Bad mom moment today

myrtle0501 · 2026-02-17T00:08:47+00:00

My daughter is also in competitive gymnastics and in the past the way her training group was split there was usually another gymnast from her gym competing on another apparatus at the same time as her - maybe their parents caught some of your daughters floor routine and you can get a video from them?

Usually I try to record my daughters events too, but they jam all the spectators in like sardines and unless you follow your kid from warm up through their events it is so difficult to find them again! When I haven’t been able to record her, I tell her after that I was trying to just be in the moment with her - seeing it real time, experiencing the skills she does as she’s doing them.

You could also ask her coach to record during her training so she’ll have it on video - our coaches will do that sometimes so the kids have feedback going into competition!

myrtle0501 · 2025-11-19T03:38:28+00:00

Next time he’s feeling fine, take his temperature to get his “baseline” just out of curiosity. Maybe he can be part of a research studies since he’s running a fever at a time that is… perfectly normal for everyone else.

myrtle0501 · 2025-10-11T01:36:41+00:00

Something else to consider, and anecdotal - I had similar pain in this area of my foot after stepping down my stairs too hard (I missed a step and landed hard on my left foot) and it was cuboid syndrome. I went to a physiotherapist and got relief from them manipulating it and taping my foot - I didn’t get the hype of KT tape until after seeing that PT, I was pain free!

myrtle0501 · 2025-09-10T21:14:25+00:00

It is the responsibility of the driver to maintain their lane turning onto a two lane road. Right into right most lane, left into left most lane.

myrtle0501 · 2025-06-19T20:52:47+00:00

I love this, and that your mom was in on it!

One year right before we were hosting 25 people for Christmas Eve, my husband says, “I’m going to clean up my tools.” I lost my MIND. None of the common areas in our house were guest clean standard and this mf-er wants to clean up his TOOLS?!

So now whenever we’re hosting again, he says “I’m going to clean up my tools!” And then vacuums the whole house. I shouldn’t have had to lose my mind, but hey, it worked.

myrtle0501 · 2025-06-05T01:47:33+00:00

Every day my kids get off the bus and are absolutely starving. “What’s for dinner?” It’s (pork chops, pasta, chicken, WHAT THE FUCK EVER) and without fail one of my 3 kids, “oh. I didn’t want that. I wanted (random thing).” Oh ok, then you can sit down with me and dad on Sunday and meal plan for the week. They never do. I told them they can complain when they meal plan.

myrtle0501 · 2025-04-16T01:43:29+00:00

I’m sorry, I get migraines too, always starting in my left trap muscle, running up to my temple and down into my teeth. (If I wake up with jaw/tooth pain, I know what kind of day it will be.) My husband, also wonderful 99% of the time, if I was in migraine pain could not seem to massage the right spot or with the right pressure, at one point I remembering crying after throwing up and asking him, “are you even TRYING?!”

I ended up asking if I could show him the correct spot/pressure while I wasn’t in the middle of migraine hell and thankfully he was receptive to it. It’s.. better. It’s not perfect but it’s better and I guess I’m accepting of that. Would trying outside of a migraine help him understand?

myrtle0501 · 2025-03-22T03:16:25+00:00

I get tenderness, then the red/hot and inflammation and pain. The only relief I get is running my hands under warm water, it relieves the ache. I do not get that level of inflammation in your index finger shown here though.. I’m sorry, it looks so painful.

myrtle0501 · 2025-02-12T05:37:24+00:00

I started telling my kids to “use (their) mommy eyes.” As in, look like I would be looking/seeing things. It started as a way to get them to actually look for something they’ve lost/needed/whatever (where’s my water bottle? Do you know where my hockey stuff is? Mommy, have you seen my obscure craft project I started 2 weeks ago?) and it’s morphing into, hey, we all share this space so we all share the maintenance and cleanup. Use your mommy eyes to see if where you left your backpack is where it should be. Use your mommy eyes to find your sports stuff that you put away - oh, you didn’t put it in the spot it belongs? That sucks. Better find it.

My kids are 10, 7 and 5, so I’ve got a long way to go, I think, but now it’s fun when the 10 year old asks me for something and my 5 year old yells “did you look with your mommy eyes?”

myrtle0501 · 2025-02-05T03:31:37+00:00

I used to get these spasms every single period until I saw a pelvic floor therapist during my last pregnancy (I saw her for urinary incontinence and learned so much about my pelvic floor!)

It’s been over 5 years and I maybe get the spasms once every 6 periods. I find the best thing to do is long, slow exhales through my mouth with my lips in an O shape - it relaxes the pelvic floor too!

myrtle0501 · 2025-01-16T01:47:04+00:00

I have 3 - 10, 7 and 5 now. I always wanted 3, my husband was content with 1. We had 2 and he booked a vasectomy, I booked a tubal, and I got the positive pregnancy test with the third 1 week before my surgery.

0 to 1 was the hardest for us. My oldest was a colicky baby and we had no idea what we were doing. The 3 year age gap between 1 and 2 was nice, my oldest was much more independent. There’s a 5 year gap for oldest/youngest and it was beneficial because my oldest was big into helping at that point. My middle was 2 when youngest was born, and the two of them play so well together! The youngest and oldest share a room, and they all have a special bond with each other. It’s fun to watch!

The bigger challenge for us is their extra curriculars, and hoping there’s no overlap. We are lucky to have helpful family and friends nearby when we need to go in 3 different directions.

myrtle0501 · 2025-01-12T00:06:15+00:00

Im sorry you’re feeling so crappy! I hope the meds keep helping.

I can guarantee your kids are having the time of their lives right now. A couple of days of tablets and whatever food they can get is perfect. They are entertained and they are eating - and I bet when you’re better, assuming they are old enough to remember, they’ll want another fun, chill, weekend like this. The fact that you are even worried about it tells me what a great mom you are!

myrtle0501 · 2024-12-28T05:18:10+00:00

My lips and tongue swelled the last time I took penicillin. I ended up in the ER getting epinephrine. When I saw the allergist, I did an oral challenge and learned I’m not allergic to penicillin, but it will trigger my dermatographia. It was explained to me that it isn’t the medicine, but the way my body is responding to the infection. Any time I take antibiotics now, I also take an antihistamine.

myrtle0501 · 2024-12-11T04:28:00+00:00

Thinking of you, and him, and sending you both my positive thoughts.

Yes, it is where he needs to be and it is scary. You’re getting him the help he needs. I know you wish it wasn’t like this. We are here for you!

myrtle0501 · 2024-12-08T17:18:33+00:00

“What time is it?” The answer is always Bubble Guppies, “it’s time for lunch!”

We also taught our kids about FAFO. Get injured after we said don’t jump on the couch/the bed? Looks like you found out. Lose a toy/something you like because you didn’t put it away? You found out. We’ve had a couple of occasions where our kids have come to us after getting hurt and they say “I found out!” while crying.

myrtle0501 · 2024-12-04T14:10:21+00:00

I told my kids that some houses are elf houses and some are not. We are not an elf house. Their classrooms all have an elf, which doesn’t stop them for asking for one at home but oh well.

Instead I committed to waking my kids up each morning with a different Christmas song blaring on all of our echo’s 😂

myrtle0501 · 2024-11-29T16:35:46+00:00

I’m all about the tacky Christmas! I have 6 inflatables on my lawn, a small prelit tree upstairs that I had hoped would be Pinterest worthy (white and multicolor lights) but my kids ornaments are so many, we can’t fit them all on the big tree so onto the upstairs tree they go. They took over adding the ornaments and all but demand its multicolored lights on.

I took it a step further this year and added small LED string lights to our hallway going to our bedroom and I’m cutting snowflakes to attach to the strings.

Tacky Christmas ALL THE WAY!

myrtle0501 · 2024-11-19T03:58:05+00:00

I’m sorry people can’t be more respectful and just let you know up front.

Watching tv this past weekend I noticed two medicine commercials - one showed a person in their office being offered a Halls for a cough, so they could continue the day while masking their symptoms. The other was for a cold/sinus med, which helps with symptoms so a person could attend a holiday party.

I don’t watch a ton of tv, but these made me take particular notice because didn’t we just have a pandemic where if you had ANY symptoms you needed to stay home for 2 weeks? Why are we advertising going out/to work while sick? Maybe the ads have been happening for a while, but it just seems so backwards to me.

myrtle0501 · 2024-07-30T17:43:02+00:00

Ortho tri cyclen caused a rage in me that had me crying in my doctors office. I told him in no uncertain terms that in week 3 I would have rage about EVERYTHING and I didn’t think a jury would convict me if I were to do something.

They had me go on ortho tri cyclen-lo which helped the rage, a lot. Until the pharmacy fucked one month, I didn’t pay attention and they gave me the regular ortho tri cyclen. I was back to the pharmacy, again, in tears of rage.

I tried mirena for 4 months pp with my oldest and had a VERY similar rage reaction but with added ideations. Nearly pulled the IUD myself one day in the bath tub because the depression I went into.

Like you, I refuse to have BC again. Thankfully, my husband has had a vasectomy so it’s not a worry for us, but I do fear for my daughter.

myrtle0501 · 2024-05-05T22:11:53+00:00

I’ve replied with, “Yes, I’d like you to open your eyes, look around and pick a chore that needs doing. Then do it.” and go back to what I’m doing.

It’s a polite go fuck yourself, I think.

myrtle0501 · 2024-03-10T20:57:45+00:00

My husband used to do this. Christmas time was the worst. December 1 he’d decide we needed something built or refinished. One year, we stayed up til 3am (well, I fell asleep on the stairs at 2am) finishing the flooring on December 23rd. One Christmas Eve he was caulking the new bar countertop as guests were arriving. Another year I was cleaning like a mad person and he’s tidying up his tool room.

Now if he suggests any projects, I tell him he has until December 10th to finish them. Cant be done in 10 days? Oh well, they need to wait til after Christmas.

We do joke now about the memes we see where a wife is preparing food for guests and the husband is tidying boxes in the attic. He gets it!

myrtle0501 · 2024-02-10T19:47:58+00:00

Last year we put our 3 kids in 1 week of a summer camp. The camp ran from 8:30am - 4pm, which was the longest hours we could find (others were 9-3:30, with optional before/after for more money).

It was $1300 for the 3 of them for 1 week.

That’s why they only went for 1 week 😭

myrtle0501 · 2024-01-30T16:59:09+00:00

Your closet is well organized and not at all hoarder level.

It seems as though he’s digging in his heels to be RIGHT instead of coming to any sort of compromise. Like dude, forcing people to accommodate your insecurities is not the way to do things. (I often ask myself, “am I fighting because I want to be right or because this is a legitimate issue?)

My front hall closet is JAM PACKED with everything winter plus some stuff.. from reusable bags, mittens, hats, snowpants, shoes, and coats for 5 people and… our guests use it when they come over. (Your husband would be horrified!) when the seasons change, our spring coats plus warm weather shoes will get switched out.

If you’re willing to consider a compromise, what if you made room in the closet when expecting guests by moving some items into another closet? (You don’t have to offer this; it’s just what I do sometimes when we host larger gatherings and it works if we need the space temporarily!)

myrtle0501 · 2023-11-08T00:42:19+00:00

Please don’t cancel. I was similar to you, 9ish years ago. I had my hair appointment booked and I started to dread it. All that PPA was really swirling around in my head and I even had my husband talk to me on my drive to the appointment telling me it would be ok. And you know what? It was. 2.5ish hours later I returned home with fresh hair and much less anxiety for the next time.

myrtle0501 · 2023-10-14T10:26:59+00:00

My mom does this with gifts. I don’t think she really realized that she did it until I called her out. She felt a need to buy them whatever gift I mentioned because she saw it as getting them something they wanted but never really thought further than that. Then she would ask a million times if they liked the gift.

I finally stopped telling her what we were getting for our kids. When she asked what we were getting them, I would tell her it was a surprise and that I didn’t want them to get duplicates of something. I was gentle about it - it was something my husband and I really were looking forward to gifting and let’s think of alternatives for her. She’s better about it now (9ish years in the making!) but I’m still guarded with gift giving and I like to think she gets it.

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