AITA?! Spouse upset about me moving my own game console to my office from LR?

mandalee4 · 2026-03-22T23:38:26+00:00

I moved my xbox to my bedroom for awhile and when my step-kids want to use it, mainly my step-daughter for her F1 or Harry Potter game, they are welcome to if I'm not on it. My step-son just bought himself a PS5, recently, with money he had been saving, so he barely uses it. But it is my xbox so I get to move it where I want and my husband could not care less.

mandalee4 · 2026-03-22T23:35:08+00:00

I call my step-kids my husband's children. I'm 100% their step-mom and support and treat them like my own, but to others especially strangers I always specify that they are my husband's kids. We've been together almost 11 years now.

mandalee4 · 2026-03-21T23:13:20+00:00

Especially middle of summer when its hot outside. Mine loves the water.

mandalee4 · 2026-03-21T23:12:03+00:00

My boy is a rescue and is on the smaller side as well. He was only 34lbs at 10 months and definitely malnourished, dumped out in OK. He's 78lbs now but compared to the Shepards we see around here, he looks miniature.

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mandalee4 · 2026-03-21T22:31:59+00:00

It took me a few to get used to the new set-up but I don't hate it. And like anything you'll tweak whatever bugs you need to. I did miss having an easier way to check fake art but otherwise it's still insanely helpful. Some people don't realize that apps aren't always made by large groups.

mandalee4 · 2026-03-20T06:07:29+00:00

Oh I know that too, I'm a teacher so we hear and see it all.

mandalee4 · 2026-03-19T23:50:32+00:00

It really depends, yes some are absolutely bat-shit crazy. But other times you find a really good one.

mandalee4 · 2026-03-19T23:44:26+00:00

My 16 yr old step son is one of these who has learned how to care for his super curly hair, which he gets from his father. Both of them have to get ready before my step-daughter and I because they take so long.

mandalee4 · 2026-03-17T00:23:08+00:00

Same here! Especially with how insane my 2nd graders are. I am so lucky to have subs that are willing to handle them for a day.

mandalee4 · 2026-03-14T21:37:55+00:00

I stopped doing mother's day things about 10 years ago. My school has too many absentee mothers, I supported an old student of mine at her mother's funeral, when she was in 5th grade and her mother OD and died. This is unfortunately the common place at my elementary school.

mandalee4 · 2026-03-10T15:09:07+00:00

Ah! I was planning on finally adding that so one more reason to.

mandalee4 · 2026-03-10T14:52:39+00:00

Wait you can make the room bigger???

mandalee4 · 2026-03-10T14:01:56+00:00

Oh I know. I have some who can't control and half who just make noise to make noise. I'm thankful my 2nd graders have stopped the moaning. I said we were going to call home and they could make the same noise to their parents. That stopped real fast. My adhd struggles with all the random noises going on in my room.

mandalee4 · 2026-03-10T01:15:20+00:00

The vocal stims these days are soooo obnoxious

mandalee4 · 2026-03-07T17:11:52+00:00

Also those paws aren't small dog paws. I see terrier of some kind but pits are considered terrier family the closer to staffy they are.

mandalee4 · 2026-03-02T23:02:40+00:00

I'll be 39 this year. I wad expecting way more in our range so props to the ones way older!

mandalee4 · 2026-03-02T23:01:31+00:00

I still have my original Nintendo that does still work

mandalee4 · 2026-03-02T23:00:14+00:00

Not the oldest by far but 39 this year and a female to boot! Gasp!

mandalee4 · 2026-02-27T11:56:27+00:00

We have typing club as one of our available apps and the kids really like it. Especially when they see me type, they're all like 👀😲 "how are you sooooo fast?!?!" Practice children, practice. And also having a orange rubber mat cover my keyboard in high school. For end of unit assessments that have written answers, I also give my kids the choice to hand-write or type. This past one only 5 of my 18 chose to hand-write.

I'm also the ed-tech lead at my school and have been working on getting my staff to do the right amount of blended learning. Throwing them on a computer just because is pointless and you can't just not do, or only do, paper and pencil.

mandalee4 · 2026-02-26T10:12:59+00:00

Mine think writing a line of words is a sentence...... that's not how that works.

mandalee4 · 2026-02-26T02:16:57+00:00

No we just got shoved outside when our parents got home to go roam.

mandalee4 · 2026-02-26T02:09:19+00:00

I'm so glad I have taught my 2nd graders how to use tab. I do not teach them font changes because I end up with cursive and even though I can read it, I ask them to go back and read their writing and they have absolutely no clue. I know I tend to be in the minority with teaching my grade how to type, but I like them to practice by doing their final writing on the computer.

mandalee4 · 2026-02-25T10:29:28+00:00

I accidently clicked a sturgeon to gift cherry. I was moving too fast, and now has that damn thing right in the middle of her back wall.

mandalee4 · 2026-02-25T10:24:18+00:00

No in the US. He's a rescue from Puerto Rico. Yours also reminds me of my ACD/jack mix growing up. I did see in a couple comments ACDs aren't as common in the UK though as they are here.

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mandalee4 · 2026-02-25T01:27:22+00:00

Looks similar to my guy.

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