1 pregnancy, 1 DS. Currently pregnant with #2. Very grateful and extremely lucky!

I am living at home because I can't find enough work to move out. I am working part time but it's not enough. I hate this so much and I feel like a complete failure. And I can't stand being around my family all the time. I'm grateful to them but we don't get along well together when forced into the same small space. I am beyond miserable.

I'm so grateful for my husband. He doesn't see the big deal about breastfeeding or extended breastfeeding. "It's just the way babies eat." He's a keeper.

No I am not DH's mother but I mothered his children and for that he is grateful and feels I should be honored every year. What the hell is wrong with that?

Two years ago my husband lost his job and our world was shattered. We lost our home, car and our dreams. We were lucky to have family who took us and our two kids in. Now my husband's been given a business opportunity that could save us. And in one year we could have enough to buy land and a home for us. I'm so scared to get my hopes up, Bad luck has followed me from the day I was born and if I hope and lose again, I don't know if I could withstand it. So I'm going to hide it all, act nonchalant and pray with all my might. If you guys could send up a prayer too I'd be grateful, we need it

I have finals this week. My SIL/BIL took my daughter Sunday night until tomorrow even though they have a one year old and six month old and my daughter is two. MIL just told me today I can do DD's 3rd bday at her house and my grandma said she will pay for catering. I am extremely lucky and grateful for great family.

We have family property, we use it for camping and parties and just to hang out and swim/fish/hike/drink beers. It's a HUGE job to take care of the place. There's no house but there's a pond with a beach and creek, a tiki hut, horseshoe pits, a road, a shed, plots and deer blinds, hiking trails, and a metric shit-ton of gardens and perennial flowerbeds. And holy LAWN to mow! Lordy! I love it there and I'm grateful to have it but it takes a lot of work. A lot.

Because of some recent posts, comments and resulting fighting I want to send out the love to everyone here, both those who are supportive and informative and those who challenge peoples' thoughts and actions. I have learned so much from coming on here, about the world and parenting but more importantly about myself. I am grateful for the help and support I have received from all of you and I am equally grateful for the "tough" comments that I have received that have stung but ultimately made me reflect and, in many cases, change my mind or even my decisions.

Growing up, my parents favored my younger sister over me. It's painfully obvious, even as adults. They took $$ that they saved for my wedding & sent her overseas to study, bought her a car when she was 17 and another car last year. They helped her pay for college. On the other hand, I paid for all of my cars, all of college, and all of my wedding. This has made me a better, more responsible & more grateful person as an adult. But as a parent, I can't believe how brazen they were about playing favorites. I don't resent them for it, but it's still bizarre to me. How could you be so obvious??

Today I was struck by how wonderful it is to have kind women friends. I don't think it's a given or easy. I am really grateful for them.