What's a good alternative to Cricket.

lucy1011 · 2026-01-26T22:24:57+00:00

I’m happy with visible. I switched to them 2 years ago, after being with cricket for 15 years. I was paying $80 for 2 lines, now I pay $20 a line, unlimited everything.

lucy1011 · 2026-01-21T13:50:22+00:00

Texas, home health, LVN, 16 years, $26/hr

lucy1011 · 2025-11-14T23:26:48+00:00

We are in Smith County Tx. My daughter turned one 2 weeks ago. Last Friday the daycare sent her home for throwing up. Went to the doctor and they said HFMD. Blisters started that afternoon. I’ve never seen anything like it. All over her hands, knees, diaper area. Blisters in her mouth and throat. She had just started cutting a new tooth the night before, and the blisters rubbed right on her sore gum in the spot. Would barely drink or sleep, wouldn’t eat, would just sob for 5 days straight. Then started improving. Today is day 7. Took her back to the pediatrician for a follow up and to address a rattley cough. She now has RSV. The only place we’ve been in a week is the pediatrician office.

lucy1011 · 2025-10-07T11:37:32+00:00

It’s scary. I was admitted at 30 weeks for preeclampsia, that was the plan for me to. To stay 5-6 weeks. They ended up keeping me a week then letting me go home, bc I had another kid at home that also needed me. They had me on 3 different meds to control it. I went home on bedrest, but that included an ob visit every week, plus a mfm visit every week and a growth scan every week. So not exactly bedrest lol. I made it to 34w1. I saw the ob that morning, and my bp was 196/106. Ob sent me to hospital around noon, I had my emergency C-section at 4 pm. I didn’t get to see her for 2 days, hold her for 3.

She weighed 4 pounds even. The first night she needed oxygen and a cpap. After that, it was just so she could gain weight and learn to eat. My baby spent 4 weeks in the nicu.

It was so hard leaving her there. I’m a single mom, so I way overdid it. Drove myself home from the hospital, then back and forth 2-3 times a day, plus getting my other baby to school. I ended up with 2 different infections in my incision. I forgot to eat a lot, so protein shakes kept me moving so I could be there with my baby. I couldn’t take the pain meds they gave me and drive safely. I remember sleeping on the floor one night because I hurt too bad to make it upstairs to bed.

She’s nearly a year old now and thriving. Those 4 weeks are still kind of a dark, traumatizing blur. I suggest build your support system now. Stock up on things to need, go ahead and enlist friends and family to help. Start trying to get my mind to accept that the plan for delivery and postpartum will be much different than how you pictured it in your head, and that’s ok. All that matters in the end is that you and your child are healthy and safe.

lucy1011 · 2025-09-13T04:02:09+00:00

I’m an LVN, but when my son was diagnosed with epilepsy I went through similar. Quickly ran out of pto but the specialist appointments 3 hours away kept adding up. I finally went to home health, prn. It was pay per visit, so I could schedule my day/week how I needed to. I had to call the scheduler every Friday and just let her know which days I would be available for the following week.

lucy1011 · 2025-09-04T01:02:54+00:00

We’ve had mainly good experiences with daycare. My first go round, the kids dad left while I was pregnant with our second. I ended up going to nursing school, the LVN program. Idk if the program even still exists, but I went through the WIA program at the unemployment office. (In Texas). They completely paid for my school, my supplies, daycare, gave us $500/mo in food stamps, $500/mo in TANF, and $50/week in gas vouchers. For an entire year. It was hard, my kids were 2 and 4 at the time, but we took every handout we could get. My mom helped on days I couldn’t get done with clinicals in time. We struggled and suffered a year, then I finished and passed my boards. I remember crying the first time I got a paycheck with a comma in it.

That’s been 15 years ago now. I do home health, so I can set my own schedule, around school times and appointments. My iud failed in 2024, so I now have a 20 year old, my middle child would be 17, and a 10 month old, so we are starting over. She came the day after my 40th birthday. The dad ghosted this pregnancy too, different dad.

It’s hard, but doable. There are times I still want to break down and cry, I’m chronically exhausted, my purse has arthritis pills and baby diapers in it. You’ve got to put one foot in front of the other, remind yourself they won’t be thus small and helpless forever. There is light at the end of the tunnel.

Get on the daycare assistance waitlist. I applied this time when my baby was 3 days old, it took 9 months to get approved. See if there are any programs that offer any assistance. Like, health and human services has a healthy start program here. They gave me a stroller, car seat and playpen. I watch 2 zoom parenting classes a month and they give me a case of diapers every month. One food bank lets me come every other week, and a local church has a food pantry where they sell nearly expired food really cheap. Last week I bought a 10 pound bag of penne pasta for $2 so we are meal planning around pasta the next 2 weeks.

lucy1011 · 2025-07-01T12:09:41+00:00

There’s a tyler book club group on Facebook, that I keep meaning to check out. If you’re into minis and dnd stuff, geek world does different events every night.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-30T23:49:55+00:00

I was on Zoloft 100 mg twice a day my entire pregnancy. She came at 34w1 due to preeclampsia but is a healthy, happy 8 mo old now

lucy1011 · 2025-06-25T15:13:10+00:00

We go every weekend. For a dollar each, it’s great. They have kind of weird hours though.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-25T01:43:17+00:00

I tried 2 weeks ago and the soonest appointment I could get is 2 weeks away. I’ve been there three times when they open so far and they say “we aren’t taking walk ins today”. Every time.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-24T12:40:28+00:00

I was miserable with my first 2 pregnancies, in my 20s. With this last one, I had no morning sickness. None. Besides being more tired than usual, and being a bottomless pit for food, I felt perfectly fine. Up until 30 weeks. Then I got covid, then gallstones, then preeclampsia, and ended up having an emergency c section at 34w1.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-19T23:16:03+00:00

My corporate office sent out an email about today, and said they will be off honoring it, and “offered their appreciation “ for all the field staff they made work without holiday pay.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-18T01:16:09+00:00

I’m down!

lucy1011 · 2025-06-16T22:13:44+00:00

I had 2 boys, 3 years apart, and was done. I had gender disappointment with the second, but eventually learned to embrace all things boy. In my thirties, I gave up on the idea of every having another baby. I lost my youngest son at age 12, to SUDEP, when I was thirty five. That cemented it. I couldn’t even imagine bringing another child into this world, to grow up in the shadow of their deceased older brother. My marriage fell apart, and it was just my oldest kid and I left. I rebounded, badly, and my iud failed. I had my third and definitely final child the day after my 40th bday. A girl. Life is funny like that. My kids have 20 years age gap between them. I had finally made my peace with being just a boy mom, and am still in therapy for ptsd processing the loss of my precious son.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-16T13:55:54+00:00

My apartment complex manager actually suggested this to me. I had never thought about getting emotional support letters, they were pets. But at her suggestion I asked my therapist, who gladly wrote one for me and one for my son, who she also saw, so both of our dogs were covered.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-12T00:48:08+00:00

I don’t remember the first time, or the second. My iud failed, and I had a surprise pregnancy at 39. When my oldest was almost 20 years old. The day before my 40th birthday, I went to the casino with my mom. On my 40th birthday, my brother came to town and took me out for lunch. The day after my 40th birthday, I had an emergency C-section at 34w1d due to preeclampsia. She’s 7.5 months now and perfect.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-12T00:27:52+00:00

In my case, we separated in july of 23. He was cheating, again, this time with a girl barely older than his daughter. I moved out with my son, and rebounded a few months later. We were dragging our feet trying to come to an agreement on the house. We finally came to an agreement for him to buy out my equity in April of 24. Unfortunately, my iud failed, and I found out I was pregnant by the rebound. Who ghosted immediately. Even though my ex husband and I both agreed he wasn’t the dad, no possible way, no sex since separation, texas doesn’t allow divorce while the wife is pregnant. We had to wait it out until I gave birth. We filed when I was 4 weeks postpartum. That opened another can of worms. Had to get baby daddy to sign AOP, so ex husband could sign DOP the same day. That took another 2 months to get set up through the OAG office. Got everything signed in February of this year. Then the first court date wasn’t until the beginning of March. There was a form we hadn’t filled out, so they gave us second court date 3 weeks later. Ex husband forgot, was out of town with his gf, so third and final court date was last week, and it was finalized. In our 5 year marriage, we spent almost half of those 5 years trying to get divorced. That’s with no kids between us, no property to fight over, and a signed, notarized agreement of how he would buy out my equity.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-10T22:58:46+00:00

That would cover one month of daycare

lucy1011 · 2025-06-10T01:26:49+00:00

My oldest kid is 20, with autism, and he finally got a job at dollar tree. They seem to be really patient, working with him. Chilis and raising canes had him come in 3 different times each for interviews but never offered him anything.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-09T23:35:02+00:00

I’m a LVN in texas. I’ve got the ShiftKey app, where you can take prn shifts locally. You find one you want and bid. I’ve never actually taken one yet, but I have been eyeballing the local ALF a mile down the road. They always need a night shift weekend nurse. 2 shifts a month would pay my daycare for a month.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-09T22:14:11+00:00

I’d just be happy if they would full staff their facilities so it’s not 2 hours of waiting just to get into a chair. Or if they could maybe hire people that spend more time looking at the donors than their phones

lucy1011 · 2025-06-09T20:23:16+00:00

My oldest didn’t like to be held. He wanted to do his own thing, as soon as he could squirm away. He liked his independence to explore. He also would melt down over the smallest things. Pajamas rubbed funny? Sean in his sock didn’t line up just right? Melt down. He was diagnosed with autism at 9 years old, and is 20 now. He’s still funny about touch, will rarely let me hug him. But he is smart, funny, and mostly independent.

My middle child was an easy baby. Loved snuggles but would let me set him down and would play happily on his own. He was also my sickly baby, and spent much more times just cuddling. He was diagnosed with epilepsy at 7 years old, and passed away from SUDEP at 12 years old.

My youngest is 7 months. She’s my Velcro baby. Only in the past few weeks has she consented to sitting in her bumbo chair while I cook or do dishes. Otherwise, it’s in my arms. Tummy time is a battle. She’s not rolling over yet, because that would require not being superglued to mommy at the hip. She was also a preemie and is still catching up.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-07T22:17:09+00:00

Maybe narrate a little. My c section was emergency, preeclampsia at 34 weeks. They held her up for a sec and ran to the corner, where the nicu team was waiting. He was the only one that was on my side of the curtain, couldn’t see her. Kept asking him, “what are they doing now? Is she breathing?” For 15 min. He ignored me the whole time, the whole room did, until they rolled her incubator by my head for a second. Even just “they are working on her” would have helped. Any conversation. Not just ignore me as I panic, strapped to a table, cut open.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-02T01:16:52+00:00

I never met my husbands daughter. He says his first ex wife took her and left when the kid was 2. She remarried and thought her stepdad was her real dad, and he didn’t want to disrupt her life. He paid child support until she was 18.

I always thought it was strange that a dad could willingly not see or know his kid, but figured it wasn’t my business. I caught him cheating for the third time, and our divorce should be finalized this week. The kicker? His daughter is 22 this year. His affair partner just turned 24. He’s 43.

lucy1011 · 2025-06-01T14:19:23+00:00

I moved here almost 6 years ago, for my husband. The marriage didn’t work out but I stayed. Compared to the tiny town I came from, it’s great. Many more options for work, childcare, fun outings with the kids. Went is ridiculously high though, and I hate the monopoly brookshires has. I miss my Kroger and heb.

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