess is it's in effect in other places as well, but that's the only thing I'll ever see.
We had this last year in first grade. It was an interesting observation all year. The girls line was perfectly orderly and still like perfect little soldiers. The boys line was a mess like a bunch of monkeys with ants in their pants.....saying this as a monkey mom. 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
sdlaura , trying to decide if it bothers me. The pants don’t at all but the shirts are more like bras — 6 inches of belly showing not 1 or 2. I am trying to decide if I care in relation to the kids or if I am just being prudish.
I would say something. It's just not professional...and she's your employee. I mean, I know you didn't think you needed a dress code but hey...that's how employment policies get written sometimes.
Truth though: we just did teacher drop in and DS' teacher was wearing sort of...gypsy pants from the renaissance festival and a T shirt with a fantasy print on it - I think it was a tree or something....and she was wearing (and has always worn) a belt that is kind of like this:
Anyway. I'm going to admit that her appearance was obviously not professional, but in a different way. But her clothing choices actually got me excited about what the year was going to look like.