Dear grad school, Phew. Just looked through the syllabi for the two classes I'm taking simultaneously this term. My calendar is looking tight. Fingers crossed I make it out the other side ok! Signed, Exhausted already
Dear family, I'll see you all in seven weeks. My life is now homework forever and ever. Love, Mom
Dear DS, You crack me up. You are clearly used to being the only child golden boy and it shows. I'm not sure if we can really call it "confidence" as much as just straight big ego. You've been "playing tennis" for like 3 days. You can't even hit it over the net half the time. But good lord did you have A LOT of tips and advice and demands on how the game is played for your friend and your dad last night. It was hysterical to listen to you spouting off all this info as if you're a tennis pro. But maybe reign it in a bit before you start your official lessons if you want to make some friends.... Love, Stepmom
I’ve reminds me of one of DD2’s friends. I signed DD up for volleyball and her friend plays. They were talking all about it over the weekend and from what DD and I could tell friend had been playing for years. When I texted her mom to ask about the signups, though, I said something about how she’d been playing quite a while and mom responded “lol try 6 weeks.”
Brimming with expertise! Lol We love the kid anyway.
Library
Dear H,
I am happy to share a car with you but you might remember — that is my car. I bought it. I take it for maintenance. My name is on the title. If you have opinions on how I manage my car there is another option called “getting your own car.” Otherwise, nip the commentary in the bud, bud.
Love, This may be a community property state but until we are divorcing or I’m dead it’s MY car
In the past two weeks, two of my favorite coworkers have announced they are leaving. One of them is my very favorite coworker, whom you have openly heard me call “the person who keeps me sane.” I’m going to need a little bit of attention and a lot of communication during this time if you want to retain me as an employee. And (takes an obvious look around) you clearly can’t afford to lose anyone else right now.
Signed, Not Sure How This Shakes Out
Dear DS,
You complained of a headache for two weeks. We were so worried we did a Teledoc appointment and then yesterday you saw your pediatrician, who sent you to the ER with a migraine diagnosis but to ensure we weren’t looking at anything else. Luckily, they said it appeared to just be a migraine, and the IV drugs worked to knock it out. I’m sorry you got my stupid migraines. And I was so proud of how you just sat and watched them put in the IV without a peep or a tear.
This morning I realized just how subdued you’ve been when you were back to your silly, active, funny self. But bless your teacher, she’s about to meet the real you. Let’s hope you don’t spend the entire day walking like an Egyptian.
Love, Mommy
Dear Daughter,
In the last two weeks, both male members of our family have gone to the ER. Please don’t join their club. My nerves can’t take it.
I realize your person was home for the weekend and let you sleep with her. However, we are not doing that. So you singing the song of your people outside my door at midnight in retribution is not going to get the result you want.
Dear DH and DD2, For the love of all things good, I'm over keeping track of ALL of your possessions. If you loose something, look for it yourself. DD2, you friend is bringing your misplaced sweatshirt to school today. Put it in your backpack, bring it home and put it in the laundry basket. H......oh H, next week you'll be my age. (You've remembered your birthday but not the location of your favorite running shorts. Sigh.) For the last 40 years, I've kept track of my own sh**. I know I've had like a 40 more years of practice at this point, but knowing where your basics like shoes and sunglasses are is not rocket science. Let's put some big boy pants on. Love, Your Mom/wife who is over it
Dear DD1, Thank you for doing what you were supposed to do last night and NOT asking me if the whereabouts of something you use every day. Had you done that, I probably would have quietly left all three of you to do the executive functioning you really should do on your own and drove to the local towny bar for a drink or two. In my pajamas. Love, UR Mom
Dear 3 S Corp tax clients Can you please get back to us with the answers to our questions. Your returns are due next week. We've worked weekends to get the years' worth of books you dumped on us last month done. So just take the couple hours and tell us what we need to know. Stressed out tax lady
Dear mom Take a chill pill. Yes, dad is having surgery tomorrow at the crack of dawn. Deal with it and stop freaking out. Daughter
Dear DD I really hope the 2nd day goes better for you than yesterday did. I'm sorry the new SPED teacher hates you and told you again that you don't need supports because your grades are good lets give it a few days and see if things get better. Also can you please not socialize as much during lunch and eat. You know you need to eat to function well. I really don't want to deal with a hankry (hungry/cranky) tween again this afternoon. Love Mom
I think you’re going to have to Mama Bear this situation with the SPED teacher. That’s un-flipping-acceptable. I would start using scary legal sounding words and start elevating this situation to the principal and then to the district. A SPED teacher does not get to decide which kids get support and which do not, and if she’s going to continue to harass your DD for getting help to which she is legally entitled under federal law, she could kiss my ass.
Post by supertrooper1 on Sept 6, 2023 14:54:28 GMT -5
Dear work,
As much as I dislike training the new guy one day per week, it is interesting to hear from him how other people on my team operate. It sounds like I'm scattered across all the different aspects of our job when the rest of my team can focus on a couple topics. No wonder I feel like a jill of all trades.
mommyatty, I'm reviewing her IEP. It states she needs 340 minutes per month in the resource room working on specially designed instructions. If she doesn't take academic support she will get ZERO minutes in the resource room. With resource room she gets 3.75hrs a week so she will get way more minutes than her IEP states but she will be working in a group setting. DD says they put everyone who needs support (math, reading, writing) in one class and there is only 1 staff member as of yesterday and she is the only student who needs help with writing. If things don't get better by the end of the week I'm going to request a meeting at least with the new lady and the assistant principal as our principal is out on maternity leave and the new temp guy doesn't know DD why the assistant has had a least some interaction with her. Why does this have to be so dang complicated! Her IEP states she reads above grade level but she uses word context to guess larger words as she has no phonic skills. It also says that DD's writing doesn't reflect her knowledge or vocabulary abilities. The final part was that DD has a tendency to need to be perfect and will redo assignments for the highest grade possible. Just looking at her grades and test scores doesn't show the whole damn picture. Me
I can't tell you how happy I am to hear that you had a good first day at school. I literally haven't slept more than a few hours a nice in a week. Anxiety has been at an 11 all summer for you, DD2. And 50 minutes after pick-up, you've finally stopped talking about all of the cool, fun, nice things that happened today. That last school nearly broke you. Your happy spirit is back.
And DD1, there were no stories about mean kids, excluding kids, behavioral issues. I know you're bummed about Math. Just take the class and hopefully you'll kick ass.
Here's hoping that the rest of the year is as great as today!!
Dear DS (Mr I didn't learn anything in 1st grade mom!),
I'm so proud of how you're doing in school! You are rocking all the review math and writing! Your reading has improved so much! Also I love how your turn all the smiley faces your teacher puts next to your correct answers into little happy face lego super heroes. It's adorable. <3
Love,
mom
Dear H,
I love my new job and I'm so sad that your job is in the crapper right now. I appreciate that you listen to me yammer on about all the fun exciting things I get to do even though all your job terribleness is weighing you down.
Please send me good vibes. Even though my head is all scattered with all of the new school year chaos, I'm about to ask my boss/client for a rate increase. I'm waaay underpaid and I'm doing a ton of good stuff for them.
Dear work, I know we needed to implement a huge new software program but did we have to do it our busiest month of the year? And couldn’t you have done it better? The trainings on this have been subpar and the data is crap and causing issues and now invoicing and everything will be delayed until it can be fixed. I’m annoyed and frustrated. A process that took less than 8 hours last month has taken me over 13 so far and I haven’t even put anything in the system yet. I dont understand why we have to rush things and force things to happen when it’s clearly not ready for showtime. Signed, Not giving you 5 stars
In late August, you decided that we needed a fence around our beach property because of the above ground pool (which we did not install, and had been standing and in use for YEARS without a fence... but whatever). You told us we had 5 weeks to get a fence installed... but fence companies around here are booking work 12-14 weeks out, we needed to order materials, etc. You said that, if we could prove that we were working to get the fence installed, the policy would remain in tact. I called a fencing company THAT DAY, they came out 3 days later, they sent an estimate 4 days after that, I accepted it, they sent me an invoice a few days later, and I put down a deposit. I sent my agent the receipt 3 days ago.
WHY DID I GET A REFUND CHECK IN THE MAIL YESTERDAY?? First of all, my policy isn't even supposed to be canceled until the end of the month. Second, I DID WHAT YOU SAID! We put down a deposit and I provided proof! And my mortgage company is saying that you alerted them that the policy is in the process of being canceled. WTAF???
Pissed off client
Dear insurance agent -
Can you, maybe, untangle this mess? I sent you everything you said you needed WELL BEFORE the deadline you gave me. Why is this being cancelled?? FIX THIS!!
Dear WPs, DH pointed out that it's kind of weird that none of my friends have seen my kids in years. I agree that it's not ideal, but it kind of just happened by chance. I'm the only one with kids until very recently, so it was always a pain to bring the girls along to stuff when they were younger because nothing was kid friendly. Then I got divorced and made a point to hang out with my friends on my no kid days since I had the free time and when I have the kids we do other kid stuff. And then covid hit and we didn't hang out in person at all. So my college friends that are coming over this weekend haven't seen my kids in probably 5+ years. I guess it is kind of weird? But also... not, given the circumstances? What do you think? Am I strange hermit when it comes to my children? Signed, Feeling weird about it
twinmomma, first off.. I'm still not used to him being your DH.
Nothing you said seems weird to me. Different stages in life require different things of us socially. Or maybe we just prefer different social interactions based on where we are in life. And our stages in life rarely align with people for long. Clear as mud, no?
Nope, not weird. I think it shows you’ve worked to keep a good balance between being a mom and being a person with an identity beyond just being a mom.
twinmomma Not at all weird. Your daughters just started 6th grade, right?
It sounds like we have a few similarities: The first of our pre-kid friends to have kids Kids about the same age
My pre-kid friends see my kids maybe once a year. If I get together with them now, we usually meet without kids or my kids make themselves scarce. If DD1 is asked in advance,she'll babysit their kids while we go out. Most of them now have kids several years younger than my Ds.
Between our different schedules, living locations etc, I would expect my oldest friends (people I've been friends with the longest) to go long periods of time without seeing my kids.
Sometimes I wish I could go a long time without seeing my kids too🤪
Most of my high school and college friends or even work friends haven’t met my kids. The ones that saw my kids a lot were the ones that my kids were friends with their kids. And now I see the parents less because the kids hang out without parents now.
twinmomma, first off.. I'm still not used to him being your DH.
Nothing you said seems weird to me. Different stages in life require different things of us socially. Or maybe we just prefer different social interactions based on where we are in life. And our stages in life rarely align with people for long. Clear as mud, no?
twinmomma , first off.. I'm still not used to him being your DH.
SAME! This is the time of year when I have all my annual check ups, so I've been updating all the paperwork to make him my spouse on the emergency contact stuff and it's just so weird.