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November 2011 Moms
mcvgal
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UO Thursday
mcvgal
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been a while so let's bring it on
I think it's so annoying to see these "thankful" post on FB all month long. I think you should be thankful all year round and would rather see the random posts througout the year. It would actually bring a smile to my face to see a random thankful post in any other month
11.2011 - DS1
02.2013 - loss at 6 wks
06.2014 - DS2
10.2015 - loss at 12 wks
03.2017 - DD
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Re: UO Thursday
I agree with you on the FB Thankful bullshit. Drive me crazy.
My UO is that I don't think people should be obligated to help/respect/love/whatever people just because they happen to be related. DH and I are close with some of our family members, but some are just straight up worthless scumbags, that I have no desire for DS to be exposed to. We refer to our friends as DS's aunts and uncles, and I love our family that we have created, blood or not.
Without getting into all the long, drawn out details of my family's messy situation, I will just say that I came to the realization that I would like to raise my oldest neice myself. The emotional sh*t that her mom (my sister) puts her through is unbelievable! And my sister constantly uses her as a pawn towards the rest of family and for attending/not attending family events. The emotional immaturity that my sister shows my neice is not healthy, and BIL isn't any better. I want my neice to know that what she sees from them is not healthy and that she has a choice in all of this. She has already been hurt so much by all of this behavior. I just want to scoop her up in my arms and protect her from all of this mess forever.
It sounds bad, but I just know that I could raise my neice better than my sister is right now.
I completely agree with both of these!
My UO is related to the legalization of Marijuana in Colorado, well the legalization of it in general. (smilelari I'm interested in your feelings on this, considering it's your home state!) I myself have never touched the stuff and I never plan to, but I do think legalizing it would be good for the economy. Especially for the individual states, they can tax the heck out of it. There's already a federal tax that you get slapped with if you're caught, they also get you for tax evasion. Market it like tobacco and have it regulated similar to alcohol consumption. The hardest part would be public intoxication and DUIs because as of right now, to my knowledge, there isn't a test like a breathalyzer for weed. So it would be difficult to prosecute it like that but if they can come up with a saliva test of some sort then legalize from coast to coast and turn it into a major cash crop.
I'm sorry you're in that position, it doesn't sound pleasant at all. How old is your niece? What about watching her, could you offer to take her some days or have a sleep over? Get her away from the situation even for just a couple nights a month.
Amen. People try too hard and that creates unnecessary stress on them and after a long period of time can even take a toll on their health. Also, I think this kind of goes hand in hand with the whole "not being able to say no" attitiude. This can be downright dangerous for kids not to say no and try to be friends with everyone. I'm not just referring to the creepy guy in a white van, either. There are very legitimate reasons to stay away from certain people and your child shouldn't have to feel like he/she needs to do bad things to make that person like them!