Moaning Monday

[judyblume14]

I just had to buy three books off Amazon about not biting.

Happy Monday!

[vavavictoria]

V and her whole daycare class went through a biting epidemic a few months ago. We did the books. I think the thing that helped the most was learning mine and improved verbal communication. Of course now that I say that she will probably go on a rampage today.

Omg I am so tired! We went to the river yesterday and bc of the insane amt of rain so far this summer the current was nuts. I am not sure if I'm so exhausted just bc I was out in the sun or bc of preggo fighting the current but so flippin tired!

[doglover31]

We have a biter here too. This weekend he just walked up to me and tried to bite me, than ran off and laughed. He's home with H for the summer so hopefully that phase passes before he is around his sitters kids come August.

[spacedcadet]

We start swim lessons this evening. I am 50% looking forward to it, and 50% dreading it.

G bit me a couple of times this weekend when I picked him up and he wanted back down. There were also a lot of fits this weekend with crying and flailing and hitting and pinching me. I am hoping that this is not a preview of the next year or so. I'm not sure if I will be able to take it.

[doglover31]

I read the entire Harry Potter series about a year ago (thank you pump breaks) but haven't read anything since then. I think I should find a new one to read....

[doglover31]

spacedcadet, good luck with swim lessons, I hope they go well.

[judyblume14]

Jun 20, 2016 7:56:32 GMT -5 @giamia923 said:

Jun 20, 2016 7:12:43 GMT -5 judyblume14 said:

I just had to buy three books off Amazon about not biting.

Happy Monday!

Ut oh... is she biting you or other kids?

G had a brief stint of biting me but luckily has stopped. Hitting and scratching on the other hand....

Kids.

[spacedcadet]

I keep starting books and not finishing them. I don't seem to be able to "get into" them as well as I used to. I could get consumed with a good book, but I don't really have the time to devote to that anymore. I have read a few here and there though.

[judyblume14]

spacedcadet, our swim lessons yesterday were fun! my H was in the water with L, and I was in the viewing room. They did "I'm a little teapot" and dunked the kids when they got to "TIP me over and pour me out!" and "if you're happy and you know it" and did a bunch of kicking and splashing.

[melw629]

C hasn't tried biting yet...fingers crossed. I have a feeling he will get to it eventually. It seems like as soon as we get one behavior under control, he comes up with a new one to try.

I don't think I've finished a book since Ina May before C was born. I've started a few, but at this point I think I just need to start them all from the beginning again.

[designaddiction]

I haven't read a book in so long, and won't be able to for a while.
I have been infected with the cold now. Huge 11am deadline so I'm in our office at home working, the hottest room in the house. It's supposed to be 117 today.

[designaddiction]

It was supposed to be 120 yesterday but it only got to 118. I guess several hikers died because of the heat. Dump people, I think they were probably just trying to show off. Heat here is no joke, you can get dehydrated so quickly because it is a "dry-heat".

[jt2378]

I was an avid reader before H, I have just recently started picking it up again though.

No biting here yet thankfully but definitely some sass on her!

I'm chomping at the bit to get out of here, I feel like I have so much to do before we leave tomorrow and feeling frazzled that our plans have completely changed but thankful my mom can do it.

vavavictoria, totally random but when is your A/S?

[jt2378]

Oh and Happy Summer Solstice everyone, I hear its a full moon tonite too!

[judyblume14]

Oh, with it being the longest day of the year, maybe we'll swim and take a walk after work to take advantage of the sunshine!

[vavavictoria]

jt2378 we had it a few weeks ago actually. I'm 22 weeks today and according to the scan little girl has all parts accounted for and is looking good

[judyblume14]

That's so great, vavavictoria!

Yikes, I ate a big candy bar after lunch. And my stomach hurts.

[jt2378]

vavavictoria, yay! great news, glad to hear everything looks good.

A bit WTF to your company @adulruna, that is so horrible

@100poppies, sorry your little guy has a cold on top of teething. That is not fun

[jt2378]

N40Mom, i'm just imagining your desk antics with chili right now and laughing to myself! you crack me up

[jt2378]

OMG so BIL has my nieces today (his own kids that he pawns off on my in-laws every chance he gets) and is literally on his way in to drop them off with my in-laws??! WTF??! Here I am scrambling for care for the next two days because MIL is too unwell but apparently not for the other two? I'm fuming

[vavavictoria]

@adulruna that is a crappy policy. I do have to pay all my benefits etc back but my company will set up payments. I wish they would let me start paying into it ahead of time to spread it out.

[jt2378]

I can't even wrap my head around this policy??! Like you all have to pay back your health insurance and wages even if you have paid time off?!

[vavavictoria]

Jun 20, 2016 13:52:14 GMT -5 @100poppies said:

N40Mom--yep! Right now I'm only reading serious literatures books, but I borrow books for my kindle from the library, and their selection runs heavily to romance (I read once that romance novels account for 70% of library checkouts!) and so I got into them then. But no modern ones. And no Amish ones. Purely the lord and lady types, cause I'm classy like that!

Those are the romance books I like as well. They seem to have more of a story than the hot n heavy modern day books.

[jt2378]

anniebn, oh ok, that makes more sense. Mine was being deducted all along so essentially everything was like I was still working except using time off

[judyblume14]

jt2378, for me, I was FMLA protected for 12 weeks.
-The first 6 were short-term disability. I still got paid, and health insurance was deducted as per usual.
-The next 3 were from my PTO/vacation days. I still got paid, and health insurance was deducted as per usual.
-The last 3 were unpaid. Since I didn't get paychecks, they couldn't deduct my health insurance.
...So, when I returned, my first few paychecks had my regular insurance deductions, plus additional deductions to make up for the 3 unpaid weeks where I still had health insurance but wasn't paying. Our company has a rule though, that they will only deduct until your pay check gets to a certain minimum. then they'll deduct from the next paycheck and the next. For example, they might not let your paycheck go below $1,000. So they'll deduct down to that amount, and if you still haven't paid back insurance, they'll take more out of your next check.

[designaddiction]

When I came back from leave they took a big chunk out of my first check for the benefits while I was gone too, it sucked, especially when I was looking forward to an actual check.

[jt2378]

I'm sorry @adulruna , thats really shitty

[judyblume14]

@kait20122014 the tough thing is, she doesn't do it at home, so we don't have teaching opportunities

[judyblume14]

Omg, @adulruna, that sucks :-(

[spacedcadet]

Well we just got back from swimming lessons and it was a disaster. He basically screamed and cried during the whole thing. It was a 35 minute class and H came about halfway through. He saw him and then went to the side of the pool and tried to climb out repeatedly. We finally just took him out of the pool early because it was just getting worse. He loves playing in blow up pools in the backyard so I don't know why he freaked out so much. I'm hoping he does better tomorrow.