My H is great at gifts. He always gets me fantastic Christmas presents and I feel so lucky and spoiled. BUT BUT BUT he always leaves for the entire day to do his shopping... leaving me home alone with the kids all day. He left at 10:30 this morning, so I thought he'd be home in time for me to help get dinner ready. Nope. He's not even making it home by dinner time. This, of course, was also the day dd2 took a 20 minute nap and that wouldn't go back down again.
I feel like I want to be all ragey and bitchy when he gets home, but then I feel like that would also kind of ruin Christmas. Blah.
You know my life!! I am so 110% with you on this. I plan way in advance and do as much of my Christmas shopping as I can online... cause 2 kids. H waits till the last minute and has been out the last 2 nights shopping for me. I know he always throws in sitting in a restaurant bar for a nice (kidless) meal and a beer in between stores. It makes me ragey. And last night he got all pissy when I had the gall to ask him when he'd be home. SMH.
I hope DD can at least go to bed early for you? You need a little break!
My H is great at gifts. He always gets me fantastic Christmas presents and I feel so lucky and spoiled. BUT BUT BUT he always leaves for the entire day to do his shopping... leaving me home alone with the kids all day. He left at 10:30 this morning, so I thought he'd be home in time for me to help get dinner ready. Nope. He's not even making it home by dinner time. This, of course, was also the day dd2 took a 20 minute nap and that wouldn't go back down again.
I feel like I want to be all ragey and bitchy when he gets home, but then I feel like that would also kind of ruin Christmas. Blah.
You know my life!! I am so 110% with you on this. I plan way in advance and do as much of my Christmas shopping as I can online... cause 2 kids. H waits till the last minute and has been out the last 2 nights shopping for me. I know he always throws in sitting in a restaurant bar for a nice (kidless) meal and a beer in between stores. It makes me ragey. And last night he got all pissy when I had the gall to ask him when he'd be home. SMH.
I hope DD can at least go to bed early for you? You need a little break!
Ha. She flipped out so hard right in the middle of cooking dinner I had to stop everything and put her down for a nap. She woke up 15 minutes later groggy and pissed. She flipped out some more while I finished prepping dinner... running about 45 minutes late at that point. Then I just now realized I somehow turned the oven off during the chaos... so I'm making dd1 a peanut butter sandwich for dinner.
H is stuck in traffic. And it's SO stressful apparently. I would pay good money to sit in a car all by myself right now.
H and S have been home for all of 10 minutes and I'm already getting pissed off. S is being crazy, we apparently spent too much on Christmas presents so H didn't bring home supper, I have no idea what to make for myself since H and S aren't hungry, and I am just so frustrated.
OMG NellieOleson. Big hugs. So sorry. 😪H owes you big time! That gift better be spectacular!!!
He got home and we totally butted heads. He just cannot conceive of how this is his fault or what the problem is.
Whatever.
I guess the lesson learned here is to just expect this every Christmas/Mother's Day and for me to plan accordingly.
I'm going out to finish my shopping for him tomorrow. I have two stops that will probably take me about 3 hours total... I wish it were going to be longer, but honestly it isn't worth pumping just for payback.
Post by crimsonandclover on Dec 21, 2016 3:09:22 GMT -5
NellieOleson, is one of those two stops someplace that has a little cafe attached (like Target)? If so, then instead of rushing off to the next store or home, sit down, order a hot drink, and sip it while you read a novel or people watch. It is ok to get some me time.
Also, lol to wanting to trade to sit in a traffic jam. I totally get it!!
Another vote for traffic doesn't sound that awful. I use to have 45 minutes to listen to a radio show in peace. Now I can hardly listen to a song in the car in peace.
My day began bright and early, but I'm pretty ok with it. If dh makes going into his new office early a habit I could get use to it. Dd3 woke up at 515 so I nursed her and then dh was leaving at 530ish so I decided to just reheat my two day old cup of coffee (don't be jealous!) and wrote out my to do list for the day. Now I'm puttering through some small tasks and enjoying the quiet. Unfortunately dd1 peed her bed so we had to wake the whole house up and deal with that and now my big girls are sharing a bed so my time is limited We have a play date with our neighbors grandkids today and dd1 has school. It should be a nice day overall. I haven't said lately how thankful I am for all of you. I'm glad we've stuck around and made this a safe place to be real.
As much as I hate mornings I have found the early wake ups to be peaceful. I think I could actually get to like them if I could get uninterrupted sleep before. Poor L and hubs both coughed allllll night long. My two croupy kids. I think L was literally awake every hour all night. Because she couldn't breathe through the stuffed nose or because she was coughing. She is finally sleeping more soundly now. My poor peanut has been sick for over a week hubs is non stop coughing. He is being a big tough boy though.
Post by crimsonandclover on Dec 21, 2016 9:34:09 GMT -5
When I work at the office (as opposed to home) I have to get up at 5am and leave at 6. The kids get up at 6:15. I shower, get dressed, then sit at the table and leisurely eat my breakfast while I catch up on e-mails/facebook or even read a bit. It's heavenly. And then I have a 30 min commute all to myself, and then it's usually another 2 hours until any of the co-workers I share an office with come it. So. Much. Quiet. ::sighs in ecstasy::
S slept until the sun came up on his groclock! M was content to just cuddle in bed for about 45 minutes this morning. I'm shocked and happy, since I think I got about an hour of sleep between 3 and 8 this morning. I swear I wouldn't mind her waking up in the middle of the night if I could drop right back to sleep. On te bright side, I think she's starting to phase out the wake ups. She slept straight through Friday and Saturday nights, got up for about 2 minutes Sunday night, I think Monday was worse, but that's H's night, and last night she was up once.
My schedule for today is: take S to school, finish the stocking I'm working on (I have *maybe* 20 minutes left on it), pick S up, go to my mom's, make a picture frame for my BFF, go look at Christmas lights with my parents and the kids, put the kids to bed, wrap some presents, and hopefully get to bed at a decent time.
Post by silverspoon on Dec 21, 2016 12:20:24 GMT -5
On the radio they reported some statistic about how 80% or so of people are basically checked out of work this week. They might be there, but very little productivity is going on.
Sigh. The very end of the year is finally the time my work starts making big decisions and needing to get rid of lots of money. So much work. Last year I was kind of checked out because I was going to have a baby any day so I just didn't really care.
I want to be with the 80%!
J had his Christmas party at daycare. He does not look thrilled with Santa. I'm sure the cookies they decorated after made up for it.
silverspoon H is part of the 20% that gets way busier. He works at a dairy, so they ship way more this time of year. He's not happy about working this week, but he *should* be off early on Saturday and then he's off until January 4th. Plus they're shipping egg nog, which is heavier than milk, so that sucks for him too.
kelltothekell - my ILs arrive tomorrow. I'm running around like a huge freak all day today! LOL! I also hope that I can relax soon.
Also, I'm in charge of appetizers for Christmas and I've only given it about 30 seconds of thought ... I think I will just do a spinach dip and a hot crab dip.
It's warmed up quite a bit here. Unfortunately that means I'm back to my dilemma of how to haul M to school and back. The snow has almost completely melted off of the sidewalks, but there's still too much on the field for the stroller. My arms almost fell off pulling the sled.
It's warmed up quite a bit here. Unfortunately that means I'm back to my dilemma of how to haul M to school and back. The snow has almost completely melted off of the sidewalks, but there's still too much on the field for the stroller. My arms almost fell off pulling the sled.
It's warmed up quite a bit here. Unfortunately that means I'm back to my dilemma of how to haul M to school and back. The snow has almost completely melted off of the sidewalks, but there's still too much on the field for the stroller. My arms almost fell off pulling the sled.
You still have school there this week?
The 23rd is the last day. I'm pretty sure when I was a kid we had a week before Christmas, and like 10 days after.
My H clearly wants me to kill him. I have eleventy billion things to do. He got pissy when I asked for help. Just little things that took him all of 30 seconds. Apparently I interrupted his oh so important watching of Kevin Smith talking about the new star wars movie
Post by crimsonandclover on Dec 22, 2016 3:48:16 GMT -5
DH is ticking me off. DD3 is getting more mobile, and we need to re-install one of our stair gates except that we're missing a part. I tried to find a replacement, but the company doesn't make that model anymore and they don't have any replacement parts, nor could I find any on e-bay. I told DH I was going to order a new gate. His response, "No, don't do that. It's a really simple part. I'll just make one." ... ... ... DH is not handy. At all. I told him he gets one chance and then I'm ordering a new gate.
kelltothekell I hope you guys feel better soon. It's no fun being sick at the holidays.
14joa31 That reminds me, none of the parties I go to ever have apps. I want some delicious appetizers more than I want a slice of ham or turkey or whatever the main dish is. Next year, I'm bringing apppetizers. Well, I'm going to tell H we're bringing appetizers and he's going to make them.
NellieOleson Schools where I am are finished today or some finished yesterday. H is off as of today. I am not optimistic about my house being as clean as I left it this morning when I get home tonight.
H is working 12 hours today and tomorrow. Today doesn't bug me so much? Since he's going to be gone half the evening anyway for S's Christmas concert, but tomorrow might be rough.
Post by dizzycooks on Dec 22, 2016 13:05:32 GMT -5
I have caught the cleaning bug. My kids have not! I am attacking whatever closet/drawer is closest to me today and the junk is leaving. I would love to be working through an organized list, but I think that's just unrealistic. So far I've filled two trash bags to put in the garbage and a bag to donate. I'd be a happy person if I had no "stuff". That means my house is going to be bare and I'll start fro scratch. So much unneeded, unused, stuff. This is very cathartic!
Post by scorpioscuba on Dec 22, 2016 13:37:40 GMT -5
The other day I did this in the playroom. One entire trash bag of junk out of the house and other things organized better. I feel better about Christmas and having places to put the new toys. I was careful not to get DS "junk" though for Christmas. Puzzles, games, magnaformers etc I can always make room for.
We mostly need to purge our garage. A 5 car garage and it is the biggest mess you've ever seen. Mostly H's junk that hasn't been opened/looked at/used in YEARS.
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