Dear self, Nice job on the bedroom makeover for beau's son! The paint color is perfect, furniture rearranging looks great, and it's going to be a really awesome space for the kids to hang out in. Giving up the big master bedroom to create a hang out room for the kids was a good call. I hope he likes it and will actually go in there... Fingers crossed! Signed, Me
Dear daughters, OMG you are hoarders. I don't know how to get you to keep your bedroom clean. I swear I could fill a trash bag with papers, "art projects," and junk once a week from that room. It's exhausting and I can't figure out how to just get you to get rid of the junk. Every time you go to your dad's house I do a clean sweep and then it just ends up right back where we started when you come home. I'm begging you, please help me keep it picked up. It doesn't have to be perfect, but the cardboard and paper scraps and "art" have to stop. I don't want to stamp out your creativity, but can we try to keep it contained a little? Signed, Calling the Hoarders show soon
twinmomma, I have a plastic bucket for each kid to keep their "art" as soon as it gets full they have to decided what to keep and what to get rid of, I also have one for myself so I can keep my favorite pieces.
Dear WP,
My baby turned 3 on Monday. We had a great day even though eveyone who was supposed to come to her party cancelled. Which was okay. We spent all day at the pool instead. She was a tired puppy at the end of the day.
You are super duper annoying me. Still love you since you extracted my dad from Columbia.
But.... You yell every evening because you are exhausted, stressed, and tired. You insist on things being your way all the time. You are overly controlling on little things like house projects I would do because I have the week off, but you can't let go of your control issues to let someone else do things. And the dog/ leash issue has me absolutely infuriated. So irresponsible, and someone is going to get hurt because you are being stubborn and pig headed. But our relationship is much better than any of my friends that post they are having problems, but still I don't get why you can't see the forest through the trees sometimes. Or like communicate....
twinmomma, my DD and DH are hoarders. I think it is an ADHD thing. Every month or so, we have to clean out DD's room and we find bits of paper and 'art' too. DH is not as bad since since his mom was a hoarder and it seriously affected him and FIL.
Dear coworker, You are making my job harder, not easier. I don't know how you got these tests to 'pass' since I found a pretty major defect that you should have picked up on right away. I need to figure out a way to help you write better test cases or you will be assigned to something else. Signed, Irritated
Dear DH, It is apparent that you don't know how to manage your time or complete tasks easily. Since you ask me every day what I would like done around the house, I have given you a list for the week. If you can't finish them, I'm seriously considering getting you evaluated for ADHD. Signed, If you keep this up, I'll be disappearing to the office for the summer
Dear School I really hope we get a survey on how the digital school year went. Mom who has lots to say but doesn't know who to say it to
Dear Investment Advisors or Mortgage Brokers The next one of you who asks us to do something time consuming is going to get yelled at. We aren't just sitting around twiddling our thumbs waiting to do your crazy needs. People are still consistently bringing in tax returns and we have our normal business clients to handle too. Signed Tax lady who got another new client this week.
Dear Me Can you please figure out how to motivate yourself once you get home. Couch Potato me
I am in awe of your ability to break all the things in this house. You’ve ripped the face boards off of your custom closet drawers. Your very nice bike was rusted out and wrecked inside of 6 months. But how, in God’s name, did you manage to break my bathroom pocket door? I mean, I’ve used it every day for years, and the only time there’s been an issue is if you showered in my bathroom. And it’s not like a regular door fix because the guts of the door are IN THE WALL. So that should be a fun fix.
Mama who was not planning on a master bath Reno until like 2023
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Dear dealership, Thank you for making the rv buying process relatively painless. All five employees we worked with treated us well and were honest. Signed, Happy customer
Dear ex-H, You're being unreasonable with your parenting plan requests. Signed, I hope karma is a bitch
You are just a super negative person. You hear me presenting to the board about how well we did with Accreditation, and then I am dancing in the driveway because they gave us a really nice raise. Your comment. I can tell you sounded nervous. Thanks. So I go from dancing to going over in my head what I said. Your backpedaling didn't help. This is your thing though. Somebody tells you something they are proud of and you point out the negative. Dd says- I got a 90 on a test. You- that's barely an A. DS - I got straight As. You- they weren't hard classes.
Dear beau's ex, You suck. There, I said it. You had your son miss the entire last week of baseball season so that he didn't get a trophy with all the other kids. You had him miss in person field day - the ONE in person thing he'd have actually done this year with his classmates. AND you had him miss move up day so he didn't get to meet his teacher for next year and see who would be in his class. Not only that, you didn't even tell him who his teacher would be! So the poor kid had no clue when he jumped on zoom this morning and everyone was chatting about it. All this because you flew him out with you for the last week of school. Because that was convenient for you. And then you assumed beau would just swing by the airport to grab his son so that you could immediately hop back on a plane without even leaving the building? What is WRONG with you?! Signed, Raging at you
twinmomma, Is Beau going to put in for a different custody arrangement? It’s obvious that she is moving to where ever her new person is, and that isn't going to be feasible with in person school.
xctsclrx, He is working on it. He doesn't want to have to pay a ton of money to lawyers and go back to court. He's super jaded about how the divorce proceedings went before. I keep explaining to him how this stuff is bullshit and judges would totally go with his side vs. hers at this point. She's being shady and hasn't changed her legal address so that she doesn't have to give up custody. He sent her a lengthy email yesterday putting her on notice regarding the fall and how missing school will be unacceptable.
twinmomma , is his x dating a millionaire? How is she doing all these flights?
I was wondering the same!
I cannot figure that out. I know she's terrible with money, so honestly wouldn't be surprised if she's just putting it all on credit cards. Flights were stupid cheap for much of the pandemic. Like, $50 cheap. I think the prices are just starting to creep back up now, so that's just another piece of this that I don't understand what her end game is. Beau laid into her via email about her lack of involvement in son's life, this isn't sustainable when he's back in school, citing all these examples of stuff he missed, etc. So that stage has been set at least. Last night his son asked us when his next baseball game is - she hadn't even told him he missed the whole end of the season! He had no idea!
twinmomma beau is lucky he has you providing perspective and encouraging him to tell her this is not OK. She sounds like a teenager who is so overcome with her new relationship that she's oblivious to everything else. She needs to grow up and put her kid first.
twinmomma make sure that Beau isn’t covering for mom. He doesn’t have to say mom is a selfish POS, but he can tell him that he missed all of these things because mom wanted him to go with her.
Eventually Beau will have to make a decision and call her on her shenanigans, even if there’s a cost involved. She’s not going to change and you guys shouldn’t have to be constantly dealing with the fall out of her bad behavior.