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[UPDATE TO THE STUFFY FACE TRANSPLANT] she HATED it. She thought it would be better if I just sewn Cleo’s face hole shut, and then slammed her door in my face. I KNEW IT WAS RIDICULOUS BUT I TRIED, ANDDDD YES I AM CRYING

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DD Discovers What's Up With Periods

My oldest teen DD has been spending a couple of days a week home alone while DH and I work. Yesterday evening, she came to me and asked for meds for cramps. DD: "My period just started and it's killing me. Also, it explains a lot." Me: "Why, what happened?" DD: "I cried earlier because I couldn't find the provolone cheese in the refrigerator." And then she admits she cried a few weeks ago because she wanted chocolate chip pancakes when she was home alone and couldn't find the pancake mix. Me: "Was that about a month ago?" DD: (thinking) "OMG YES IT WAS. Am I always going to cry over food when it's time for my period?" Me: "From my personal experience? Probably."

The Drunken Housewife

My wife is an admitted alcoholic and we're working on that. As such, she's used to sleeping until noon. We had a baby girl a few months back (she stayed pretty sober during the pregnancy). I work full time and due to the area we're in, I installed a camera in our back bedroom to watch over the back yard. The camera has audio and I can listen in on the events of that room while I'm at work (my wife knows this but may have forgotten). I've discovered over the last few days that when I leave for work, she puts the baby in a basinet in that room and goes back to sleep in our bedroom, out of earshot until noon. So, our baby is alone, crying for almost four hours daily. There's nothing dangerous in the basinet, but today I came home at 10am, fed and changed the baby and returned to work without my wife noticing. I'm at a loss of what to do. I can't raise the baby and work at the same time. Any advice is welcome.

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Why does my husband get to take a nap when he's tired?

Is asking 50% too much? I'm the primary earner, but somehow he still seems to get off easy around the house and with helping. When he's with the baby he's great! But it's only on his time. When I want a moment away I need to ask, but he just disappears into the corner for private time and leaves me with the baby. And on top of that leaving his dishes for the nanny to do... I am losing my cool!

Why is is so hard to find childcare?

I just need to vent. I’ve found a handful of places that have availability for my infant and the ones I like either don’t have availability when I reach out to them again or are just out of my budget. Others that are okay and affordable are ridiculously far and in bad areas. I’ve had a couple of job offers that I’ve had to pass on because of this and my unemployment benefits will expire in a couple of months. I’m starting to stress out.

I do know my child's sex....

I was at the park yesterday with my 12 month old when this old guy came up. Ussual comments about cuteness then this convo: Him: boy or girl, Me: girl Him: are you sure? Me:......yeeeees...... Then he toddered off. She was wearing blue, but it had ruffles. I was so confused.

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Any Albertan Bromos Out There?

I am terrified and appalled. Please tell me that I am not alone.

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COVID and back to school…

There was a post recently in another subreddit asking parents what they were going to do with their kids this year. And my god, the fucking privilege in these responses has annoyed the absolute shit out of me. Yeah, must be nice to have the ability to keep your kids at home another year “just to be safe”. One parent is even considering picking their child up every day for lunch so that the child never has to be unmasked indoors. What the ever loving fuck?! I’m sorry. Both my husband and I work full time. And we’ll be expected to go back to the office at least 60% of that time in the fall. Am I worried about my kid getting COVID? Absolutely. Do I have the ability to keep him out of school (or my daughter out of daycare) for extra protection? No. And I’m just sick of seeing these examples of how rich and privileged families can keep their kids “safer” than us working folks. Ugh.

How to force husband to bear some of the mental load?

I am so sick of discussing the mental load of household chores and childcare. We both work and we both parent, yet as usual, I am the one doing all the chores unless I ask him to help (in which case I get a sigh, an annoyed look and a “what?!” when I tell him to knock it the fuck off). He has heard why it’s unfair and still doesn’t do it. I honestly don’t think the idiot is capable enough to do it. So, how do you guys get husbands to think about chores and do them independently? Do I just allocate certain chores for him? Does that even count? I’m still handling the rest of the shit. And hopefully I don’t have to ask that people refrain from asking why I’m with such a man child, break up etc etc in this sub. Its never that simple.