DS pointed to the loft hatch yesterday and said "that's daddy's secret house". Wee boy ratted his dad out on how much time he's been spending hiding in the loft. Today, the secret is no more...
He was up there skulking about while I took the kids to soft play. Most mum's look forward to coming home to tea on the table or the washing started.
Nope - not me.
Is this like National Lampoons?
My life is the National Lampoons.
Apparently he tripped, lost his footing, slipped off the floored part and went right through the bathroom ceiling.
My favourite part is our new right angled light shade!!
lulu - I'm so confused as to what happened there. Your H hides in the attack?
Well, DS seemed to know all about daddy's secret house!
It's his Harry Potter room of requirement for hiding from our chaotic feral children. I've found him out.
He goes up there allegedly to store stuff, feret about looking for lost things and recently to fuck about with wires.
Now - he's severely colour blind and not allowed to touch electrics on his oil rig because he doesn't know which wires are live, earth, neutral etc. He doesn't know what colours lights might be flashing etc.
So, two legs dangling through my bathroom ceiling may be the least of my worries once he's blown himself up.
This asshole sitting next to me at the bar right now just made a comment to his bud making fun of me for taking a picture of my weird tater tots... and now he's talking about idolizing guy fiery (dbag with frosted tips and backwards sunglasses on his head).... yeah maybe he shouldn't judge me
This asshole sitting next to me at the bar right now just made a comment to his bud making fun of me for taking a picture of my weird tater tots... and now he's talking about idolizing guy fiery (dbag with frosted tips and backwards sunglasses on his head).... yeah maybe he shouldn't judge me
Ask him if you can take his picture because you decided a picture of tater totals was too boring to post online but a picture of a douche bag is much more entertaining.
Trying to find a new place to live has become so frustrating. Looked at one place but someone already put an application in so we didn't get it, found another and on our way to tour got an email saying it has been rented, setup a tour for another and apparently it isn't ready yet so that tour got cancelled. I just want to move into a bigger place away from my crazy upstairs neighbor!! 😫
This asshole sitting next to me at the bar right now just made a comment to his bud making fun of me for taking a picture of my weird tater tots... and now he's talking about idolizing guy fiery (dbag with frosted tips and backwards sunglasses on his head).... yeah maybe he shouldn't judge me
Can we see the tots? (Insert Napoleon Dynamite gif)
Straight from Snap chat. Also it was definitely a hipster place. My bill was literally a piece of wood with the receipt held on my a rubber band. Oh and the tots were amazing. Just very odd shaped and not what I was expecting ha.
I have come to the realization that tattling is human nature. All those people worried about their kid being an only child? Not to worry.
Peyton keeps telling me that "Cleo isn't listening Mommy!" "Cleo isn't eating her dinner!" "Cleo pushed me!"
Insert eye roll 🙄. She clearly can't help herself and just has to complain lol
Literally anything that happens in our house is our poor dogs fault. She trips and falls, Bella did it. Her toys are everywhere, Bella did it. Bella's not in bed so she doesn't have to go. The eye rolls are frequent here too.
I can't believe how much this baby eats. For breakfast, he ate at least 2 scrambled eggs (made 4 and he had more than half) and a whole banana. Now giving him cheerios. This seems like a lot but maybe I'm just used to my older child who barely eats.
I'm so mad at FIL. First, he tells DH that he may or may not come to DS's birthday party. Then wants us to drive him to our niece's birthday party in June. FIL lives 100 miles away and our niece's party is 3 hours away in a different directions so it'd mean at least 3 hours of driving out of our way. Um, no. His reason is basically he doesn't feel like driving. He won't really appreciate it and there will be no offer to pay for gas. DH is actually entertaining the idea. I've pretty much said I'm not going. I was on the fence because it's too far to drive there and back in one day and there will be no where to stay because all of SIL's family will be staying at their house and the closest hotel is 45 minutes away because they live in the middle of nowhere. Now I'm definitely not going. I told DH he could go alone or with his father. I'm sick of the fact that DH doesn't stick up for himself or me when dealing with his parents.
I'm so mad at FIL. First, he tells DH that he may or may not come to DS's birthday party. Then wants us to drive him to our niece's birthday party in June. FIL lives 100 miles away and our niece's party is 3 hours away in a different directions so it'd mean at least 3 hours of driving out of our way. Um, no. His reason is basically he doesn't feel like driving. He won't really appreciate it and there will be no offer to pay for gas. DH is actually entertaining the idea. I've pretty much said I'm not going. I was on the fence because it's too far to drive there and back in one day and there will be no where to stay because all of SIL's family will be staying at their house and the closest hotel is 45 minutes away because they live in the middle of nowhere. Now I'm definitely not going. I told DH he could go alone or with his father. I'm sick of the fact that DH doesn't stick up for himself or me when dealing with his parents.
I would not be driving 3 hours to attend a kids birthday party. Who would expect this!! The world has gone crazy
I'm so mad at FIL. First, he tells DH that he may or may not come to DS's birthday party. Then wants us to drive him to our niece's birthday party in June. FIL lives 100 miles away and our niece's party is 3 hours away in a different directions so it'd mean at least 3 hours of driving out of our way. Um, no. His reason is basically he doesn't feel like driving. He won't really appreciate it and there will be no offer to pay for gas. DH is actually entertaining the idea. I've pretty much said I'm not going. I was on the fence because it's too far to drive there and back in one day and there will be no where to stay because all of SIL's family will be staying at their house and the closest hotel is 45 minutes away because they live in the middle of nowhere. Now I'm definitely not going. I told DH he could go alone or with his father. I'm sick of the fact that DH doesn't stick up for himself or me when dealing with his parents.
I would not be driving 3 hours to attend a kids birthday party. Who would expect this!! The world has gone crazy
It's her sweet 16, but still. I'd do it if we could stay over at their house. They have a good size house but they have 4 kids and her parents and sisters and her sisters' families will be staying over, so about another 12 people. So besides the living room floor, I don't know where we'd be sleeping, which is not acceptable for DS.
I'm so mad at FIL. First, he tells DH that he may or may not come to DS's birthday party. Then wants us to drive him to our niece's birthday party in June. FIL lives 100 miles away and our niece's party is 3 hours away in a different directions so it'd mean at least 3 hours of driving out of our way. Um, no. His reason is basically he doesn't feel like driving. He won't really appreciate it and there will be no offer to pay for gas. DH is actually entertaining the idea. I've pretty much said I'm not going. I was on the fence because it's too far to drive there and back in one day and there will be no where to stay because all of SIL's family will be staying at their house and the closest hotel is 45 minutes away because they live in the middle of nowhere. Now I'm definitely not going. I told DH he could go alone or with his father. I'm sick of the fact that DH doesn't stick up for himself or me when dealing with his parents.
I would not be driving 3 hours to attend a kids birthday party. Who would expect this!! The world has gone crazy
You must not remember my SIL who didn't speak to us for months because we didn't attend a gender reveal 2+ hours away, with a 2 yo.
lrmrtn , I hope you can convince your DH that this is ridiculous. If FIL doesn't want to come that is his choice, if it's too long of a drive for him he could look into taking the bus or train and Uber from station to party. There are options other than DH driving well out of his way to pick up FIL.
DH said he'll do it if FIL comes to DS's party. I still think it's unreasonable. I suggested a meeting point about 1/2 hour away from us and 45 minutes away from FIL that would only add about a half our onto the drive. But I told DH that I'm not going so it's really up to him if he wants to drive 9-10 hours in one day.
Basically if DH doesn't drive him, FIL won't go. He won't entertain public transportation options and I doubt he even knows what Uber is! He's just selfish and lazy.
Post by rainbowsockmonkey on Apr 28, 2017 8:34:44 GMT -5
Dh worked last night and has to work tonight. Since its a school dayand my sitter isn't available, I'm going to drag the girls with me to garage sales this morning.
Hopefully I have more luck with car seats today than I did yesterday.
I would not be driving 3 hours to attend a kids birthday party. Who would expect this!! The world has gone crazy
It's her sweet 16, but still. I'd do it if we could stay over at their house. They have a good size house but they have 4 kids and her parents and sisters and her sisters' families will be staying over, so about another 12 people. So besides the living room floor, I don't know where we'd be sleeping, which is not acceptable for DS.
sweet 16 is such a made up non milestone, i mean what's great about 16, i don't get it? Don't go, feel no guilt
I'm so mad at FIL. First, he tells DH that he may or may not come to DS's birthday party. Then wants us to drive him to our niece's birthday party in June. FIL lives 100 miles away and our niece's party is 3 hours away in a different directions so it'd mean at least 3 hours of driving out of our way. Um, no. His reason is basically he doesn't feel like driving. He won't really appreciate it and there will be no offer to pay for gas. DH is actually entertaining the idea. I've pretty much said I'm not going. I was on the fence because it's too far to drive there and back in one day and there will be no where to stay because all of SIL's family will be staying at their house and the closest hotel is 45 minutes away because they live in the middle of nowhere. Now I'm definitely not going. I told DH he could go alone or with his father. I'm sick of the fact that DH doesn't stick up for himself or me when dealing with his parents.
I would not be driving 3 hours to attend a kids birthday party. Who would expect this!! The world has gone crazy
It is crazy, but I've done it. My Brother doesn't expect it, but I want to see my niece and I know I have to make the effort because of my crazy SIL. I have to drive 2.5 hours one way. I like to see my niece so I don't mind driving that far. We've done it in a day too. So for her birthday we drove to her party. I knew it would be a late night, based on the timing of the party, so we got a hotel room. But it's also in a very large area so it's not driving out of my way to the hotel.
I think the driving lrmrtn is an additional 3 hours out of the way after driving the 100 miles to FIL. I wouldn't do this, unless I could make a weekend of it. And that would determine on funds available for us. Is your FIL incapable of driving? Maybe he could drive to a middle area and then you guys could drive together from there? That way it takes the additional hours out of the drive.
It's her sweet 16, but still. I'd do it if we could stay over at their house. They have a good size house but they have 4 kids and her parents and sisters and her sisters' families will be staying over, so about another 12 people. So besides the living room floor, I don't know where we'd be sleeping, which is not acceptable for DS.
sweet 16 is such a made up non milestone, i mean what's great about 16, i don't get it? Don't go, feel no guilt
Here the big deal is it's when you get your license and get to drive a car alone now. SO it's kind of a big deal. But I haven't heard of a lot of big parties. Just some small gatherings with friends
Post by Susan0utLoud on Apr 28, 2017 9:05:01 GMT -5
I've been to a few quinceanera's for girls turning 15, but these are huge events. Like weddings huge. But just a family party for a 16th bday? I wouldn't think twice about not going if it was a hassle.
Btw, You're all invited to Cot's debut when she turns 18. Culturally it's a big deal.
I would not be driving 3 hours to attend a kids birthday party. Who would expect this!! The world has gone crazy
It is crazy, but I've done it. My Brother doesn't expect it, but I want to see my niece and I know I have to make the effort because of my crazy SIL. I have to drive 2.5 hours one way. I like to see my niece so I don't mind driving that far. We've done it in a day too. So for her birthday we drove to her party. I knew it would be a late night, based on the timing of the party, so we got a hotel room. But it's also in a very large area so it's not driving out of my way to the hotel.
I think the driving lrmrtn is an additional 3 hours out of the way after driving the 100 miles to FIL. I wouldn't do this, unless I could make a weekend of it. And that would determine on funds available for us. Is your FIL incapable of driving? Maybe he could drive to a middle area and then you guys could drive together from there? That way it takes the additional hours out of the drive.
We've done it before too before we had DS. We'd either stay over and suck up sleeping on the living room floor or go there and back in the same day. Neither was great but we did it because we wanted to see them. They have 4 kids now so if we went up for every birthday party, it'd be ridiculous. If we don't go, SIL will understand because of the situation. BIL can be a jerk and will be passive-aggressive, like "no one from my side came, boo hoo" even though my niece won't really care. But they aren't coming down for DS's party. I'm disappointed by that but understand. I just don't like the double standard.
And no, my FIL is not incapable of driving. He just doesn't want to do it. I suggested to DH that they could meet at a certain point. DH said he'll ask. I don't know why he has to ask. DH is the one going out of his way. But I'll let him deal with it.
I don't really want to make a weekend out of it and spend the money. They live in the middle of nowhere NH so there's nothing to do there. The closest hotel is 45 minutes away. Plus FIL would never go for getting a hotel so he'd want to stay at their house which would mean more extra driving.
And for the record, we are seeing them all at the ILs vow renewal in a couple weeks. I'm so looking forward to that...
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