SAHP Check In w/o 11/13

[penguin129]

Achievements:

Challenges:

Plans for the week?

How are YOU doing?

Q's/Vent?

QOTW- What are you looking forward to the most this holiday season?

[cam]

Achievements:
Making good progress on some projects.

Challenges:
Had a horrible migraine from the moment I woke up yesterday, so the entire day was pretty much wasted. I have yet to be productive today.

Plans for the week?
Just realized I need to figure out a Christmas card idea for this year (we do a photo card), so that is now added to the plan. LO and I have plans with some friends. We have some projects we are working on too.

How are YOU doing?
Aside from migraine and pain, not too bad.

Q's/Vent?
Nope.

QOTW- What are you looking forward to the most this holiday season?
Hanging with my family. LO is so excited to decorate for Christmas, which we do right after Thanksgiving.

[penguin129]

Achievements: getting the house back in order after being away for the 8 days HL was in the NICU and then the week of appointments everyday last week

Challenges: AG is starting to have a little attitude. I need to start putting my foot down with her which is hard because the last thing I want to do is upset her after being separated from her for 5 days.

Plans for the week?
Monday- Story Time and Visit from Home Nurse
Tuesday- Wic Appointment
Wednesday- nothing yet
Thursday- Mommy and Me
Friday- play date at the park
Saturday- Birthday Party

How are YOU doing? I'm doing ok. The best thing I can do for myself and AG right now is to put us back onto our normal schedule. Before all this happened with HL staying in the NICU I was going to try and stay home until January. There is just no way that is going to happen. None at all. I'm still trying to process everything that happened and get a handle on breastfeeding/supplementing with pumped milk.

Q's/Vent? I finally have a double electric breast pump and HL was cleared at her birth weight on Thursday. Now I'm having a hard time trying to figure out when to pump/not pump. I don't think HL is getting enough when she nurses at the breast so I really don't know what to do.

QOTW- What are you looking forward to the most this holiday season? Seeing AG's reaction to everything. She is really into Santa this year.

[younglove316]

Achievements: We had a great party yesterday for DD2's first birthday

Challenges: Listening. DD1 is just blatantly ignoring me and not listening at all lately. She's driving me nuts.

Plans for the week? Playgroup today, possibly story time tomorrow, 1 year apt for DD2, little gym for both girls, a huge craft/Christmas shopping expo this weekend, and Disney live

How are YOU doing? I'm ok.

Q's/Vent?

QOTW- What are you looking forward to the most this holiday season? Seeing how excited DD1 gets now that she is understanding it all

[namastebiotches]

Achievements: we cleaned up all the leaves in the backyard over the weekend. We have two huge maples trees & it's quite the job.

Challenges: some state tax stuff has got me upset today so now it's just a waiting game

Plans for the week? just OT tomorrow & volunteering in DS' classroom. Oh yea, on Thursday I have a neurologist appointment & then there's a thankful tree craft at the library that looks super cute. It's adults only so either dh or I will have to go. DH says he wants to so he can make it for me. It's a good deal either way, the supplies are included & it's free. Kinda like real branches in a mason jar with some other decor.

How are YOU doing? hanging in there. this morning was rough. started with forgetting DS' lunchbox. it's a good thing we live only a minute away

Q's/Vent? I guess my vent is that it's getting too cold too fast & then will be semi-warm. Just choose a temperature range! blahh

QOTW- What are you looking forward to the most this holiday season? decorating, baking, going to events & seeing DS' face when we experience everything. It's the first year that he really has a thorough understanding of things so it should be a good time.

[ashiscute]

Achievements: we had our first full vacation as a family of 5 with a plane ride and a week in a hotel. It went really well! All of the kids had a good time at Disney.

Challenges: DD woke me up at 2am because she had vomited and it didn't really stop. Stomach viruses are the woooorst and now and I have to deal with everyone getting one or maybe not. Ugh.

Plans: don't really have any. Today I had a parent teacher conference for DD that went really well! Plus we closed on our house refinance and will save $100/month plus we get $1000 back now. The rest of the week is sort of crossing fingers no one else gets sick and dealing with that.

I'm doing meh. Vacation was great but I was tired and ready to be home. Now with DD sick I'm all kinds of nervous.

Qs/Vent- how much do you push your kids to make friends? DD really struggles with this and I don't know how much to help her or follow her lead.

QOTW- EVERYTHING!!!!! I love this time of year. I think we're going to decorate for Christmas Saturday which I love! I love baking, and seeing decorations, and listening to Christmas music, and wrapping presents! I am so excited to see how happy/excited the kids are this year.

[younglove316]

ashiscute I hope your DD feels better soon and no one else gets it!! We are going to Disney in February and I'm really excited about it!

[ashiscute]

Nov 15, 2016 7:56:22 GMT -5 younglove316 said:

ashiscute I hope your DD feels better soon and no one else gets it!! We are going to Disney in February and I'm really excited about it!

It will be great! I was surprised at how well they all did and how much they liked it. LO is 16 months and liked every ride and loved the characters! And because your girls are so close in age they'll be able to ride all the same things.

The only day we had true meltdowns was Epcot. It was hot and crowded that day and there isn't a ton of kids stuff there. But they loved the other 3 parks.

[brachysira]

With respect to encouraging friendship (it won't let me tag)... I don't know. DD is almost 4. Every day she tells me who won't play with her at preschool, says she had to play alone the whole day, and says she only has one friend, but I'm pretty sure that's not true. I try to give her the language to make friends. "Can I play?" and I try to advise her to try to play with other children and not just hang out with one person at school, since she says that girl often tells her that she does not want to play with her.

DD is very social and friendly, and it's a hard world. When we are together at a playground or the library, she's always approaching kids and trying to get them to play, but it seems like very few children actually want to engage with her and they tend to be surprised when she attempts to play. I suspect this is partly age and just that a lot of SAH kids are really used to just interacting with their moms and siblings at her age. I'm trying to give her more ways to engage, like "do you want to help me make a cake for these dogs," or "that looks neat, can I help you build that castle?"

If your DD is shy instead of pushy like my DD, I wouldn't push too much, but I would try to organize playdates and lots of opportunities for free play with other kids so that she can get practice. You really only need one best friend, although of course, a few alternative friends makes this relationship a little easier to navigate, since it can be heartbreaking if your best friend suddenly has another great friend and you are all alone.