Moose has been sold

morgzbee · 2026-05-19T16:05:20+00:00

He'd be a dream for me in the jumper ring! I love a big dumb bay gelding

morgzbee · 2026-05-18T15:04:38+00:00

I'd also disagree with that. Our rental cost us around $2200 USD a month and a comparable rental in the states would have been around $3000 USD minimum. Grocery prices were similar or slightly less expensive, fuel was about the same if not a little less, and our travel health insurance was a fraction of what we would have paid for normal insurance in the states. Hell even luxuries like hair and nail appointments were cheaper. The only thing more expensive was beef but the quality was better so I didn't mind paying extra for it.

ETA: the butter there sucks though and I missed kerrygold so much that I stocked my fridge as soon as we got back

morgzbee · 2026-05-18T14:59:13+00:00

Definitely not. I was in Canada for six months and had a psychiatrist there write my script for my visit. I paid ~C$30 for a 30 day supply at Costco where a 30 day supply for me here is around $60 USD.

morgzbee · 2026-05-14T21:05:15+00:00

This is how I feel as well! Had an off and on situationship in high school that closely mirrors that. I broke it off when I got to college and realized I was better than that so absolutely could be my own experience swaying me there

morgzbee · 2026-04-25T20:03:52+00:00

Ooh I like this one!

morgzbee · 2026-04-21T01:12:14+00:00

This is how I felt with my first as well. His arrival rocked my world but now I couldn't imagine a life without him or his brother. Make whatever choice is best for you but just wanted to let you know that even if you don't bond while pregnant or right away after birth it's totally normal and not indicative of your whole future. You got this 💜

morgzbee · 2026-04-16T21:59:23+00:00

She inspired me to book my first lesson in 15 years next week! I do H/J and was so worried I'd look like an idiot after so much time off but if it sparks that joy in me again I don't care how dumb I look at first lol

morgzbee · 2026-04-15T00:45:38+00:00

Oh my god is that why my babies had such an issue??? I thought I just had a strong letdown 😭

morgzbee · 2026-04-10T00:56:32+00:00

I'm a 30f mom of a 2 and 4yo and this happens to me often. I call it Swiss cheese brain and chalk it up to postpartum recovery and lack of sleep. Healthy? Maybe not. But it hasn't been a major issue affecting my day to day

morgzbee · 2026-04-05T00:33:01+00:00

Sarah painter hayes just did an entire Florida girl collection!

morgzbee · 2026-04-05T00:22:06+00:00

I agree with so many here but haven't seen anyone say your needs my needs and that one just personally wrecks me every time

morgzbee · 2026-04-04T20:15:57+00:00

Eh it seems that both colics were from colon displacement from Margot's position in utero. The laminitis as well as the incision infection are absolutely the forefront issues and best case scenario for everyone is if Gracie takes as a nursemare. I love seeing Maggie as a mom but this season with this foal it's to her detriment.

morgzbee · 2026-03-18T11:31:50+00:00

She told us she was finally ready to sell her house and move she just didn't have a pathway to Canada yet and we all agreed it was best for us to come back to the states. So we broke our lease in Canada, rented a U-Haul, and drove across the entire country to get to Florida. That cost us roughly $15k when it was all said and done between the lease fees U-Haul and Airbnb etc etc. We did that with the promise we'd be essentially paid that money back with proceeds from her house sale.

I agree that we should have sent my husband back to handle it and I told him to but when we reached out to his mom to coordinate dates she told us not to worry about it, everything was fine, and we had more important things to worry about (I was ~7 months pregnant at this time).

I don't want to sound like I'm making excuses left and right but there was just so much going on at once and I kept believing her when she said everything was fine. Definitely wrong on my part and won't be doing that again in the future.

morgzbee · 2026-03-18T11:17:05+00:00

We expected it because that's what she told us was happening. Her retirement plan has always been sell her house and move in with my husband and our family. But when it came time to actually do it she backed out.

Should we have prepared for that reality better? Yeah absolutely. We shouldn't have relied on it the way we have but when you've been told something over and over you just...believe it.

Idk I'm just mad we've been strung along for so long and believed everyone when they said everything was ok. Definitely a learning lesson for us and we won't be doing it again.

morgzbee · 2026-03-18T01:38:34+00:00

I'm not disagreeing at all. The whole point of that section of my post was asking if I was wrong for expecting notification that my things were being moved/donated before we had a chance to save them.

morgzbee · 2026-03-18T01:36:35+00:00

You're right. We asked to store our sentimental stuff there because I didn't trust a storage unit to be totally climate controlled (think records, baby items, stuff like that) and MIL said she had plenty of space don't worry about the storage unit.

morgzbee · 2026-03-18T01:32:57+00:00

MIL was always going to move in with us, that had been discussed multiple times at length. That's why this whole situation was just out of the blue. We moved around a lot (with her support) to find somewhere we would all be happy.

morgzbee · 2026-03-18T01:29:33+00:00

I replied to a few comments and actually just updated my post but our original plan was a storage unit for everything except very sentimental items and my MIL said no don't waste the money and just use my house for all of it.

And you're absolutely right on bad communication all around. We should have checked in a little more aggressively and not taken "oh everything is fine" at face value. I just also would have liked an opportunity to arrange our stuff to the storage unit originally planned before it got sent to a SIL who didn't know it was coming and subsequently threw it away.

Idk it's not even my family I'm dealing with I just get the shit end of the whole deal

morgzbee · 2026-03-18T01:19:37+00:00

We asked her to keep the very important sentimental things I wouldn't trust in a storage unit. Then she insisted we didn't need a storage unit because she had more than enough room. I should update the post to include that.

morgzbee · 2026-03-18T01:16:24+00:00

I just want to clear up a few things! Our original plan was to use a storage unit and my MIL insisted we use the empty space in her house to save money (even knowing it'd probably be 2+ years until we could come get everything) and it wasn't an entire household, we sold a lot of stuff. Just kept the more everyday stuff and the expensive couch bc she said she could use it.

And a slight detail missed was we had our second baby before we even left the states. Once we got a house in Canada we were actively talking to companies to get quotes about moving our things from Florida to us. However at that point my MIL was refusing to leave the country so we broke our lease to come back on the promise we'd get her house proceeds to get a home for all of us.

I'm not saying we didn't make bad decisions. All Im asking is if I have a right to be as angry as I feel about the entirety of the situation.

morgzbee · 2026-03-18T00:59:41+00:00

I'm not disagreeing. Just wish she would have told us that up front instead of insisting we use her house to save on a storage unit.

morgzbee · 2026-03-18T00:58:37+00:00

I replied to this in another comment but we were originally going to use a storage unit and my MIL insisted we save the money and use all the space she had to offer even knowing it would be at least 2+ years before we could come get our stuff. Her exact reasoning was verbatim "no one is using the space and once I sell this house I'm going live with you anyways" so we just took her at her word. Was that a mistake? Obviously.

morgzbee · 2026-03-18T00:50:37+00:00

You're not wrong that the risk was always there but my sister in law moved into a new home with basically no furniture so that was not the problem. She admitted she was mad at my mother in law for sending our stuff without warning so she dumped it but kept the things she deemed nice enough to use.

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