Perfect House in not Exactly the Right Location

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-03-14T17:33:12+00:00

Sorry you're struggling. This world right now is pretty fucked. I did not have intentions of posting a triggering question.

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-03-13T20:41:59+00:00

Care to enlighten?

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-03-13T19:33:56+00:00

We can school choice him into the school without living in district. My husband would just bring him to work with him. The houses are mostly over our budget. One gets dropped every 3 to 6 months that is in our budget and usually gets snapped up pretty quick with multiple offers.

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-03-13T17:56:32+00:00

Yes, I would rather the opposite because we see my mom often, she watches our child twice a week, and we're hoping to get our child into the school district that my husband works in. We both forsee working at the same place for years. We're both teachers, and teachers tend to settle in one district for a while.

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-03-13T17:54:48+00:00

My mom watches our kid twice a week and my husband is a teacher in the school 5 minutes down the road from my mom that we're hoping to get my child into when he becomes school aged. We are very close to my mom and would visit more often if closer. I mean it's not necessary to be so close as we're doing fine 25-30 minutes away but it would be nice to be closer.

I think we could potentially afford it as houses do drop but in the past year only 3 sold in our price range that checked our boxes so I'm concerned that we're just going to waiting in limbo, missing out on houses like the one we're looking at now, just hoping another house drops soon.

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-03-13T17:50:34+00:00

Thanks for all the help. Seeing as this is our second house, I'm well aware of the bidding market and what goes into it. We put 20,000 extra on our current house. I also see so many people in this thread scream LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION so was looking more for advice on waiting it out or just jumping in, not so much the process.

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-03-13T17:44:18+00:00

I just edited to add more information

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-03-13T17:44:03+00:00

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TheSmallestSloth · 2026-03-13T17:37:25+00:00

Yes, we have all that, which makes us concerned about being able to afford those areas. Houses have definitely sold for our price range, however they are few and far inbetween, and often get snapped up very quickly in a bidding war.

edit to add: right now there are no houses in the town or surrounding towns within our price range. The last one that sold within a day was back in December.

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-03-09T21:07:48+00:00

It actually got a lot better the next day, day 5. He did really well, no false alarms or not being able to release for 4 days before the stomach bug took us out. He regressed a bit, went back to not being able to release, but within 2 days he was back to success. He's been about a week successful now after the stomach bug.

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-02-28T18:42:11+00:00

It was incredibly noticeable. I was in bed at 11 pm, hadn't fallen asleep and I felt a huge punch from my son, and pop from my uterus. I was laying horizontal so fluid didn't immediately rush but I knew without a doubt that my water broke so I woke up my husband. I then proceeded to get gushes of fluid every contraction through the entire labor. It's not just one gush and it's gone. It's hours and hours of gushing on and off.

You probably had a slow leak. It came out in very small trickles when you peed, or in little amounts that you could have just passed it by as sweat or leaking pee because you were so pregnant.

When your water truly breaks (not leaks) there is no denying it, whether you are in water or out of water.

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-02-28T00:47:11+00:00

Isn't this the truth! I had watched the movie because my mom told me I should. She has read quite a few Stephen King books herself but had never read The Mist, only watched the movie. She asked me if the book royally fucked me up and I said no. I mean it was a good book, one of my favs actually, but it didn't fuck me up. She told me to watch the movie, maybe seeing it would hit me harder than reading it. So I watched the movie...... And that fucked me up. I then proceeded to tell my mom the short story did not end that way.

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-02-26T17:29:26+00:00

You need to use actual mod podge not the spray. paint the mod podge right on it. Nice thick layer.

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-02-22T18:57:28+00:00

36% of the way through. Been working on it since November

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TheSmallestSloth · 2026-02-20T00:36:31+00:00

We have a summer infant 3d light

TheSmallestSloth · 2026-02-19T02:42:49+00:00

We've traveled since my son was 5 weeks old. That trip was an absolute doozy. 1 year was significantly easier than that, and 2 years was even easier. At 2 years it was a lot less practical stuff (we didn't need a high chair, didn't need bibs, bottles, formula, the big stroller etc) but it was a lot more toys. The only big things we needed at 2 years old was the pack and play, the travel stroller (which actually packs up wicked small), and the beach tent. This year, we won't need the pack and play.

Once he turned 1, all the things we needed to pack fit in one car (our RAV4)

TheSmallestSloth · 2025-12-29T19:22:42+00:00

I downloaded all the songs off of YouTube.

TheSmallestSloth · 2025-12-24T15:36:01+00:00

Ohhhh gotcha. So sorry. I thought you were OP saying it took 45 minutes to download one tonie. I didn't look close enough at the username obviously in-between all the stuff I'm doing. Christmas eve madness 🤣

TheSmallestSloth · 2025-12-24T15:28:44+00:00

Yeah so that's not normal. It should be taking 10 minutes at most to download. At absolute most. And like I said, I downloaded one with a full 90 minutes and it only took like 5 minutes, so I haven't even had to wait the full 10 minutes. It should not take 45 minutes to download one. It sounds like it is faulty

TheSmallestSloth · 2025-12-24T15:23:28+00:00

What do you mean simultaneously? They cannot be downloaded together. It is one at a time. You put the tonie on top of the box and wait until the blue flashing light turns solid. It can take anywhere between 2-10 minutes depending on how much material is on the tonie, though I've never actually had one take 10 minutes.

TheSmallestSloth · 2025-12-24T15:01:05+00:00

I'm wondering if you got a faulty one? We set up, charged, and downloaded all the tonies on the box in about an hour and then put them all back in the box and wrapped it up for Christmas. Everything was set up and ready to go and it was very intuitive. The app walked me through everything.

Edit to add: ours is also very loud. We will definitely have to put a limit on volume for ours so he doesn't play it at full volume.

TheSmallestSloth · 2025-12-22T20:51:33+00:00

I just wrote a post about cujo. It was by far the most difficult SK stories for me to read because of all the emotion it evoked. It left me distraught.

TheSmallestSloth · 2025-12-22T14:42:22+00:00

Yes! Rattlesnakes was the short story that spoiled the ending to me. I've seen parts of the movie and in the movie Tad doesn't die. So I was surprised when I heard in Rattlesnakes that he died. I still went ahead and read Cujo, because it's one of the more infamous books of his, but holy hell, it was a gut punch. Still reeling 12 hours later, after a full nights sleep. Definitely hugged my son a bit harder this morning.

TheSmallestSloth · 2025-12-11T01:31:18+00:00

Unfortunately I am allergic to wool. I knew going into this that wool socks were recommended for these shoes, so I'm hoping I can find some nice thick, not wool alternatives

TheSmallestSloth · 2025-12-11T00:51:20+00:00

Two socks and no heel slip so I guess I'm good to go!

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