Good morning! I'm up and C's still sleeping. I should go make some coffee but I'm afraid to walk past C's room to get downstairs, don't want to wake the sleeping beast.
Usually I love the weekends, but dreading this one coming. I start teaching summer school on Monday, and I am going in today to meet with the teacher who did the first half and to try to get back in that frame of mind. It's killing me how quickly the summer is flying by.
Will it last the rest of your summer, or will you have a small break before the school year begins?
budders, good luck for the next few weeks. You've had a crazily busy summer so far. I'm not surprised the thought of teaching again makes you apprehensive.
I've noticed several teachers mention summer school. I understand that it's school during the summer break, but why? Surely everyone, kids and teachers, needs a proper break!
With my self-imposed less TCF time I barely had any time on the board yesterday. We had a fabulous time though. First official playdate in the morning, with L's little friend A and her big brother. It was a great success. Then my friend and three of her daughters picked us up and drove us to a big soft play place a few miles away. Her big girls (seven and eight) loved looking after L whilst we had almost a real conversation :-)
Today L is at her grandparents' house, so it's my day for a longish break, and the ultimate luxury of eating lunch on my own!
Morning! Not too much exciting going on here today. I'm at work, but it's my sister's birthday today, so my mom is having a mini-party at her house later today to celebrate. Thinking I might leave work after my afternoon meeting to go over a little early and spend some extra time floating around their pool with DS
Also, DS has been walking more and more, with a noticeable difference this week. This morning he was just wandering around the house like it was NBD. Crazy! Then naturally, when I dropped him off at my mom's and told her how much he had been walking, he refused to do so for her and just started crawling around the living room - stubborn baby!
budders, good luck with summer school! What are you teaching?
purple, I can't speak for other people, but here in my city, at the high school level, summer school is for students who failed classes during the school year and are trying to get credit for those classes.
Today is our anniversary so tonight DH is bringing home McDonald's and we're opening our favorite bottle of sparkling wine. Because nothing says happy anniversary like McDonald's!
Post by blueskiessmiling on Jul 21, 2016 7:31:28 GMT -5
DD also loves pads and tampons. Panty liners are her favorite though- they're the easiest to unwrap.
We leave on vacation tomorrow! DD has discovered the box of snacks we're taking and is currently standing next to me with a container of cereal signing "more". Speaking of cereal, she put one box on its side last night and piled another on top, then stood on top of that to try to get to me while cooking dinner. That's a lot of ingenuity!
@jemomma, how's E been doing? I been thinking about you guys and don't remember seeing an update lately. Feel free to take this to the private board if you want.
Everyone cross their fingers for me. My notoriously flakey mother is supposed to pick LBB up from school today and take him to see Secret Life of Pets. If she doesn't, he's going to be really disappointed.
Summer school in elementary/middle here is generally used as enrichment for special Ed kids or, in our city's district, it's an awesome program meant to counter the notorious summer decline that students go through. The decline is especially profound in minority students and students from low socioeconomic background.
And morning! H is home all day today so after PT today, I'm going to have some me time. Yay! I wanted to go to a coffee shop, but I need to get chicken for dinner, so I might go there first.
Post by musicfrk2002 on Jul 21, 2016 8:00:22 GMT -5
There's a direct correlation between the time I get to bed and the time J wakes up. I'm going to bed the second I get home tonight. So we should get up tomorrow around....11am.
T-minus 3 days until H gets home. Sigh. Longest week ever.
I still have 4 days. Solo parenting isn't terrible with one kid because I've been scheduling a lot of playdates this week to break up the monotony of the days. I can't imagine doing this with 3 kids. You have all my applause.
T-minus 3 days until H gets home. Sigh. Longest week ever.
Good luck with the next few days, and to jessila too! LT because the end is in sight. Jemomma, I am in awe of your stamina'for frequent solo parenting with three children.
Post by holliberry28 on Jul 21, 2016 8:06:05 GMT -5
purple , also students with disabilities often are recommended 12 month services on their IEPs. That's the reason behind the 6 week summer session. Typically, children with less needs could be integrated and would still have the regular 10-month services.
Yesterday O and I went to my sister's business to visit. Today my SIL and her 4 kids are coming over to go to the pool. Tomorrow my friend and her 2yo little boy are coming to go to the pool. And Saturday I get to meet pghtruelove and dmoney during the day!! Yay!!!!
Poor C, stcyct! LO fell on Easter and didn't have a cut deep enough for stitches but still has a tiny scar. I'll tell her what a badass she was when she's older!
Sorry to bring the thread down but I'm disgruntled this morning. My dishwasher won't work and H is out of town until Tuesday. I know you with feel me on this one @hazeldublin sammyca with your run dishwasher 1/2 full ways. I hate washing dishes.
I need to attempt to look inside and see if anything is clogging the drain but everytime I do that A tries to climb inside!!!
Poor C, stcyct! LO fell on Easter and didn't have a cut deep enough for stitches but still has a tiny scar. I'll tell her what a badass she was when she's older!
I'm sure it will eventually go away. Just make sure to sunscreen it so it doesn't burn.
Poor C, stcyct! LO fell on Easter and didn't have a cut deep enough for stitches but still has a tiny scar. I'll tell her what a badass she was when she's older!
I'm sure it will eventually go away. Just make sure to sunscreen it so it doesn't burn.
It's the corner of her eye and barely noticeable. If she'd wear her sunglasses, that would help protect it, but this girl haaaaates them. She loves ours, though. Figures.
Sorry to bring the thread down but I'm disgruntled this morning. My dishwasher won't work and H is out of town until Tuesday. I know you with feel me on this one @hazeldublin sammyca with your run dishwasher 1/2 full ways. I hate washing dishes.
I need to attempt to look inside and see if anything is clogging the drain but everytime I do that A tries to climb inside!!!
Check you air gap line and cap, my dishwasher stopped working a few weeks ago and it turned out a lot of sponge pieces where covering the inside of the cap, so no more air. Cleaned that up, works as new
@poppyc8, don't feel bad. I have zero working knowledge about our appliances. At this point, I would trust DS to fix our dishwasher before me, just because he's constantly crawling in there, he surely knows more about it than I do at this point.
Also, it's 10:43 and I am counting down the minutes until I can reasonably go eat my leftover chimichanga from last night.
Post by beersandweirs on Jul 21, 2016 9:50:26 GMT -5
I did my first work out since LO was born this morning... Which is good I started again, but bad it took this long. I woke up at 5:15 for it though, so I am dragging.
Can I AW my H for a sec? Yesterday when I was thinking of going back to the gym this morning, I was thinking that I would need to work it out with H and his morning routine in case LO got up before I was able to get her ready (I typically do most of the morning routine with her), so he would probably need to get up early. When I brought it up, all he said was "let me know what I can do to help you out". It was totally the expected response from him, but it was still nice.
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