Yep. Massachusetts is pretty hard on people trying to run camps. Tons of agencies requiring the same info on multiple forms. All are paper only… nothing digital. This time it’s 24 pages but one of them needs to be filled and signed by our pediatrician. Highly unlikely this happens by end of day on friday
Imagining the conversation goheels’ kids will have when they are putting him and his wife in a home “pick the one with the least paperwork. It’s what they would want.”
Hahahah. That’s great. I truly don’t mind filling out the paperwork. I’m good at it… im thorough and I get it all done with little anxiety on my part. My wife on the other hand, she can’t fill out a one page form and get it back in a timely manner. She freaks out about it. As a result, I do all the forms for pretty much all of this kinda stuff.
Just did our last year of this and 28 pages isn’t bad. Biggest hold up is generally medical, have to have a physical within x time as well as vaccination records. If you can navigate your primary care, you’ll be good. Still gonna be a few hours though. Also ours finally went fully digital, thanks Covid. Up until that point I think we killed a few forests every year on each child.
I really don’t know why my wife needs to talk to her mother for like half an hour every day. It’s basically my MIL complaining about being retired.
my wife talks to both of her parents atleast 3-5 times a day. She talks to both of them in one day more than I do my parents for an entire month it seems.
poor kid is cooling his heels on the couch all summer because his parents couldn’t fill out the forms
this drives me crazy. Unsure what you can possibly talk about and feels like a lack of independence. Or maturity. If it works for them I suppose.
yessir. I had to hassle the pediatrician's office and then drive 45 min to pick up their part of the form from a satellite office.... no idea why they couldn't securely deliver it, but oh well.
Mother-in-law is scared of her own shadow and worries about everything. Won't drive when it's raining or when it's dark, runs for the basement anytime there's a dark cloud, etc. She's here visiting the kids for the afternoon and says, "do you think the baby has an equilibrium issue? She's pretty wobbly when walking. You know me, I'm a worrier!" Kid is barely a year old.
I said, “she’s a one year old learning how to walk, I’m sure she’s fine.” Then I went downstairs to keep drinking to maintain sanity.
My parents are getting up there in age, I probably call them every other day and exchange a few texts every day. I’m sure that’s viewed as weird but she’s the same way. I normally meet my parents for lunch one day a week too. Now that school is out my wife joins at least until she locks down a non teaching gig.
I call my Mom just about every day on the way to pick up the kids from day care just to chat for a few mins. I used to never talk to my Dad on the phone. 2-3 times a year maybe and usually it was when I needed his help with something. Lately we call each other a lot more. He is going on 2 years sober so I think that has a lot to do with it. That wasn't why I didn't call him before but conversations are 10x more enjoyable than they ever were, on the phone or in person.
My FIL worries about everything as well. Wife sent a picture of our son taking a nap the other morning to her dad. His response “I hope he isn’t getting sick” I’m just like what the fuck, why even throw that out there he’s just taking a nap.
to wit: Me: sending him a photo of the view from my hotel Him: oh I hope it isn’t too expensive OR oh I hope it isn’t in a bad part of town me: discussing the ribs I’m making for dinner him: is that healthy? you know, they say pork and saturated fat could be carcinogenic things enjoyed, ever: 0
This is how my GF’s mom is. Shocked she hasn’t given herself a heart attack or something getting worked up over the weirdest stuff all the time which says a lot coming from me. We’ve been dating 5ish years and the only things I can confidently say she enjoys is treating her adult daughters like they’re still 12 years old and talking about her new grand baby non-stop lol
yup this relationship has been proposed along with its inverse and some pornhub version of it. it’s all very entangled, Lyrtch
Update from this post from February: said mirror that was needed for the master is still leaning against the wall in my office
Wife notifies me at 2am that my parents are coming into town for the weekend and even though they were fine getting a hotel she encouraged them it was fine to stay with us. I may get a hotel for myself.
I bought my first house in late August 2022. Sent my parents the Zillow listing, finished up signing the papers, went and checked out the house, and then called them to tell them I had closed on it (abt 4 hrs later). First interaction- CO Mom: it looks nice. Does it have a garage? CO: no ma'am, it doesn't. (kind of annoyed bc I had sent them the Zillow listing hours earlier and clearly didn't show any sort of garage). CO Mom: oh, well could you add a garage? CO: I mean I guess so but I just bought the house, probably don't need to spend that money right now. CO Mom: that's fair. What about a carport? Does it have one of those with it? CO: Mom, did you look at the listing I sent? It clearly doesn't. CO Mom: well if you don't want the garage, could you add a carport? CO: *frustrated* I don't know Mom. Maybe, I guess. But can we please move on from where my car will be spending it's nights and discuss where I will be spending my nights? After one or two comments abt the house. CO Mom: I looked at the listing and I'm sure you have space for a garage. CO: Mom, I'm not worried abt it! CO Mom: Well it's something you should think about. Mind you, in my entire life, we have never used our garage for anything other than storage. No free space except a walking path through it because so much junk is piled up everywhere.
Not my wife but I’m not sure how my wife shares DNA with this person. This is my SiL car. Granted they are half sisters but this is crazy. 22 years old about to graduate from college.