Monday Moanday (Randoms)

[marshian]

Put your moans and randoms here!

[marshian]

Moan: H gave me his cold. My throat is sore. So far that's the extent of it, but I'm not a happy camper.

But my shower was this weekend and it was amazing! My two sisters planned it from afar (they live out of state). They and my mom flew in early so we had Friday together, shower Saturday, and then Sunday morning to hang out. They did a light "Beauty and the Beast" theme: "Be our guest" banner over the door, B&TB Little People toys as decor, "gray stuff" as part of the food. The activities were burp cloth decorating, filling out "wishes for baby", and two games: Guessing who did or will do what (me or H) and a guess-the-Disney-baby game. There were 12 guests (besides my family), so the perfect size. Everyone was so generous with gifts.

[mreve]

marshian glad you had a great baby shower, sorry about the cold. I hope it passes quickly!

I can't wait for it to be next week. The last two months have been way too busy for me, and once June hits the only thing on my calendar is doctor appointments. This is my last week of piano lessons and the year-end recital is on Sunday. I started making the program last night, and there are a bunch of details that still need to be planned and acted out. It will be such a relief when it's all done.

[marshian]

mreve - Glad your piano year is almost over! How many students will play in your recital? I took lessons growing up and always dreaded recital day!

[mreve]

May 22, 2017 11:37:37 GMT -5 marshian said:

mreve - Glad your piano year is almost over! How many students will play in your recital? I took lessons growing up and always dreaded recital day!

I have seven students, so it's a small recital. I host at my house because I have a large music room (it's still a little cramped, but it doesn't last too long!), and after there are snacks and drinks on the deck/yard and everyone stays and visits. It's always a good day, but nice when it's over and I can stop thinking about it!

[marshian]

May 22, 2017 11:44:30 GMT -5 mreve said:

May 22, 2017 11:37:37 GMT -5 marshian said:

mreve - Glad your piano year is almost over! How many students will play in your recital? I took lessons growing up and always dreaded recital day!

I have seven students, so it's a small recital. I host at my house because I have a large music room (it's still a little cramped, but it doesn't last too long!), and after there are snacks and drinks on the deck/yard and everyone stays and visits. It's always a good day, but nice when it's over and I can stop thinking about it!

That sounds like a great gathering! My teacher had tons of students. I think somewhere around 50 or more played in the yearly recital. He rented out space at a local community arts center. It was extremely intimidating. I would have liked yours better!

[agm04]

marshian your shower sounds great! glad it was fun.

mreve planning something like that right now seems so difficult. i desperately need to wrap things up at work. no plans to leave until baby comes, but i need to get things mapped out for the rest of my team just in case she arrives early, and ughhhh it's so hard.

related to our previous conversations about h's that can't seem to put things where they belong: DH worked pretty much all weekend. he got home at 4:30 yesterday and i ran out to get a pedicure - my feet were in BAD shape. got home to DD with a bad cut on her heel (not stitches worthy but it was probably pretty painful). apparently she stepped on a stick while playing in the front yard without shoes. DH tells me he couldn't find the "good" band aids. yall. i have a bin labeled 'first aid' in the kitchen. DH cut his finger woodworking a couple weeks ago and took those band aids and the gauze out and never put them back. and then he asked me where they were. i can't. (also, it took me approximately 5 seconds to find them. they were right where he was the last time he put a band aid on his finger.)

[mreve]

marshian I've been to many large recitals in my time 😉. I had one teacher with over 60 students that she would split into two recitals. If I take any more students my current set up won't work, but for now I'm happy with my small studio and enjoy the more intimate recital.

agm04 thankfully I've done this a couple times now, so it's basically just taking my lists/plans from last year and adjusting as necessary. I'm glad baby isn't due any sooner because that would definitely add some extra stress.
And my husband is also completely hopeless when it comes to finding anything in the house. He doesn't even look, he just asks me.

[marshian]

agm04 - My H loves to move things and then ask me where they are too! How would I know, you moved it?! He did buy me a label maker for my birthday this year which I think maybe be more for him than me! Once I get baby stuff organized this week I'll be labeling all the bins in the closet.

[agm04]

marshian i went nuts and organized and labeled everything with my label maker a few months ago. he knows where things go, he just doesn't put them back there. lol. but it makes me VERY happy to have everything labeled anyway!

[marshian]

May 22, 2017 12:30:56 GMT -5 agm04 said:

marshian i went nuts and organized and labeled everything with my label maker a few months ago. he knows where things go, he just doesn't put them back there. lol. but it makes me VERY happy to have everything labeled anyway!

I'm the same way: I'll appreciate the labels even if no one uses them. But seriously, put things back! Argh.

[teachermomtobe]

Lately watching DH eat makes me so irritable. He doesn't donanything gross and it never bothered me before but now everything about it makes me cringe. Mood swings?!

[starsandshamrocks123]

So this is more of a first trimester sounding freak out, but I must be kind of out of pregnancy mode already. I went to a baby shower this weekend at a Farm to Table restaurant. I didn't get the entree I wanted (Huevos rancheros) because I figured the egg yolk would be super runny, etc. But then I chose the tiramisu for dessert without batting an eyelash and scarfed it down. I told DH when I got home and he was like, ummmm isn't there raw eggs in tiramisu? Yes, there probably is at a farm to table restaurant. So commence neurotically googling salmonella risk with probably unpasteurized eggs... I mean this was yesterday and FX I feel fine BUT STILL. It wasn't smart. I've been relatively careful for 38 weeks

[agm04]

May 22, 2017 19:26:51 GMT -5 starsandshamrocks123 said:

So this is more of a first trimester sounding freak out, but I must be kind of out of pregnancy mode already. I went to a baby shower this weekend at a Farm to Table restaurant. I didn't get the entree I wanted (Huevos rancheros) because I figured the egg yolk would be super runny, etc. But then I chose the tiramisu for dessert without batting an eyelash and scarfed it down. I told DH when I got home and he was like, ummmm isn't there raw eggs in tiramisu? Yes, there probably is at a farm to table restaurant. So commence neurotically googling salmonella risk with probably unpasteurized eggs... I mean this was yesterday and FX I feel fine BUT STILL. It wasn't smart. I've been relatively careful for 38 weeks

I wouldn't have thought about that at all! It's funny bc I am a crazy person about raw eggs and the like at home, but at restaurants I totally forget about it.

[agm04]

May 22, 2017 17:42:36 GMT -5 teachermomtobe said:

Lately watching DH eat makes me so irritable. He doesn't donanything gross and it never bothered me before but now everything about it makes me cringe. Mood swings?!

This made me lol. I am sooo irritable when it comes to DH's eating noises lately. He eats like 4 bowls of cereal before bed every night (yes seriously), and last night I was like, "YOU CANNOT SLURP THAT CEREAL AGAIN UNLESS YOU WANT ME TO PUKE!" out of nowhere. I'm so fun.

[sdlaura]

starsandshamrocks123 I read your post while eating homemade ice cream with uncooked eggs in it

[mreve]

May 22, 2017 19:26:51 GMT -5 starsandshamrocks123 said:

So this is more of a first trimester sounding freak out, but I must be kind of out of pregnancy mode already. I went to a baby shower this weekend at a Farm to Table restaurant. I didn't get the entree I wanted (Huevos rancheros) because I figured the egg yolk would be super runny, etc. But then I chose the tiramisu for dessert without batting an eyelash and scarfed it down. I told DH when I got home and he was like, ummmm isn't there raw eggs in tiramisu? Yes, there probably is at a farm to table restaurant. So commence neurotically googling salmonella risk with probably unpasteurized eggs... I mean this was yesterday and FX I feel fine BUT STILL. It wasn't smart. I've been relatively careful for 38 weeks

That wouldn't be something I would think about at all! I also regularly eat raw cookie dough that I make myself with eggs.

[applemuffins]

teachermomtobe that has been me all pregnancy. Some times I can be in the other room and still hear DH and it drive me nuts. I try to be nice and not say anything but uuugh.

[trebletrouble13]

starsandshamrocks123 - I would not have thought about raw eggs in tiramisu. Just keep an eye out for symptoms and try not to worry too much, it is very likely you and baby will be just fine.

[starsandshamrocks123]

sdlaura did you make this ice yourself? I don't think I've had that sort of homemade ice cream and now I need it...

mreve and now I also need cookie dough

I think I'm in the clear at 48 hours ... it must be fine but at a restaurant you never know how the food is handled

[sdlaura]

starsandshamrocks123 DH and the kids made it for me for my birthday. The recipe was from a Ben and Jerrys cookbook. They made my fave - mint chocolate cookie- using an ice cream attachment for the kitchen aid mixer. It was awesome

[applemuffins]

Apparently work is exploding. I work in a preschool and a few months back we had administration changes that most staff felt was not for the best. Today talk of bringing in a new team and lay offs is apparently happening. Teachers are walking out as a result and asking parents to pick up their kids. Parents are mad because they love their kids' teachers. This is not news I want to be hearing a day after giving birth, but it also makes me glad that baby came early so I don't have to be right in the thick of it. Can't imagine it would have been good for my elevated blood pressure. Uugh.

[agm04]

applemuffins that is awful and stressful! ugh i can't imagine that level of drama at work.

speaking of preschool drama...there is this super exclusive preschool here that feeds in to the most exclusive private K-12. DH has been pushing me to look into it for DD, but i've avoided it for a variety of reasons. starting with the fact that there is no phone #, email address, etc. available to the public. you have to know someone to even inquire. i am just not about that kind of exclusivity in life. anyway. i ran into a friend yesterday whose husband went to the K-12 it feeds into, and she said they're about to switch to the preschool. their daughter is 3, and has been on the wait list since she was THREE DAYS OLD. she said the parents are told that they can't call or email teachers - they have to pin a note to the kid's clothing if they want to communicate with the teacher. i mean REALLY. yeah let me wait on a list for 3 years and pay a small fortune just to jump through hoops to communicate with my toddler's teacher. huuuuge no thank you to that crap!

[marshian]

sdlaura - I'm late, but that sounds delicious. Mint chocolate chip is me and my H's fave flavor!

applemuffins - Insanity! Hope they can figure it out all while you're on leave.

agm04 - I'm with you, that just sounds way too exclusive for me. You can't contact the teachers? That in itself would be a hard pass for me.

[sdlaura]

agm04 I'm with you on the preschool thing. DS went to a fancy preschool for a little while just because we were done with his in home daycare and he wasn't old enough to join DD at the Y. While it was fun to meet some pro athletes and that sort of thing, I don't think the quality of the school was any better. Now both kids go to the YMCA preschool. We love the other families there. I feel like my kids are going to be spoiled enough by growing up where they do in a dual income family - i dont want to make it any worse by sending them to school with kids who have private planes (seriously, one family at the fancy place did).

[applemuffins]

agm04 that would be a huge red flag for me! Even if the teacher didn't have an individual email, there should be at least someone you could email who would then be able to get the parent in touch with you. A note taped to a shirt is super shady and not at all reliable!

[cateyes]

My day has consisted of finding places to stop and pee because I can only go like an hour without a bathroom apparently and have been out of the office and driving around the world since 8:30. I have peed at two separate jails today. I hate visiting the jail cause germs and usually try to avoid touching anything like the plague. But when you got to go you got to go. Also, something I never thought I would say, but at nine months pregnant I spent the day in jail… LOL!


I would like to add that I am glad to have an end in sight for one reason, these 11+ hour days are killing me. So tired and exhausted at the end of the day and I feel so worthless when I get home. Probably because I am since I go lay in bed, turn on the TV, and do nothing after that.

6 work days left! Thank God for the 3 day holiday.

[starsandshamrocks123]

cateyes I have no words. So glad you only have 6 days left