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my daughter is graduating from HS tonight and all the emotions are driving me crazy. No party because we have literally no family (neither me nor my husband have siblings, his parents passed and mine are in Germany - and they don't understand the American graduations anyways). We really not close with anyone who lives around here - that's fine we can deal and she is kind of used to it anyways.
Ex military family so we never really got to lay down deep roots. We will take her to a nice dinner and that will be just fine. What really hurt my heart for her though was that she started making a wish list for her dorm mainly and looked at me earlier, started laughing and said I actually don't know why I'm even making this - I have no one to send it to. I know she laughed about it but I could tell it bothered her a little given that all her friends are telling her about everything the are getting in the mail already. And then she cried. Real tears. This child hardly ever cries and it's not something I'm used to. She will get what she needs but I think to her, half the fun of this is just getting surprise "gifts" and just feeling "loved" because someone thought of her. Everything is so emotional right now with all these big chnages and her feeling "excluded".
It's such a "first world" problem and I am not a
"gentle parent" but that shouldn't mean I can't be a little sad for our situation. Thanks for coming to my whining and thank you for any advice.

my daughter is graduating from HS on Thursday and all the emotions are driving me crazy. No party because we have literally no family (neither me nor my husband have siblings, his parents passed and mine are in Germany - and they don't understand the American graduations anyways). We really not close with anyone who lives around here - that's fine we can deal and she is kind of used to it anyways.
Ex military family so we never really got to lay down deep roots. We will take her to a nice dinner and that will be just fine. What really hurt my heart for her though was that she started making a wish list for her dorm mainly and looked at me earlier, started laughing and said I actually don't know why I'm even making this - I have no one to send it to. I know she laughed about it but I could tell it bothered her a little given that all her friends are telling her about everything the are getting in the mail already. And then she cried. Real tears. This child hardly ever cries and it's not something I'm used to. She will get what she needs but I think to her, half the fun of this is just getting surprise "gifts" and just feeling "loved" because someone thought of her. Everything is so emotional right now with all these big chnages and her feeling "excluded".
It's such a "first world" problem and I am not a
"gentle parent" but that shouldn't mean I can't be a little sad for our situation. Thanks for coming to my whining and thank you for any advice.

I’m now realizing we should have had more than one 😑

my daughter is graduating from HS on Thursday and all the emotions are driving me crazy. No party because we have literally no family (neither me nor my husband have siblings, his parents passed and mine are in Germany - and they don't understand the American graduations anyways). We really not close with anyone who lives around here - that's fine we can deal and she is kind of used to it anyways.
Ex military family so we never really got to lay down deep roots. We will take her to a nice dinner and that will be just fine. What really hurt my heart for her though was that she started making a wish list for her dorm mainly and looked at me earlier, started laughing and said I actually don't know why I'm even making this - I have no one to send it to. I know she laughed about it but I could tell it bothered her a little given that all her friends are telling her about everything the are getting in the mail already. And then she cried. Real tears. This child hardly ever cries and it's not something I'm used to. She will get what she needs but I think to her, half the fun of this is just getting surprise "gifts" and just feeling "loved" because someone thought of her. Everything is so emotional right now with all these big chnages and her feeling "excluded".
It's such a "first world" problem and I am not a
"gentle parent" but that shouldn't mean I can't be a little sad for our situation. Thanks for coming to my whining and thank you for any advice.

my daughter is graduating from HS on Thursday and all the emotions are driving me crazy. No party because we have literally no family (neither me nor my husband have siblings, his parents passed and mine are in Germany - and they don't understand the American graduations anyways). We really not close with anyone who lives around here - that's fine we can deal and she is kind of used to it anyways.
Ex military family so we never really got to lay down deep roots. We will take her to a nice dinner and that will be just fine. What really hurt my heart for her though was that she started making a wish list for her dorm mainly and looked at me earlier, started laughing and said I actually don't know why I'm even making this - I have no one to send it to. I know she laughed about it but I could tell it bothered her a little given that all her friends are telling her about everything the are getting in the mail already. And then she cried. Real tears. This child hardly ever cries and it's not something I'm used to. She will get what she needs but I think to her, half the fun of this is just getting surprise "gifts" and just feeling "loved" because someone thought of her. Everything is so emotional right now with all these big chnages and her feeling "excluded".
It's such a "first world" problem and I am not a
"gentle parent" but that shouldn't mean I can't be a little sad for our situation. Thanks for coming to my whining and thank you for any advice.

I am not good with computer stuff.

My daughter is about to start college and will be in nursing school next year. I did speak to the college and they assured me that most of their students have MacBooks and everything they use is compatible so that’s not the issue.

We don’t have an Apple Store, but we have a certified Apple retailer. They assured me that the Base MacBook Air
10‑core CPU, 8‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine will be plenty for her needs.
She doesn’t game or doesn’t do any video editing or anything like that. It’s solely for schoolwork and probably watching Netflix.** **

So I just went with a Base model but then now I can’t help that thing that you really should never get the base model of anything** **😂

Did I make a mistake? Should I go and exchange it?

Just need to vent. Does anyone feel they lost their village due to not wanting to vaccinate?

My daughter is graduating Highschool. No grad party because we have literally have no one to invite. My husbands side cut off contact years ago (when she was very little) and we are an Ex military family so we never really got to lay down deep roots. We will take her to a nice dinner and that will be just fine. But throughout the years there has even been people who cut if contact because of my choice to not vaccinate.

What really hurt my heart for her though was that she started making a wish list for her dorm mainly and looked at me earlier, started laughing and said I actually don’t know why I’m even making this - I have no one to send it to. I know she laughed about it but I could tell it bothered her a little given that all her friends are telling her about everything the are getting in the mail already. I think this just hits her differently because she’s used to this for Christmas. That’s always just us but Christmas comes every year this graduation thing is just so blown out of proportion and everybody makes such a big deal out of it and it’s just “new” unlike all the other holidays.

She always gets what she needs but I think to her, half the fun of this is just getting surprise “gifts” and just feeling “loved” and celebrated because someone thought of her.

All this because of a choice I made for her health!!

It’s such a “first world” problem but that shouldn’t mean I can’t be a little sad for our situation. Thanks for coming to my morning whine. I know this post is all over the place thank you for reading 🫣

I was born and raised in Germany. Met my husband and then moved to the states. My daughter is graduating from HS on Thursday.

We will not have a party because we have literally no family (neither me nor my husband have siblings, his parents passed and mine are in Germany - and they don't understand the American graduations anyways).

We really not close with anyone who lives around here - that's fine we can deal and she is kind of used to it anyways. Ex military family so we never really got to lay down deep roots. We will take her to a nice dinner and that will be just fine. What really hurt my heart for her though was that she started making a wish list for her dorm mainly and looked at me earlier, started laughing and said | actually don't know why I'm even making this - I have no one to send it to. I know she laughed about it but I could tell it bothered her a little given that all her friends are telling her about everything the are getting in the mail already. And then she cried. Real tears. This child hardly ever cries and it's not something I'm used to. She will get what she needs but I think to her, half the fun of this is just getting surprise “gifts" and just feeling "loved" because someone thought of her.

Everything is so emotional right now with all these big chnages and her feeling "excluded" and the little bit of family I do have back home just doesn’t get it because graduations just aren’t big over there.

It's such a "first world" problem and I am not a "gentle parent" but that shouldn't mean | can't be a little sad for our situation. Thanks for coming to my whining and thank you for any advice

my daughter is graduating from HS on Thursday. And all the emotions are driving me crazy. No gr party because we have literally no family (neith, me nor my husband have siblings, his parents passed and mine are in Germany - and they don't understand the American graduations anyways). We really not close with anyone who lives around here - that's fine we can deal and she is kind of used to it anyways. Ex military family so we never really got to lay down deep roots. We will take her to a nice dinner and that will be just fine. What really hurt my heart for her though was that she started making a wish list for her dorm mainly and looked at me earlier, started laughing and said | actually don't know why I'm even making this - I have no one to send it to. I know she laughed about it but I could tell it bothered her a little given that all her friends are telling her about everything the are getting in the mail already. And then she cried. Real tears. This child hardly ever cries and it's not something I'm used to. She will get what she needs but I think to her, half the fun of this is just getting surprise "gifts" and just feeling "loved" because someone thought of her. Everything is so emotional right now with all these big chnages and her feeling "excluded"

It's such a "first world" problem and I am not a "gentle parent" but that shouldn't mean | can't be a little sad for our situation. Thanks for coming to my whining and thank you for any advice

my daughter is graduating from HS on Thursday and all the emotions are driving me crazy. No party because we have literally no family (neither me nor my husband have siblings, his parents passed and mine are in Germany - and they don't understand the American graduations anyways). We really not close with anyone who lives around here - that's fine we can deal and she is kind of used to it anyways.

Ex military family so we never really got to lay down deep roots. We will take her to a nice dinner and that will be just fine. What really hurt my heart for her though was that she started making a wish list for her dorm mainly and looked at me earlier, started laughing and said I actually don't know why I'm even making this - I have no one to send it to. I know she laughed about it but I could tell it bothered her a little given that all her friends are telling her about everything the are getting in the mail already. And then she cried. Real tears. This child hardly ever cries and it's not something I'm used to. She will get what she needs but I think to her, half the fun of this is just getting surprise “gifts" and just feeling "loved" because someone thought of her. Everything is so emotional right now with all these big chnages and her feeling "excluded".

It's such a "first world" problem and I am not a "gentle parent" but that shouldn't mean I can't be a little sad for our situation. Thanks for coming to my whining and thank you for any advice.

my daughter is graduating from HS on Thursday and all the emotions are driving me crazy. No party because we have literally no family (neith, me nor my husband have siblings, his parents passed and mine are in Germany - and they don't understand the American graduations anyways). We really not close with anyone who lives around here - that's fine we can deal and she is kind of used to it anyways. Ex military family so we never really got to lay down deep roots. We will take her to a nice dinner and that will be just fine. What really hurt my heart for her though was that she started making a wish list for her dorm mainly and looked at me earlier, started laughing and said I actually don't know why I'm even making this - I have no one to send it to. I know she laughed about it but I could tell it bothered her a little given that all her friends are telling her about everything the are getting in the mail already. And then she cried. Real tears. This child hardly ever cries and it's not something I'm used to. She will get what she needs but I think to her, half the fun of this is just getting surprise “gifts" and just feeling "loved" because someone thought of her. Everything is so emotional right now with all these big chnages and her feeling "excluded"

It's such a "first world" problem and I am not a "gentle parent" but that shouldn't mean I can't be a little sad for our situation. Never mind the fact that she is leaving in August. Thanks for coming to my whining and thank you for any advice

my daughter is graduating from HS on Thursday. And all the emotions are driving me crazy. No gr party because we have literally no family (neith, me nor my husband have siblings, his parents passed and mine are in Germany - and they don't understand the American graduations anyways). We really not close with anyone who lives around here - that's fine we can deal and she is kind of used to it anyways. Ex military family so we never really got to lay down deep roots. We will take her to a nice dinner and that will be just fine. What really hurt my heart for her though was that she started making a wish list for her dorm mainly and looked at me earlier, started laughing and said I actually don't know why I'm even making this - I have no one to send it to. I know she laughed about it but I could tell it bothered her a little given that all her friends are telling her about everything the are getting in the mail already. And then she cried. Real tears. This child hardly ever cries and it's not something I'm used to. She will get what she needs but I think to her, half the fun of this is just getting surprise "gifts" and just feeling "loved" because someone thought of her. Everything is so emotional right now with all these big chnages and her feeling "excluded" It's such a "first world" problem and I am not a "gentle parent" but that shouldn't mean I can't be a little sad for our situation. Thanks for coming to my whining and thank you for any advice

my daughter is graduating from HS on Thursday. And all the emotions are driving me crazy. No gr party because we have literally no family (neith, me nor my husband have siblings, his parents passed and mine are in Germany - and they don't understand the American graduations anyways). We really not close with anyone who lives around here - that's fine we can deal and she is kind of used to it anyways. Ex military family so we never really got to lay down deep roots. We will take her to a nice dinner and that will be just fine. What really hurt my heart for her though was that she started making a wish list for her dorm mainly and looked at me earlier, started laughing and said I actually don't know why I'm even making this - I have no one to send it to. I know she laughed about it but I could tell it bothered her a little given that all her friends are telling her about everything the are getting in the mail already. And then she cried. Real tears. This child hardly ever cries and it's not something I'm used to. She will get what she needs but I think to her, half the fun of this is just getting surprise "gifts" and just feeling "loved" because someone thought of her. Everything is so emotional right now with all these big chnages and her feeling "excluded" It's such a "first world" problem and I am not a "gentle parent" but that shouldn't mean I can't be a little sad for our situation. Thanks for coming to my whining and thank you for any advice

my daughter is graduating from HS on Thursday. And all the emotions are driving me crazy. No grad party because we have literally no family (neither me nor my husband have siblings, his parents passed and mine are in Germany - and they don’t understand the American graduations anyways). We really not close with anyone who lives around here - that’s fine we can deal and she is kind of used to it anyways. Ex military family so we never really got to lay down deep roots. We will take her to a nice dinner and that will be just fine.

What really hurt my heart for her though was that she started making a wish list for her dorm mainly and looked at me earlier, started laughing and said I actually don’t know why I’m even making this - I have no one to send it to. I know she laughed about it but I could tell it bothered her a little given that all her friends are telling her about everything the are getting in the mail already. And then she cried. Real tears. This child hardly ever cries and it’s not something I’m used to.

She will get what she needs but I think to her, half the fun of this is just getting surprise “gifts” and just feeling “loved” because someone thought of her.

Everything is so emotional right now with all these big chnages and her feeling “excluded”

It’s such a “first world” problem and I am not a “gentle parent“ but that shouldn’t mean I can’t be a little sad for our situation. Thanks for coming to my whining and thank you for any advice 🫣

I have a 2015 Ford Explorer in which the AC went out. My mechanic tells me I need the part mentioned above which he’s saying he can’t find anywhere.

How is that possible?

Any advice?