u/Ok-Duck2450

I love this country.

I know what it could be and what it should be, what it almost was a few times.

I’m mad that a concerted, decades-long effort by rich old men has co-opted religious beliefs and fear of outsiders to keep the underclass struggling, divided, and too exhausted to fight the people actually responsible for their own misery.

I’m so fucking angry that the distrust and stripping institutions was done so thoroughly that I don’t even see a way back from this ever.

It didn’t have to be this way. I’m not one for American exceptionalism, and definitely not in a Raegan way, but I know that we had and have a lot of things going for us that are just so squandered.

Maybe it’s naive, but I still feel like maybe we could some day get to a good place still, just the current administration has set us back so much.

Complicated holiday right now.

Like I just, truly and honestly, don’t give a single shit anymore.

It’s fantastic.

Don’t get me wrong, my kid likes sweet things too but if you give her a choice between cake and French fries, she will choose the fries every time.

(And don’t get her started on pickles)

My almost 3 year old has been fully potty trained during the day for about a year.

She took to it pretty well and has only had a handful of accidents in that time.

She still wears a pull up at night and sometimes she poops while she sleeps. Not like diarrhea, just like regular poop.

Sometimes she will wake up and I will go in and change her, but other times she doesn’t wake up and then she sits in her poopy pull up for hours. When this happens she obviously gets a little irritated and a red.

We do potty right before bed, she does poop in the potty during the day, she eats a balanced diet with lots of fiber.

Anyone have any ideas what else we can do? I’m afraid she’s going to get a UTI.

My boss is a tool.

I work in marketing analytics, there is nothing I do that couldn’t be done from home. Most days I don’t talk to a single soul in person only teams chat.

Still, when my kids are sick he won’t let me work remote with them so I or my husband have to use our limited PTO.

My boss also uses the same mug thermos thing everyday that he never washes, he just leaves it by the sink assuming someone else will wash it.

He also always leaves early.

I happen to have the exact same mug thing.

So last time my kids were sick, I took his mug home with me and let my sick children drink out of it all evening.

The next day I went in and put it right back where I left it.

Three days later he was out sick, and he stayed out sick for a week.

I have now done this 4 separate times.

I have not an ounce of guilt.

We have around wonderful, amazing, almost 3 year old daughter.

We just had our appointment to start the process to transfer one of our remaining embryos.

We have 3 euploid embryos left so I am tentatively hopeful!

It’s nerve wracking and exciting!

We aren’t telling anyone we know in real life yet so I am telling you all here!