Tell all Tuesday

[mrscatfarmer13]

Here's to hoping it isn't too soggy today. 

[mominthemaking14]

Present running super late today. How was your first day @mrscatfarmer?

[JoBub]

Present. Feeling good about my mom-ing abilities. Temporary solo parenting is so empowering. LOL My major accomplishment was making it to work on time.

Reality check: My inlaws are coming today. They're going to try to pick up Bub from DC (well, I have doubts about the car seat situation, but that's another story) and they'll probably get to the house before me. I left a huge basket of Bub's laundry in the living room so MIL will see it and fold it for me. There's a frozen lasagna thawing in the fridge for dinner and she'll probably start that for me too.

[becole]

JoBub I need your mil. Even with H around.
I got up at 5 with babe and never did go back to sleep. He's got a cough and cold and I don't know whether to take him to the doctor or just wait it out. I don't know there's much they'll do for him but I feel bad he's so little.

[mominthemaking14]

Feb 7, 2017 9:24:31 GMT -5 becole said:

JoBub I need your mil. Even with H around.
I got up at 5 with babe and never did go back to sleep. He's got a cough and cold and I don't know whether to take him to the doctor or just wait it out. I don't know there's much they'll do for him but I feel bad he's so little.

Have you done Zarbees ? I swear they let A take that when she was 3 months. I hope he feels better soon. 


JoBub, your inlaws sound like a dream, are they retired? I want our parents to retire ASAP so we can have on demand assistance lol

[sstwinklinglites]

Present. Eating a Pop Tart. Breakfast of champions.

[dogmama22]

I'm going to try to stay off today. Trying to wrap up final cleaning and some more packing. I broke down and hired someone to clean our house after we get our stuff out and before we hand over the keys. Giant weight lifted.

[vlagroupie]

Feb 7, 2017 10:06:37 GMT -5 dogmama22 said:

I'm going to try to stay off today. Trying to wrap up final cleaning and some more packing. I broke down and hired someone to clean our house after we get our stuff out and before we hand over the keys. Giant weight lifted.

So worth it. Did you hire them to clean the new place before you move in?

[vlagroupie]

I'm here and actually rested. Once we finally got the baby down (1.5-2 hr ordeal) she slept 5 hrs. So thank god for that. But this fussy period needs to fuck off, I think we are in the middle of the first leap.

[JoBub]

Feb 7, 2017 9:58:09 GMT -5 mominthemaking14 said:

Feb 7, 2017 9:24:31 GMT -5 becole said:

JoBub I need your mil. Even with H around.
I got up at 5 with babe and never did go back to sleep. He's got a cough and cold and I don't know whether to take him to the doctor or just wait it out. I don't know there's much they'll do for him but I feel bad he's so little.

Have you done Zarbees ? I swear they let A take that when she was 3 months. I hope he feels better soon. 


JoBub , your inlaws sound like a dream, are they retired? I want our parents to retire ASAP so we can have on demand assistance lol

Yeah, my FIL just retired last year. MIL is a nurse and just worked in his office here and there to cover for vacations and stuff, so she pretty much retired at the same time as him. They live 5 hours away, but are willing to come visit any time we ask, so it's pretty much the perfect situation.

I mean, they're a little nuts, but not in an offensive way. Like FIL will "fix" things in our house that don't need to be fixed, and sometimes it's not appreciated. So I made sure there's a to-do list hanging in the kitchen where he'll see things that I actually want done and won't try to do anything crazy. And I'm sure he'll have something to say about the Volvo. It's still at the dealership and we haven't heard anything about it, but ILs are going to try to go there and get the car seat out so they can pick up Bub today, so I'm sure I'll hear all about it when I get home. Spoiler: no matter what the problem is, FIL's plan will include driving this POS car for 5 more years.

[vlagroupie]

Feb 7, 2017 10:05:59 GMT -5 sstwinklinglites said:

Present. Eating a Pop Tart. Breakfast of champions.

What flavor? I like the unfrosted brown sugar ones but they are hard to find.

[JoBub]

Feb 7, 2017 10:10:06 GMT -5 vlagroupie said:

Feb 7, 2017 10:06:37 GMT -5 dogmama22 said:

I'm going to try to stay off today. Trying to wrap up final cleaning and some more packing. I broke down and hired someone to clean our house after we get our stuff out and before we hand over the keys. Giant weight lifted.

So worth it. Did you hire them to clean the new place before you move in?

This. When we walked through, I thought the new place looked great, and it didn't seem necessary to clean before we moved in. I regret that decision. 

[JoBub]

Adventures in Korea:

[sstwinklinglites]

Feb 7, 2017 10:15:06 GMT -5 vlagroupie said:

Feb 7, 2017 10:05:59 GMT -5 sstwinklinglites said:

Present. Eating a Pop Tart. Breakfast of champions.

What flavor? I like the unfrosted brown sugar ones but they are hard to find.

The only one I eat is the S'mores one. I won't say no to another flavor if it's all there's in the house, but I don't buy other flavors anyway.

[becole]

That text thread is cracking me up. Keep it coming Mr jobub

[dogmama22]

vlagroupie and JoBub I keep going back and forth. Right now I have them scheduled to clean our current house. I'm pretty sure our new house was professionally cleaned before we bought it, but I keep forgetting to look closely when we get quotes for things. I think I'll text my realtor and have her ask. If not, I'll probably schedule for that house too. My boss just had this company do her new house and they're pretty cheap.

[JoBub]

Feb 7, 2017 10:35:49 GMT -5 becole said:

That text thread is cracking me up. Keep it coming Mr jobub

It's currently almost 1am Wednesday morning there. So I we just get to text a little in the morning when he's about to go to bed, and in the evening before he goes to work. So I'll probably have more stories tomorrow.

[JoBub]

Feb 7, 2017 10:42:56 GMT -5 dogmama22 said:

vlagroupie and JoBub I keep going back and forth. Right now I have them scheduled to clean our current house. I'm pretty sure our new house was professionally cleaned before we bought it, but I keep forgetting to look closely when we get quotes for things. I think I'll text my realtor and have her ask. If not, I'll probably schedule for that house too. My boss just had this company do her new house and they're pretty cheap.

Things I wish had been done before we moved in are cleaning the walls, floor boards, in+outside kitchen cabinets, clean the oven. These are all things I don't think a typical cleaning company would do unless you specifically asked. But you're painting before you move in, so that will take care of some of it also.

[sstwinklinglites]

vlagroupie - When you ordered your pump did you have to call MedSource to work out the details? I just got an email saying your reps name is so and so and you can reach her at such number. I'm like, uhhh... isn't it your job to do the legwork and get back to me?

[lindsay]

LOL at the texts JoBub

sstwinklinglites yessss to smores pop tarts!

Anyone up for some bachelor chatter?

I'm not feeling nick, his relationships with the girls, or many of the girls. No one is sticking out like THE front runner. I think he has good chemistry with maybe 3, but he is so...weird. You'd think letting 3 girls go last night would have ultimately been a relief so he could focus on the remaining girls, esp since he wasn't really feeling it with those 3... so why the tears.

And why the tears during volleyball?!? Srsly all the girls were emotional. I felt like I missed something that happened.

And he needs to let Corinne go.

[lindsay]

What pump is everyone going with? Or went with recently vlagroupie becole bazingaa ?

I'm thinking spectra S2. I have the freemie as an option too. There were 2 others available that are considered hospital grade, the names were ones I've really heard before...

[chrispy1122]

Love smores pop tarts. I ate them all the time when I was pregnant until I failed the glucose test.

JoBub your texts with H cracked me up. Korea is pretty industrialized and I'm sure the people your H is eorjingn with have worked with Americans before, but Koreans are always really impressed with how tall Americans are. And always comment if they're handsome.

Maybe when we do wine night at my house I can make something Korean to go with our usual snacks and wine (aka ask my mom to make it for me).

[vlagroupie]

Feb 7, 2017 11:12:31 GMT -5 sstwinklinglites said:

vlagroupie - When you ordered your pump did you have to call MedSource to work out the details? I just got an email saying your reps name is so and so and you can reach her at such number. I'm like, uhhh... isn't it your job to do the legwork and get back to me?

Medsource reached out to me via email. Did blue cocoon send you that email? When medsource contacted me I was like huh, so I called bc to make sure that is who I was supposed to talk with, I didn't want to be giving my insurance info to some random company.

[vlagroupie]

Feb 7, 2017 11:19:20 GMT -5 lindsay said:

What pump is everyone going with? Or went with recently vlagroupie becole bazingaa ?

I'm thinking spectra S2. I have the freemie as an option too. There were 2 others available that are considered hospital grade, the names were ones I've really heard before...

I went with the spectra, I've only heard good things about it and I've been happy so far.

[JoBub]

Feb 7, 2017 11:17:29 GMT -5 lindsay said:

LOL at the texts JoBub

sstwinklinglites yessss to smores pop tarts!

Anyone up for some bachelor chatter?

I'm not feeling nick, his relationships with the girls, or many of the girls. No one is sticking out like THE front runner. I think he has good chemistry with maybe 3, but he is so...weird. You'd think letting 3 girls go last night would have ultimately been a relief so he could focus on the remaining girls, esp since he wasn't really feeling it with those 3... so why the tears.

And why the tears during volleyball?!? Srsly all the girls were emotional. I felt like I missed something that happened.

And he needs to let Corinne go.

I didn't watch last night's episode yet, but I'm very annoyed with this season also. I didn't hate Nick after BIP, but I feel like he's very blah as the Bachelor. All the girls I like I feel like are too good for him. I think he needs to end up with Corinne even though she's awful.

[chrispy1122]

H is seriously killing me with this tiling project. He really hates doing it. On Friday the kids wanted to sleep at my mom's house, so I was like okay good let's tile for a few hours. His excuse was that it was after 8 pm. I guilted him into tiling for a few hours with me. Then Sunday morning when he got up early to work out I had him mix the thin set for me so I could tile before the kids got up. Then last night I had to force him again. Then I look over because we were working on opposite sides and he has the thinset all gooped everywhere, so I had to go clean all of it out of the cracks. I've gotten to the point where I don't really want him to lay any more tile, but just mix.

[sstwinklinglites]

Feb 7, 2017 11:27:17 GMT -5 vlagroupie said:

Feb 7, 2017 11:12:31 GMT -5 sstwinklinglites said:

vlagroupie - When you ordered your pump did you have to call MedSource to work out the details? I just got an email saying your reps name is so and so and you can reach her at such number. I'm like, uhhh... isn't it your job to do the legwork and get back to me?

Medsource reached out to me via email. Did blue cocoon send you that email? When medsource contacted me I was like huh, so I called bc to make sure that is who I was supposed to talk with, I didn't want to be giving my insurance info to some random company.

I received a confirmation email from Blue Cocoon, then one from someone at MedSource asking if I was interested in moving forward with the process. I said yes and didn't hear back for a week. So I emailed her again today to follow - up, and she was like, oh this is the name of your rep, call her.

Def. not impressed with them so far. My OB's office also offers this service, I might just go with them instead.

[vlagroupie]

chrispy1122 that is why I hire everything out. Kudos to you for tackling that project, it would be a big no for me and I know mh would royally screw it up.

[vlagroupie]

Feb 7, 2017 11:42:40 GMT -5 sstwinklinglites said:

Feb 7, 2017 11:27:17 GMT -5 vlagroupie said:

Medsource reached out to me via email. Did blue cocoon send you that email? When medsource contacted me I was like huh, so I called bc to make sure that is who I was supposed to talk with, I didn't want to be giving my insurance info to some random company.

I received a confirmation email from Blue Cocoon, then one from someone at MedSource asking if I was interested in moving forward with the process. I said yes and didn't hear back for a week. So I emailed her again today to follow - up, and she was like, oh this is the name of your rep, call her.

Def. not impressed with them so far. My OB's office also offers this service, I might just go with them instead.

Oh that is weird. I was a little confused by the process. I thought bc would be the one I was contact with so that's why I surprised to get an email from medsource and not them. Yeah maybe go with your ob office instead.

[JoBub]

Feb 7, 2017 11:39:08 GMT -5 chrispy1122 said:

H is seriously killing me with this tiling project. He really hates doing it. On Friday the kids wanted to sleep at my mom's house, so I was like okay good let's tile for a few hours. His excuse was that it was after 8 pm. I guilted him into tiling for a few hours with me. Then Sunday morning when he got up early to work out I had him mix the thin set for me so I could tile before the kids got up. Then last night I had to force him again. Then I look over because we were working on opposite sides and he has the thinset all gooped everywhere, so I had to go clean all of it out of the cracks. I've gotten to the point where I don't really want him to lay any more tile, but just mix.

This is me and my H with home improvement projects. I would much rather do things myself than deal with his grouchy pants if he's going to help. He's great at helping with small tasks while I do it like "hey can you open/mix/lift this, or run downstairs and grab something I forgot" but he doesn't have the patience to do big tedious repetitive projects, and I kind of enjoy that type of thing so I just do it myself.