Did you transfer to Iowa City?
Dumbest thing you dealt with today?
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My morning while my wife is out of state on business as I was in a hurry to get on the road to do some audits, my son is 6 and needed his gym shoes on for the day. While getting them snacks I also lined up their shoes, unstrapped them and pulled the tongues out and said get your shoes in so we get out of here asap. I get back to the door and my 4 year old daughter had hers on. My son did not and looked at me and said “you know I need help with gym shoes ugh dad you’re worthless” next level patience kicked in
Spent 45 minutes gathering groceries at hyvee, left the cart at an end cap of an aisle to grab eye drops. 1 minute later, it was gone. High schooler felt the need to return everything in the cart to the shelves. Damn waste of time.
Gotta love licensure... Especially multi state with different registration cycles...
My BP is rising just reading that last bit. Our sons (mine's 5) may be brothers from other mothers. "NO ONE IS EVEN CARING FOR ME!!!" Or "YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY IT AGAIN, I ALREADY KNOWWWWW" As if we didn't ask kindly and patiently without any response the first 65 times.
I hear the teen years are worse. If true, please go ahead and institutionalize me now, k thanks.
The teen years are far worse, its a new type of hell when they start driving, every minute they are past curfew and every siren you hear, you age a year. Much rather have them small where they can be controlled. Hate to say it, but it worse.
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Daycare/school had THREE tornado drills today.
When we picked the boy up the teacher said he was so scared that he was shaking.
All night I've been talking to him about tornadoes, severe weather, and going to the basement.
It's been a night. So maybe 3 goddam tornado drills is the damn dumbest thing I've wrestled with
KidSilverhair
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Did they not do it right, so they made them do it again? Twice?
I’m trying to wrap my ahead around why they’d do three tornado drills on the same day.
(Avatar pic not related, lol)
But they wipe their own butts and put their own winter gloves on, correct???
CF you just never know what direction a thread will take.
I have meetings that are usually either to share truly relevant updates or to brainstorm and/or actually solve an issue or find a solution to a request. It is great.
I never dread one, and I now only have maybe 4 or 5 in a week. I used to have maybe 15 per week with many just tying up time and still somehow resulting in more piled on my work backlog.
Nothing dumb happened to me today, but I like the premise and hope this can be a regular occurrence. I miss the old Friday Confessions days
LOL on the winter gloves, those aren't cool. With the 1st wife we took her/our daughter to the St Paul Ice carnival when they built a big castle, it was COLD like sub zero, she chose to wear a tshirt denim jacket and torn blue jeans to go to it. After a bit we let her go back to the car and warm up.
I'm always amazed how many kids at ISU wear shorts to BB games in Hilton.
GPS is a great thing to be able to instantly know where they are and if they’re moving towards home. Also, the drive safe systems from the insurance companies are wonderful. We sit down and review every time they get dinged for speed, braking, or cornering. I don’t care about the insurance, but I want him to know that we’ll know if he’s driving like an asshat. Yes, it’s overbearing, but it gives us peace of mind to know that at least the driving portion of his life he’s being safe.
Disagree. Watching your kids become fully independent adults beats wiping butts and cutting french toast into pieces for them. 10/10 would recommend. Just hang in there, it gets so much better!
Great to hear, 4 and 6 is much easier than 1 and 3 for me. However frustrating is at times I love these ages and looking forward to seeing what they’re like as teenagers. My daughter plans on cheerleading at ISU like her mom so retiring in Ames sounds good as well
Yeah I joke but I'll take the sass over when he woke every 45 min overnight as a baby. Or having an 18 mo old with no childcare for four months during covid. When we had two in '22 and they missed nearly 60 days of daycare.....I very well did lose my mind
Went to the gym this morning and took a shower after my 45 minute work out. Looking through my gym bag I noticed I didn't pack a dry shirt. FML!! Glad I wore a jacket when I left home. Just made sure it was zipped all the way up when I left. No way was I putting my sweat soaked shirt back on!
