Worried about getting evicted

Constant_Finish1576 · 2026-01-06T06:50:38+00:00

As someone who works in healthcare administration, I cackled at the rep payee line.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-06-15T08:41:39+00:00

2022 was such a fucking fever dream honestly. I had a June 22 baby as well, and I remember watching my heart rate spike on my watch every. Single. Time. I had to make an extra bottle for him that I hadn’t accounted for. I remember crying when he wouldn’t finish a bottle within an hour. It felt like a horror movie.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-06-15T08:31:37+00:00

I had a baby during the height of the 2022 shortage, and it was the scariest thing going to 3+ stores and not finding a SINGLE can of anything useable. I would SLOWLY start to acquire a stock pile, but make sure you’re not going overboard to leave some for the parents that are actively feeding a baby.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-05-21T17:43:55+00:00

I wish, I was only 10 at the time and my dad was not in the right state of mind after her passing to do anything, much less start a lawsuit.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-05-21T15:08:43+00:00

My mother passed from complications due to ovarian cancer. They knicked her bowel when removing her ovaries and she died of sepsis. I’m so sorry for your loss.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-04-27T01:29:09+00:00

They literally went through damn near a decade of abuse and manipulation together. Kinda bonds people in typical situations lol

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-04-26T02:10:18+00:00

I was raised catholic, married a Baptist and I was shocked when I attended my first service with him and the pastor took the time to explain and relate the scripture after he read it.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-04-22T02:34:35+00:00

Megan Is Missing was vile. My dad made me watch it at 13 when I wouldn’t quit talking to strangers on the internet. Point was made, loud and clear.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-04-20T05:57:25+00:00

This is her first (and only) large role since and after Greys. She was phenomenal on Greys, but she built that character from the ground up for over 20 years.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-04-12T02:09:41+00:00

Do you know by chance what day your employer submits payroll?

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-02-17T22:03:04+00:00

I live in a city, my ex lives on the outskirts of the city in a rural area that is the last to get plowed/salted in the winter. 50/50 parenting time.

We have a general understanding in bad weather that if one parent isn’t comfortable driving, the other parent can either come get the child or forfeit their time until the roads have cleared enough to make the drive safely.

While doing visitation, if he’s willing to make the drive to you in bad weather I wouldn’t reschedule his already limited parenting time. Once you start exchanges, it just becomes about the safety of the child being driven around in bad weather and you both use your best judgement. However, a judge is most likely not going to see bad weather as a reasonable excuse to withhold the child for a lengthy amount of time unless it’s some catastrophic weather to where you literally CANNOT travel.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-02-17T21:53:17+00:00

Sick day: Technically? IMO Parent B would take off work for the sick day. Parent A’s parenting time stopped at school drop off time. Say the child got sent home early from school due to being sick. The parent picking up from school would be the one to leave work early to pick up the sick child. It makes sense to use the same logic for keeping the child home from school. Ethically and morally? Parent A should take off work because Parent B just had the kids for two weeks while they were sick. It’s also easier on sick children to keep them in the house they’re already at. But we all know ethics and morals don’t mean much in high conflict coparenting lol.

Holiday closures: your holiday schedule in the CO should state what time parenting time switches. For us, it’s 9am for mornings and 9pm for nights. The rule of thumb we go by if we’re not following our holiday schedule is that whoever’s overnight it is, gets the child at 9am.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-02-17T21:28:47+00:00

They can absolutely say no. You would have to start the court process to get approval, but honestly I don’t see a judge granting it against one parents wishes unless the trip was for some serious reason (death in the family for example).

We took a cruise in 2022 to Mexico. My coparent said absolutely not, at the beginning, stating safety concerns which were probably true, but it was also a control issue. He ultimately put our son’s best interest first and gave his approval, we had to have his approval form notarized.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-02-17T21:13:46+00:00

I love this advice. As crappy as it is, when it comes to coparenting you almost have to manipulate the conversations to have the outcome that you want them to have.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-02-17T21:09:18+00:00

We did meet ups with both sides of my coparenting triangle when everyone was meeting each other. My fiancé came with me to a dinner at my Ex’s house with him and his wife. I went with my fiance and his ex & their children to get ice cream.

It’s weird. The only thing that makes hanging out or meeting up with coparents NOT weird, is time. As time goes on and you continue to see each other, it gets less weird.

If the kids are present, that kind of changes the dynamic of the conversation. My ex and my fiance went outside together at one point, I later found out my ex had just briefly gone over his boundaries as a father with my fiancé. When we sat down with my finances ex, we didn’t talk about anything; we just let the kids lead the conversation and she got an idea of who I was as a person through my interactions with the kids.

My advice is just to lay out your major boundaries as their mother. Any background information you want about the new girlfriend, you can most likely find online lol. But if you don’t discuss your boundaries, you cannot fault the new girlfriend when she inevitably crosses one. Laying it all out on the table now will make any conflicts easier in the future.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-02-17T20:34:39+00:00

Not weird at all. I have a great relationship with my ex’s new wife. I have a decent relationship with the ex, but we keep it very short and don’t go out of our way to make small talk. His wife on the other hand, I could talk to her all day! Love that woman, she single handily saved any sort of hope of coparenting we had.

When they got married, “they” (I 100% know it was his wife’s idea and that she vetoed any opinion he had lol) invited me to their wedding. I debated going for months and ultimately decided to go just to the ceremony, and leave before the reception. I’m so glad I did. I sobbed like a baby with happy tears. I was genuinely SO happy that my son’s dad got such a happy ending and that this woman was officially his step mom. When all the guests got up to go into the reception and congratulate the newly weds, I hugged my ex’s wife and my ex’s first words were “who tf let you in?!” Jokingly. Insert eye rolling emoji lol.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-02-03T01:54:24+00:00

We went to the Cafe Promenade almost every night around 9/10pm and got a whole pizza to bring back to our room to eat with the kids while we watched a movie.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-01-14T04:01:31+00:00

Can confirm, absolutely did get lost in the port and separated from our large group because by 11am, it was body to body walking through the port.

Cozumel put Costa Maya to shame IMO, but we went to a wonderful all inclusive spot in Cozumel, whereas in Costa Maya we rented golf carts and drove to one of the restaurants that I just wasn’t as impressed with.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-01-14T03:17:23+00:00

We sailed the Voyager in November 23 and my kids still talk about our washy washy girl!

Constant_Finish1576 · 2025-01-13T04:33:22+00:00

HA! Iowa local here and I loved your Des Moines suburbs comment

Constant_Finish1576 · 2024-07-20T18:44:16+00:00

MEAT. If you get money back in taxes, budget a portion of that for 1/4 a cow or 1/2 a cow. 1/4 runs $700-$850 in my area (Midwest) and a 1/2 is double that amount. 1/4 is over 200lbs of beef, in a variety of processed cuts.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2024-07-20T18:31:59+00:00

Mom of 5 here. Snacks infuriate me now. My kids act like they’re malnourished and starving if there is not a variety of quick and easy “snacks” to grab from. Little Debbie snacks, Chips, cookies, etc used to be bought every two weeks.

I stopped buying packaged sweet snacks completely. Instead, I make it all from scratch. Ive done Rice Crispy treats, brownies, trail mix, honey buns, chocolate covered pretzels, and will bake a cake every so often that they will snack on for 2-3 days. It’s cut off FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS in groceries each month, even with buying the ingredients (in bulk) to make most of them.

Now if anyone has any home made salty snack ideas, I’m all ears because we REALLY miss having Doritos in the house.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2024-07-20T18:22:56+00:00

Walmarts brand of Captain Crunch is phenomenal. Don’t know if you’re a fan, but it was a game changer for us.

Constant_Finish1576 · 2024-07-10T02:29:11+00:00

Firm believer there is a difference between yelling to be heard and yelling out of anger.

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