I have a lot of beach feels. Maybe it's a sensory issue for me. As a kid, I hated the feeling of dirty hands and would always walk around with my hands balled up. My mom recently said she thought it was so cute but maybe there was something else going on there. Hm.
G will walk around with her hands balled up after she eats until we wash them. But yesterday I caught her licking DH's phone so she's selective about these things.
I think pre school graduations are dumb. I know I won't be able to take my kid out of it or not attend but I don't want to encourage that kind of thing. So dumb.
I think they are adorable. I can't wait to see my kid in a cap and gown. That being said, it's not like he's getting a party or anything.
This, no party but we might have a special McDonald's dinner or something on the way home
I love beaches and pools. Or I loved them pre-kid. Now it seems like such a hassle. We live 5 minutes from the beach and didn't go once last year. We only went when we visited my dad. Same with the pool - my mom has one at her condo complex and we went once last year.
Why a hassle? DD will play on a beach for hours all I have to do is sit there and read, periodically re do sunscreen and dole out juice boxes
I love beaches and pools. Or I loved them pre-kid. Now it seems like such a hassle. We live 5 minutes from the beach and didn't go once last year. We only went when we visited my dad. Same with the pool - my mom has one at her condo complex and we went once last year.
Why a hassle? DD will play on a beach for hours all I have to do is sit there and read, periodically re do sunscreen and dole out juice boxes
Getting DS changed, sunscreen, bug spray. Reapplying. Then having to do the reverse before we get back into the car. It's not as bad with the pool as the beach. He could play on the beach for hours but doesn't love the pool. We are going to make more of an effort to go this year because our taxes pay for it and it's so close. And DS keeps talking about it even though I'm not sure where he's getting it from.
And I have no qualms about eating on the beach. My best vacations were those with a bar beachside where they deliver everything to your lounge chair.
I love beaches and pools. Or I loved them pre-kid. Now it seems like such a hassle. We live 5 minutes from the beach and didn't go once last year. We only went when we visited my dad. Same with the pool - my mom has one at her condo complex and we went once last year.
Why a hassle? DD will play on a beach for hours all I have to do is sit there and read, periodically re do sunscreen and dole out juice boxes
same, as much as i prefer the pool we go every year to Sarasota and spend 2 weeks at the beach. DS loves it, plays i the sand, wades in the ocean. As long as someone is with him in the water, it's an easy day
lrmrtn, dress him in swim trucks and rash guard before leaving and use spay on sun screen to top up, then let him dry off before coming home and no changing required. I don't find it any more effort than going to the splash pad or going to the park in the summer.
UO with my doctor's office. You should tell someone the approximate wait time at the lab when they have small children. My kids needed lunch and I had to sit with DD2 for an hour.
I think pre k and k should do like a moving up party or celebration. Caps and gowns are too much.
I had no idea I cared so much about this. Lol
We had a special assembly and the head teacher basically said bye, good luck, get of school property. Then we all went down the pub with some teachers and got drunk. In the UK you only go to 2 schools, Primary and Secondary, finishing Primary was the same without the pub part.
This. Are preschool graduations a thing?? Why?? I'll be perfectly happy with No graduations ceremony before high school. I didn't even want to go to my PhD graduation but my mom forced me to go.
lrmrtn , dress him in swim trucks and rash guard before leaving and use spay on sun screen to top up, then let him dry off before coming home and no changing required. I don't find it any more effort than going to the splash pad or going to the park in the summer.
Getting my kid dressed and sunscreen on him is like and Olympic event.
lrmrtn , dress him in swim trucks and rash guard before leaving and use spay on sun screen to top up, then let him dry off before coming home and no changing required. I don't find it any more effort than going to the splash pad or going to the park in the summer.
Getting my kid dressed and sunscreen on him is like and Olympic event.
Getting my kid dressed and sunscreen on him is like and Olympic event.
i forgot you have a nudest!
LOL the biggest hurdle of getting out of the house on the weekends is getting DS dressed. Weekdays aren't great but they're better because it's part of his daily routine. I would just get him dressed first thing on the weekends but if he's home, he strips. He even refused pjs at BIL's house and I didn't fight him so the next morning he refused to put them and wandered around in just a diaper. Everyone thought it was hysterical.
LOL the biggest hurdle of getting out of the house on the weekends is getting DS dressed. Weekdays aren't great but they're better because it's part of his daily routine. I would just get him dressed first thing on the weekends but if he's home, he strips. He even refused pjs at BIL's house and I didn't fight him so the next morning he refused to put them and wandered around in just a diaper. Everyone thought it was hysterical.
My kid is the opposite. I tried a simple short tshirt outfit today, but she needed a dress, a skirt, and a pair of shorts. We were going to the doctor, so I wanted an outfit that was easy to take off and on... She's a little diva.
LOL the biggest hurdle of getting out of the house on the weekends is getting DS dressed. Weekdays aren't great but they're better because it's part of his daily routine. I would just get him dressed first thing on the weekends but if he's home, he strips. He even refused pjs at BIL's house and I didn't fight him so the next morning he refused to put them and wandered around in just a diaper. Everyone thought it was hysterical.
My kid is the opposite. I tried a simple short tshirt outfit today, but she needed a dress, a skirt, and a pair of shorts. We were going to the doctor, so I wanted an outfit that was easy to take off and on... She's a little diva.
I guess I should be thankful he doesn't strip in public, only at home. I guess he felt at home at BILs. It's why we end up staying home a lot on the weekends. I pick my battles.
I would like to go to the beach and pool with DS more often though. And he has to be in a rash guard and trunks because he's pasty like his parents.
LOL the biggest hurdle of getting out of the house on the weekends is getting DS dressed. Weekdays aren't great but they're better because it's part of his daily routine. I would just get him dressed first thing on the weekends but if he's home, he strips. He even refused pjs at BIL's house and I didn't fight him so the next morning he refused to put them and wandered around in just a diaper. Everyone thought it was hysterical.
My kid is the opposite. I tried a simple short tshirt outfit today, but she needed a dress, a skirt, and a pair of shorts. We were going to the doctor, so I wanted an outfit that was easy to take off and on... She's a little diva.
My kid is the opposite. I tried a simple short tshirt outfit today, but she needed a dress, a skirt, and a pair of shorts. We were going to the doctor, so I wanted an outfit that was easy to take off and on... She's a little diva.
I guess I should be thankful he doesn't strip in public, only at home. I guess he felt at home at BILs. It's why we end up staying home a lot on the weekends. I pick my battles.
I would like to go to the beach and pool with DS more often though. And he has to be in a rash guard and trunks because he's pasty like his parents.
Mine are super white too. Rash guards for lyfe. DD1 also needs a pair of panties on with her swim bottoms. I'm trying to explain to her that that's not how it works. #nevernude
Post by springbeduk on Jun 8, 2017 15:00:32 GMT -5
I don't like that bigger sizes of ice cream are only slightly more expensive than smaller sizes. Like when single is 4 or 5$ and double is only 1$ more. I understand that it makes sense because labor and overhead are the main costs to the business not the actual food but it still bugs me because I'm such a compulsive cheapskate that it makes me want to just buy the bigger size even though I don't want that much ice cream. (Especially because pp are right smalls and even kiddie sizes tend to already be big). Or even makes me want to just get one bigger ice cream and share with someone.
Post by springbeduk on Jun 8, 2017 15:02:39 GMT -5
I hate pools.
Mostly because chlorine. I could maybe be ok with UV treated ones or saltwater ones. But even then - crowding, excessive rules necessary, hard edges ... Not worth it.
We go to the beach every year for a week with in laws. They are members of a beach club. This means parking, pool, showers, food and bar on the beach it's awesome
is it a UO that eating food on the beach makes me want to die. I'm happy to sit at a proper table and eat pool side though
Agree.
You will be crunching on tiny grains of sand before you know it.
I think pre k and k should do like a moving up party or celebration. Caps and gowns are too much.
I had no idea I cared so much about this. Lol
We had a special assembly and the head teacher basically said bye, good luck, get of school property. Then we all went down the pub with some teachers and got drunk. In the UK you only go to 2 schools, Primary and Secondary, finishing Primary was the same without the pub part.
You are so right.
My last day in secondary...Head Teacher said to us during the assembly "if any of you shitbags think you'll do well in life, you have another thing coming".
My best friend (who was destined for greatness and a bit sheltered) cried ha ha ha.
Funnily enough, the following year he got sacked for being drunk (he was an alcoholic) whilst on a school trip with my sisters class.
Don't you think the British have very miserable school experiences compared to our American/Canadian friends?
For example:
Prom vs grim school disco with a tuck shop
Graduation Ceremonies vs a bollocking from the Head
College Football vs dad's race at sports day.
Cool yellow school bus vs the number 17 bus filled with pensioners, junkies and a random dog.
I can't stop thinking now about how much I dislike the beach.
Seagulls - bastards. Either swooping to steal your food or shitting on you. Here, they are now the size of dogs.
Sand - ends up in your mouth.
Sand #2 - gets stuck to your wet body and is agony to rub off. Worse for kids, who scream and cry like you are cheese grating their skin, but then get wet again two seconds later and get covered in it.
Looky looky men - is this a thing for you? Crazy men walking along beaches trying to sell you absolute fake/stolen crap. "Look look, you buy pretty Rolex beautiful lady". You cant avoid them or get rid of them. Avoid eye contact or fake sleep at ALL costs.
The sea - is freezing, tastes rank, is too forceful and rips your bikini off, always ends with a cut to my leg from either sharp shells on the sea bed or bits of rubbish floating by. Once I was in the sea and a dead sheep washed up. True story.
In fact, the only redeeming feature of a beach is that my hair always looks nice after a visit due to the free salt spray!
But...even then, it's not enough to make up for the fact I've been shat on by a seagull, ravaged by a looky looky man, been injured by a shell, ate sand and caught dysentery from a dead sheep.
lulu that was disturbing. I'm never going to the same beach as you described. I think of clear blue waters, or light houses, hearing the waves crash, and feeling warm.
lulu I'm not a huge beach person, but we go to very different beaches. I'm fairly certain I won't see any dead sheep. And once we are into summer the water isn't that cold.
I will agree with you on seagulls, they are little shits. I've been crapped on twice at the beach and once in the parking lot at the supermarket 😒 apparently it's good luck?
Post by SpinsOffResonance on Jun 8, 2017 19:22:31 GMT -5
I'm all for relaxing kid free on a Caribbean beach where the water is warm and clean.
New England beaches, not so much. I can't even dip my toes in the water because it's so cold, even in August. And going to the beach with kids is a PITA, I end up with as many bags as I would take on a week long trip. Then you have to somehow reapply sunscreen on kids covered in sand. Make sure the kids don't run off and drown. And G-d forbid they get any water in their eyes 😱
I went to the beach in Ireland once. I was 10yo and I still thought it was awful. Had to climb over giant piles of seaweed to get to the freezing water.
We had a special assembly and the head teacher basically said bye, good luck, get of school property. Then we all went down the pub with some teachers and got drunk. In the UK you only go to 2 schools, Primary and Secondary, finishing Primary was the same without the pub part.
You are so right.
My last day in secondary...Head Teacher said to us during the assembly "if any of you shitbags think you'll do well in life, you have another thing coming".
My best friend (who was destined for greatness and a bit sheltered) cried ha ha ha.
Funnily enough, the following year he got sacked for being drunk (he was an alcoholic) whilst on a school trip with my sisters class.
Don't you think the British have very miserable school experiences compared to our American/Canadian friends?
For example:
Prom vs grim school disco with a tuck shop
Graduation Ceremonies vs a bollocking from the Head
College Football vs dad's race at sports day.
Cool yellow school bus vs the number 17 bus filled with pensioners, junkies and a random dog.
Marching band vs recorder club.
Summer Camp vs Sunday school outing.
You are so right! I already envied TV high schools, they looked so much more fun. Although our leavers ball was pretty good, we had free glass of martini asti, canapés, and a cash bar.
Oh gawd lulu that beach description had me laughing 😂. I went to university in Brighton on the south coast and it's pebble beach, we'd end up drinking down there after a night out. So much better than sand
Group texts. Someone I'm not close with but has my number sent out a mass group text to all of her contacts asking for table cloths. I'm getting a "not me" or something similar response literally every 5 minutes.
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