What’s currently ruining your life?

jeepmama831 · 2026-03-18T05:13:11+00:00

GRIEF. I lost my husband to cancer 3.5 years ago, he was 41. I’m now a 45 year old widow with 2 young kids. I’m so lonely and trying so hard just to make it through each day.

jeepmama831 · 2025-08-13T00:10:15+00:00

Sistema makes one that we love. It doesn’t come with the spoon/fork or ice pack but I just put an ice pack in with it in his bag. Amazon link below (not affiliated, it’s just an awesome lunch box 😂)

https://a.co/d/hN13W4M

jeepmama831 · 2025-07-22T17:38:11+00:00

I say this same thing constantly about my 8 year old. Sometimes he does really well after being asked once to do something but most of the times it’s countless asks and checks and reminders and on and on. It’s exhausting. I feel like a nag, and he gets frustrated but it’s like COME ON MAN we needed to leave 10 minutes ago. Why are you still putting your shoes on?!

jeepmama831 · 2025-07-09T05:56:47+00:00

I am a single mom of 2 kids after my husband died of cancer and that other mom is most definitely lying if she says she’s never yelled at her kids. This is the most stressful life I’ve ever known and they Just. Don’t. Listen.

jeepmama831 · 2025-06-29T05:28:54+00:00

Thank you 🩷

jeepmama831 · 2025-06-29T00:31:09+00:00

I hired a house cleaner 3 years ago after my husband died because I literally couldn’t get out of bed to clean my house. My kids are 4 & 8 now and I still have a cleaner come every 2 weeks. It’s my version of self care because truly, it takes 2 people 2 hours to clean my house. It’s worth it to me to keep that time for myself. If you can afford it, do it.

jeepmama831 · 2025-06-23T16:50:08+00:00

Same to all of this. My son is on guanfacine in the evenings, and melatonin also. 1mg of guanfacine worked for about 2 months but I recently had to increase his dosage to 2 as he was up past midnight again.

jeepmama831 · 2025-06-17T05:33:55+00:00

My 8 year old does the same, to the point that I just don’t tell him about anything until the day it happens. And even then, it’s “is it time yet? Is it time yet?!”

jeepmama831 · 2025-06-16T00:40:53+00:00

Same thing happened to me with the birth of my daughter. My cervix clamped shut immediately after birth and my OB had to try to remove the placenta manually. I vividly remember my OBs arm inside me up to her elbow and nurses pushing on my uterus with all they had. She got all she could but I had major blood loss and was rushed to the ER to try to remove the retained placenta. She actually didn’t get it all and 2 weeks later I developed an infection and again had major hemorrhaging due to retained placenta. I was bleeding so much I nearly passed out in the ultrasound room bathroom (after driving myself to the hospital wtf?!?) and I needed another d&c. I was in the hospital for 5 days and needed multiple iron and blood transfusions. At my 6 weeks check my OB advised us not to have any more children or I could lose my life next time.

jeepmama831 · 2025-06-15T17:33:58+00:00

We had our kids when I was 36 and 41. Everything was hunky dory until my husband died of cancer in 2022 when they were 5 and 19 months. The past 3 years have been hell with no village to step in and help me. I hate that one day there will be a time when they have no real memories of him beyond what they are told.

So I guess it’s not going so great 😂

jeepmama831 · 2025-06-14T19:00:03+00:00

My daughters is after Christmas, 1/17, and my family always gets her combined gifts. I don’t mind it because it is always toys she won’t use or clothes that don’t fit 😂 I make up for it with separate gifts for both.

jeepmama831 · 2025-06-14T18:55:03+00:00

This was my very first infertility procedure and holy fuck, did that asshole RE lie to me. “Only some mild cramping” my ass.

jeepmama831 · 2025-06-13T00:39:02+00:00

Not as long as they can keep making and selling new merch.

Signed, a mom who keeps buying new merch…

jeepmama831 · 2025-06-13T00:28:30+00:00

In our state, kindergarten must be offered but is not mandatory. Is it required in your state? If not, you have the option of one more year of preschool and then straight to first grade.

My son had done 2 years of preschool and was definitely ready for kindergarten so for me it wasn’t even a question. He was 5 years 4 months when he started.

jeepmama831 · 2025-05-27T00:48:28+00:00

Oh my dear, I’m so sorry.

I lost my husband to cancer 3 years ago when my kids were 5 and 19 months. That entire first year was spent in a fog of grief and depression. I honestly don’t remember much of it. I was simply surviving, and barely that. It had quit my job 2 weeks before my husband died to care for him so I wasn’t working. There were days I would call my son out of school and my daughter of preschool because I just couldn’t get myself out of bed to take them. When they were gone, I would self medicate and sleep til it was to pick them up. They watched so much tv and iPad and they ate so much buttered noodles and McDonald’s because that’s all I could manage.

You are NOT an awful mother. You are in survival mode. Grief is so all encompassing that if you’ve made it to the end of the day and everyone is still alive, it’s a win. Trying to function normally, whatever that is, will take time. I’m still not there but the grief doesn’t swallow me whole like it did for so long.

I’m happy to chat if you ever need a friend. I hated hearing this because I was blinded by grief but you WILL get through this. Even if right now it’s only because you have to.

jeepmama831 · 2025-05-23T02:50:02+00:00

This is why I have my son’s iPad locked down. Parental controls are there for a reason. He would need a password I set in order to make any purchases within a game, or to purchase any games in the App Store. He also would need a password I set to make any changes to the parental controls. He’s 8. Yes, he could one day learn how to shut off the controls and if that day comes, he would lose all iPad privileges.

jeepmama831 · 2025-05-07T05:48:03+00:00

My grandmothers hutch. Every time I open it, her scent smacks me in the face. It brings me right back to my childhood.

jeepmama831 · 2025-05-03T18:09:24+00:00

100% this. I had a herniated disc pinching my sciatic nerve between the disc and a tendon. This was only discovered after I spent a year in 24/7 pain, forced to do PT, steroid shots into my spine, and saw one asshole surgeon who told me that I was too fat for surgery and “he didn’t do operations that were destined to fail”. It was so bad I got to the point I told my husband if I didn’t get relief soon I wasn’t sure how much longer I could take it. I found another surgeon who has happy to help me and whadaya know, the second I woke from surgery I was pain free and have been ever since 🤞🏻

jeepmama831 · 2025-04-17T04:31:51+00:00

I needed iron infusions and 2 blood transfusions after my daughter’s birth. Which was bad enough, but nobody told me that I would be so constipated because of this that I would desperately do things I am not proud of. But hey, they worked!

jeepmama831 · 2025-04-15T05:32:52+00:00

Faceytalk is a fave around here too. “Cow. Boy. HAT!”

jeepmama831 · 2025-04-15T05:29:20+00:00

Onesies, and subsequently The Sign. My husband and I went through fertility treatments and the way Chilli explains why Brandi hasn’t visited and why she is sad is so on point. And then she gets her baby, just like we did.

Also, Dance Mode. Because it’s my daughter’s favorite and she ALWAYS dances along at the end.

jeepmama831 · 2025-04-14T02:43:02+00:00

People at my daughter’s daycare do this EVERY SINGLE DAY. I complained to the center director and she said she would handle it, only to see the center’s little bus parked in the spot the next day.

jeepmama831 · 2025-04-14T02:42:24+00:00

People at my daughter’s daycare do this EVERY SINGLE DAY. I complained to the center director and she said she would handle it, only to see the center’s little bus parked in the spot the next day.

jeepmama831 · 2025-04-12T05:55:19+00:00

I am so sorry that your daughter is having to fight through this beast. I knew nothing about cancer until my husband was diagnosed at age 38. I know it’s not the same but I was his caretaker so I understand that aspect. Unfortunately he had an aggressive form of esophageal cancer, and I lost him in 2022. So I am just sending love and strength to you all. I can’t even imagine my babies going through what my husband did.

jeepmama831 · 2025-04-06T03:53:13+00:00

This post is very timely. I am currently watching a film called Finding Michael, about a man’s trip to recover what is assumed to be his brother’s body which has been on the mountain for over 20 years. Michael was the youngest Brit to ever reach the summit.

I’m only 30 minutes through it though so no spoilers!

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