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Open Letter Thursday.....
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I have one, so I thought I would start a thread. If someone wants to make this a weekly thing feel free to post one next week....
Dear Nate,
I understand that you were frustrated for some reason and your ipad time was not going as you planned. However, this does not mean you can toss the ipad on the floor before I can help you out.
Mommy does not appreciate having to go the Apple store and try to get a freebee screen replacement. So I guess you will have to live with the cracked corner. You (and Mommy) are lucky it still works. Daddy is not pleased.
Love,
Mommy
P.S. andplusalso: STOP rearranging the icons and putting stuff in folders! I can't imagine why rearranging the games is more fun than playing them.
Dear chick at the Apple store,
NO. I will not pay 250 bucks to get my iPad screen replaced. I sort of thought the 80 dollar AppleCare package you suckered me into buying would somehow cover it. When I later read online about people with the Applecare package getting their screens replaced for 50 bucks, I was not amused.
This is not the last of me...I WILL be back....on a day you are not working.....
XO,
Apple Customer Whose 2 year old Busted the Corner of his iPad Screen
WAY 2 Cool 4 School 
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Re: Open Letter Thursday.....
Dear DS-
I drove an hour and 15 minutes to get you from day care to aquatic PT and then switched off with daddy so I could then attend my work event today, all so that you could have the benefit of a 45 minute PT session in the beloved pool. I do not like to hear that 5 minutes after I left you had a tantrum in the pool which lasted the remainder of your session.
Not cool.
-Mom
Every Other Mother on Pinterest:
Yes, I will admit that I do "repin" your pins with the grandiose idea that one day I will actually have the time to make homemade chalkboard paint; do a different activity everyday leading up to Christmas as dictated by the premade miniature envelopes hand folded and clothespinned onto ht lovely (also hand made) felt tree; sew a rug; repaint a vintage table; blow up a hundred balloons in my kids room for his birthday; have obnoxiously themed items for said birthday; plant an English garden; oh and let's not forget the 102 things to do with the Elf on the Shelf.
Sincerely,
Mother who thinks you have too much time on your hands but is also jealous that I am running around to appointments and therapists so really the Elf is lucky it even came out of the frickin box
Dear Peyton,
I don't appreciate the sippy cup that flew by my head and hit the computer. Since when do we throw things, across the room AND unprovoked?
You are luck you immediately threw yourself in the fetal position and decided you no longer knew how to speak.
What are we going to do with you!
-Your mother, whose growing tired quickly of your moods!
Dear Morgan,
Since when does it take you 4 hours of crying on/off to go to sleep? I know you are approaching a new age of development and you are pushing your boundaries. I however, am no longer going to give in to you. You only cried for about 10-15 mins tonight before going to sleep. I know you are tired, just sleep! It's not that hard!
-Your mom whose, really tired of hearing you BOTH cry over nothing
Dear Assistant Superintendent of Special Services:
I should not have to show up at your office and ask your secretary if you've gotten any of my multiple messages to get you to talk to me. It especially makes you look like a liar when the main secretary has already told me you were "not in the building" at the time.
And please, don't tell me that you "don't have that report," when the copy I have was sent to me from your division with their cover letter. Your explanation that there's a copy in my son's "permanent file" but not in the child study team's working file does nothing to mitigate the situation.
This is yet another shining example about how your process is broken and nobody working for you knows what anyone else is doing, like the time you told me my son was never screened for ESL services, despite the fact that he was pulled from our initial meeting, screened and approved for services, and returned to the team meeting, where the entire team membership agreed that he should be assigned to the Spanish-based ESL school.
I am fed up and not going to deal with the call-dodging, lying head of the child study team anymore. From now on, I will deal directly with you, with the exception of during the legally required team meeting, and if you start to dodge my calls, I will move on up to the superintendent himself.
Sincerely,
A Not-Easily-Pacified Parent
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Dear Sister-In-Law,
I know you are feeling stressed about the fact that your house is wrongfully in foreclosure and that you want to move, but now is not the time to walk away.
I understand that when you received a letter from that shifty law firm offering to to modify your mortgage you thought it was sent by your bank since you asked to refinance. The difference between the two can be hard to understand. I also know that you sent your mortgage payments to the law firm because they told you to and to stop paying the bank. It must have made sense then, when you stopped receiving statements from the bank, since you believed the law firm assumed your loan. It also must have come as a complete shock when you learned your house was going into foreclosure and even more so when we learned that the law firm is associated with the one out in Utah that the FBI just raided for mortgage fraud.
BUT, you can be protected here if we fight. You don't have to lose your house. And just because you've already been thinking about moving out of state and you are worried you won't be able to sell you house does not make this a good idea.
I have a right to my opinion here, since my husband gave you the down payment and we have helped you make your payments anytime money was tight. You are not only screwing your credit if you walk away, you are screwing us, and we will never help you financially again in the foreseeable future.
Your Pi$$ed Off and Betrayed Sister-In-Law Who Loves You So Much and Can't Believe You're Contemplating This
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Dear J,
I know starting school is a big deal and you are tired of people telling you what to do by the time you get home, but you still have to listen to me and respect me. The temper tantrums you threw tonight are not going to work for you.
Love,
Mom
Apple-holes. Same prob at my house, only they said that Applecare does not cover screens and that I could get a new version of my iPad for half price but the screen would not be replaced. Let me know how it works out for you- maybe I'll try again. I don't like the idea of having a cracked screen indefinitely!!
Now for mine:
Dear DS,
When I give you your big-boy cup, trying to snatch it away from me does not make me want to let go. Trying to whip it around to get it out of my hands does not make me want to let go. And saying, "Oh, mommy mess" when the milk spills all the eff over the place pisses me off a little bit (even though I'm thrilled with the generative 3 word phrase..). And watching you eat milk-soaked pizza kind of grosses me out and baffles me because I couldn't get you to eat a piece of fruit or a vegetable if Thomas the Tank Engine himself delivered it to your plate..
I love you,
Mommy
Dear DH.
I've got nothing for you this week. Well done. Thank you for accepting my to-do list for tomorrow. Having you cover these errands while I work, go to class, study, and work some more is going to keep me that much closer to sanity.
I love you.
(I know this isn't really how it works but I complain about DH ALL the time because I feel like I parent him as much as DS and this week he really deserves the recognition).
Dear Professor,
Two words: unsolicited advice. Thank you for the encouragement, but I have this shiz covered.
Your not-so-clueless student
Dear Dad,
Pneumonia -> pleurisy --> major surgery --> lengthy hospital stay --> nursing home stay --> me having to send you $. When we talked on the phone the other day, it sounded like you were puffing on a cigarette. I will sic your mother on you. Don't think I won't. Grandma is fierce and I know you'll still do whatever she says.
Love,
Your daughter
Dear Boss,
The schedule you made for me sucks. It's impractical and while I don't really agree with the union's current break/lunch requirements, there is absolutely no way I can follow their required schedule with the way my schedule is structured. I will burn out in a few weeks. Have fun helping me pick up the pieces!
Your new employee
Wow.. I'm a grumpy girl tonight!
Dear School Bus Company
You are very lucky that my son has been sick for the past 2 days and hasn't gone to school because if he had been well, I would not be so understanding about what a colossal cluster**** the past few days have been. First, one of your drivers calls me thinking my son still goes to a school he just graduated from and when I try to clarify she keeps going on and on about 'well my boss gave me a paper ... blah blah blah'. I could give a ___ what your paper says. My kid doesn't go there anymore.
Then I spend almost an entire work day trying to get in touch with you, leaving messages, being put on hold for 20 minutes at a time, just to get this clarified and my kid's route number. You tell me the driver will call me - they don't and don't even bother showing up today.
Furthermore, what kind of business has a busy signal these days? Apparently yours does because that's what I encountered when I tried to reach you this morning. I re-dialed for 35 minutes and was late to work just trying to reach you. Again, another marathon session of trying to get through to you only to have one of your dispatchers tell me "I honestly don't know what to tell you ..."
And now you expect me to have my son ready at 7am when his school starts at 8:30 and we live 5 minutes away. Do you not realize that you're dealing with special needs kids here? Do you really think that waiting 60+ minutes for a bus is going to in any way shape or form be easy and tantrum free?
Bottom line - I have no doubt that the bus will once again NOT show up tomorrow and I will be driving my son to school. You better get your act together by Monday or I have a mind to show up there and park myself in your office until you get this resolved!
Love, Me.
P.S. you have HORRIBLE hold music
Wtf!! I need to go look and see what it says for L. I know we delivered at the same place.
Dear friend,
Please stop texting me the ways your typically developing toddler is better than my son. I know that you are trying to tell me that my feelings are validated, but it doesn't feel great to see, "You're right, my son can do XYZ and yours can't. He must be delayed" several times a day.
Thanks much!
LOL! That reminds me. I need to find that fricken' elf and his box.......
Dear Pharmaceutical companies,
Why the F do you include artificial dyes in your antibiotics? Does puke pink some how make the bacteria cower in fear and fall over dead. Really what's the point?
Sincerely,
The mom who is not going to appreciate the next 10 days parenting a child who already has trouble with self-regulating and is pushed over the edge when he consumes artificial dyes.
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Dear DH,
I hate it that you're sad and a little scared but I'm happy that you are really starting to "get it". Our boy is still awesome. He's just different and we will help him obtain the tools he needs.
I truly believe everything is going to be okay.
DW
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DS 09/2008
Dear Brother and SIL,
Thank you for inviting my family and our father over to your house last weekend. Please don't expect us to come again any time soon. I would like to sit you both down and explain what totally immature, irresponsible, selfish people you are in the near future. Getting drunk with our father while your 10 month old is crying is no way for me to relax. Thank you for having my DH and I out to babysit for you, because apparently, you saw it as a 'free weekend'. I am not a prude, and enjoy a glass of wine or two on occasion as well, but know my limits, and what I have to do in order to take care of my kids. The fact that our father beams at you for being such great parents and thinking that your 'laid back' (or, in my words, lazy) approach is so wonderful and I am so overbearing only sweetens the pot. I really like that I drove with 2 children 2 and under (with our father) over 800 miles, EACH WAY, to be put to work with 3 kids 2 and under. I enjoy the fact that I took my last vacation days to make it a longer time to be together as a family, only to spend it chasing around and making sure everyone was safe, while you 3 sat outside and laughed and drank. Thank you for now push me past worrying, and having a counselor label me with an anxiety disorder. Ya think?
Signed,
Your babysitter (AKA, your sister)
Oh, and I will bill you for my Xanax.