Colorado Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Dear ______ (TGIF Edition)
Dear Lunch,
Please come sooner. I'm hungry and axiously awaiting you.
-Hungry girl
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Dear CW,
Please don't tell me that your dinner of "spaghetti, salad, and bread" was a high-protien dinner. I don't think you've ever heard of whole wheat pasta, and even with meat sauce, it couldn't have had that much protein. Did it have some? Sure. But was protien the main part of your dinner as you claimed? No.
-Annoyed
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Dear Weekend,
Please last forver. You are my last free weekend before being gone for 7 weeks. I want to spend the weekend cuddled up with my hubby since I won't see him for 6 weeks. (cue tears).
-Me
Re: Dear ______ (TGIF Edition)
Dear Blue Like Jazz,
Absence makes the heart grow fonder...believe me. DH and I have lived apart several times in our relationship for much longer than 6 weeks and the reunion is kinda like another honeymoon.
Hang in there,
Asil.
Dear Roommate:
Thank you for piling up your crap into one corner of the garage, when I told you I was planning on cleaning out the garage that you never actually asked to use. Thanks also for throwing away so much trash that our trash can is now over full. This should be super awesome for my weekend plan of cleaning out the garage, now that I have no room in the trash can and will have to either store it...in the garage (where I'm trying to clean)...or take it to the dump 17 miles away. I seriously can't wait unitl you move out in 50 days. Not that I'm counting or anything.
Argh!
Your more than accomodating landord who wishes you'd stop walking all over her.
Dear Asil,
Thanks. I know we'll be ok. I don't think we've been apart for more than a week since we started dating, so to me, 6 weeks sounds like FOREVER. I'm hoping it's a good thing in the end.
-Blue like jazz
Bazinga!
Liz's Yarn
Dear sweet step-daughter,
I can appreciate you wanting to go to the same private high school as some of your classmates, but honey we sure as heck cannot afford to pay the more than $12k/year in tuition fees. For high school. I know some families do send their children to expensive private schools and have no problem paying for it, but we are not one of those families. Please notice that we have a small house in a crappy neighborhood, we aren't made of money like your Wash Park friend's parents are. South High it is sweetie.
Love your evil step-mom.
Dear DH,
Stop working so much. I would like to see you more than 20 minutes a day. Also, if your parents are coming over I would like to know for sure more than 30 minutes in advance, especially since they live 90 minutes away I am sure they can do this. Telling me on Thursday that you think they might be planning on coming sometime on Saturday doesn't really help me since I already had other plans for me and DD.
AM
Dear Valentines day,
Please come and go. Quickly. Being recently single (dumped) in the last 24 hours has been hard enough (eat an entire box of girl scout cookies? sure!) having "his" valentines day present delivered today was salt in the wound. I don't need your red puffy love hearts in my face.
Thanks.
Dear Xyllah's XBF,
Clearly she's better off without you.
Dear Xyllah:
I'm sorry
Dear Universe -
What is worse than cleaning up a toddler's pukey bed at 2:30 a.m.? Doing it two more times over the following two hours. :P
Please, please, PLEASE let DD2 be over her tummy bug and let the rest of us not get it. And while you're at it, let us all get a full night's sleep tonight; we need it!
Sincerely,
lite-bright
DD1, 1/5/2008 ~~~ DD2, 3/17/2010
Dear Jack in the Box-
My lunch was delicious, thank you. But why oh why did you forget my mini churros? And why oh why did I not notice until it was too late to go back?
-Stuffed but still missing her churros
Dear Universe,
Thank you for letting me have an afternoon and evening to host a quilting bee. Me and the girls can't wait.
Dear DD,
In anticipation of said quilting bee, please stop getting out toys with 236 pieces.
Mommy
Dear Charlie at the state revenue office,
You need to seriously work on your customer service skills. Telling me 3 different answers to the same question, then yelling at me for questioning those answers, then HANGING UP ON ME after I waited on hold and was transferred just to get to you is so not ok. Neither is being rude when I called back and, of course, got you again. Rest assured, I will be sending in my formal complaint to your boss, and will make sure to send a copy to the Governor's office.
An irate tax payer
Dear Universe,
How in the WORLD do people like Charlie get to have and keep jobs, but DH & I can't get a single break? It makes no sense, and it effectively smothers the tiny little bit of hope I was working on finding.
Me
No more baby siggie pics. Boo.
Dear XH,
I know we have differing parenting styles. I prefer the natural consequences route, while you seem to go for ultra-strict methods. I know there is mutual frustration. Still, can you not go overboard on DS1 for stupid things and remember that he really IS a good kid who treats everyone with respect and kindness? It's also natural for him to be a little "off" as he figures out who he is and what he believes in the coming years. He's becoming more comfortable speaking his mind, and I'm proud of him for that.
Continually holding this Bonaire trip over his head and threatening to cancel over any small infraction is also not cool - to him or to the other parents. I know you want him to do better at chores, but saying he won't go if you have to tell him ONE time to take out the trash between now and July is a bit unreasonable. He's a 14 year old boy and he won't be perfect.
Thanks,
Mother of your firstborn son, who really is a great kid
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Dear Blue Like Jazz,
I hope your 6 weeks goes quickly, and the homecoming is spectacular.
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Dear Asil's PITA roomie,
I don't blame her for counting down the days. Really, taking up ALL the available space for trash without asking? Not cool, dude, not cool. I hope your next living situation sparks a thank you note, or at least acknowledgement of how good you had it here.
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Dear Xyllah,
Hang in there. He obviously doesn't know what he's missing out on.
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Dear Universe,
Kudos on giving Rox her quilting bee. Now, turn some of that energy toward Lite-Bright's house for her DD, OK?
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Thanks,
Nestie who wants to see her people happy
PHOTOS REMOVED
Dear Pilar,
Mommy is so very sorry you are still sick and while I absolutely love cuddling with you, for the love of all that is good, PLEASE nap in your own bed so mommy can do the same this afternoon. And please share my sentiment with your sisters.
Your loving mother
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Dear week,
Please be over and NEVER, EVER return.
One very unsatisfied customer
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Dear (some of my) SAHM friends,
I am so glad you love your job. I am so glad you could "never do that do that to your kids" and I am very happy that you think it will all be ok if we "just had more play dates". Your concerned questions about "how will you afford daycare?" and "where will the girls go?" are really none of your business. So please stop sharing what you consider to be supportive words when we both know they are just judgmental comments regarding me wanting to go back to work.
Sincerely,
A very good mama who loves her kids but would still like to have a career.
Dear Laptop and Hard Drive,
Why do you only fail when I really need you? I thought the point of having an external hard drive was to save files. Not just the folder that they go in but the actual file. I'm starting to worry that all of my photos are gone. I will not be a happy mom. I will also never purchase a Western Digital Hard Drive again.
Sincerely-
Pissed off and frustrated.
Dear 3rd cold in 6 weeks,
Go the eff away. Move your snotty self out of my sinuses. I hate you and I am so sick of blowing my nose. If you even consider setting up residence in my children I will...do something to you, I'm just not sure what, I have to go blow my nose while I think about it.
The girl who's nose is dry and red from too much wiping
Dear little man,
I'm so sorry you're sick. Please get better, mama just can't handle watching you hurt right now, she's a little fragile with everything else going on. Please let tonight be the last night we stay up all night together.
Love you,
Your mama