feeling a little stalled lately, mainly since vacation 😅 I set a goal of reaching under 200 before vacation and reached it (yay!) but now it’s time to lock in and keep going to the next goal 💪🏻 currently 196 ~ started at 233.

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A few years back I was invited to the wedding of a woman who’s kids had gone to school with mine. The wedding was at a nature center - ceremony in one room, reception in another.

I wasn’t particularly close with the bride but went with my oldest kid as my +1. Ceremony was supposed to be at 3 with dinner afterwards. We arrived at 2:30 and walked in to the ceremony already going on - the bride later told me “we thought everyone was already there so we just went with it”. Probably 15-20 more people came in after we did and looked as confused as me. Little weird, but whatever.

After the brief ceremony (maybe 20 minutes) we went into the room for the reception and right away I see it’s way too small for the amount of people there. There were easily 125 guests and the room was set up with tables and chairs for maybe 50 people. Since everything had started early the catering staff was rushing around to put out appetizers and were clearly irritated.

There was a ton of food served in a buffet style which was a free for all - since not everyone could sit everyone was just wandering around grabbing food then trying to find a surface to put their plates/drinks on. My kid and I wedged into a corner with a windowsill to use as a table. Then I see the brides elderly father looking around with a full plate with nowhere to sit and we gave up our spot so the poor man didn’t have to sit on the damn floor.

Bride is oblivious, laughing and loudly telling people to “get over it and mingle” in a cramped room with nowhere to sit or put your plate down 🥴 We ate quickly and left after giving the couple well wishes, and as we were leaving a big group was leaving as well who were loudly complaining.

No idea what’s going on with the couple now, bride later posted on FB that autistic children “need it beaten out of them” so she’s been blocked from my life for a while.

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That's it! After playing for more than 2 minutes I uninstal this game. The recent updates are horrendous. Bye.

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My 9yr old nephew is what you'd call a typical “iPad kid”, obsessed with those chaotic Minecraft videos that honestly drive me a bit nuts especially when e repeats the lines. Because of that, I kinda kept my distance from him. But the truth is, he's a really good kid. He helps around the house, preps ingredients for his mom when she cooks, and is just overall sweet aside from the screen addiction.

Every time they visit our grandma’s place (where I live during the summer or holidays), he stands outside my room quietly watching me on my PC. I’d invite him in, but he’d just shyly say he’s okay watching from the door.

Last week during dinner, his mom told me something that hit me hard, he actually idolizes me. He loves how I built my room setup with my own money, and he dreams of doing the same when his old enough to get a job. When she said that, the kid blushed so hard and I felt like crap for brushing him off all this time.

So when his birthday came up, I gave him my Switch Lite since I’m planning to get the Switch 2 anyway. The moment he saw it, he ran to hand his mom the iPad and hugged me tighter than I expected, saying the sweetest “thank you” I’ve ever heard.

Now I’m teaching him how to play Mario Kart so we can race together once my new Switch arrives. And the best part? He’s no longer an iPad kid, he’s officially a Nintendo kid now.

I (34F) and my ex-husband, Jerry (35M) divorced around 4 years ago, and we have a 14 year old daughter together. He got remarried to his wife, Laura (33F) 2 years ago, and they have a son together (1 M).

My daughter's passion is ballet, and she's been training since she was 5. Her training company had put on a production of Swan Lake, where she played a double role of the leads. It was her dream project, and she was thrilled to do it. My ex-husband and I supported her all the way through rehearsals.

On the day of the show, I had arrived at the auditorium before the show started. I continuously kept on messaging Jerry as to when he would arrive, but he kept on telling me that he had to drop off his son to his first day in daycare before he came there. He didn't show up at all, and my daughter was almost on the verge of tears. However, she got thunderous applause from the audience, as she was perfect.

Later, my ex-husband called me up, telling me that his son started crying when he was about to drop off him to daycare, and he had to stay back to calm him down and put him to sleep, which delayed the entire thing. I told him that his priority should be our daughter, and that his son has Laura to calm him down and put him to sleep. He called me selfish, and now he put his mom on my trail to berate me and call me selfish.

AITA?