October 2009 Weddings
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.
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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.
Open Letter
I know we have done these before...like a long time ago it seems! I thought it may be fun for the middle of the week!
Dear Snow,
You made your point. Now stop.
Dear Teachers,
Please retire or have a baby so I may have a chance at a job.
Dear School Districts,
Please just CALL me for an interview. I promise you won't be disappointed.
Dear Secret Santa Nestie,
I love my ornament and will post pics soon! I was so excited it see it in my mailbox! 
Love, Jenn
Re: Open Letter
Dear Tummy,
You should not be hungry! Lunch is in a little over an hour, and all you're getting until then is water. Water! Because of you and your desire to make me chunkier than I am, I'm back to tracking my food intake. Thanks, cuz I really don't have a better way to waste my time. BTW, the food tracking this morning proves you should not be growling.
Love, munkii
Dear Parents of children I babysit,
I am a babysitter, not a housekeeper. I will not be starting dinner, putting your laundry in the dryer or picking up anything but what your children get out and play with while I am there. If that is what you want...hire Alice. Also, you want me to "entertain" your child from 5 until midnight? Seriously? Are they not capable, at 6 and 8, of entertaining themselves at least on some level? They won't go to bed until you get home? Oh, yes they will...watch me. Let's try RAISING your children, teaching them to be independent, and actually setting rules and following through on them.
Dear people that I volunteer with,
I know it's busy...I am too. But, y'all committed to be a part of this deal all year, not just when it is convenient for you. You've had the schedule for the holidays since May. Just because you got an invite to a really cool Christmas party does not mean you get to dump your responsibilities on me just because you know I am a person who honors my committments. Are you an adult yet? Call me when you decide to be one...
Can you tell I've had a tense week
Dear lady in the bathroom every day at 1:30,
Please stop pooping and talking on your phone in another language so loudly. It really makes other people uncomfortable. Can't you just talk in the hallway like everyone else, and do bathroom-related activities in the bathroom?
Dear grad school admissions essay,
Can you please hurry up and write yourself?
Dear 3:30,
Are you here yet? I'm ready to go home now!
This made me laugh out loud. I had somebody like that in our building who spoke on the phone often in the bathroom and I never understood it. Come to think of it, I haven't seen or heard her in there in a while.. Maybe she works at your office now!
Dear job gods - just because my sister is pregnant doesn't mean that she's incapable of doing a job. I realize that it is tough to take a leap of faith on someone who will work for a bit and then need some time off but she really is an excellent worker and would do a great job for you. Oh, and did I mention it is illegal to discriminate against her because she's pregnant? Yeah, I know you'll just find some other reason to disqualify her and for that, you suck.
Dear DH's best friend - you're a tool. You have a long history of friendship with my husband and how he put up with you for that long, I'll never understand. I tried to like you. I respect my husbands desire to see you from time to time but you were a complete and total @$$ at our wedding and said some horrid and hateful things about my parents in your drunken stupor and I will never forgive you for that. I'll be civil to you but don't expect me to move mountains for you. You burned that bridge beyond repair.
Dear holiday cards, can you please write and mail yourselves this year? I just am not feeling motivated.
Dear weekend - hurry up and get here. This week has dragged on too long already.
Love, me!
Dear Clients,
Our office is not a daycare service. I get that you're strapped for cash to hire a babysitter for meetings with your attorney, but we really don't have the time (or patience) to entertain your kids every time you come in. It's tough to draft legal documents when they're shrieking or trying to eat everything in sight. It's even worse now that we're more pressed for time, since everyone seems to want to get divorce before Christmas--what is that about?
Dear DH,
Why have you not learned by now that your mother will flip out if you indicate the slightest discomfort? You KNEW the bump on your neck was nothing to worry about, but you let her talk you into going to the ER last night because she convinced you it might be a staph infection. I don't appreciate being tired and cranky over an ingrown hair follicle.
Love,
-Me
Knitting Blog
Updated 3-12
Hah, thanks for passing her on! I just don't understand, I guess. If I was talking on the phone and heard toilets flushing, I'd have to say, "I'm gonna let you go..." Maybe it's just me.
Dear co-irkers, Please check your attitude, gossip and otherwise negative behavior at the door! We work for babies and kids, and they could really use the positive energy we can provide. I got in to this business because I'm all rainbows and puppies and all that, and a positive energy can do wonders. instead of muttering under your breath that you hate your job, sing Raffi or something, m'kay?
Dear Tired Eyes,
Please wake up. I know you put out a lot of enery last night when I had a meltdown over the very clear possibility of my favorite Christmas tradition being laid to rest this year but I need you to put this nice cup of caffiene to work and wake up!!
MY BLOG!
Dear Parents,
Please do not pre-emptively cancel coming down to visit on Saturday because "it might snow." It won't snow until the evening, and you will be down here and back home by dinnertime. Chill out.
You need to stop listening to the panicked weather people.
Karen
Dear person I loosely call a "friend,"
You are out. of. your. mind. First, you get married to a man with two kids, so you became a step mom (which is not a problem). Then you decided it was a good idea to get pregnant on your wedding night, before you and your new blended family got a chance to get acclimated. Then, you decided not to use pain medications during the birth and strut around like you're the strongest woman in the world for doing so. And now, just a few months after, you're pregnant again. How are you going to afford four children when you're a SAHM, your DH really doesn't make that much money, and he has legal bills from his ongoing custody battle? Why did this seem like a good idea to you?
Moron.
Karen
Dear smelly kid who just left,
You are so nice, but you smell horrible. And when you moved over to the computer and decided to switch chairs....the only chair left was the one you were sitting in. So I had to sit in your chair.....which was super super warm. Eww.. And the fact that you smelled horrible made it even worse. AND the fact that your mom was with you and can obviously smell you and won't make you bathe pisses me off! And now I feel like I smell....and I'm all itchy...thanks warm smelly chair....and smelly kid.