Post by billybumbler on Apr 18, 2017 15:01:42 GMT -5
My baby has been napping for over 3 hours. This has NEVER happened! I think it's the swing.
This has allowed me to go through all of DD's clothes and all of her toys. It was amazing. I threw out every stained article of clothing, every broken crayon, sharpened every pencil, glued broken stuff back together. I feel so accomplished.
My mom and I went to carters since I had some returns to make and got a bunch of 3 month outfits for nothing! Even left with a store credit of $25. Then went through pier 1 and got some yummy candles. Once LO1 is home from daycare gonna take all 3 kiddies on a walk. 74 here today!!
We went for a nice long walk! I also managed to get most of the house picked up and finished cleaning up from this weekend. I'm having a big group over for dinner tonight (one of them is bringing it) so I'm excited to see my friends and to introduce them to LO Tomorrow another friend is coming over with her little boy so we'll have lots of visitors over the next few days!
Post by littleredfish on Apr 18, 2017 16:51:38 GMT -5
Well the day keeps getting better. I called to set up care for the kids on base and they've never taken on a child younger than 4 months before so she needed to even get confirmation they could take all 3. Then said even if they could, she was not sure they would have room for all of them at once. Seriously? I'm never going to have a 100% alone moment for the next 6 months at this rate.
TMI Tuesday Apr 18, 2017 17:36:03 GMT -5via mobile
Post by dancerspose on Apr 18, 2017 17:36:03 GMT -5
Sorry been a little MIA, been reading to catch up.
I do have a TMI to share. I seem to have developed a rash which also may or may not be a yeast infection under one of my breasts. Awesome. It's gross, it smells. As if I wasn't feeling gross enough with all my other post partum body issues...I'd assume it's from the added weight dragging my boob down and heat/sweat. But c'mon. This ever happen to anyone?
dancerspose this happened to me in another location at about 3w pp. 😳 I used some cream leftover from a yeast diaper rash 😳😳 Now I am very careful to dry the area off completely.
dancerspose, I had a rash on my side boob for the better part of 2 weeks when B was about a month old. It was awful. I ended up going to an urgent care clinic to get a prescription strength topical antihistamine. I couldn't wear bras and had to buy those silicone lilypadz things so I wasn't leaking all over the place. So much commiseration for you. I hope it goes away soon.
Post by sweetieheart32 on Apr 18, 2017 19:24:49 GMT -5
My TMI for today is that I took the baby in her bouncy seat into the bathroom with me so I could bounce her to keep her from crying so she wouldn't wake the napping toddler while I was going #2. Proud moments. We walked the mall tonight and got a few steps in pushing the stroller. That was nice. Now DH and I are tag teaming bedtime in the hopes that we'll get an hour of uninterrupted TV time on the couch together.
TMI Tuesday Apr 18, 2017 20:42:13 GMT -5via mobile
Post by shawnabm1320 on Apr 18, 2017 20:42:13 GMT -5
Beauty and the beast was so good. I'm so glad we went. We had fun even though I was a little worried about leaving my kiddo. She was fine, though. Refused the second bottle they tried to give her, but we got home 10 minutes later, so no big deal.
ETA: this theatre just got nice reclining seats and they were amazing. All theatres should have reclining cushy seats!
littleredfish you'd think they would have spots for every child whose parent is deployed!
Right? It's run from the regular base daycare which offers a discount to military but takes civilian families too. You would still think they could find a temp care worker to come on staff during the times there are deployments so they could offer care to those families all the time. I only get 8 hours free a month as it is. At our last base it was 12 OR $100 reimbursable per month to get somebody in my own home. So much more practical.
My TMI for today is that I took the baby in her bouncy seat into the bathroom with me so I could bounce her to keep her from crying so she wouldn't wake the napping toddler while I was going #2. Proud moments. We walked the mall tonight and got a few steps in pushing the stroller. That was nice. Now DH and I are tag teaming bedtime in the hopes that we'll get an hour of uninterrupted TV time on the couch together.
No kidding, I think I've had just as many BMs solo as I have holding or conversing with one of my children since becoming a parent. I wish I was exaggerating but 50/50 is actually a generous split I think.
littleredfish you'd think they would have spots for every child whose parent is deployed!
Right? It's run from the regular base daycare which offers a discount to military but takes civilian families too. You would still think they could find a temp care worker to come on staff during the times there are deployments so they could offer care to those families all the time. I only get 8 hours free a month as it is. At our last base it was 12 OR $100 reimbursable per month to get somebody in my own home. So much more practical.
So let me see if I got this right...
They have DH deployed early leaving you at home with 3 kids, one a newborn. You live on base yet they can't offer you daycare for your kids because space/age but they allow civilians to place their kids there.
That's just messed up. I'm sorry you have to deal with that because having your hubby deployed isn't hard enough.
Right? It's run from the regular base daycare which offers a discount to military but takes civilian families too. You would still think they could find a temp care worker to come on staff during the times there are deployments so they could offer care to those families all the time. I only get 8 hours free a month as it is. At our last base it was 12 OR $100 reimbursable per month to get somebody in my own home. So much more practical.
So let me see if I got this right...
They have DH deployed early leaving you at home with 3 kids, one a newborn. You live on base yet they can't offer you daycare for your kids because space/age but they allow civilians to place their kids there.
That's just messed up. I'm sorry you have to deal with that because having your hubby deployed isn't hard enough.
Yup and the discount to military at the base daycare is 2%. We live large up in here. They said they'd check for me if any of the staff knew if any of the families were going on vacation any time soon to give me an idea of any pending spaces opening. I don't need care for a whole day, just 2 or 3 damn hours to get shit done! I wouldn't want to use all of my 8 hours in one day anyway. What's the point of giving me 8 hours a month if you can't even guarantee I'll get that much?
Post by dancerspose on Apr 19, 2017 6:12:09 GMT -5
littleredfish how unbelievably frustrating. I can't believe they provide so little support in the way of child care. Is there anything the FRG can do to help, any suggestions from them? (I ask this knowing full well that my own experiences with the FRG were pretty awful and I never needed anything from them...I have a fear that if DH gets one more promotion I'll get stuck running one...)
Post by littleredfish on Apr 19, 2017 9:30:40 GMT -5
shellbell yup. 8 hours. And if I take them to a weekend program no matter how long I leave them there I forfeit 4 hours. So if I take them and only want to leave them for 2 hours, still counts as 4 used. Not that it matters much there's only 1 weekend program a month.
dancerspose this program was proposed and started by the FRG. Lol and believe me I wish I was running this one because everywhere I've been they're as useless as tits on a bull.
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