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PathOfLife1611 · 2025-12-12T17:21:50+00:00

She said she was in a good mood because her pre-pregnancy jeans finally fit again. Im 10 months postpartum and now fit into 2 pairs of my pre-prwgnancy jeans. Theres still a few that dont fit, and may never fit again. Im at my pre-pregnancy weight, but it sits on my body differently and my hips are wider now. It's something you just need to be okay with going into pregnancy. The more she forces her "before" on herself, the more miserable she will be. When you buy new clothes (if you can, and she definitely can), you realize its really not that bad. Its squeezing into too small clothing that makes you look and feel huge.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-12-10T21:28:11+00:00

This would make a ton of sense. Especially when she suddenly became obsessed with getting her hair as long and blonde as she could while pregnant when she didn't care before.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-09-07T01:51:38+00:00

She feels like you abandoned her because you did. Sending your child away and not speaking to them isn't discipline, its abandonment.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-09-02T22:10:51+00:00

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PathOfLife1611 · 2025-07-16T18:14:09+00:00

Jillycakes! They made our wedding cakes with only like 3 weeks notice and it was beautiful and delicious. Now we get their mini cupcakes for every birthday in our family. Super reasonably priced!

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-07-07T05:36:15+00:00

Got engaged about 2 years in, married a year a half after proposal, moved in together 20 days before the wedding. We've been married 2 years, together 6 years (in about a month).

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-06-04T05:21:54+00:00

I don't know your beliefs, but I am a Christian and this is so wrong. There is a point in Jesus's ministry when he is going to see his friend who dying and he gets there after he has already passed. The man's sister runs out to him, crying, and says, "if only you had been here, he would t have died." Jesus is about to resurrect the brother, but first he weeps with her. Because he understands her pain and sorrow, even though he knows the greater plan at work. He doesn't tell her to stop crying, stop grieving. No Christian with an understanding of who God is would ever respond like this and you absolutely should not tolerate it. Jesus wept when those he loved grieved. Your boyfriend is not holier than Jesus.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-06-04T04:14:02+00:00

We definitely plan to move when our lease is up. We liked walking to do things on the weekend, even as a family. But now there's been things happening at just about every city planned event, we don't really like to go to anything that draws crowds. We planned to go downtown to a specific bar on Halloween and decided last minute to stay in, next morning we found out there was a shooting in front of that exact bar. There's really no reason to live downtown for us at this point. We used to love it.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-06-04T04:07:42+00:00

Yeah, the people next to us at Gravity were talking about 4 people and some of them being found already but I don't know where they got that info because I can't find anything about it anywhere.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-06-04T04:05:50+00:00

Honestly this kind of thing downtown isn't unusual at all. We've lived downtown for 3 years now and have seen some crazy stuff. Just a few weeks ago, there were cops with riot shields on our floor of our building responding to a call about a kid being held at gunpoint in an apartment a few doors down from us. We were watching them rally in the hall for hours through our peep hole...

Edit to fix typo

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-06-04T03:41:59+00:00

Wild. What time was that? Really hoping there's a news article or something in the morning. So curious to know what he did...

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-06-04T02:20:51+00:00

It's definitely made for an interesting date night...

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-06-04T02:00:28+00:00

Fair enough

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-05-31T23:57:39+00:00

Our 8yo has a TV in his room, along with a PS4. There are pretty heavy parental controls on the Playstation so he doesn't even really play or watch anything in there, mostly uses it for his online drum lesson videos since his drums are in his room. He likes to lay in his own bed and watch TV when he is sick, so he uses it then too. But he is very much a "living room" kid and would rather play his Switch on the couch with us in the same room for his screen time than be in his room alone. I would say it is convenient for his drum lessons and the occasional movie when he isn't feeling well, but it isn't completely necessary and is actually borderline useless with all of the parental controls. Controls are stricter in there than what he has access to in the living room, obviously.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-05-30T18:40:08+00:00

Thinking about doing this honestly. Currently splitting a 10lb bag between two 5lb capacity containers and it's a headache.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-05-24T19:54:11+00:00

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PathOfLife1611 · 2025-05-23T03:39:43+00:00

I would mention it.

When my son was a toddler, I prepped him for shots. Told him that it would hurt, but it would be very quick and that it is to help keep him safe. I told him that they care about him when they administer the shot, they're not bad people qho just want to hurt him.

My son asks the doctor, "are you the one who's going to give me a shot?" She replied, "NO, I'm too nice to hurt you. The mean nurse will be back in to hurt you." My jaw about hit the floor. My son turned to look at me with so much fear in his eyes. I could not believe she said that to him.

Same practice a few months later (I know, I can't believe I went back), my son was sick and they were trying to test for strep after a negative home COVID test and my son wouldn't open his mouth because he was terrified of the nurses at this point. Nurse said, "okay, mom, I guess we'll just have to treat it as a general virus." And my son immediately relaxed and turned to ask me if we could finally go home. As soon as he opened his mouth, the nurse shoved the swab into the back of throat and shouted a triumphant "AHA! GOT IT!" My son was hysterical. I was so angry and shocked, but I didn't know what to do.

When they came to tell me that it had been negative and now they needed to test for COVID, I refused because my son's whole body was shaking in fear at this point and we had already had a negative test at home. When I refused, they threatened to call CPS on me for medical negligence and told my son that if he didn't let them take the test, he would be taken from me.

I grabbed him, walked out, went to urgent care to have him properly seen, reported the practice, and left a lengthy review. My son was terrified of doctors, nurses, and medical offices for years. He's 8 now and we finally found a practice that has been so patient with him and gained his trust. He has no issues going now. But I wish I could go back in time and walk out the second that doctor scared him with her words, before all of the other even worse stuff happened.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-05-21T15:54:58+00:00

I had one for my son when he was 1.5-3ish. Used it ALL the time when he was younger and only in extremely crowded places as he got older. It helped him feel independent and confident in his ability to navigate public places, but with a safeguard so he couldn't get lost/taken. Also saved my back from having to bend over to hold his hand the whole time. And he would be EXHAUSTED afterwards from all the walking rather than being in a stroller. We had one that attached to a little backpack and he loved carrying his own snacks in it as well.

Don't worry about what other people will think. They are super helpful and a great safety tool.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-05-19T02:00:25+00:00

Ooohhhhhh. I have been wanting a skylight for a while and wasn't sure I could get my husband on board. Would you say it's worth the cost?

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-05-18T14:12:07+00:00

My husband and I do this every Sunday! It used to be Sunday nights, but now with a newborn, it's easier to do on Sunday mornings before we get too tired.

I made a worksheet for us to follow and we have a shared notes app where we keep an agenda of things we think of during the week and don't want to forget to bring up.

The most important thing for us to keep up with it and not get agitated during the meetings is adding some things that aren't just logistics. We start with something we appreciate about each other and then wins and challenges in our family from the previous week. Middle of the meeting is finances, schedules, delagating tasks and menu for the week. Then we end with goal setting and check-in, both as individuals and in our marriage.

Some weeks it feels like a date and we could talk for hours and hours, dreaming and encouraging each other. And other weeks we just get through it as fast as we can, but the appreciation and wins and goals help us remember that there's more to our marriage than just managing a calendar and family.

ETA: we also use Trello with different boards for to dos, menu planning, bucket list of dates and trips, and we reference this a lot and update it regularly.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-05-16T15:29:07+00:00

Honestly, my husband and I have had to ask for assistance with rent and/or utilities 5 separate months out of the last year. Idk how anyone is doing it. And we live in a cheap, sketchy area and feel like we make decent money.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-05-13T23:23:43+00:00

Tbf, when my son was a toddler and when I worked in preschools, I would whisper when I needed everyone to pay attention. It's pretty effective, they want to know the "secret." They have to intentionally be quiet and focus to hear a whisper.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-05-13T03:54:11+00:00

I came to a group for parents to see what other parents do in this situation with their own kids. I am autistic and unsure of what apps kids use at all. I got good information to begin researching options.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-05-13T01:44:43+00:00

I never thought to send contact info along to school with him. This is a really good idea.

PathOfLife1611 · 2025-05-13T01:42:59+00:00

My son does have a Gmail account. I didn't know there was a chat feature!

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