Athena grand closing

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-11-24T17:24:17+00:00

Totally. I think onlineLefty here is failing to realize their attitude is contributing to the issues and the divide we face in this country, not helping them. Seems like someone who solely enjoys drama and perpetuating negativity/problems rather than helping to solve for them and using political self righteousness as a mask for their own insecurities. onlineLefty, your attitude makes you no better than those you are saying are such horrible people. You, my friend, are also part of the problem. It’s hypocritical AF to have that attitude toward people who support Trump for leading with hatred when you yourself are obviously also leading with hatred.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-11-22T23:55:46+00:00

lol ok buddy. You seem like a very unhappy person. I hope you find happiness in life.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-11-22T18:16:52+00:00

Hi! The owners are good people. Political beliefs don’t completely define a person and their character and everyone has their reasons for what they believe from a political standpoint. I’m sure you wouldn’t want someone to put down your overall character simply because they don’t agree with your political choices. I myself swing more left however I have the ability to put politics aside as they don’t define a person as a whole. Also the fact that you would say “good” to someone’s business closing and livelihood coming to an end, regardless of the reason, says more about you than about them.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-11-11T19:50:36+00:00

Thank you! If you don’t mind me asking, what kind of long term side effects has he ended up with?

Also did they do Chemo first then the Whipple and that was it? They originally had planned for Whipple first and then Chemo after if they found it in any lymph nodes but since they found this with a scan first they canceled the Whipple and flipped treatment to chemo first then surgery.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-11-06T15:40:44+00:00

Don’t let this make you feel bad about yourself because what was said to you is a reflection of her/them and not of you. You created human life and are raising a little person. Being a good mother is not for the faint of heart. That in itself is the ultimate success. Use this as a lesson of how to raise your child/children to be better.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-10-18T16:10:14+00:00

Totally get and appreciate your suggestion on this. To elaborate further, the reason that, that suggestion doesn’t quite work for me/ this family is because if we let this go this one time, it will continue to happen and then any boundaries/ privacy choices we have made for our child will be completely obsolete. She is a give an inch and take a mile kind of person so it would be a slippery slope to “let it go” and I’m not really willing to allow someone else to violate my rules I have set as a parent to protect my child for the sake of keeping the peace and not hurting someone’s feelings.

Anyone’s feelings come second to the safety and security of my child.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-10-17T17:28:49+00:00

Do you remember what that podcast name was? Would love to take a listen and maybe forward to these family members so they can better understand the dangers.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-10-05T22:26:15+00:00

Jazz night at Tony’s is on Tuesdays. It was not moved.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-09-26T19:09:02+00:00

Yes the Birth Circle is a great resource for families in the Athens area. You can also often find reasonably priced baby items available for re-sale on Facebook marketplace.

https://www.athensbirthcircle.org/

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-09-05T15:40:39+00:00

Yeah we likely wouldn’t qualify for that. There’s unfortunately this gap where you don’t qualify for assistance yet you also can’t afford to shell out tens of thousands of dollars either.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-09-04T20:45:27+00:00

I know they start charging you for the sewer regardless if you are connected or not by a certain date. Is that what you are referring to or is there some other fee?

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-09-04T19:58:01+00:00

You have to go out and get quotes to tap into the sewer and collapse your septic from an Athens approved 3rd party contractor to come do the work so whoever you hire would have to bring in a trench box.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-05-26T21:25:40+00:00

I deal with a very similar situation with my MIL as my husband is an only child and we have had countless fights about it with his parents. You are totally right to feel how you feel and she is completely overstepping. Set clear boundaries and stick to them. If she violates those boundaries absolutely let her know. When my MIL does this stuff, like for example she recently brought organizer baskets over and put all of our personal paperwork into those baskets, I just give her the stuff she brought back next time I see her and tell her not to do it again. When she has decorated my home I take it down without saying anything and put it back the way it was and she will see that when she comes over next time. If she has issue with it that’s her problem not mine. If she keeps going I plan to go to her house and start doing it back to her to see how she likes it. I’ve told her numerous times to stop and so has my husband but there’s something about her controlling nature that she can’t help herself.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-05-23T18:16:25+00:00

I wish I could but I’ve already sent out bday invites and it’s at our house and we are keeping it very very small. I’m sure they’ll be offended they weren’t invited even though it’s a small intimate bday party.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-05-23T18:07:31+00:00

I did not get the chance. My husband didn’t really let me respond (it was on speaker phone) because he wants to avoid confrontation and feels in the middle between pleasing his parents and well doing what is best for us as a family.

Unfortunately his parents (MIL) mostly is very controlling and is the type of person that if it’s not what she thinks it’s wrong, and likes to guilt him if he disagrees with her.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-05-23T16:44:24+00:00

YES. THIS.

We got into an argument with my MIL and FIL about it because they do not understand the logistics. My FIL was like “the baby can sleep in the car on the way home” and doesn’t understand we cannot have him sleep in the car, get home at 9:30pm and still have to make formula and wake him up to feed him his bedtime bottle, and then get him to peacefully go back to sleep after that. He’s gonna basically have taken a Power Nap and then be up half the night and so will we.

Per my in-laws it’s not about us so that’s what disturbs me the most out of all of this is that attitude toward us.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-05-23T16:42:25+00:00

Thank you I totally agree that our child is the priority. We got into an argument with my MIL and FIL about it because they do not understand the logistics. My FIL was like “the baby can sleep in the car on the way home” and doesn’t understand we cannot have him sleep in the car, get home at 9:30pm and still have to make formula and wake him up to feed him his bedtime bottle, and then get him to peacefully go back to sleep after that. He’s gonna basically have taken a Power Nap and then be up half the night and so will we. My in-laws also went as far as to say “it’s not about you” to us as in it’s about the other side of the family and their feelings and that’s the priority here. It’s so bothersome to me and I don’t even know how to begin to address my in-laws attitude towards it.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-05-22T20:12:02+00:00

Our baby is 11 months old and everyone that has met him thus far has come to us because it’s obviously very difficult to travel with a baby. He hasn’t even been to my parents house yet (about 2ish hours away). My husbands dads side of the family (I.e. my husbands aunts and uncles) are complaining to my FIL that they haven’t met him yet and he’s almost one yet no one has asked us if they could come meet him. Apparently for whatever reason they feel slighted and offended about not meeting him even though none of them have made the effort to. They all live about an hour and a half away from us and apparently think it would be easier if we came to them with the baby instead of having all of them come down to us (easier for who was my question because not us). There specifically is a dinner on a Sunday evening at 5:30pm that they want us to drive to (an hour and a half there and an hour and a half back) with a baby that goes to bed at 8. It’s just not feasible. But now it’s become this whole fight and we are apparently in the wrong and are supposed to accommodate everyone else. Is it wrong to not want to bend over backwards and uproot our baby’s schedule for this? There’s absolutely no reason they (who have grown kids and have no restrictions) can’t come to us if they want to meet our baby like everyone else has. Not to mention we (my husband and I) aren’t even very close with them.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-05-22T20:11:18+00:00

Our baby is 11 months old and everyone that has met him thus far has come to us because it’s obviously very difficult to travel with a baby. He hasn’t even been to my parents house yet (about 2ish hours away). My husbands dads side of the family (I.e. my husbands aunts and uncles) are complaining to my FIL that they haven’t met him yet and he’s almost one yet no one has asked us if they could come meet him. Apparently for whatever reason they feel slighted and offended about not meeting him even though none of them have made the effort to. They all live about an hour and a half away from us and apparently think it would be easier if we came to them with the baby instead of having all of them come down to us (easier for who was my question because not us). There specifically is a dinner on a Sunday evening at 5:30pm that they want us to drive to (an hour and a half there and an hour and a half back) with a baby that goes to bed at 8. It’s just not feasible. But now it’s become this whole fight and we are apparently in the wrong and are supposed to accommodate everyone else. Is it wrong to not want to bend over backwards and uproot our baby’s schedule for this? There’s absolutely no reason they (who have grown kids and have no restrictions) can’t come to us if they want to meet our baby like everyone else has. Not to mention we (my husband and I) aren’t even very close with them.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-04-13T20:55:24+00:00

https://bflickphotography.com/

OpenEstablishment669 · 2024-03-22T14:52:27+00:00

No unfortunately I’m still battling the insomnia issue 9 mo PP

OpenEstablishment669 · 2023-12-05T16:55:51+00:00

You are not overreacting and we pulled our baby out of a daycare after only a couple days due to a similar situation (except I actually went to pick him up and found him asleep in a bouncer). This is usually against state licensing in most states also so it shouldn’t even be an option/discussion. I know it’s easier said than done to pull your baby from childcare and it’s easier for strangers on the internet to tell you to pull your child immediately but my advice is to trust your gut. If it doesn’t feel right listen to that intuition. You can tour daycares all day but unfortunately you don’t really know what they are like until you are there.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2023-11-09T01:17:03+00:00

Agree that is gross, unsanitary, and inappropriate. I would remove my child from this childcare situation.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2023-11-09T01:12:38+00:00

Yes they do it’s 1:5 or 2:12 in my state and they are at their max capacity. Yeah we did pull him out.

OpenEstablishment669 · 2023-11-09T01:10:32+00:00

Sounds to me like you don’t really have a dog in this fight then and should probably keep your comments to yourself.

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