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Venting about finances

This is just a vent post...not necessarily looking for advice or anything else.

We have been scraping the bottom of the barrel money wise this past week. My husband gets paid tomorrow.
I budgeted out the remainder of our money to buy just enough gas/ food/ other essentials for this weekend.
My husband just got back taking my son to the splash pad, and he accidentally left the baby wipes there. That was our last baby wipes pack (and it was full too!) and we don't have enough gas to go all the way over and back to get the wipes. (In our area, the closest splash pad is 20 minutes away.) We will have to just use moistened burp rags for my son until tomorrow.
I just broke down today because I'm tired of this life.
My dad has been working with us on budgeting this past year (which I'm really grateful for), and he keeps telling me that we're spending too much money on groceries. The thing is, my son has autism and is extremely picky. I struggle to get him to eat anything, and he throws food a lot from his high chair.
It's hard to see my siblings talk about their trips to Hawaii and Europe coming up this year, knowing that my family can barely afford food and gas.
I just wish I could live a normal life and go to the grocery store without having to check my bank account to see if I'll have enough, and go on a small vacation once in a while.
I wish I could afford a membership at Mountainside fitness, so that I could have some childcare while I work out. I am a stay at home mom, feeling very worn out.
My husband works full time, and I work part time while taking care of my son.
I want to go back to work till time, but my son is very high needs.
Anyway, just needed a safe space to vent. Life sucks sometimes. I try to have hope that things will it would get better, but I don't see them improving any time soon.

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Ughhh

I am so overwhelmed!! My baby isn’t sleeping and I’ve got a raging headache and all this legal stuff is making me feel irritated and I just want to cry.
I absolutely hate the idea of letting him just cry while I take 5 seconds

I really hate to come out here and tell my business about what’s going on with my life in my kids, but I had no choice

I just came back from a parent teachers conference meeting and they telling me that my second daughter, who just turned eight about a week ago that she barely know how to read and she has speech problems… I already feel like shit because it’s not that I’m doing my job. It’s because I worked a lot, and and every time, me and my first oldest daughter, trying to teach you how to read, she gets insecure and thinking that we making fun of her, but we’re not!! I felt like a shitty mother I don’t know what to do.

Nursery

What's people's thoughts on nursery? Is it better to choose somewhere closer to where you live or better to choose somewhere in the middle for different people that may be picking baby up? We've just started looking and just don't know which is better

Am I overthinking this ?

Am I wrong for feeling some kind of way from my husband wanting to put my 2 yo daughter in daycare he always brings it up. But mind you I’m a stay at home mom. And my daughter does learn now she’s not getting no 3-4hr learning session but the thing is she knows all her alphabets, she knows her numbers from 1-20, and she knows a good amount of animals, and she even knows a few sign language that she caught on from Mrs. Rachelle at 1 yo ! She’s very smart and picks up on alot of words pretty fast. But knowing my daughter she doesn’t have a long attention span so I do what I know how she’ll learn best, she learn through music, we watch videos, and I physically show her and question her. But sometimes I feel offended when he brings up she should be in daycare around other kids learning as if I’m not with her everyday .

My mil is the reason I see my husband as less of a man

LA little back story, my mil got a new bf last year and a month into dating they insisted he be called grandpa. Fast forward to a few months ago mother-in-law and her boyfriend‘s behavior has turned nasty after father-in-law has come back into the picture. After mother-in-law and her boyfriend’s behavior at family events, such as my son’s baptism, my Christmas party and my father’s Christmas party, I told my husband to tell his mom that her boyfriend is no longer to be called Grandpa. fast-forward three months and he still hasn’t told her because he doesn’t want to upset her feelings. Now her bf wants to bring his son over to my house to meet my kids or his “grandkids” and they didn’t ask my opinion. I told my husband how I feel about it and he’s not telling her no because he doesn’t want to upset her. I’m starting to see my husband as less of a man because of his mom and putter her above me.

Am I over reacting? What should I do?

Correcting eating with hands?

My 1yo eats with utensils perfectly fine, my 3yo is capable of doing it too but doesn't like to and prefers to use her hands. I don't know how to correct this at home without it sounding lowkey like nonsense. We have finger foods, other cultures eat "messy" foods with their hands, we teach to eat until your tummy feels comfortable so idk how to explain that even tho eating with her hands is the most comfortable that she isn't supposed to?? Because even as an adult I don't see a problem with it unless it'd be disrespectful to the chef/host 😅 Do I just say we need to practice at home just in case a future chef/host would be offended by it? 😭