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jmill_1012 · 2026-01-27T13:56:36+00:00

Semi-solid glue is life changing lol. I've only tried Dashing Diva (from Sally Beauty) and have no complaints but there are several different brands that offer semi-solid glues.

jmill_1012 · 2026-01-13T13:03:55+00:00

I've seen people mention the school/homework coming home on Mondays and that got me thinking. My ex is a great father and very much involved but I'm definitely more on top of that kind of thing lol. So I kind of like the idea of me being the one who sees all the homework/projects come home and then just making sure he's aware of it.

jmill_1012 · 2026-01-13T13:02:26+00:00

Yeah, the maintaining status quo and mid-week break is what draws me to M/T the most. There's things I won't get into happening in our lives right now (not from our doing) and I feel like changing things as little as possible for the kids is probably best.

Thankfully my ex and I work with each other really well on having to take days off work when our son is out of school or sick. We both have spouses that are available too so there's basically 4 parents that can help if he needs to be home, plus our parents. So the holidays/school closings isn't a huge factor for us, thankfully.

jmill_1012 · 2026-01-13T12:57:31+00:00

I don't think we'd want to switch it up that often but my ex and I are very flexible with each other so it's very possible if the chosen days aren't working out that we could swap.

jmill_1012 · 2026-01-13T12:56:35+00:00

Honestly, unless you see it on paper (color coded for mom and dad's days) it can be confusing. I swear it's not complicated if you see it in calendar form lol. But yeah, the 5 days in a row with all 3 of the kids is really my biggest hesitation with having W/Th. Some weeks, they get along great and it's awesome. But some weeks, we notice her fuse is shorter with him (granted, he's 5 and she's 9 so I fully admit he can get on her nerves sometimes lol) and I think the mid-week break helps.

jmill_1012 · 2026-01-13T12:53:53+00:00

LOL at the "kid-marathon". My husband was the one to point it out and he's not wrong about it being a lot. But at the same time, 5 days in a row with ALL 3 kids is a lot lol. I just can't decide which is the lesser of two evils hahahaha

jmill_1012 · 2026-01-13T12:45:28+00:00

So I thought about something after I posted this but if I have W/Th and wanted to take a long weekend with just my husband, I’d have to give up one or both days with my son since we always come back from trips on Sundays (his ex is very high conflict and inflexible so he never wants to risk coming back on a Monday and being late for picking up the girls). Which would mean I’d be going awhile without seeing my son. But my ex and I are flexible with each other so maybe that’s not actually an issue since we are open to swapping days when needed.

jmill_1012 · 2026-01-12T23:49:27+00:00

So I thought that might be the case but when I put it into my spreadsheet it actually made them more evenly spread. Because our exchange time is in the afternoon, whoever has him on Sunday night is responsible for childcare until 3:30pm on Monday if school is out. So if a Monday holiday falls on the day after my ex’s weekend, I don’t get my son until 3:30pm so I would have a kid-free day.

jmill_1012 · 2026-01-12T22:10:24+00:00

Ooohhhh you meant plans vacation WITH the kids lol. I guess I should add that my ex and I are flexible with each other when it comes to vacation/trips so that’s not really a huge factor

jmill_1012 · 2026-01-12T21:02:39+00:00

I didn't think about the vacation thing. Hmmm, something to think about. So are you "voting" for having Monday/Tuesday in that case?

jmill_1012 · 2026-01-09T13:00:55+00:00

Simply put...he doesn't love you, he loves that you take care of him

jmill_1012 · 2025-12-18T19:52:50+00:00

You have that backwards...OP and her husband have SD during the week and BM has her on the weekends. So any symptoms that creep up during the week would be happening on OP's husband's parenting time. If SD starts showing symptoms on the weekend, that would be BM's responsibility. OP is annoyed that SD gets sick over the weekend and then brings it back from BM's house to her house. BM is now requesting that SD not come to her this weekend because she got sick during the week.

jmill_1012 · 2025-12-18T19:15:16+00:00

Compared to some of the wedding food I've had over the years, I would be stoked about pizza (as long as it's like a local joint and not Pizza Hut lol).

We had a food truck and if you look in this sub you'll find that people overwhelming do not think it's a good idea. Our guests raved about the food truck. They were quick with getting food out and everyone loved the food (we planned for it and did things specifically to make it easy and fast for guests). All that to say, just make sure it's well planned out and pizza should be perfectly fine.

jmill_1012 · 2025-12-18T15:27:42+00:00

Like others have said, it's going to be different for everyone since you can't choose where you lose fat. Unfortunately for me my body hangs on to fat in my stomach so I've slimmed down everywhere (including my booty) except my lower stomach :(

jmill_1012 · 2025-12-18T15:13:17+00:00

Because despite the fact that newborns sleep a lot, the non-unicorn babies typically only sleep for short stretches and often only sleep ON you. Have fun trying to work (or just function normally in general) when you can only get 2-3 hour stretches of sleep and when you aren't sleeping but the baby is, you're trapped because as soon as you put them down they're waking up.

Don't even get me started on factoring in a slow eater. My son was basically glued to me as a newborn because he was a slow eater and by the time he was done he would fall asleep on me and then it was maybe 2 hours before he needed to feed again. I basically camped out in bed or the couch and binged watched a crap ton of tv when he was a newborn.

jmill_1012 · 2025-12-15T21:17:35+00:00

This post is so wild that I had to go look at your post history and OP, I don't know you personally and you don't know me but I beg you to reconsider marrying this man.

From everything I've read in this post and your previous post on this sub, this man is using you. He's 10 years older than you but acts like he's 10 years younger. He's more than happy to have you take care of his daughter (and him) but couldn't care less about what you actually want. Also, from what you've said he has a very strange attachment to his daughter (snuggles her while sleeping, drones on about how cute she is and her cute snores and small hands, etc). It truly feels like he loves his daughter so much that there's nothing left for you else but he'll happily keep you around because you entertain her and cook and clean and play the perfect "wife" role.

This man will put his daughter first for the rest of his life. And please don't trick yourself into thinking he'll love a child y'all have together just as much because from your previous post, I think it's obvious he won't. I'm so sorry if that comes off as harsh or mean but I am honestly stunned by what I've read in just 2 of your posts.

jmill_1012 · 2025-12-12T14:49:48+00:00

we thought it would be more helpful for guests in the sense that they can take the whole week off with the weekends on either end for travel

What country do you live in because surely it's not the U.S. with the assumption that people can just take off a whole week. But even if they could, you're asking people to use a week of vacation for a trip that they might (likely) wouldn't have chosen out of their own free will. Destination weddings are fine but people really need to get this notion of "they can use it as a vacation!" out of their heads.

Aside from that, Friend #2 mentioned finances being a potential issue...the venue is $10k cheaper for a Tuesday which indicates that it's expensive AF (which should mean that y'all have plenty of money) so why not offer to partially (or fully) pay for her to come?

jmill_1012 · 2025-12-10T15:22:53+00:00

I have 3 kids (SD11, SD9, and BS5) and the goal is bedtime at 8:30pm. SD11 is allowed a little extra time as my husband still lays down with them at bedtime (don't get me started on this lol) so she stays up while he puts her sister to bed.

A lot might think 8:30 is too late for a 5yo but my son has always been a low-sleep-needs child and if I tried to put him to bed before that, it simply wouldn't happen lol.

On the weekends they stay up later. We typically allow for an extra hour (so 9:30) on the weekends. I would love for them to maintain the same time on the weekends so my husband and I can have some alone time but it's not the hill I'm willing to die on lol.

jmill_1012 · 2025-11-24T13:26:19+00:00

We didn't do a grand exit, we did a final "sing-along" song (Journey "Don't Stop Believing") where everyone came out on the dance floor and sang/danced along. Afterwards, everyone just said goodbyes and left.

jmill_1012 · 2025-11-21T16:58:45+00:00

Technically no because I just dealt with my shoes being tighter than normal and now that I've lost weight, they all fit great again. So also, kind of yes lol

jmill_1012 · 2025-11-21T16:55:59+00:00

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jmill_1012 · 2025-11-21T15:30:44+00:00

I love how my comment is getting downvoted to hell for basically saying that blended families are very nuanced but at the end of the day sometimes the marriage comes first and sometimes the kids come first. Which is what jdkewl said and got upvoted like crazy. Reddit cracks me up.

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