Tuesday Chitchat

[lilyelayne]

Hope everyone is safe in the winter storms!

[lilyelayne]

seamonster hope you got lots of good sleep last night!

Nothing on the agenda today. DH went to the grocery last night while I cooked supper, so today's chore is already done. Yay!

[agm04]

What are you guys cooking this week? We're still staying with in-laws, so I'm really out of the habit of cooking and need to build next week's grocery list and menu! Our floors will be done tomorrow night (supposedly), so we can move back into the house and try to get everything in order Thursday. I pick up the new au pair Friday afternoon. God bless my boss...I was trying to explain everything going on and he was like, "so why don't you just take Thursday and do what you need to do? You know I don't care." Such a huge relief.

Unrelated...are your kids full of attitude lately? Idk if it's because we're on week 3 of being completely out of our normal routine or if it's developmental, but omg. My sweet, agreeable girl has been pretty difficult. She's great anyway, of course, but whoa. I'm hoping she's back to normal once we get home; when it's just the two of us (which is rare given current circumstances), she's usually calm and sweet. Other times, it's lots of, "NO, I DON'T WANT THAT!" "NO, I ALREADY DID THAT!" "NO, DON'T SAY THAT!" I know the 'nos' are normal, but it's the attitude.

[kartish]

I'd like to go and do something fun today. DH goes back to work soon.

V right now is playing with my camera and is saying smile over and over.

[dmorgendorffer]

Snow day here, although it looks like we're going to get less accumulation than was originally forecast at least.

agm04 DD doesn't really have an attitude but she has some major mood swings - little things will completely set her off and then she's over it again a few minutes later. Basically any time we tell her no she flips out for a few minutes.

[aggiebug]

agm04, I would say a lot of both. S yells "no touch me!!!" frequently these days and covers her eyes/ turns away when I ask her to do something she doesn't want to do, but also being that out of routine is tough for anyone especially little ones.



Today is a slush day, we got mostly sleet and a little snow. H is working from home unfortunately so I am packing, entertaining a toddler who wants to be outside and trying to keep them out of H's hair. Not much fun. And of course H works at the kitchen table since we don't have a better place really which makes it even more difficult.

[aggiebug]

anyone started thinking about Easter baskets yet?

[seamonster]

DS slept like a champion with just a short wake-up when H was getting up. I think he'd fallen out of his bed again and woke up on the floor (I ordered a universal bed rail because his convertible crib doesn't have one and he's not learning bed boundaries because he sleeps through falling out of bed).

H's flight got cancelled due to weather and the alternative flight he was booked on was pulling out of the gate when he got there. He came home and slept a bit before going back to the airport for a rental car and driving. Hopefully the rest of the trip goes well. DS was acting out a bit last night, but nothing too terrible. I'll probably indulge him this week and let him watch Daniel Tiger so I can clean up after dinner.

[seamonster]

Menu this week:
Pot roast and veggies
Cottage pie with extra veggies
Salmon and veggies

[kartish]

agm04 V definitely is getting more attitude lately, but it's his acting out and hitting that are troublesome at the moment.

Dinner tonight is crock pot tiki masala.
Tomorrow is either soup supper at the church or leftovers.
Thursday is steaks on the grill.
Friday corned beef, cabbage and potatoes.
Saturday out at a anniversary dinner.
Sunday will be a freezer casserole.


aggiebug we don't do big easter baskets. V will get a small chocolate bunny and then some candy and coins in his eggs. He'll also get a new outfit for Easter Sunday.

[mishka29]

I would like to keep eater low key if that's possible. We get a few big plastic eggs for 'hiding' and they have a chocolate inside. Usually there is a small gift but I don't even know what I would get them. Between birthdays and Christmas it seems like there has been an endless stream of presents.

[seamonster]

I'm doing what I did last year for Easter -- fill plastic eggs with snacks. I'll "hide" them this year. The bunny only brings mama chocolate. Daddy can get some when he believes.

[seamonster]

My grand plans to catch up on my Netflix queue have been subverted by my need to sleep. And DS falling out of bed. Come soon rail.

[agm04]

kartish can you share that tika masala recipe please?! i'm so impressed that anyone at your house is cooking right now!

seamonster can you imagine sleeping through falling out of bed? i hope the rail arrives soon!

thanks for the feedback on toddler attitude. hopefully at least at little bit of that will subside when we're home.

[seamonster]

agm04 I don't know how he sleeps through it. Good thing the toddler bed is so close to the floor. I think being a deep sleeper is why he doesn't know the bed boundary yet.