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@sunflower232 try to keep your chin up. if you are making your mortgage payments then you're building equity. that's a form of savings. do you have an emergency fund? if not i would try to focus on building that so you can get out of the credit card cycle (easier said than done, i know). we...

@tecumsehmaverick you should be proud of yourself for keeping baby safe by calling 911. it takes courage to do that! glad this story has a happy ending!

@pkhaney the part of this story i'm most confused about is why you are so happy with this situation (minus the social media stuff and recent conversation). what is there to be so happy about with your husband sleeping all day, not spending time together and him not contributing to family life...

@kaleidoscopeheart can your husband take time off sometimes when the toddler is home sick from school? that just sounds impossible to try and wfh with a baby and a toddler. i'm a sahm right now (figuring out my return to work hence being in this sub), and i have my toddler in daycare and my baby...

@joegibson i found a new easy thing to feed my 2yo, that she likes and eats. it's a campbells chicken noodle soup with the paw patrol character noodles. we don't even watch the show lol but it's simple and easy so i'm happy!

@angel222 i like to eat really simple stuff during the day like lunchmeat and cheese rolled together, nuts, berries, and yogurt. i enjoy prepping and eating one nice meal a day, like a meat and two sides, for dinner. i don't care to make the time to prep and eat multiple legit meals per day.

@xxwunderkindxx i would have him take 2 weeks. i felt like i needed my husband home for 2 weeks when my babies were born. could he use his vacation time? that's what my husband did bc he didn't have paternity leave.

@stepmominpain this is so real and it's definitely something i didn't understand before having kids. i thought oh i'll handle the baby and he'll handle the working. very naive way of thinking, bordering on ignorant. when we had one kid for the first year i pretty much did do everything and...

@followthestar I'm curious to try this strategy (putting my baby to sleep on her own but bringing her to bed with me after she wakes up). Can I ask what age you started doing this and what time you first put your baby down for bed?

@hbwink doesn't bother me too much bc there are kids in so much worse circumstances. usually the sleep training stories are from loving parents who are doing their best. meanwhile there are kids being abused and neglected. so i guess this is a pessimistic outlook but i don't worry at all about...

@zennah this was very similar to my journey on this issue. my toddler is 2.5 and we just started her in "preschool" which is really daycare lol. just in the past few months she started being crazy about imaginative play and being around other kids, which she barely ever got to do bc i don't know...

@ajewelinhiscrown i've been a sahp for about 2.5 years and am going back to work soon. i loved it at times and hated it at times (i think most of us can relate). one of the biggest things i have hated about being a sahp is when you get sick or are not feeling well, there is no break for you. my...

@ajewelinhiscrown your wife shouldn't call you an idiot for making a mistake. period. that's just mean. you're making mistakes bc you're human. i got a white board that sticks to my fridge and some magnetic dry erase markers to help me write things down i need to remember. i also use the notes...

@crfstewarje haha good plan with the bus idea. you know what helped when my cat used to beg for food all day, i bought an automatic feeder that dispensed a set amount of food throughout the day. i was also trying to use it to control how much he ate since i was a bit overweight. it didn't really...

@ladyghosthunter i can share my personal experience/journey in case that helps you in any way. i was a lawyer for 7 years and then quit to be a sahm. it took me the entire 7 years making between 160k and 260k per year to pay off my loans 😵‍💫 (i also made a few investments along the way, but...

@lynq i have a 5 month old, and i just started my 2.5yo in a daycare that's 8:30-4:30 5 days per week. we chose the 5 day option bc it was not much more expensive than the 3 day, and there is no minimum attendance requirement, so i can bring her anytime, pick her up whenever and skip as many...

@justabeggarwhojesuslove Oh that sounds rough. I used to have another cat that peed on everything and it was awful!

@alag oh that sounds so irritating! we were never meant to be trapped with our furry friends 24/7!

@sandraovercomer OMG a parrot!! Lol! I can only imagine.

My cat. My effing cat. I love him. But he's driving me N U T S. I have a home office and am WFH due to the pandemic. I have someone who watches my baby during the day at my house, so I stay in my office for the most part with my door closed so I can focus. Unfortunately before this became...