Weekend Open Letters

[mommyatty]

Dear Son:

I don’t sleep. I was up last night from around midnight until 4 am. So what the actual f were you doing looking at my clock 6 inches from my face at 6 am? Especially considering we have to do a forcible extraction every weekday morning at 7 am?

Sleepy Mom

Dear dad at birthday party this afternoon:

Dude, it’s never okay to tell a woman she looks tired.  Why do I look tired? I don’t know, maybe because I AM FREAKING TIRED. See letter to DS above.

Pissed Off Tired Looking Woman Who Isn’t Sleeping

Dear Self:

Suck it up and take the melatonin at 8 so you sleep tonight. It’s been days.

Not Looking Forward to Weird Melatonin Dreams

[rere]

Dear Mall,

How fabulous to have a wine shop with wine tasting right in the middle of everything. That is a definite boost to my shopping experience. At noon.

Signed,

Slightly buzzed shopper.

[waverly]

Dear TV show called Couples Counseling:

Thank you. I always felt we were doing OK/ good but after watching that I realize our problems are no where near the type or severity of the couples on the show.

Dear DH’s therapist- I get you are trying to help him hack his life and the kitty litter robot is a good idea but now he is obsessing that the cat won’t use it. Also our automatic coffee maker arrived broken. Why is hacking our life so hard? It’s supposed to be the opposite.

Dear weekend- I’m loving this long weekend but let’s be honest you are being a bit weird. From canceling our grocery service to DH making me go to the same restaurant 2 days in a row, to a strange play date. Let’s see what today brings with a birthday party our last grocery deliver and indoor baseball. Tomorrow is haircuts and chiropractor.

[twinmomma]

Dear schedule,
This sucks. Can we get back to normal yet? I am craving a normal routine with set days for the kids and just a general sense of normalcy. This chaotic shuffling is wearing on me and the girls. I feel like none of us ever know where we are at on any given day. I can't wait to be back from my trip and settle into a routine again. I don't think I want to switch to full weeks at a time, but sometimes this back and forth just seems like too much.
Signed,
Tired

[mae0111]

Dear contractor -

You haven’t even started and we are 3 weeks behind. I hope that this is not a sign of things to come. Please get your rest in gear and get me a new kitchen. I’m tired of living 1/2 packed up.

Signed -

No more $$ until my ugly cabinets are gone

[186momx]

Dear DD
Awesome job Friday night getting your shoot-thru on bars!!! I'm happy you got to show me after practice and the whole gym stopping doing whatever they were doing to watch you and the you got the loudest cheering/happy dance from everyone in the gym which is pretty special in itself.
Love mom
PS please don't be getting sick the snotty nose this morning is worrying me

Dear Sunshine
Why are you here? It was supposed to rain. Do you know how hard it is to sit behind my desk when the sun is out and it is Sunday afternoon.
Signed
Cranky tax lady

mommyatty, I also go the tired comment. One of the dad's at the gym told me happy birthday Thursday night. I told him thanks and he asked if I was turning 45, no only 37 he was oh I guess you must be really tired because I thought 45 was low balling your age. Thanks random dad who heard DD talking about celebrating mommy's b-day next week. I actually took time to put make up on this morning to try and not look tired as I'm celebrating with my family tonight and didn't want any comments. Ugh this tired thing is for real.
186momx
PS My dad already comment I looked awfully tired today and if I slept okay last night, ugh

[sdlaura]

186momx the like was for your DD’s accomplishment, not for the ahole Dad who made the rudest comment ever! Even if you think someone is older, who would tell them that?!

[covergirl82]

Dear WPs,

DD woke up Sunday with a fever. She had a mild influenza 2 weeks ago, so this is either a 2nd virus or a 2nd round with a really long break in between. Either way, I don't need this right now on week 3 of my new job. Thankfully, my parents were already planning to be with the kids today because of no school due to President's Day, and my dad already said he could come over again tomorrow if DD can't go to school. I haven't been sleeping well because I've been stressed about my new job (so many things to learn, doing things correctly, etc.), and now I'm stressed about DD being sick, and what if DS gets sick again... I'm TIRED.

Signed,
Add me to the "tired" list.

[twinmomma]

Dear WPs,
Sounds like we all desperately need a vacation. Winter has to be almost done, right?
Add me to the tired club. I've been consistently waking up around 3 AM for a couple weeks now. My alarm goes off at 5, so it's brutal. I just can't get my brain to turn off.
Good luck to everyone this week. Hope life calms down for all of us soon.
Signed,
Solidarity

[covergirl82]

twinmomma, 44 days until we leave for Spring Break (Disney World). It can't come soon enough!! I hope you have something planned that is coming up soon too!

[twinmomma]

Dear legal system,
Why don't you make us hash out a will and estate planning BEFORE the divorce is final? Because this is going to now become a super fun process to navigate with an ex-husband who likely wants his teenage girlfriend/fiancee to get custody if something happens to both of us. Please tell me that "step moms" don't get automatic dibs on this.
Signed,
FML

[drjeep]

Feb 16, 2020 15:11:06 GMT -5 mae0111 said:

Dear contractor -

You haven’t even started and we are 3 weeks behind. I hope that this is not a sign of things to come. Please get your rest in gear and get me a new kitchen. I’m tired of living 1/2 packed up.

Signed -

No more $$ until my ugly cabinets are gone

I totally fell you on this! When I redid my kitchen the guys from Lowe's had to cut my countertops THREE FREAKING TIMES before they cut them right in order to get them installed. A bunch of idiots the lot of them! The guy who was doing the measuring was doing everything correctly because both I and my contractor were watching him measure. Apparently the geniuses in the department where they cut the countertops can't read numbers! It put finishing my kitchen behind by over a month because they had to order more countertop to cut every time they jacked up cutting it correctly! Infuriating! 

[shakinros]

covergirl82 when will you be there? We are going for spring break mid-April!

[mae0111]

drjeep - demo finally started, plumber showed up on schedule electricians came today... and he discovered that the designer MEASURED WRONG. She designed the entire kitchen, all cabinets, etc. based off of incorrect measurements. In order to correct it, it’s a significant amount of extra interior AND exterior work, or we have to lose the only cabinet that will work for dishes.

I’m PISSED. And so is the contractor. We paid a TON for these cabinets and for this design and it was all wrong!! WTF DESIGNER!!! You had ONE JOB!!!

[mustardseed2007]

Feb 16, 2020 17:01:51 GMT -5 186momx said:

Dear DD
Awesome job Friday night getting your shoot-thru on bars!!! I'm happy you got to show me after practice and the whole gym stopping doing whatever they were doing to watch you and the you got the loudest cheering/happy dance from everyone in the gym which is pretty special in itself.
Love mom
PS please don't be getting sick the snotty nose this morning is worrying me

Dear Sunshine
Why are you here? It was supposed to rain. Do you know how hard it is to sit behind my desk when the sun is out and it is Sunday afternoon.
Signed
Cranky tax lady

mommyatty , I also go the tired comment. One of the dad's at the gym told me happy birthday Thursday night. I told him thanks and he asked if I was turning 45, no only 37 he was oh I guess you must be really tired because I thought 45 was low balling your age. Thanks random dad who heard DD talking about celebrating mommy's b-day next week. I actually took time to put make up on this morning to try and not look tired as I'm celebrating with my family tonight and didn't want any comments. Ugh this tired thing is for real.
186momx
PS My dad already comment I looked awfully tired today and if I slept okay last night, ugh

I replay interactions I have with people in my head all the time and think in retrospect that I sounded stupid or rude. It's a bad head cycle to be in, I know. But I just wonder if guys like that ever do that after they ask someone's age or if their pregnant or say you look tired. I have a feeling they don't at all, and they are the ones who could really benefit from it. WTF idiots? 

[k3am]

mae0111 I just lived through a terrible construction project, and I don’t envy you at all. Hopefully they ship up soon.

[drjeep]

Feb 18, 2020 22:43:26 GMT -5 mae0111 said:

drjeep - demo finally started, plumber showed up on schedule electricians came today... and he discovered that the designer MEASURED WRONG. She designed the entire kitchen, all cabinets, etc. based off of incorrect measurements. In order to correct it, it’s a significant amount of extra interior AND exterior work, or we have to lose the only cabinet that will work for dishes.

I’m PISSED. And so is the contractor. We paid a TON for these cabinets and for this design and it was all wrong!! WTF DESIGNER!!! You had ONE JOB!!!

NNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! You have every right to be pissed!!!!! I would be f*#king SEETHING if I were you!!! How is that even possible!! I don't understand how people measure something incorrectly!! Look at the tape measure, and write down what it says next to the little black hashmarks!!! Not complicated!!! Oh, I am SO sorry for you!!!! (*insert angry face emoji) What you are feeling is EXACTLY why I will never use Lowe's again!!!! EVER!!! 

*P. S. --> I'm so sorry it has taken me forever to reply to this! I literally just now saw the message notification!
*P. P. S --> The "like" was for commisseration, not because I actually like what happened!

[k3am]

Zombie thread resurrection had me wondering wtf planet I woke up on with mommyatty going to a kids party during CV.

[lexus]

Jul 12, 2020 8:42:33 GMT -5 k3am said:

Zombie thread resurrection had me wondering wtf planet I woke up on with mommyatty going to a kids party during CV.

Lol I had the same thought. It didn’t even cross my mind to check the date.

[waverly]

Aww look at how innocent we all were, and also we used to have weekends that were busy with plans!

[rere]

Jul 12, 2020 9:43:52 GMT -5 lexus said:

Jul 12, 2020 8:42:33 GMT -5 k3am said:

Zombie thread resurrection had me wondering wtf planet I woke up on with mommyatty going to a kids party during CV.

Lol I had the same thought. It didn’t even cross my mind to check the date.

LOLOLOLOL! I thinking the same thing. She's broken loose!

[drjeep]

So sorry everyone!!! I was also confused when looking at the dates this morning, but then I realized it was my fault because I finally saw a notification in my profile and responded to the message mae0111 sent me! Oops!!!

[soccermama]

I was halfway through this, getting more puzzled and then I finally looked at the dates!! Bwhahahha, too funny.