ampaints no haven't figured out something good yet. Sigh. I bought him a toaster oven because he always complains about ours. We are going out tomorrow night to a local pub to see a band he likes. So we will provide apps and some drinks for his friends. Hopefully that will be good enough. I feel so disappointed in myself for not coming up with something awesome. I'm usually way better. He (we) turn 40 next year so maybe I can say we will plan something awesome for that.
Me: 39 DH: 39 DS1 born Sept 1999 Married Nov 2010 TTC 2010 2011 BFP ended in ectopic RE Aug 2014. Unexplained infertility Sept 2014-Dec 2014 fermera/IUI/TI BFN's
August 16, 2015 baby Boy M is born and our hearts melt!
redandblue H turns 40 in February so I'll be trying to think of something good as well! I want to try to do a trip, even if it's just a weekend get away. But we'll see what position we're in then.
My block is doing national night out on Tuesday and having a potluck dinner. I'm going to be solo parenting all week. What should be my dish to share ( ideally something I can assemble Monday night after bedtime and bring out on Tuesday because we start basically as soon as I get home from work)
Or, what pre made thing can I pick up at the grocery store on Tuesday. I'm having a huge brain fart on this.
My block is doing national night out on Tuesday and having a potluck dinner. I'm going to be solo parenting all week. What should be my dish to share ( ideally something I can assemble Monday night after bedtime and bring out on Tuesday because we start basically as soon as I get home from work)
Or, what pre made thing can I pick up at the grocery store on Tuesday. I'm having a huge brain fart on this.
Pasta salad in a disposable dish.
I see ampaints covered this. Also, veggie tray or fruit tray in a pinch. Or cheese and crackers, chips and salsa. Or some sort of beverage like lemonade or juice or sweet tea.
redandblue H turns 40 in February so I'll be trying to think of something good as well! I want to try to do a trip, even if it's just a weekend get away. But we'll see what position we're in then.
Funny thing, just remembered an awesome idea, prompted by DH tonight. We are going to get him a tattoo! Lol! I thought about something like that a while ago and forgot. Then tonight he was 'sketching' some rough ideas, so perfect! I told him I'm having a hard time coming up with something, so he can book a tattoo! (even though I'm supposed to get one first...it will happen, just not sure when)
Me: 39 DH: 39 DS1 born Sept 1999 Married Nov 2010 TTC 2010 2011 BFP ended in ectopic RE Aug 2014. Unexplained infertility Sept 2014-Dec 2014 fermera/IUI/TI BFN's
August 16, 2015 baby Boy M is born and our hearts melt!
E stayed with my mom last night. She was supposed to bring her home this morning but "lost her keys" so we had to go get her. Conveniently the keys had been found by the time we got there. Then my brother was acting pissy because I needed to borrow MY laptop that he is borrowing from me. I have a new one but have been needing to transfer all my files. He acted like it was the end of the world that I took it even though I'm driving all the way there Monday to give it back.
Now a very late dinner is in the oven. I'm making oven fried chicken & Mac n cheese. I've never made the chicken so hopefully it's good!
Tomorrow is take 2 on the 3d u/s so FX little H shows us her face this time. I told DH to make the final decision on the middle name bc I can't. So it looks like she will be Hazel El.ise.
That's good! And also sucks. I'm having some mild period-like cramps tonight. DNW.
Braxton Hicks?
Yep. That's what I'm assuming. There is tightening with them and I just feel crampy. Not timeable or worsening though, so I'm not worried about it. Just uncomfortable
Had a great day today. Lots of fun for the kids in the morning, and then I did some shopping during naptime this afternoon. I found a new winter coat at Nordstrom Rack- the exact Michael Kors coat I was looking at last season for $99 instead of double that like it would have been if I'd bought it last year. I was super excited because I couldn't seem to find it anywhere at the end of the season last year when the zipper broke on my ancient winter coat (I realized I'd had that previous coat for 16 years!).
I also found a cute pair of boots for Abigail and a new pair of shoes since hers stink terribly after wearing them through the summer without socks. She was stoked about her new shoes when I showed them to her and insisted on wearing them throughout the house for the evening, lol! I guess she's going to be an early shoe lover.
amberlie, I was just wondering if you still see your family. Looks like it hasn't changed. Maybe you shouldn't take the computer back until he learns to be grateful.
@janetheconquerer I don't see them often. My mom takes E for a few hours every other week or so. And she's slept over there twice so I don't panic when I have to leave her to deliver this baby. But yes, my brother is a brat. Both he & my parents were too lazy/irresponsible to enroll him in school over the summer so this whole Fall he's just siting at home playing games. I haven't talked to my dad in about 5 months though, which makes my life much easier and generally more happy. I knew he was a shitty person but I guess never realized how toxic he is or how much it affected me until I completely left him out of my life.
So I just realized I didn't hit my step goal yesterday, I thought I had. Then I was like oh yea sitting in the doctors trying to get Adelyn to pee in a cup for 45 mins than sitting at dinner and then the storm that made me think the world was ending...yea lots of being still in the afternoon
My uncle (half uncle? Mom's half-brother) messaged me last night to tell me that my grandmother is dying. It's an awful thing to say, but the news had honestly no effect on me. She and her husband are/were awful people... raging alcoholics who abused my mother when she was a child/teenager. Her husband died 2 years ago of lung cancer. Anyway, my uncle told me she has advanced cirrhosis in her liver and that I should tell everyone. I don't know who everyone is but I literally only speak to my mother regularly on that side of the family. I haven't told my mom yet. Her mother has been writing her letters and leaving voicemails for 3-4 months now, all unanswered. I don't know how she will react when I tell her. It had no effect on me but she's not my mother & she hasn't been in any of our lives since 2005.
We didn't get the house. I'm sadder than I thought even though I knew it was a long shot. We're going to keep plugging money into our savings and hopefully something else we love becomes available in the next year or 2.
Good news is we're getting a ton of little projects done around the house so we're closer to selling it when the time comes.
amberlie I'm sorry you're in that position with your mother and grandmother.
I didn't speak to my mother after I turned 18. I got a Facebook message to call my aunt to find out my mother had had a massive heart attack and the prognosis wasn't good. My brother and I went to the hospital and ended up being put in charge of her medical decisions because we were next of kin. I was so mad and upset having her intrude in my life like that. She died on H's birthday and I hate that I now think of that when it's H's birthday. The hardest thing for me to deal with was that there wasn't an impact of my life after she died.
Sorry, that turned into a huge dear diary post. I was really just trying to say I know how crappy family shit can be at times.
ampaints I'm sorry you had to deal with that. I think my mom probably feels similar to how you do. I know she was probably upset at first when they stopped communicating 11 years ago, but she has seemed more annoyed than anything that my grandmother has tried reinserting herself into her life since my great-grandparents died in 2013.
Even without the abuse, she's an awful person. In 2005, my mom graduated with her masters. Her mother wouldn't take off work that day to see her walk even though she'd taken off a week to go see my uncle graduate marine boot camp in California a few months before. My mom was really upset & ended up not even going to her own graduation at all. She did not call my grandmother on mothers day a week after that. So my grandmother stopped speaking to her for 8 years and also told the rest of her family to do the same. So no one in the family talked to my mom for 8 years because my grandmother wanted to get back at her for not calling that day. But now that she's old and all of the people she was closest with have passed, she wants my mother to jump back into her daughter role. My mom says she just got used to living her life without her and it's really just a hassle to try to care now. I'm just afraid that when I tell her, she's going to feel guilty for ignoring the calls & letters.
Sorry again for long post - I guess this is my Sunday morning diary
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