DD had been sick for over a week. Congestion and low grade fever. She has been pulling at her ear again so I'm thinking she going to need to get checked. She is also refusing to eat poor kid. This week is a busy one for me. I'm in the middle of a transition with a new person on my team. I am hoping things go well :/ I also have 100000 birthdays in April. People in my life must get real busy in July! Anyone else have months of the year like this?
DD had been sick for over a week. Congestion and low grade fever. She has been pulling at her ear again so I'm thinking she going to need to get checked. She is also refusing to eat poor kid. This week is a busy one for me. I'm in the middle of a transition with a new person on my team. I am hoping things go well :/ I also have 100000 birthdays in April. People in my life must get real busy in July! Anyone else have months of the year like this?
DD had been sick for over a week. Congestion and low grade fever. She has been pulling at her ear again so I'm thinking she going to need to get checked. She is also refusing to eat poor kid. This week is a busy one for me. I'm in the middle of a transition with a new person on my team. I am hoping things go well :/ I also have 100000 birthdays in April. People in my life must get real busy in July! Anyone else have months of the year like this?
DD had been sick for over a week. Congestion and low grade fever. She has been pulling at her ear again so I'm thinking she going to need to get checked. She is also refusing to eat poor kid. This week is a busy one for me. I'm in the middle of a transition with a new person on my team. I am hoping things go well :/ I also have 100000 birthdays in April. People in my life must get real busy in July! Anyone else have months of the year like this?
November is the busy birthday time in our family. Add in Thanksgiving and that 's a lot of family togetherness.
Post by silverspoon on Apr 3, 2017 11:38:42 GMT -5
I've been seeing podcasts mentioned a lot lately and after the thread on Parenting I decided to give Stown a try. I'm addicted. I "take a walk" on the elliptical and listen to the podcast. It's actually kind of relaxing. I'm going to break out my coloring books that I haven't touched in months and try that after J goes to bed. I'm hoping it helps me sleep better at night.
Speaking of J. He's been waking up consistently an hour earlier than he used. I'm wondering if maybe we need to try a different bedtime or maybe this is just our new normal. It's not bad on the weekends, but during the week he used to sleep through my getting ready time and now he's awake.
DD had been sick for over a week. Congestion and low grade fever. She has been pulling at her ear again so I'm thinking she going to need to get checked. She is also refusing to eat poor kid. This week is a busy one for me. I'm in the middle of a transition with a new person on my team. I am hoping things go well :/ I also have 100000 birthdays in April. People in my life must get real busy in July! Anyone else have months of the year like this?
February for us. I've come to the conclusion everyone in my hometown gets busy in May. In fact, I'm pretty sure there was a big storm or something the year my mom got pregnant with me, because there were 4 babies born on my birthday, in a town of about 5000 people.
It snowed this morning. Have I mentioned how much I hate our weather? It probably won't stick for more than a couple of days but still. It sucks. I'm pretty sure M is teething. Gross poops, cranky, fussy, clingy. Fun times. Apparently she wouldn't even let H change her diaper this morning because she just wanted to cuddle and whenever he tried to move her she cried.
Post by scorpioscuba on Apr 3, 2017 13:23:35 GMT -5
S Town was awesome silverspoon. I love podcasts and listen to them often!
I didn't comment in the thread but the TW thread on Parenting that was posted over the weekend is haunting me. I have so many thoughts on the matter but don't want to bring this thread down. And it's not productive to post over there. What I do want to say is that this community is amazing.
Post by scorpioscuba on Apr 3, 2017 13:26:37 GMT -5
I cannot believe it is April already. And my allergies are like through the roof. I literally cannot breathe. I think I need to finally go to an ENT and get this shit figured out.
Dropped S off at school, went to my mom's office to print something out, and headed home to put M down for a nap, and got a call from S's school. Can you come get him? He's throwing up. So now he's on the couch watching cartoons and sad that he had to leave school. Poor guy.
Post by NellieOleson on Apr 3, 2017 17:16:37 GMT -5
.... and we didn't get the house. At least two other bids were higher than ours. We could have kept going up and stayed within our budget, but the general feeling is that the house will not appraise for as much as the high bids already are, and I don't feel like dealing with that. It's completely not uncommon to buy a house above appraised value here, but I'd really rather avoid it if I can.
I'm bummed ATM bc I want to go to a wine tasting Thursday, but dh has plans with the big two and I can't find a sitter for dd3. Friday night we are suppose to work at an event together and, again, I have a sitter for the big two, but no one is up for all three or available for just the baby.
As I sat here and thought some more I'm actually more sad than I realized. I'm disappointed that I don't have a circle of people, a village if you will, to help with the kids when dh and I have something going on. I have family around, but none close enough to visit for 2-3 hours after working all week. None that want to take all the kids at the same time. And no sitters that don't charge $10-$15 /hr. I want friends to trade babysitting with! Siblings to trade kids with. Friends who need help and don't mind leaving their kids here and would happily do the same for us. I feel like arrangements like this dont exist anymore. Everyone is suppose to do it themselves and it's exhausting. I'm tired. My couple time consists of one 12 hour overnight a month and 2 hrs at the gym on the weekend.
dizzycooks I've had a hard time finding anyone other than my mom willing to watch both of mine. My sister has done it a couple of times, but she really doesn't like it. And babysitters cost a small fortune. Reason number 97363 that we stopped at 2. I can't even imagine trying to find a sitter for all 3. We used to get out about once a month, but since we had M, it's been way less. Like once every 2 or 3 months, and usually only when there's a special occasion and people feel obligated to help us out. I've asked my SIL and sister to come to our place to watch them a couple of times, because most people find that easier than doing a sleep over with both of them, which is how everyone babysat when it was just S.
It's not Wednesday, but I would like to WTF Victoria's Secret.
I've worn the same type of bra for the majority of my bra wearing years. It's been a few years since I bought any and I thought why the hell not. My order came in yesterday and I thought there must have been a mix up and they put in a larger size by mistake. I compared the cups to my old ones and they are almost twice as large, but they are indeed labeled as the size I ordered. I'm sorry, did the A's across America all grow and my boobs didn't get the memo?
My bra size has changed many times and I am sure VS has terrible sizing. I bought a bra that gapped terribly and then another that fit beautifully. And also, if im the size they say I am I can't imagine what the other sizes look like.
Fuck bras. For that matter fuck boobs. Mine are going to look like sad empty sacks when nursing is done. I am over them.
OMG this made me legit LOL. I so feel this way. And plus also.....H is not allowed to touch them anymore. DNW. It does NOT feel good anymore. Not after 2 kids and what will be almost 3 years combined of said 2 kids nursing off of them. No. Just no. So sorry, H.
Post by scorpioscuba on Apr 4, 2017 10:53:41 GMT -5
dizzycooks, do any of your daughters' preschool teachers babysit after hours? That's how a lot of my friends find sitters. Also, perhaps finding a neighborhood HS or college girl who you can have hang out with you as a mommy's helper for awhile to learn the ropes and then start leaving them with her for small outings and work your way up to bigger things? It would take time but then at least everyone would be comfortable and you would have some options.
NellieOleson - I am so sorry about the house falling through - the housing market in Portland sounds ree-diculous! At least you know that when you list your home, it will sell in 30 seconds!! (small comfort, I know) Lollipop - a stomach bug also went around my house this weekend. Everyone caught it except for me. It's so sad when our little ones are sick!
I am very lucky that I have a niece who is local and who babysits for me practically every two weeks, it seems. I'm sure that I'm personally going to finance her college tuition. On that note, she is a high school senior and decided to attend college in Georgia! Eek! So this summer I'm losing my babysitter.
The idea of swapping childcare with another family is a good one. I do this a little bit with some of my college and law school friends. We will watch each other's kids if any of us get in a bind.
But I agree that doing everything alone is not normal, and it's not how things have been done historically. There used to be a village!! As one of my colleagues famously said (well, it's famous to me): "I have to pay for my village."
Is anyone going to take a fabulous vacation this summer??!?!?!
Called it. Told the manager I was going to be sick, he sent me home and withing half an hour I was puking. I'm also freezing. I have 2 duvets and a flannel quilt and I'm still cold. I'm really hoping it was a one off and I'll be better soon, but I'm not holding my breath.
Lollipop - oh no! I'm so sorry you're feeling sick and had to leave on your first day! Hope you feel better soon! This sound exactly like what went through my house over the weekend - DH and DS kept saying how cold they were!
kelltothekell - we are using up all of our vacation on the move. We are taking a week off to move from one house to another. The good news is that we're shipping both kids off to the ILs for that week. So I hope that DH and I can have a lot of date nights! We also have back-to-back weddings one weekend in July. One is in Nashville, TN on a Saturday and then the next day we have one in Charleston, SC on Sunday. Southwest flies direct between both cities so we are going to try and do both! LOL! Crazy times. Colorado with family sounds awesome though. We may take a trip to Minnesota in the fall to visit DH's grandfather - he's the only great-grandparent that my littles have left!
Post by scorpioscuba on Apr 4, 2017 13:42:21 GMT -5
We just booked our summer trip. Originally we weren't going to do anything but the closer it got to summer the more I knew I needed to go somewhere! So we are doing a week in San Diego. We haven't been since DS was 2 so he doesn't even remember it. We'll do the San Diego Zoo, Safari Park, and some more active stuff around mission bay: kayaking, bike riding, etc.
We usually spend some time at my parents cabin up north to get out of the heat. I was also trying to find a week to send DH and DS to see his family in upstate NY but the flights are ridiculously expensive. Like, I could fly to Europe for that cost. And I'm trying to save my miles. Ugh.
Post by NellieOleson on Apr 4, 2017 13:45:48 GMT -5
14joa31 - That would be a crazy wedding weekend! I don't think I could deal with that even back in my single days. My hat's off to you!
I have never been to Nashville or Charleston and would love to visit both places, though.
Lollipop - I hope you feel better soon, and I hope your new manager is understanding. Not a great way to start a new job! Boo. I may have missed this, but who is watching the kids while you work?
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