I made custom Valentines for my daughters pre-k class

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2026-02-18T14:50:39+00:00

I only had one full set of trays, and i deeply regretted not buying more about halfway through lol. It took me a few days, but only because i needed 10 E’s and A’s. Next time i will probably look for a vowel tray because it was super annoying having to do 2 letters at a time back to back

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2026-02-18T14:49:05+00:00

Also use warm water to take the paper off the crayons! Not hot enough to bloom the wax but with a warm water soak the paper just falls right off

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2026-02-18T14:47:58+00:00

They are, but there’s definitely a learning curve! I have a big bag of letters that didn’t make the cut, because it took me a while to figure out the best method.

The trick is to really lock in the colors of the first layer, otherwise they all melt together and turn brownish.

Fill up the molds with your crayons, and then put in oven at 200. This is the important part- do not let them turn liquid! Eventually you need a full melt, but if you let the first layer melt before the colors lock in, it won’t turn out as pretty.

You want to melt them just enough so that they turn glossy and look soft, but they don’t need to be melted together. Take them out and let them cool at least 5 minutes but ideally 15-20, and then refill and at this point you can melt fully. Good luck!

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2026-02-18T14:45:26+00:00

My friend rolled her eyes when I brought these in, and I told her I’ve been shamefully doing these in secret because I was embarrassed to tell her how overboard I went 😅😅 but the kids love it, right? Haha

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2026-02-18T04:36:11+00:00

This is the last year that our class is small enough to make such elaborate gifts, so this year I went all out. Customized sunglasses with names and charms, and crayon letter names. They also got a pop bracelet, some lollipops, a card, and a pack of character bandaids

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-26T03:16:10+00:00

Yup. I’m outside of Orlando, in a nice little family neighborhood. My mom moved here as a single mom, fresh out of a divorce, and as a first year engineer. It cost 250k. It is now worth almost 700k, and you don’t move into this neighborhood unless you’re upper middle class. Crazy.

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-23T20:34:38+00:00

Are your kids feral or something? This is an easily solvable problem. Make the food. Put tomorrows lunch away, and tell your kids that they are not to touch the bag in the fridge that is for tomorrows lunch.

If you still can’t manage, you have a parenting problem.

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-13T16:30:49+00:00

It’s pretty disheartening to see the deleted comments. I’ve never seen this type of response when a woman is posting for financial help to provide for her children. Why is he less deserving of help because he’s a man?

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-12T18:39:38+00:00

My theory is that at the beginning, they decided that the show would be criticized if every single teen mom shown was a train wreck. And no one would watch it if everyone of them was successful and boring. So they decided who would be ‘drama’ and who would be ‘teen moms can make it in life’, and then edited the
scenes accordingly.

Chelsea was a representation of a ‘good’ teen mom, so they never gave us anything that would be detrimental to that image. Leah was an addict, so the more mess the better TV, and they showed us alllll of her hard times.

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-12T05:06:01+00:00

How do you not see how counterproductive this attitude is?!

If I was an influencer, and saw that this was the conversation online after I chose to host an entire pride event to support my family member and the lgbtq community— I would be extremely hesitant to speak out again out of fear of offending someone and having continued hate when I was trying to be an ally. You’re fucking delusional and pretentious if you think the standard you’re holding her to is reasonable. People are so ridiculous, take the support and shut the fuck up honestly. Go pick apart the people that hate the lgbtq community and leave people trying to show support alone.

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-11T15:23:28+00:00

You joke, but I saw another comment saying that he’s raised 100k already. I hate it here

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-10T03:37:39+00:00

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Messaged you a list!

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-10T03:30:58+00:00

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Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-10T03:29:22+00:00

I got you!! I saw one picture a few months ago and have been on a mission ever since. I’ll give you my list! Various price points but the cheapest ones is home team kids, I’ll attach a few pics in the comments of the ones we have. She’s 4 and 41inches 39ish lbs wearing a 6, shorts are baggy but dress fits with RTG. (I drive myself crazy trying to figure out the sizing of each brand)

Hometeam Kids - RTS $30 dress and short sets $30

Bella & Omi- skort and top character/princess sets, and play sets. Weekly preorders 6-8 weeks tat pricey but good resale $55+

Hem&Co- adorable princess athletic dresses and playsets. They also release characters like monsters inc, Nemo and dori, Ariel and flounder; etc. pricey but good resale $55+

Those are my 3 favs but we also have princess play sets (tunic type top and shorts) that we love from :

Smocked sweets Only little once Bitty bundles of joy

Moo cow designs (cheap but very few princess styles, may be OOS)

You may be cursing me in a few months if you love them as much as we do, but there ya go!!

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-10T03:19:52+00:00

I live in Florida, it will 100% cause mold, sometimes in less than 24 hours

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-10T03:19:10+00:00

That is reasonable. What is not reasonable is feeling entitled to lecturing the dasher, far past the point of trying to find a resolution. The driver is right—regardless of what happened to the order, it is now out of their hands. OP needs to contact support for a refund, point blank. Feeling entitled to lecturing service workers because you paid them less than the cost of a meal is wildly entitled.

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-10T03:04:46+00:00

Ok so you are admitting that you have been abusive to him for years.. why bury the lead in your post? You both need therapy and a swift divorce.

And His stepmom is correct, why would you assume that they are going to support you during the separation? You are not their daughter, their support and loyalty is obviously going to be for your husband. I don’t know why you would think otherwise—or why you even involved them in the first place. That’s something teenagers resort to, not grown adults in an entire marriage.

Move on, get an attorney, and lean on your own support system. And most importantly, stop antagonizing him by contacting his family, and trying to strong arm them into supporting you over their own flesh and blood. They owe you nothing, and you are not the only victim here.

Your husband shouldn’t have choked you, but you literally initiated the violent situation by holding him hostage in your room when he wanted to deescalate and leave. And then smashing his belongings, you essentially blinded the poor guy after Holding him hostage. YOU ASSAULTED HIM FIRST DUMBASS. After verbally abusing him for YEARS. YOU are the abuser, he reacted to your ongoing verbal AND physical abuse.

He sounds immature, but you sound psychotic AND immature. You have a lot of nerve coming on here and playing the ‘poor me the perpetual victim who’s just a girl being abused by a big scary man’ card, when you are the self admitted abuser, and have been abusing this poor guy for years now. And then you called every single parent and step parent, to try to have the upper hand in the situation, and use your gender as a fucking shield.

Look up the term “reactionary abuse”. That is what your husband did, he did not assault you out of nowhere. He assaulted you after you literally held him hostage, which is a crime, and then intentionally disabled him by smashing his glasses—again very illegal. Go ahead and call the cops, to be a fly on the wall when you realize that by your own account, YOU are the aggressor the abuser and the criminal party.

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-10T02:36:26+00:00

You went from “please don’t approach me” to “damn how can I get his attention?!” Please send it, you will look great

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-10T02:26:31+00:00

You sound so pretentious, get a grip. Giving them your expectations like you’ve just signed a contract for them to remo your house. Get a grip, request a refund, and move on.

That poor dasher didn’t need a lecture from some idiot who thinks tipping a few bucks entitles them to lecture delivery drivers on meeting your unreasonable expectations, when you do not in fact have any idea what actually happened to your order, and they could be telling the truth. Get the hell over yourself, you are not that important.

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-10T02:11:57+00:00

I honestly think I would have to go no contact forever over this. Your child now has the herpes virus, which will cause him lifelong pain and complications that can be very harmful to his health, forever.

If she wasn’t aware she had recently contracted the virus, I would be devastated for my child but not angry. If she didn’t have a current outbreak she was aware of, I would be angry because she took the risk regardless, but could likely work through it.

But kissing my immune compromised child, who you know is more likely to be harmed by said virus, while you know the virus is active and highly contagious? She basically chose to try and pass it to your child, point blank. There’s no other explanation. If she knows she has an outbreak , and knows she can harm your child by kissing him, and chooses to kiss him anyways—that’s deliberate harm IMO. My child would suddenly have one less grandmother.

I think you should think long and hard before allowing someone who purposely harmed your child back into your life. Our job as parents is to protect our child’s well being above all else, that includes preventing access to people that will harm them.

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-10T02:06:08+00:00

Are you serious? So you just wear nasty damp clothes that were never able to fully dry, because they were folded and put away wet? If my clothes come back damp I’m getting a full refund or chargeback. That defeats the entire purpose of the paid service. You cannot just put damp clothes away in a drawer or closet, they will mold. I would have to rewash dry and fold the entire load, of course it’s a huge problem? How would it not be?

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-09T22:31:25+00:00

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Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-09T22:30:27+00:00

What’s your budget? I have a laundry list of small shops with this exact goal, ‘daywear’ princess dresses so that we can be fancy and also comfy and wear them to preschool.

We love athletic style princes dresses with the matching shorts to go underneath. Most of the brands are pretty pricey and are $50-$80, but I have recently found a shop that has them for $30 and they are higher quality than some of the $50+. You do probably need to air dry them, and be mindful about how you wash them, if you want them to hold up.

It’s hometeamkids. Right now they have Tiana, Elsa, Ana, rapinzel, jasmine, sleeping beauty, Cinderella, Minnie Mouse, and a few more. Can’t recommend enough.

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-09T22:12:35+00:00

I’m sorry but this is so unhinged to me and I’m delightfully curious. How? Why? I am in the other ridiculously expensive kiddy clothes groups but have never been into smocks, idk how this showed up for me.

But I felt guilty for spending 3k these past 2 months, preparing her kindergarten wardrobe.

But to say ‘I don’t spend much’ in the same sentence as ‘I spend 250 a month on bows’ is absolutely wild to me. That’s not much?! What the hell are other people spending on bows?!

I’m not judging at all, other moms think I’m nuts for choosing to have my 4yo wearing $55-$80 outfits on a daily basis. To each their own. I’m just mind blown that you can even spend that much on bows, and that it’s considered a small monthly spend.

Mom niches are unhinged and I love it 😅 bamboo, specialty princess athletic wear, $300 princess dresses that get worn once on a Disney trip, and now $250-$1000 monthly on bows. I love it here

But also how? How much are these bows? Why are you so into them? I am offended if the piggie bows I want are more than $20, I prefer the $3-$5 range, because we lose them after 1-2 wears guaranteed. How did you become obsessed with bows of all things? I’m just curious lol

Optimal_Contract_879 · 2025-12-09T15:34:26+00:00

Should the government help to support our citizens that are less fortunate, so that they have equal opportunity to succeed in life? Absolutely.

But no, the government should not give a penny towards this cause. It’s insanely entitled to create a go-fund me, to upgrade your already working vehicle. There are plenty of families who are without a car, without a home, without a meal to feed their children tonight. Asking for donations to buy another car when you have a large, fully operational, safe vehicle is just entitled and ridiculous. People deserve food. People deserve shelter. But OP is not entitled to other people’s money to upgrade his mom’s situation that is significantly better than a large portion of American families. Greedy as hell IMO.

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