It's another Monday

[yl]

Feb 20, 2017 11:47:14 GMT -5 lovemyirishtwins said:

My advice, if they have an animal they love it is worth it to buy two.

We tried! He has rejected all of the other ones! He gets OFFENDED if we try to offer him one of the backups. He grabs it and throws it across the room.

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Feb 20, 2017 12:05:37 GMT -5 yl said:

Feb 20, 2017 11:47:14 GMT -5 lovemyirishtwins said:

My advice, if they have an animal they love it is worth it to buy two.

We tried! He has rejected all of the other ones! He gets OFFENDED if we try to offer him one of the backups. He grabs it and throws it across the room.

I am having to flashbacks with how I was with my Lisa Lamb.

FYI - she sits on my nightstand now. She is too beat up to sleep with. Her beans and stuffing would probably fall out.

[lovemyirishtwins]

Feb 20, 2017 12:05:37 GMT -5 yl said:

Feb 20, 2017 11:47:14 GMT -5 lovemyirishtwins said:

My advice, if they have an animal they love it is worth it to buy two.

We tried! He has rejected all of the other ones! He gets OFFENDED if we try to offer him one of the backups. He grabs it and throws it across the room.

This sounds like my child! Have you tried washing it and making it looked used?

Also, i kind of love the book Knuffle Bunny for this reason.

[yl]

Feb 20, 2017 12:07:58 GMT -5 lovemyirishtwins said:

Feb 20, 2017 12:05:37 GMT -5 yl said:

We tried! He has rejected all of the other ones! He gets OFFENDED if we try to offer him one of the backups. He grabs it and throws it across the room.

This sounds like my child! Have you tried washing it and making it looked used?

Also, i kind of love the book Knuffle Bunny for this reason.

Yes...we have 2 backups and we throw them in the wash every time we do a load of his clothes. He still knows. It's ridiculous.

[italianmommy]

Went to the gym this morning for the first time in two weeks. Didn't do anything crazy, but I power walked on the treadmill for a couple miles. Then went to free library storytime with a friend. Now I'm assembling crock pot carnitas for dinner. Yummmmm.

[Tgrrl]

Feb 20, 2017 12:05:37 GMT -5 yl said:

Feb 20, 2017 11:47:14 GMT -5 lovemyirishtwins said:

My advice, if they have an animal they love it is worth it to buy two.

We tried! He has rejected all of the other ones! He gets OFFENDED if we try to offer him one of the backups. He grabs it and throws it across the room.

This was me as a child. I could not stand being tricked! My blanket and kitty could not be duplicated. Side note I could also tell the difference of hot dogs. I would only eat Oscar Meyer. My Grandma tried to trick me by putting knock off hot dogs in an oscar Meyer package, but I could tell the difference by looking at them. According to my Grandpa, I smacked my Grandma in the face with the fake. #hotdogsnob
In all seriousness yl, I hope getting his bear back tonight gets you both good sleep tonight!

[Tgrrl]

lawandorder, I don't understand people who make those comments. What do they hope to accomplish?

[yl]

R and his bear have been reunited! I had to waste a potentially productive naptime, but I don't even care. He's now just walking around the house with it hanging out of his mouth.

[360blessings]

Feb 20, 2017 14:13:59 GMT -5 yl said:

R and his bear have been reunited! I had to waste a potentially productive naptime, but I don't even care. He's now just walking around the house with it hanging out of his mouth.

Awww, yay!!!!! Hope you both get some sleep tonight!

[360blessings]

Our dog got out of her kennel today. No accidents (YAY!) but her mass casualties included a plastic bear, banana, head of lettuce and a turret of one of the kids' wooden castles. That banana was Noah's favorite pretend phone. lol.

[rachydc]

A and I are watching Yo Gabba Gabba for the first time. Wtf is this!? I feel like I'm on a bad acid trip!

[lonegalathome]

Feb 20, 2017 16:22:44 GMT -5 rachydc said:

A and I are watching Yo Gabba Gabba for the first time. Wtf is this!? I feel like I'm on a bad acid trip!

That is the appropriate feeling. Turn it off before she loves it and you are stuck with it.

Try bubble guppies or something less creepy!

[Tgrrl]

@traceyos, that looks amazing! I wouldn't know where to start!!

[LydiaDeetz]

Aww, cmon lonegalathome, "Don't bite your friends" is a classic! lol

[mrsbeachcat]

Did you guys know that Toby from "This is Us" wears a fat suit!?

Bill fell asleep on me and keeps whimpering. His little sounds are hurting my heart. He had a slight fever this morning but after some advil was back to himself, but then he rejected mac & cheese for lunch, which NEVER happens. Please pretty please don't be sick baby.

[ncjulia12]

NCU, but have to know:

Is it normal for normal pediatrician bills/insurance to be a total nightmare? Or do I just suck at adulting?

I just typed out the whole story but it was super long and boring and detailed. TL/DR: My kids' bills are always crazy-mixed up. I'll pay a copay at dr (or sometimes they just say, oh, we'll put it in the mail) and then months later get crazy bills. This has happened at four different pediatricians over the past 5 years. (One was horrible, one moved, and most recently a new local place opened so we started there so we wouldn't have to drive an hour to a pediatrician.)

So just tell me: am I crazy? Why is this always so ridiculous?!?

[ncjulia12]

Feb 20, 2017 17:24:04 GMT -5 @justinslovo said:

Ahhhhh! I just had an instance where it makes me think my neighbor friend (read this as only current local irl friend) may be homophobic. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. I want to cry.

I'm 85% sure my very best mom friend voted for Trump but I'm doing everything I can to never find out.

[360blessings]

PSA - kindle edition of the boxcar children books 1-12 are available on Amazon for $3.99 today. Great if you have older kids.

[mrsbeachcat]

Feb 20, 2017 17:24:04 GMT -5 @justinslovo said:

Ahhhhh! I just had an instance where it makes me think my neighbor friend (read this as only current local irl friend) may be homophobic. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. I want to cry.

What happened?

[rach]

Feb 20, 2017 16:22:44 GMT -5 rachydc said:

A and I are watching Yo Gabba Gabba for the first time. Wtf is this!? I feel like I'm on a bad acid trip!

This is the correct feeling. Just go with it. It's totally kid crack.

[mrsbeachcat]

@justinslovo likes for solidarity. My SIL said some pretty... weird stuff about me painting Bill's toenails at thanksgiving and it has bugged me ever since!

[mrsbeachcat]

Feb 20, 2017 18:29:14 GMT -5 forevermorgan said:

I took 4 kids to the National Constitution Center and Ben Franklin Museum today for their free admission day. I wish I'd been able to enjoy it more but. Kids. My older 2 earned their first junior ranger badges. They are excited to go to more National Parks to earn more badges. I kinda am, too.
lawandorder - we have a large Mexican population where I am. I'm trying to do my part by just smiling and saying Hi.
My area is almost segregated - Mexicans shop in their own stores and have their own churches. I think that's weird but I don't think anyone around me feels that way. That's weird, right? Shouldn't we all just shop at the same stores and go to the same church?

ideally, sure. But it's also important for people to have a place to buy food and cultural items that they can't get at their local Ralph's.

[yl]

Feb 20, 2017 19:11:53 GMT -5 forevermorgan said:

mrsbeachcat - I totally get that they appreciate having a place to pick up cultural items but you will not see a Mexican Spanish speaking family shopping in Giant or Acme. They even have their own playgrounds for their kids and a separate soccer club.
I realize the language barrier probably keeps them going somewhere they are more comfortable and they have their own circle of friends and all. It just really strikes me how separate we are.

FIFY

[lonegalathome]

@wafflesfriendswork check that mom guilt at the door. Ds1 who is 6.5 is the only one who very occasionally asks why some moms stay home and some go to work. He'll occasionally ask if I can stay home a day here and there but it's more dependent on his mood than really preferring me at home

[ashiscute]

Feb 20, 2017 19:46:23 GMT -5 lonegalathome said:

@wafflesfriendswork check that mom guilt at the door. Ds1 who is 6.5 is the only one who very occasionally asks why some moms stay home and some go to work. He'll occasionally ask if I can stay home a day here and there but it's more dependent on his mood than really preferring me at home

And my 6 yo is annoyed that she has to come home after school and can't do the after school program from the Y or take a bus somewhere.

@wafflesfriendwork I really think you're projecting your guilt onto HH here. IMO kids are happy and go with the flow and we're the ones doing the worrying.

[wineandcake]

Feb 20, 2017 18:51:37 GMT -5 mrsbeachcat said:

@justinslovo likes for solidarity. My SIL said some pretty... weird stuff about me painting Bill's toenails at thanksgiving and it has bugged me ever since!

She wouldn't do well at my house. My boys always have painted toe nails, every time I do mine they want theirs done too. Mac loves it and thinks it's the greatest thing ever if I do finger nails too.

[mnj05]

Today was a wasted day and tomorrow will be too. At least my presentation was short and went well. One of my coworkers who insists on acting like the middle schoolers we teach, was in her true form today. Blaming her idiocy on others and storming off at inappropriate times. How old are we?!

The flu has hit hard and more people are dropping like flies. I'm afraid it'll hit my house while DH is out of state next week. Positive thoughts, vitamin C, clean hands, and lots of prayers. Hopefully we can steer clear.

[lindylogana]

@justinslovo mrsbeachcat I have painted my sons nails because sometimes he asks when I do his sisters. He always asks me to remove it when I'm done because it freaks him out but I never tell him no. My dad and my brother have given me shit for doing this and I have no problem calling them out on that BS. ugh it just makes me so ragey.

[imavera]

forevermorgan, it's definitely not segregated like that here at all. Granted, Houston is the most diverse city in the country, so we'd have to have lots of pockets to make that sustainable. We do have the cultural grocery stores, but they love when other people come in! There's definitely those people that complain about our Spanish population, but I like to remind them that TX was Spanish/Mexican (both countries- not combining them there) before it was Texas/US (Also, France, but, for some reason, nobody complains about them...)

[ncjulia12]

mnj05, it seems like y'all have a lot of PD days! Is there a set number of student days and PD days? This year, we only had PD in the week before school started and then a workday each at Thanksgiving, winter break, and spring break.