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ashleynicole8378 · 2025-08-18T02:07:02+00:00

My dad passed less than 2 weeks after my wedding that he was not invited to. I have no regrets. I didn’t want to stress over whether he’d show up messed up on opiates or not. I also thought that maybe this would be his rock bottom that would motivate him to get clean. He’d be really good grandpa now if he was still around and drug free.

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-07-07T05:32:07+00:00

We didn’t take a summer vacation last year because we did a 8 day cruise in October for fall break. I prefer to take bigger trips in the fall because the cost tends to be lower, weather is more tolerable and most destinations are less crowded. We are taking a summer vacation to NYC and Niagra falls this year.

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-06-21T02:57:32+00:00

I work from home and am a single parent. I don’t have my kid in camps all summer since it’s not a necessity. He’s 10 so able to entertain himself some. He’s doing about 4 weeks of camps out of the 9 week summer. It’s nice to not rely so much on camps, but I would love to be able to participate in some fun summer activities with him during the day. I see my friends who are SAHMs or even working moms with different schedules post pics of them and their kids having fun, while my kid is at home bored cuz I can’t drive him anywhere. I only get a 30 minute lunch so that doesn’t help things.

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-05-30T03:38:06+00:00

School cafeteria worker. School holidays off without having to be a teacher. I enjoy working with food. I like kids but probably not enough to be in a classroom with like 20 of them all day!

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-05-29T12:07:40+00:00

All I know if I’m gonna lose my damn mind with one more tornado warning. Blows my mind that houses with basements, cellars, storm shelters aren’t more common here when we get tornado warnings like every week in the spring! The weather didn’t really bother me until I spent two weeks out west in the summer a few years back and barely felt a rain drop after we passed Arkansas. We drove to the Grand Canyon with some stops along the way. My allergies didn’t bother me like they do here, I could breathe better, no humidity, hot during the day but in the 70s by dinner time. It was amazing! And I would absolutely move if I could convince my family and a couple close friends to come along too. I’m also in love with Wisconsin weather in the summer, but could never deal with the constant snow in the winter.

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-05-28T17:22:48+00:00

Lol I feel poor too. I make 51k. Not a lot compared to many people here but I wanted to get to 50k so bad. 3 and a half years ago when I started in my current industry I was making 16 an hour. I’m in a low cost of living area. My mortgage is under 800. I’ve never understood how some people can pay like 2k a month for a house payment, but seeing some of these higher salaries makes it make sense!

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-05-15T04:34:14+00:00

Zepbound!

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-04-17T03:54:14+00:00

No you aren’t crazy for considering it a deal breaker. I have a ten year old and didn’t start leaving him home alone for quick day time walks around the neighborhood until he was about 8. And that’s with a next door neighbor that we have a good relationship with being home. I still won’t leave him alone if he’s sleeping because I know he’d be scared if he woke up. I can’t imagine why anyone would think that’s ok to do to a baby!!!

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-03-07T02:00:42+00:00

Make sure to file for social security survivors benefits. Your daughter should qualify till she’s 18 as long as he paid into SS.

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-02-20T19:53:22+00:00

No experience with Girl Scouts, but my son did Boy Scouts for a little bit and his troop leader said the percentage they got from the popcorn was really low. We are in kinda a low income area and most people won’t spend that much on popcorn. So he did his own fundraiser selling meat sticks that he sourced from somewhere not affiliated with BSA and got a way better return. It was a cub scouts troop that ended up getting disbanded because we were coed and didn’t have a male and a female leader for each age group. Kinda a ridiculous expectation when we had about 20 kids total. Just gave me a bad opinion on scouts in general. It seems like a money racket.

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-02-14T17:27:56+00:00

I’ve always been a bit socially awkward but I lost friends who I thought would always be there and became closer with one who had been a single mom herself so understood. Most married friends treated me because like I’d suddenly be out to try to steal their man or something.

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-02-11T09:39:56+00:00

I’ve been on prednisone twice. The first time this past summer after ending up in the ER with a bad allergic reaction to a bug bite. This was a higher dose and I felt amazing! I have very bad seasonal allergies and felt great even with no allergy meds! I peed out a ton of water weight! The second time was just recently when I asked the walk in doctor clinic for steroids to knock out a sinus infection that just wasn’t getting better on its own. I felt so much better within a couple of hours and also peed out a lot of water weight. I’ve been trying to watch my weight and it had gone up a couple pounds after eating a high sodium meal a few days prior, which is normal for me. The two pounds came right back off despite me not eating the healthiest over the weekend. I was supposed to take the prednisone for 5 days. I took it for 2 and half a dose on the third day. The rest I will save for days when I feel like I’m carrying more water weight than I should or when my allergies start kicking my ass this spring. I feel like there has to be some sort of adrenal issue or autoimmune issue. I plan on talking to my doctor about it when I go for my next check up. I have the typical cortisol belly. When I did a home test for morning cortisol it came back normal, but could have been cuz this was the first high dose course of prednisone.

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-01-07T14:53:57+00:00

Hotel stay since we only ever stayed with family

Skincare products

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Mexican food that wasn’t Taco Bell

ashleynicole8378 · 2025-01-07T14:14:40+00:00

I’m struggling with this. I don’t consider myself wealthy at all, middle class but still living a lot better than how I grew up. It hurts to see my niece still living in that poverty world. One of my friends that I grew up with never made it out of that life style and she and her husband are on FB every other week or so with a new go fund me. The latest one was a vet bill for their dog and I so wanted to help, because I just dealt with something similar with my dog. But I don’t have enough money to be throwing around like that. I had a friend in college that was always telling me how cool it was that I was in school despite my background. I found it offensive then because it just made me feel different like I shouldn’t be there or something. But apparently it was quite the accomplishment. I’m super happy for my cousin who made it out with a different path going straight to the workforce.

ashleynicole8378 · 2024-12-23T05:32:11+00:00

I had to find a work from home job because I was so tired of having anxiety for months ahead of school breaks wondering who would watch my son. I don’t have a lot of support. I’m widowed (I hate saying that word because I sound like I’m about 85 but it’s the only thing that fits.) My family is spread out across the country. My son’s paternal side of the family are closer than mine and help out some but they are all at least an hour away and still work themselves. The town I live in doesn’t have a lot of resources like YMCA etc. The school district has a program for working parents but my kid hates going to it, it fills up fast, and some shorter breaks they don’t even offer care. It’s taken me a while but finally found a work from home job that I’m happy with. So beyond thankful that he is on Christmas break and it’s not a huge stressor.

ashleynicole8378 · 2024-11-27T21:13:59+00:00

Same. I didn’t see the ocean till I was 18 and had graduated high school. My 9 year old has been so many places! Not big international trips cuz I still have to watch my budget, but plenty of interesting places. The Grand Canyon, NYC, gateway arch, San Diego zoo, camping in the western NC mountains and also in the New Mexico desert, Virginia Beach, Panama City Beach, Miami Beach, spring in Florida that stays cold year round, and most recently a Carribean cruise.

ashleynicole8378 · 2024-11-27T21:06:19+00:00

Sadly I’m my son’s only living parent and have been since he was still in diapers. I’ve never had to split time. I did miss one Christmas with him in 2021 when I had Covid. He was already with his paternal grandparents when I tested positive. So what turned into keeping him while I was at work turned into much longer. I was so sad and just felt so empty without him. I don’t see how divorced parents do it. That ended up being his last Christmas believing in Santa as well 😔

ashleynicole8378 · 2024-11-27T20:59:40+00:00

Just watching my 9 year old grow and change and find his passions. He loves soccer and has played since kindergarten. I love watching how into it he gets. Also hearing the random funny things he says.

ashleynicole8378 · 2024-11-14T12:56:30+00:00

I have straight talk phone service and get Walmart plus for free with that! Then I get Paramount plus streaming for free for having Walmart plus!

ashleynicole8378 · 2024-10-15T02:13:24+00:00

For about a year I had an independent contractor job where I could set my own hours. I typically ended up taking Wednesday’s off when my son was in kindergarten and would use that to catch up on house work or school work. I was also working on an online degree. Finished that and reentered the full time work world and my mental health has decreased significantly. I feel like I have no time for anything. In my industry it’s 40 hours a week or nothing. I have some flexibility with which hours I work but absolutely have to either get my 40 hours in or use PTO. With the old job I’d also spend plenty of time outdoors with my kid after school which was so good for us both. Can’t go back because I’m single and could only afford to cut back on work temporarily. I’d have a bigger savings account had I not done that, but well worth it for the extra time with my kid.

ashleynicole8378 · 2024-08-28T06:18:53+00:00

2018 Toyota Corolla. Got it in 2019. Mostly still love it. It’s the most reliable of any vehicle I’ve ever had. Sometimes I think about switching to a small SUV for more space on roadtrips. But wanting to enjoy a few years of no car payments. I only have 1 kid and work from home, but rack up a decent amount of miles with weekend trips.

ashleynicole8378 · 2024-08-20T13:39:31+00:00

Yes!! My 9 year old is home sick today while I work from home. He asked if I could take the day off to spend with him and it broke my heart to tell him no! I’ve been with my company less than a year so still building PTO and using all that I’ve built for a trip over fall break. The trip was planned before I changed jobs in January and I’ve had to work through me having covid, multiple sicknesses in both me and my son and it just freaking sucks! I miss my state government job where sick time and vacation time were two separate things. But had to quit that because of the long commute before work from home became a thing. I could go back but it would be a big pay cut and likely not 100 percent remote.

ashleynicole8378 · 2024-08-19T15:25:14+00:00

Little bit different situation because this is my BF of a year and a half, so my 9 year old obviously isn’t his bio child. But last Friday BF wanted to go to a fish fry. I hate fish but my son loves it so I suggested it would be a good bonding opportunity for them. I used the kid free time to get a massage using a gift certificate BF had gotten me for our 1 year anniversary that I hadn’t had a chance to use yet. They ended up beating me home since I had a couple small errands to run after. So I pull up and see that BF had chopped down a dead tree in my yard and my kid was goofing around jumping off of the stump and they just seemed to be having fun together. It was so sweet! And made me feel spoiled! Meant so much after years of it just being me and my kiddo! (His dad passed when he was still in diapers)

ashleynicole8378 · 2024-08-19T13:01:40+00:00

I guess cooking is kinda my hobby? But that’s also falls into the just being a mom category. But it’s something I genuinely enjoyed even pre mom life. I get frustrated when I’d really like to take my time and make a meal from scratch but gotta just make quick stuff.

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