At last - Friday!!

[jillywilly]

Hello Friday, you sexy thing.

[jillywilly]

So I'm up early thanks to a major poo-splosion this morning. Poo EVERYWHERE. At least H got up and helped mitigate the disaster and got him dressed after a dunk in the tub while I changed the sheets. And I have an explanation for his off behavior/no appetite last night. So looks like we'll mostly be hanging out at home, hoping for no repeats. Hope everyone's Friday's are starting off with a lot less mess!

[stinybean]

Good morning. Last night was a parent night at my school so I didn't get home until 9. I wish they could've started it an hour earlier so I could've spent a little more time with J, but that'll never happen. I hope today goes by quickly and without incident, I don't have the energy for anything right now. And I know I've said this already, but I really need my thyroid levels checked. I know I'm blabbering now.

[purple]

jillywilly and stinybean, I hope you both get through Friday and that the weekend does you good.

H has taken L to the swings and to do some shopping. I am really relishing a bit of time to relax. I asked him to bring back cake and I've just placed an online order for some expensive chocolate. Those are both healthy choices, no?

The nervous cat seems to have cystitis again. I'm sorry for her but also for us, because we always find out she's got cystitis when she pees on our bed :-( Not what we needed at five am this morning.

[stinybean]

purple cake and chocolate are perfectly healthy options ; ) I'm glad yh is giving you some alone time & I hope he brings you home the best cake ever!

[heartofglass]

purple I think that sounds like a great Friday treat!

I think I'm going to bed at 7 tonight so I can take advantage of A's good stretch and actually get some rest. This screaming MOTN is getting to me.
I'm giving my 2 weeks notice at my second job today and I'm nervous yet again, but I have no feels for this office and I'm happy to leave. At least it's only a half day.

[Bluedaisy]

purple eat ALL the chocolate! I'm at my in laws. ...it's going to be a long two weeks thank god baby is a fabulous traveller be a useful dealing with in laws and gallbladder issues is not going to be fun...how the hell am I supposed to eat my feelings when I can't have fat, sugar or dairy?

[jillywilly]

purple, sorry you had to deal with body fluids so early too! Allllll the cake and chocolate for you!

[jillywilly]

DS has vomited twice since earlier, so looks like we're dealing with a full blown tummy bug. At least it happened on my day off, so he gets all the mommy snuggles, and I don't have to feel bad about leaving him.

[Widget123]

Even though it is Friday, the anxiety I have related to work right now is overwhelming to the point that I feel like I am going to throw up. We are in the middle of a quality review, which is the equivalent of our audits getting audited. The quality people are going to be in the office all next week. Meanwhile LO has been sick the last few days and it looks like DD is showing signs that she may have caught it too, so I may have to bring DD to work with me next week. I just need for LO to get better because there is no way he can hang at work with me next week, too much going on for me to take off, and I'm sure DH won't want to take off more than another day.

[mrsmonogrammed]

DD slept in until 6:45! I've been trying to push her bedtime back half an hour and she's been ok with it. A bit fussy in the evening but it's really cut down on the crying in the crib before going to sleep so I'm calling it a win!

[billyhorrible]

I am so thankful it's Friday. And we have a mellow weekend. I need to catch up on some sleep.

[blueskiessmiling]

Bluedaisy So many of us have had gallbladder issues on this board postpartum. No fun! And 2 weeks with the in laws along with that sounds terrible.
No poop stories to start the day with, but DD did somehow manage to open the dog food storage container and spill dog food all over, so a mess nonetheless. Today is my mom's birthday, so we'll head over to my parents' in a bit to spend the day there. Happy Friday!

[alayne926]

Good morning!!

Woke up to a poopy girl this morning too, but luckily it was all contained. DC drop off was super easy this morning and no doctor at work today, so I don't have to be overly productive today!

[sugarkissed]

No poopslosion here, but the pee leaked everywhere this morning!

I'm usually excited for Friday, but since DH leaves on Sunday I'm not looking forward to this weekend. I'm torn between spending the day with him tomorrow, or ditching him with the kids so I can enjoy a bit of time alone before it's just me and babies for 2 weeks.

[Bluedaisy]

blueskiessmiling. . . Or anyone else who's dealt with postpartum gallbladder stuff. ..is there any chance it will go away on it's own. ..I'm being a total ss here but I don't want to see a doctor here if I don't have to and my mom's experience of having to have it out was not super helpful...

[mirage86]

May 13, 2016 7:53:16 GMT -5 @imapenguin said:

I heard DD wake up and start pooping this morning so I got up and got in the shower so MH would have to handle it. When I finished showering I had a clean and fed baby waiting for me. I love vacation.

Just reading this filled me with happiness! Glad it worked out perfectly in your favor.

[mirage86]

I guess we all get to wake up to interesting things this morning. E woke up a bit ago, so I pulled him into bed with me and he went back to sleep. He is still sleeping now, but I've slowly been noticing that he doesn't smell good. Kind of like vomit, except that I can't see anything.
FFFC: I will probably wait until he wakes up to investigate this further. Right now I just want to snuggle my sleeping baby.

[veggiemo]

purple, Give yourself all the treats! Hope you are hanging in there ok.

TGIF! Boys are home with H today and once I get home from work we are going to order out for dinner. Tomorrow I'm taking the kids to meet friends for lunch and then getting grocery shopping out of the way. Sunday, maybe the zoo? We were going to go out to our cottage but it still looks a little chilly to be on the lake.

I've been trying to night time potty train DS this week and so far it's not successful. He's peeing the bed in middle of the night and sleeping right through it. He has been in underwear over a year, 100% potty trained during the day with zero accidents. So, I'm not sure exactly where to go with this.

[tiffbot]

Hi! It's Friday! And for once we have a quiet weekend at home, so we are going to start working on the backyard!

Mom and I are hitting up the greenhouse later this afternoon where I'll look for flowers and trees, then H and I plan on sanding the fence and stuff down around our patio and paint what we can this weekend! Whatever doesn't get done we can do next weekend. We'll also get our new firepit set put together at some point and the lights hung. With DD's birthday coming up in 3 weeks I'd love to have it looking better for the party when people are here!

This morning I have a friend coming over to visit with her 3 month old. Yay baby

[littlemissgrump]

Good morning! No diaper incidents over here, yet.

I was hoping to make it to Baby Spanish Time this morning g but LO still has a cough and runny nose. I think it's residual but I don't want the other grown-ups thinking we're trying to infect them.

tiffbot inspired me to go to the nursery to pick out some plants to pot. I do have a black thumb so I'll have to pick carefully!

This afternoon I have the baby who isn't a very happy camper, it makes for a really long afternoon.

And I spoke too soon!!! Oops! Diaper emergency got to go! Lol!

[wegrowsheep]

May 13, 2016 9:25:20 GMT -5 Bluedaisy said:

blueskiessmiling. . . Or anyone else who's dealt with postpartum gallbladder stuff. ..is there any chance it will go away on it's own. ..I'm being a total ss here but I don't want to see a doctor here if I don't have to and my mom's experience of having to have it out was not super helpful...

According to my dr, gall bladders, once going "downhill" (ie, inflamed or full of stones), do not heal. I had mine yanked out faster than my liver could say "See ya." No regrets. That shit hurts worse than labor transition.

[Bluedaisy]

wegrowsheep thanks for the info hopefully the diet change will help enough to get me through vacation...it really sucked the night we were in a hotel because lo was in the room and I was terrified of waking him.

[wegrowsheep]

May 13, 2016 10:12:51 GMT -5 Bluedaisy said:

wegrowsheep thanks for the info hopefully the diet change will help enough to get me through vacation...it really sucked the night we were in a hotel because lo was in the room and I was terrified of waking him.

Good luck. Fat-free is tough!

[tiffbot]

My vehicle claim adjuster is so nice. I filed last night online so he called today with some follow up questions and he was like 'I know that parking lot sucks to leave, it's hard enough to see with a small car let alone making the vehicle bigger'
And when he asked me what I did for a living and I said SAH he was like 'ok, so full time work' lol.

[musicfrk2002]

May 13, 2016 9:25:20 GMT -5 Bluedaisy said:

blueskiessmiling. . . Or anyone else who's dealt with postpartum gallbladder stuff. ..is there any chance it will go away on it's own. ..I'm being a total ss here but I don't want to see a doctor here if I don't have to and my mom's experience of having to have it out was not super helpful...

I doubt it will go away on its own. I had to deal with it for 6 months before I could have it removed, and the attacks were coming more frequently and would last longer. Surgery ended up being tougher because it was extremely swollen by that point, and it was causing some weird liver numbers on my labs. Some people say ACV helps (can mix with apple juice) but I only got relief from it once or twice.

[veggiemo]

tiffbot, seriously, full time job. So much props to all you SAHMs. This morning I was sitting on the couch with DS and he was intentionally trying to put his feet in my face. I couldn't wait to get to the office so I could have a break...and it was only 9:30am!

Oh also, I hung my clothesline last weekend! I'm excited to hopefully use it tomorrow!

[alayne926]

Drug rep called to see if we wanted to Starbucks....internally, I was bummed since the doctor is not here. So I was like, "Oh man, we'd love some, but the doctor is gone." She was like, "My boss doesn't need to know that...what do you want?" LOL....now she's sitting in the parking lot, literally right in front of my door, and has been for the last 5 minutes. All I can think is that the ice is melting into my vanilla latte. Then I have to remind myself it's free, and I just need to cool it. #coffeeaddict

[billyhorrible]

May 13, 2016 9:38:36 GMT -5 veggiemo said:

I've been trying to night time potty train DS this week and so far it's not successful. He's peeing the bed in middle of the night and sleeping right through it. He has been in underwear over a year, 100% potty trained during the day with zero accidents. So, I'm not sure exactly where to go with this.

I am the farthest thing from a potty training expert, but I think that you can't really night time potty train.  It's a hormonal thing.  The hormone ADH is produced at night and stops/slows urine production.  So it's not like some kids are great at waking to pee and others aren't, it's that some kids continue to make urine at night and others don't.  The hormone doesn't turn on at the same time for everyone.

As an example, our current issue with LBB is that he does wake up to pee, but hysterically crying because he doesn't want to wake up.  So he screams and cries and throws himself around until finally he runs to the bathroom.  He pees 3-4 times a night.  I was asking some friends about how to handle this and they were clueless because their (older) kids don't wake at all to pee at night.  And never did.  They either slept through the night and peed in the morning, or wet the bed.

[purple]

May 13, 2016 9:05:09 GMT -5 Joolschweets said:

Morning!
Ooh purple expensive chocs sound good, where are they from? Enjoy them!

I found a website called Confection Affection that sells all kinds of lovely stuff. I tried to be restrained but they had dark chocolate with raspberries, multiple kinds, and chocolate with cinnamon and with Earl Grey tea and all sorts of yummy stuff.

I "only" bought chocolate covered raspberry jellies, a sampler of chocolate squares in really interesting flavours, and a pack of five chocolate bars in what they call "Christmas" flavours that was in the sale. I thought that was very restrained in the circumstances. The squares come in 16 flavours and include things like cardamom, anise, lavender and lots more - and at least two of them are coffee flavoured so there is something for H! I'm impatient for it all to arrive now.