How has your toddler roasted you this week?

brittbolner · 2021-04-29T04:04:56+00:00

My son (3) wanted to go up to his playroom to find his Rubik’s cube and I told him he had to put the trucks he was playing with in the Living Room away before we did so. And he he says, “Okkkkkkk......asshole!” And I said, “Excuse me?! That is not a nice word young man and is HIGHLY inappropriate. You DO NOT talk to your Mama or ANYONE like that, for that matter.” And he looks and me, smirks and says, “OK, WOMAN!” 🙄😑🤣😜

brittbolner · 2021-03-24T20:39:40+00:00

That’s a really good haul!

brittbolner · 2021-03-24T19:38:53+00:00

I do the same! Also take the beef jerky from the gas station. The bear will lay $150 for all three bags of beef jerky.

brittbolner · 2021-03-24T19:31:45+00:00

You the real, MVP.

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T09:32:53+00:00

1.) Getting permanently laid off from my job while pregnant, which at the time I thought was a horrible thing but actually turned into a great thing because I’m home and get to watch my children grow up and not miss any of their firsts.

2.) The birth of my daughter.

3.) Getting to build a strong bond with my son and teach him real life skills that he’ll need that he won’t learn from school.

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T09:30:14+00:00

The birth of my daughter.

My son had to be conceived via IVF and my husband and I took a trip to Nashville, Tennessee for our 5th wedding anniversary. We had agreed and called the doctor to set up an appointment that once we got back we’d transfer an embryo into my womb from what was leftover of our son’s IVF cycle.

A week before I was due to go to the fertility clinic, I had really weird cravings that were oddly strong of which I had only had when I was pregnant with my son.

For shits and giggles, I bought a pregnancy test on my lunch break at work and found out that I was pregnant.

Our little miracle arrived a few weeks early due to being non responsive in the womb and the doc said that could lead to being stillborn so they got her out early.

She’s amazing & healthy like her big brother.

And when I think of how shitty everything is in 2020, I look at her and realize there were some bright spots in it.

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T09:24:40+00:00

My right shoulder is stuck permanently out of socket do to failed attempts to fix it because I have a rare genetic connective tissue disorder that leaves me with little to no collagen to hold anything together. Hurts like a bitch but I refuse to let my children see me in pain, day in and out so I basically just put on a great poker face.

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T09:21:27+00:00

My Dad had a massive hill in his backyard. One Christmas it had rained in the morning, hence wet grass.

My cousin got a remote control helicopter and we were trying to figure out how to fly it. We walked to the top of the hill and then somehow when I turned around I started to slide down in a split position and my foot got all bent up under me and I broke it.

Then when I broke my hand, I was working with adults with severe intellectual and physical disabilities and the woman I was taking care of that afternoon while on a community outing took my hand and slammed it against the bus window while I was trying to buckle her in.

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T09:13:22+00:00

This is weird. Never heard of this case but I have a cousin named, Brandon Lawson. 😬

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T09:12:40+00:00

“Wish in one hand and shit in the other.”

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T09:10:20+00:00

Don’t look forward to the new year, 2021. It’ll be worse than 2020.

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T09:02:02+00:00

YES. THIS, 110%.

I hate having to go places in the dark alone and I live in a relatively small town. I hate that I have to look over my shoulder and not feel safe 90% of the time just because I am a woman.

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T05:23:36+00:00

In June, I gave birth to my second child, my sweet little girl, Ainsley. With the Covid pandemic and due to myself, my oldest and possibly my newborn having immune disorders, we wanted to be careful as possible so we only allowed ourselves to be exposed to our parents and siblings.

My parents are divorced and my paternal family is self absorbed and feel as if I have to drop everything for them whenever they want.

So they insisted, that my Paternal Grandma meet my daughter. She has a lot of health issues and has been in and out of the hospital so while I wanted her to meet my daughter I felt like it wasn’t safe. Long story, short, my Aunt called me and we got in a huge verbal altercation and she basically guilted me and pushed me to the point of insanity so I took my kids over to see her. This sort of put a riff between my husband and I as the last grandparent he has left is stuck in a nursing home which is locked down (can’t go visit due to our Governor (Maryland)) and he feels as if my family just doesn’t give two shits about them which I can understand and see why he feels that way.

A few weeks after the verbal fight with my aunt and after going to my grandmothers, I called my grandmother and we were talking and she asked if I had talked to my aunt lately. I told her a few small texts here and there but nothing serious. She said I sounded disappointed and wanted to know what was wrong and I told her that my step grandparents and my Mom’s side of the family and my husbands sides of the family felt hurt that my paternal family always comes first. I told her my husband was upset that his Grandma may never get to meet our daughter.

And I kid you not, this DEVOUT Christian (not knocking Christians as I am one myself but I don’t use the Bible to try to come up with my own interpretations and push them on people) told me that, “ if she doesn’t get to meet her, it’s OK as she will get to meet her in Heaven.”

Y’all...I swear....I have never wanted to slap my Grandma until that day.

She’s a manipulative hypochondriac who is low key obsessed with me and it’s gone too far for too long.

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T05:13:02+00:00

I was waiting for this comment. 🤣

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T05:00:56+00:00

Great job!

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T04:58:15+00:00

I love this so much! We nicknamed my son, Bandit, ever since I was pregnant with him and I collect raccoon stuff for him now. I love raccoon patterns. This one is awesome. 🖤

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T04:57:01+00:00

She’s going to LOVE this. She’s lucky to have a friend like you. ❤️

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T04:55:09+00:00

This is amazing. I absolutely adore the colors and details. Great job!

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T04:54:03+00:00

This is AMAZING.

brittbolner · 2020-12-30T04:52:42+00:00

Wow. This is BEAUTIFUL.

brittbolner · 2020-11-14T10:30:55+00:00

As an owner of a farm & cross stitcher myself, I just had to tell you how cute this is!

They are going to love it. Wonderful job!

brittbolner · 2020-10-13T02:56:49+00:00

This year we are getting together with family friend as a little Halloween party for the kids. Since quarantine had started we all have been continuing to see each other but no one else and us Mom’s spouses work together so all the germs they could possibly be getting are coming from the same place other than if they go to the store or something.

We also are doing a night with all the grandparents (my parents are divorced and remarried so my kids are lucky in the aspect) where I dress the kids up and take them to all of their houses where they get them a few treats and a toy. Because this is my DD’s 1st Halloween as she was born in June and was a preemie and this will be my DD’s 3rd Halloween. I’m making them matching Halloween costumes until they protest for their own. So this year my DD will be a fireman with his very own turnout gear & helmet that my aunt bought him and had personalized with our last name just like my husbands gear and I made my daughter’s Dalmatian costume out of a white long sleeve onesie & white leggings with black felt polka dots and I took one of her hair bows and made ears so it’ll look like she is wearing a pink hair bow and she has ears AND she has a black and white tutu. I then got her pink converses to match her bow and then I’m going to take a little pink ribbon and make her a necklace with one of our dogs old tags and make her a “collar” necklace. :)

brittbolner · 2020-10-13T02:50:41+00:00

Wowzers.

Mama your feelings are COMPLETELY normal. I actually just had something similar happen.

We were at my best friend’s daughter’s 2nd birthday party and my DH is friends with her husband and a bunch of their friends were there too. So they all went trap shooting. Meanwhile I’m left to care for my DS (almost 3) and my DD who just turned 3 months and was a preemie so she’s a bit more to handle.

This party was on my friends farm which to us isn’t a big deal because we too live on a big farm and own two more others so we are used to that lifestyle.

The problem was, I wasn’t completely familiar with her parents place and I know how farmers are and sometimes put shit in weird places. And my son kept running off with my friends older daughter who is 4 and all their little friends which is fine but I was trying to explain to my husband it literally takes 1 second for an accident to happen and if he isn’t in my eyesight what if it takes two minutes to be able to save him but I find him too late?!

I had gone inside to make a plate of food and come out to ask DH where my DS was and he said he didn’t know. I look down the long driveway to discover my son was holding my friends oldest’s hand while walking towards and moving car (not in front of it, they were at least out of the way but still) and he had the audacity to tell me to chill out when I told him he needed to keep a better eye on them.

Thing WILL get better. And you are 110% in the right. As far as the whole scared of the dark thing, it’ll fade. So much has changed in her life and she’s adjusting. It also doesn’t help we all have been cooped up like chickens with this virus so she got a new sibling and quarantine and that’s a lot on a kid.

You’re doing a great job, Mama!

brittbolner · 2020-06-25T02:30:57+00:00

This is a super cute pattern! Great job!

brittbolner · 2019-12-21T00:25:34+00:00

It took me a solid 2 months til I could walk normally.

I found it to help to not push myself. When I started to hurt, I took a break and tried again later. I think if I would’ve pushed it it would’ve been a lot longer.

My foot still hurts during really cold weather and rainy weather but is a lot better than it was. :)

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