The fourth day randoms

[veggiemo]

Good morning! I went to visit a friend last night who had a baby 2 weeks ago. I helped her start to learn how to use her k'tan wrap. She just sent me a pic saying "we did it!" and she's got him positioned nicely. So I'm feeling good about that.

H works until midnight tonight so I'll have to do dinner/bedtime routine by myself. I've come up with a new easy dinner to do when I'm on my own. I've been buying these pre-cooked lentils from the produce section that come in a pouch. Then I just toss them with some rotini pasta and some canned diced tomatoes. The kids devour it and I feel better about it than if I just made boxed mac and cheese (which we still do that sometimes too, don't get me wrong!)

[holliberry28]

Sorry madymoiselle. I doubt the decision was made based on your accent. Still sucks though.

I'm sure the first week is the hardest carrots. Glad M is adjusting well - I'm sure you'll do great, just give yourself more time to get acclimated. That's a lot of change in a short amount of time and I'm sure any one of us would be feeling overwhelmed.

[holliberry28]

EI scheduling is so rough. We now have a great Speech and OT, but the SI (Special Instruction) is not able to establish rapport with M. He's still crying every time he comes, whereas, he's happy and plays with the other two providers now consistently. So now I'm on the search for a russian speaking SI, because that's the only other variable. I just don't know if I should have her continue coming until we found a different SI, or let her know now that we'll be going with someone bilingual.

[jillywilly]

I'm sorry you're bummed, madymoiselle. I really hope it wasn't because of your accent.

carrots, I'm sorry you're having a rough transition back to work. I really feel you on the having to prove yourself being part time thing. I've been feeling some pressure lately to go back to a five day work week (I'm at four right now, with Fridays off). I just got the registration for next year's day care for DS, and I'm debating whether I should register him for Fridays. On one hand, assuming I get pregnant, it'd be really nice to have the option of doing Fridays with just a new baby, and I'd also work five days a week up to maternity leave. On the other hand, I really, really like my Fridays with my kid (or at least, most of them!)

[tiffbot]

Sorry to hear that madymoiselle! And carrots best wishes to you, I'm sure it's so hard. Hope you can find your groove soon.

[billyhorrible]

Apr 27, 2017 10:55:32 GMT -5 madymoiselle said:

I mean I kind of understand why having a white foreigner is not helping in that case, if you want to inspire young american girls some of them minorities, picking me would be a pretty bad PR move !

I'm sure it's not that. I'm betting they had a bigger response than they were expecting and are trying to get representatives from different areas. You might just be "unfortunate" to be in an area where multiple women volunteered for the program.

[mrsmonogrammed]

Worked 1/2 day today because my grandma needed me to come get C. And I'm off on Monday so it's an extra long weekend for me!

Sorry about your missed opportunity madymoiselle and for your rough start carrots!

[tiffbot]

I just got an email from a grade 12 teacher in town wondering if I'd be interested in speaking to her female psych class about premature complications/NICUs/low birth weights in babies based on my experience. I feel both honoured (as someone she sees she wants to speak to her class on a sensitive subject female to female) but emotional at the thought and I'm not sure how I feel! I think I'll do it though.

ETA well my H got the email asking him to pass along as she suggested both of us to her class and the class requested me 😳

[billyhorrible]

Apr 27, 2017 13:28:22 GMT -5 tiffbot said:

I just got an email from a grade 12 teacher in town wondering if I'd be interested in speaking to her female psych class about premature complications/NICUs/low birth weights in babies based on my experience. I feel both honoured (as someone she sees she wants to speak to her class on a sensitive subject female to female) but emotional at the thought and I'm not sure how I feel! I think I'll do it though.

ETA well my H got the email asking him to pass along as she suggested both of us to her class and the class requested me 😳

I bet you'll be awesome with this.

[veggiemo]

Apr 27, 2017 13:28:22 GMT -5 tiffbot said:

I just got an email from a grade 12 teacher in town wondering if I'd be interested in speaking to her female psych class about premature complications/NICUs/low birth weights in babies based on my experience. I feel both honoured (as someone she sees she wants to speak to her class on a sensitive subject female to female) but emotional at the thought and I'm not sure how I feel! I think I'll do it though.

ETA well my H got the email asking him to pass along as she suggested both of us to her class and the class requested me 😳

That is such an honor! I think you should do it!

[tiffbot]

Thanks ladies!! That really does help. Once the initial emotions from first reading it died down I knew I could do it. I just emailed her back to say I would do it, so just waiting for some details.

[musicfrk2002]

9pm and I'm a zombie already. J was up from 11:30 - almost 2 am last night, so I had a total of 4 hours of sleep.