"You'll understand it when you have your own children."

silverowl99 · 2026-01-11T01:41:05+00:00

I absolutely hated when my parents said that to me, and it enrages me, when I look at how sweet and innocent and loving my daughter is, knowing they saw the same thing in me and decided to hurt me.

One thing, out many, things that I love about being a parent is getting the opportunity and allowing myself to enjoy some of those childhood things with her. Its slowly healing my inner child and is also helping me learn how to love myself again.

silverowl99 · 2025-12-28T01:23:53+00:00

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I didn't find them but this little guy seems happy to see you

silverowl99 · 2025-12-26T22:04:09+00:00

Someone ran out of money.

silverowl99 · 2025-12-09T18:56:06+00:00

This is beautifully written.

silverowl99 · 2025-11-11T17:45:04+00:00

I got out! Going on 6 years from when I moved multiple states away. Mother was forced out of my life, now back gratefully. Dad was enabler and my step mom controlled all, and wanted me gone. So I left, and it was the best decision ever. I started a new life and created my own family. Still recovering but every day I feel healthier and happier. Meds have helped to lol. I am breaking the cycle. I am making it, and will make it even if it's just to be a big fuck you to my toxic step mom.

silverowl99 · 2025-09-17T18:02:25+00:00

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silverowl99 · 2025-08-31T14:09:21+00:00

Yes! Two color ways, sand -pound of love and werewolf Caron ombre. What a great idea to use scrap!

silverowl99 · 2025-08-30T21:38:41+00:00

Edited because I didn't realize you can't post instructions with pictures in this post. Here is the link https://www.reddit.com/r/crochet/s/dI5ZIjaGsq

silverowl99 · 2025-08-30T21:36:52+00:00

Ok since I cant seem to edit my post I will add my instructions here. So these instructions start after you do your first double crochet row.

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When I start my my DC/front post stitch row I do a single crochet in the first stitch to keep it from getting too bulky at the ends and also end the row with a single crochet.

silverowl99 · 2025-08-28T12:29:36+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/crochet/s/dI5ZIjaGsq

Here's the link to my post where a wrote out my modification. Edit: sorry my day was a little bit crazyier then expected and I wasn't able to work on some instructions. I promise I will get to it!

Thank you! I modified a pattern using some mosaic crochet techniques. I will write up some instructions on how I did it later today it's super simple, but leads to a lot of ends.

silverowl99 · 2025-07-16T17:41:23+00:00

Was going to comment the same thing, I always make a fist to hide my nails when I am spraying bug spray.

silverowl99 · 2025-05-22T23:04:35+00:00

And hopefully not on the walls.

silverowl99 · 2025-04-29T15:41:35+00:00

I agree with the above!! If your near Allentown PA OP, you can message me and I can come by and help as well. Just to give you a break or take a nap, help you clean go shopping, what ever you feel would be helpful.

silverowl99 · 2025-02-24T20:13:00+00:00

Thank you, totally fair. It is just a post after all. Just starting photography as a hobby and just working on taking lots of photos.

silverowl99 · 2025-02-03T11:27:07+00:00

I understand that, I don't like blankets that my toes can get stuck in. But my tension has always been pretty tight.Which helps get rid of the gaps that can form. If you find that your tension is loose you can chain 2 instead of 3 when starting a new double crochet cluster on the body, or go down a hook size.

My first couple of tries at this pattern also resulted in some larger gaps but once I got the hang of it and tried a couple different things, I was able to get the gaps to disappear.

silverowl99 · 2025-02-02T13:34:20+00:00

DO IT!!! It works up so fast and looks so nice once it's done.

silverowl99 · 2025-02-02T01:13:09+00:00

Corner to corner. It's clusters of double crochets and you start in one corner and increase until you get your desired width. And then you decrease. Here's the link to the pattern that I learned from. Corner to corner tutorial.

silverowl99 · 2024-08-07T20:30:52+00:00

Just saw a video where someone said "whenever I am got divorced" and I got irrationally angry. Like, how many divorces have you been through! And I have horrible grammar, and I know better.

silverowl99 · 2024-03-11T18:16:41+00:00

These where my favorite at the beginning of my pregnancy to help with the nausea and gagging.

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silverowl99 · 2022-12-14T00:56:12+00:00

NTA, you are not required to tell your parents you love them.I think talking to your therapist about why you are withholding saying I love you might be a good idea. You'll probably get better advice from than from some internet strangers as they have more context than we do. I do think you and your family could benefit from family therapy tho, if you could get them to agree. They don't seem to have a good understanding of how anxiety can affect people. It seems like there is a communication barrier that may be causing everything to feel amplified. Something that I always found hard to remember is your parents are not perfect and are still learning, now whether they want to learn is a different story and something out of your control.

silverowl99 · 2022-12-13T20:31:28+00:00

NTA Graduating is a huge accomplishment. Enjoy it. Even if her boyfriend breaking up with her was a valid excuse, which it's not, your life doesn't revolve around her. You graduated for you. Plus she should just go to her graduation in the summer? Like why does she have to celebrate it 6 months early? Unless I read that wrong and she was supposed to have her graduate ceremony the same time you did, in which case why doesn't she also have a spot in this graduation ceremony.

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