I have been back to work for a week now and have done so very little actual work. I have mostly just taken advantage of having more time to myself and drank eleventy cups of tea a day.
I have been back to work for a week now and have done so very little actual work. I have mostly just taken advantage of having more time to myself and drank eleventy cups of tea a day.
This is what I'm most looking forward to for going back to work. Hot beverages, hot food, and well, mostly those two things, lol.
I wish I could relax with coffee at work! We technically aren't allowed to have hot drinks in our classrooms, but our principal usually lets a morning up of coffee slide. If I do manage to get a cup at work it's usually gone in one gulp. I have to teach other people's kids, so not much down time there. I do love my job though - minimal interaction with adults. Yea please!
Post by housecarder on Sept 23, 2016 7:57:15 GMT -5
Random: The couple who adopted our embryos is thawing and transferring two today if they both make it. I am beyond excited for them.
FFFC: I am having some feels about it all. I don't want our girls to be our last, but I know I can't handle doing another pregnancy. H and I both agree that letting them be adopted was the best choice for us, but we look at the girls and want more and that's hard.
Random: The couple who adopted our embryos is thawing and transferring two today if they both make it. I am beyond excited for them.
FFFC: I am having some feels about it all. I don't want our girls to be our last, but I know I can't handle doing another pregnancy. H and I both agree that letting them be adopted was the best choice for us, but we look at the girls and want more and that's hard.
Ahh!!!!! That is so exciting housecarder!!! Totally understand you having all the emotions!!
Post by sarcaztic10 on Sept 23, 2016 8:40:59 GMT -5
I placed my order for an Instant Pot today and it should be here next week. I have thought about it over and over and once I go back to work I will have almost zero time to cook healthy meals during the week and since I will be gone about 11 hours a day the slow cooker won't work for most things. So I think I will be relying on the instant pot.
I placed my order for an Instant Pot today and it should be here next week. I have thought about it over and over and once I go back to work I will have almost zero time to cook healthy meals during the week and since I will be gone about 11 hours a day the slow cooker won't work for most things. So I think I will be relying on the instant pot.
I placed my order for an Instant Pot today and it should be here next week. I have thought about it over and over and once I go back to work I will have almost zero time to cook healthy meals during the week and since I will be gone about 11 hours a day the slow cooker won't work for most things. So I think I will be relying on the instant pot.
I have a friend who has one and RAVES about it. I will buy one once we renovate our kitchen and have more room.
Post by ellebelle on Sept 23, 2016 10:02:59 GMT -5
Hugs housecarder. I totally understand the feels. I have a feeling I will be paying our cryo bill until eternity because I just can't say I'm done even though we're 99.9% sure we're done. It's just so hard to close that door officially. Hope that the transfer goes smoothly for them and they stick!
Hugs housecarder. I totally understand the feels. I have a feeling I will be paying our cryo bill until eternity because I just can't say I'm done even though we're 99.9% sure we're done. It's just so hard to close that door officially. Hope that the transfer goes smoothly for them and they stick!
This! Before transferring A, we were thoroughly thinking if we had a successful pregnancy we'd be OAD (lots of factors there), but part of me is scared that we might change our minds after the "door closes," however that door is closed, whether they'd be donated or otherwise. I've been lamenting over how I'll never be pregnant again, never have an itsy bitsy shiny new newborn, am I going to resent not having a girl, or giving a sibling to A. And I don't have it in me to do another retrieval after the truly awful, and life threatening reaction I had, so these frozen embies are our only shot.
Hoping cat's transfer goes awesome and is successful!! I've been thinking about her all morning.
Post by housecarder on Sept 23, 2016 11:13:55 GMT -5
So H started in a new area at work and was speaking to a lady he sits by. Her daughter goes to the expensive daycare next to the facility that DS used to go to. We pulled him from there to put him in that in home care that was spanking him before the preschool he's in now. He was telling her about that in home place and it turns out that this lady had her daughter there too, until she caught the lady yelling at her 2 month old and she kept breaking out in bad diaper rashes from not being changed. I'm so glad we didn't ignore my son and put the girls there too.
I placed my order for an Instant Pot today and it should be here next week. I have thought about it over and over and once I go back to work I will have almost zero time to cook healthy meals during the week and since I will be gone about 11 hours a day the slow cooker won't work for most things. So I think I will be relying on the instant pot.
please share your review after a couple of meals!
I will! I think my first meal in the IP will be ribs and then I may try a meatloaf recipe and a pasta recipe
I officially quit my job. I'm so glad I did not have to do it in person because the tears were flowing when I told my boss over the phone.
I am thankful to have the choice to SAH but I'd been at my job 8 years and will miss so many of my coworkers. It was also part of my identity and it's hard to lose that.
But a SAHM friend and I hung out at a coffee shop this morning sipping lattes and eating scones, so that part was pretty awesome
Post by melody330 on Sept 23, 2016 13:03:15 GMT -5
housecarder that sounds terrifying. One of the reasons we didn't look into in home day cares was my fear of that happening. I know it's not typical, but I wouldn't be able to let it go. We love our DC center. I'm the only one of my working mom friends who uses a center and not an in home place.
housecarder that sounds terrifying. One of the reasons we didn't look into in home day cares was my fear of that happening. I know it's not typical, but I wouldn't be able to let it go. We love our DC center. I'm the only one of my working mom friends who uses a center and not an in home place.
This is me too. I know stuff can still happen, but feel like there's more accountability in a centre. Plus the teachers get breaks and prep time, and as a teacher myself, I know how important that is!
housecarder I'm so glad you listened to your son and got him out of there! I'm sorry he had to go through that.
Post by rungirlrun on Sept 23, 2016 15:50:46 GMT -5
Good luck finding your new normal katelou. Being a SAHM is a nice perk but also super hard, exhausting, and can be lonely. My best piece of advice is to find a moms group where you not only have similar aged kids but you also like the moms and you get each other. Both having kids can't be the only thing you have in common. And get out of the house everyday. It will save your sanity.
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