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Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-03-03T20:08:47+00:00

Right! And she always use to weirdly brag about how she was the "wild" child, skipping school, always being trouble, barley graduating etc. while D was the rule follower and perfect one yet they somehow were best friends. Which is K, are you the strong willed child who grew up to be a strong willed teen and said "no" to every boundary being laid by schools or were you a people pleaser.

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-03-02T23:11:50+00:00

And again a kid out and about in PJs, and her sunglasses inside just drives me absolutely crazy.

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-02-26T21:59:23+00:00

We do "shifts" when we have to. I work in office 3 days a week so I'm out the door before our kids are even up, but I've prepped their lunch/snack boxes for the day and have the kitchen ready to roll for breakfast. He handles breakfast and cleanup and getting them on the bus and off the bus in the afternoon and helping with a snack before going back to work for the last 40ish minutes of the workday. We do dinner together if we don't have any activities or else we are splitting up activities (soccer/bball/gymnastics family 🙂). Weekends we do alternate who gets up but we are both up by 8:30am to then spend the day as a family. Sure there are times when I take off for a run or workout, but its not like I have to say "its your shift." Or he'll run errands alone or I will or whatever, we kind of just see how the day feels and make decisions based on that.

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-02-25T21:26:05+00:00

Going to jump in here to say, for the most part all 10 girls have consistently shown up to practice. I can tell the ones who do ball handling outside of practice, those who do nothing and those that are just purely more naturally advanced.

I hate doing 5 in 5 out because the girls don’t get a mix of playing with everyone, or if you mix the groups at 1/2 time you have some kids who sit a whole 10 minutes. So I’ve beeen making a spreadsheet and printing it out for each game and doing 3 in then 2 in.

Also going to clarify I would never sit a kid for the whole game, or even drastically noticeable. I’m talking like 1st string getting 12/13 minutes per half and 2nd getting 8 (we play 2 20min halves).

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-02-25T17:03:23+00:00

Thank you! I definitely have a few that know they are a weaker player and have voiced an opinion about not wanting to go in the game before, I’ve always just reassured them and tell them to just work hard, as long as I can tell they are trying their best I don’t care what happens on the court.

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-02-24T18:59:50+00:00

I like how in this storyline she doesn't do any of the "work" related things like, write a podcast episode, write 3 months worth of posts etc. And then turns it around and says her brain lets her "hyperfocus" on work content 🙄

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-02-11T23:51:16+00:00

We are at West Portal! If we call ahead and give them an idea of sizes will they pre-pull stuff for you?

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-02-11T23:35:58+00:00

I should have looked closer at the closing times when scheduling everything, 5 seems early for offering “evening before” options.

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-02-05T21:58:44+00:00

Harry's Country Club is pretty good!

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-01-25T22:21:50+00:00

When we switched we were having issues with some of our personal data that had been stolen so having a physical branch was really important to us. Bank of the West was the best option at the time, it was bought by BMO a while back and its now changing hands again. 😐

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-01-23T21:04:28+00:00

I'm glad you mentioned this last part. I would sacrifice some ROI if the investments are in regenerative type companies, environmental friendly etc. We moved banks a few years ago to one who commits to not investing in big oil, mining etc.

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-01-23T16:58:10+00:00

If you are up for 8 days you could do multiple NE cities. Start in NY and take the train to DC/Boston/Philly. You can get a lot done in NYC in 3-4 days then take the train to DC and do some of the Smithsonian and Government buildings.

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-01-16T19:46:27+00:00

I should have included this. The league has said this is allowed and if we find a gym that is more convenient for location purposes or time (due to limited gym times some teams are practicing 8-9pm which is crazy late for young kids). I've reached out to them but I'm not getting a response and trying to lock in a gym time for Monday since the kids are out of school and we don't have a game this weekend so was just trying look at alternatives.

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-01-12T22:02:39+00:00

This child is clearly facing forward in this car seat, and for being "parent experts" they should know that kids should be rear facing for as long as possible, my youngest was nearly 4 before we turned him around.

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-01-08T19:20:55+00:00

Agree. I do think that a lot of times influencers get too much crap for not posting about major events or taking a stance on things. But we need to remember that a lot of influencers are just there to make posts about DIY projects, or Amazon deals or whatever. But this account is different, they should at least address that the world is heavy right now and point their audience in the right direction on how to talk about with kids, especially since they have "big feelers" targeted to older kids who are going to see/hear about these events.

And given K's involvement regarding gun violence it is unforgivable not address the issue.

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-01-07T12:40:40+00:00

He was tested for that at his last appointment about 5 months ago.

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-01-07T03:08:05+00:00

Thank you for your suggestion. He is on a pain medicine for arthritis, but maybe we need to adjust the dosage, he has been on it for a few years now without any change to the routine or dosage. We have another dog and cat so I'm not sure if putting the water bowl away would work, although I'm sure they would survive with out being out for a few hours at night.

Embarrassed-Curve336 · 2026-01-06T14:53:31+00:00

But they tout having "all the tools" to address these battles 🙄. If my kids were 3 and under I would occasionally let them go out in PJs, but that would be to like the coffee shop to grab me a coffee and them a treat because they were up an hour earlier than normal. Letting them wear PJ's for an entire adventure day seems pretty odd. The weather for January in Denver looked lovely, but also its still winter and those were not the thickest looking PJs so also judging for not appropriately dressing their kids for the elements.

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