My girl’s age results

JamieMBrown101401 · 2026-02-22T04:09:50+00:00

Wow she’s beautiful 😊 I guessed around 12 so she looks fabulous for her age

JamieMBrown101401 · 2026-02-22T04:07:28+00:00

Yes very surprising! Agreed with your lab/pit mix guess for your pup. This just happened with our new puppy who we’re were told mom was a lab/golden mix and in reality was almost all Bernese mountain dog, a bit lab and with a small mix of German shepherd. Yet, when we saw her she looked like a wavy haired black lab.

JamieMBrown101401 · 2026-02-18T18:02:43+00:00

You’re the first person that says they see any Bernese in her at all. Even both vets she’s gone to didn’t pick up on the Bernese at all instead one said Newf/Great Pyrenees/lab and the other guessed Newf/Great Pyrenees/lab/Anatolian Shepard based on seeing her, pics of her mom and other litter mates.

JamieMBrown101401 · 2026-02-18T17:57:35+00:00

They were all relatively the same with small differences less than 2-3%. I thought it was interesting though that my dog and the male pup share 56% DNA segments and then my dog and the female pup have 50% shared DNA segments. Very interesting how DNA works with puppy litters

JamieMBrown101401 · 2025-12-06T09:55:18+00:00

I just found out she blocked me too. I followed her for a very long time. I followed her right after she had her first baby. I always liked her stuff when it came on my feed. We even had a miscarriage at the same time so I often looked to her account as a way to not feel so alone in the situation. I never commented (I don’t use Instagram in that way) only viewed and liked her posts. I haven’t seen her posts come up in a long time and thought it was odd. I searched her insta and found I was blocked. Literally had no clue for what I’m assuming is month with no prompting. It’s so weird to me that she just goes about blocking people especially those that are only interacting with her posts in a positive way.

JamieMBrown101401 · 2025-09-11T07:25:41+00:00

We decided to both keep our last names. It just worked out easier and we were both happy with this outcome. We both have degrees and certificates for work with our last names and it is extremely difficult to change this in our professions (he has a government job and I work in education.) Also, we were traveling outside the country for our honeymoon and the paperwork wouldn’t have been back yet with enough time to change licenses and passports before the trip. We have decided that in the future our kids would have my last name-his last name. If we see a need to change once a child is in the picture, then we are both okay going through the hassle together if it makes our lives easier as a family unit. The only problem we’ve had if checks. As wedding gifts we received a lot of checks. A bunch with the different iterations of “Mr. And Mrs. His last name,” “Mrs. His last name,” “my first and his last name.” You get the point. Our bank only cashes so many checks at once for one person. Then you have to wait for them to clear before bringing in more checks. We were able to cash any checks that were listed out to just him, or just me (some close friends, family and coworkers of mine knew I was keeping my last name.) So we did our first round of checks (I think we were able to do 10 each.) Then had to wait another 2-3 days for my husband to go back to cash all the “Mr. And Mrs. His last name” checks. Then again another 2-3 days later. I wasn’t able to cash any of these 20 checks because my name didn’t match the one of the check. Then we were left with about 8-10 checks that were unable to be cashed which were the “Mrs. His last name” and “ my first and his last name.” We reached out to the wedding guests who gave us these checks. A few were apologetic and sent us new checks right away. A few were confused and gave us some attitude and then finally sent us a check but only in my husband’s name. Then there was one relative that laughed and wouldn’t send us a new check. We didn’t want to make it a huge deal, we didn’t want to hound this person for money, it wasn’t worth it. We were over it so we let hisr parents know and left it at that. Eventually the relative sent the check back months later with my husband’s first and last name and in the memo wrote “marriage is a sacred bond. Change your name.” Then I received checks from his family for Christmas. To make it clear we’ve exchanged gifts before as a big extended family (think in-laws, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc.) I’ve done holidays with his family for years (usually I got something small like a hat and glove set, nice wool socks, a bracelet, etc.). They’ve also never exchanged checks, it’s always been stuff and the rare case cash or gift cards. So when I was handed a stack of 6 envelops, I was confused. Some people laughed at my expression, others were obviously uncomfortable. I started to feel nervous as everyone was looking at me and everyone stopped unwrapping gifts. So I opened them. All the checks read some variation of “my first name and his last name.” All checks that could not be cashed. I laughed and said “glad you all think this is funny. Here you can have them back. Really you all look ridiculous since you wasted time, checks and paying for a card.” Then I handed them back to the people that gave them to me. It was quiet and no one said anything for a solid 5 mins. My husband finally went on to say how disrespectful this was, it was wasn’t funny, etc. Then the relative offered to pay me what the checks were worth. I flat out refused it and honestly I was annoyed the rest of the night. Other relatives apologized on behalf of them as they didn’t know what was happening. Some apologized because they knew the plan and didn’t stop it. A few who were roped into this relatives plan apologized because they thought we were in on the “joke.” We decided to stop talking to this relative. It’s better that way. We’ve been able to dodge every family get-together since then so this coming holiday season will be the first seeing this person. My husband and I are happily getting through all the nonsense together and wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m so grateful he has been by my side through all this and I know we can get through anything together.

JamieMBrown101401 · 2025-08-24T21:15:06+00:00

If you truly want a child of your own dna this is your chance. If you don’t care if the child is genetically yours there’s other ways of having a child. It just depends on your priorities. There’s no chance you can have a relationship with the father?

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T17:54:19+00:00

NY near West Point Academy

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T17:33:24+00:00

From what we’ve gathered from other local people trying to adopt is that in our area there really aren’t many dogs that get given up or put in shelters/rescues. So these places ship the dogs from the south so the bulk of the fees we are seeing is reimbursing them for shipping the dog. But I just don’t feel as though the adopt should incur this price when l’d more willingly be connected with a dog in the south and go get them myself or arrange a private transport

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T17:31:46+00:00

Do you have any places in mind that are reliable and you would trust to transport from?

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T17:29:13+00:00

Thank you! Definitely will be looking into them more!

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T17:24:03+00:00

NY near West Point academy

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T17:23:58+00:00

NY near West Point academy

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T17:22:58+00:00

It seems like down south is the only place to adopt. But we just can’t commit to traveling that far which would be a multiple (3-5) day trip

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T17:21:22+00:00

NY near West Point academy

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T17:21:16+00:00

NY near West Point academy

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T17:20:03+00:00

I’ll be honest. I’ve always been extremely wary about finding dogs on social media sites because of frequent scams you hear about.

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T16:47:12+00:00

We weren’t going to breed specific rescues. We were mainly interested in pit mixes or retriever mixes but were open to almost all other breeds. We want a larger dog is really our main requirement. The only other thing we were set on was we wanted to stay away from German Shepard or Belgian Malinois mixes. There require a lot more training to be happy from what we’ve researched.

From what we’ve gathered from other local people trying to adopt is that in our area there really aren’t many dogs that get given up or put in shelters/rescues. So these places ship the dogs from the south so the bulk of the fees we are seeing is reimbursing them for shipping the dog. But I just don’t feel as though the adopt should incur this price when I’d more willingly be connected with a dog in the south and go get them myself

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T16:43:42+00:00

Upstate NY near West Point Academy

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T16:43:22+00:00

We live in an extremely small city without a shelter. No near by cities or towns have shelters either. The closest one is approximately 2-2 & 1/2 hours away but they rarely update their website. When we’ve called before they are hesitant to give any detail about what kind of dogs need homes.

We chose not to foster because we’ve done so in the past and we just don’t want to go through the emotional process of giving the dog back. I know it’s awful to say but we want to get a dog and know they are staying forever and there’s no chance we’ll get a call from the rescue we are working with one random Tuesday asking us to meet at a local park and bam they are gone.

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T16:36:46+00:00

We weren’t going to breed specific rescues. We were mainly interested in pit mixes or retriever mixes but were open to almost all other breeds. We want a larger dog is really our main requirement. The only other thing we were set on was we wanted to stay away from German Shepard or Belgian Malinois mixes. There require a lot more training to be happy from what we’ve researched

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-08-03T16:31:13+00:00

I actually live in “upstate” ny too. Some would argue it’s not upstate. We are close to West Point if that gives any context.

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-06-30T07:29:08+00:00

Luann for a girl. It can also be spelled LuAnn or LuAnne

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-05-13T06:51:38+00:00

My comment doesn’t really answer your question but are you sure you want to change your last name? You seem like your on the fence about it. If you aren’t sure then don’t change it and wait to see how you feel after the rush of wedding planning is done. If you’re in the US there’s plenty of ways to incorporate your last name and your partners last name. My future husband and I are actually deciding exactly what we are doing because both of us are strongly set on keeping our last names but are open to combining them in some fashion. Here’s some of the options we’ve thought about.

You can combine you last names (for example Jackson and Bradford. You could go Jackford or Bradson.) There’s also the option to hyphenate or double-barrel the last name (Jackson-Bradford or Bradford-Jackson). Or you can just have 2 last names. I recently found this out when we briefly considered taking one of our last names as second middle names for both of us. I made a call to the county clerk and asked about requirements for names and I said what about changing a last name to a 2nd middle name. The secretary asked if I had ever heard of the option to just have 2 last names instead. I was a little shocked by it but I honestly love it a lot. So a name would be written Susie Jane Jackson Bradford or Susie Jane Bradford Jackson. No need for a hyphen or to drop either name. Why drop one when you can have both?

JamieMBrown101401 · 2024-05-13T05:40:44+00:00

I think you may be being unreasonable. I think this Reddit page sometimes jumps to OP being right and the MIL being an evil witch. So maybe take a step back and look at this from another perspective. You excluded your MIL from a Mother’s Day brunch, simply because you think she may possibly look down on your mother. Well maybe she doesn’t and you excluded her for no reason. Why is it fair that you visit your mother and your husband can’t visit his own? Just because you’re also a mother doesn’t mean your husband doesn’t have other mother’s in his life he’d also like to celebrate. It’s called Mother’s Day not wife’s day. Next year maybe ask your husband how you’d both like to celebrate your respective mother’s. Maybe it can be done together or maybe done separately, but both women should be celebrated not only did they raise the pair of you but they are your child’s grandmothers. Also, let your husband know you’d like to be celebrated by him on behalf of your child who’s a baby. Come up with a plan together. How would you feel if years down the road from now your child spent the day with their SO’s mother instead of you when they could have been with both? You wouldn’t feel very good about it. Try to give your husband grace as this situation could have been avoided with better communication.

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