We are still at my parents house (day 3 with no power) and I'm pretending to still be doing work so my Mom will continue to watch LO. I finished 15 minutes ago but I'm enjoying a little bit of 'me' time right now. I'm going to catch up on the internets and milk it for another 15 minutes.
Though i commend this highly i have to say you got squat. I once went to work and watched movies, went shopping and had coffee with a friend, came home and told DH how floored i was from a busy day . Im a terrible wife ... Hopefully youre still chilling!
I dont judge the late bedtime. My 3 year old goes to bed at 10. I worked my butt off to get her on a different schedule, but thats just how her internal clock runs. Its exhausting and I would change it if I could, but I can sympathize with having a night owl of a kid if thats the case.
We actually chose that as her bedtime! 10ish to 10ish works best for our lives. BONUS: You can go out to eat or a concert and it not mess with their schedule!
Confession: I kind of hate those of you who post pics of your child and I can see from the background that your house is all neat and organized. My house is a disaster lately. I need to burn it down and start over at this point.
This is me when I walk downstairs every morning recently.
I was going to post a pic of my bedroom just to make you feel better, but nope nope nope that's an over share haha. We haven't even taken down the PnP and DS has been in his room since the beginning of May. Eta: and I can't take it down cause it's full of laundry.
I was going to post a pic of my bedroom just to make you feel better, but nope nope nope that's an over share haha. We haven't even taken down the PnP and DS has been in his room since the beginning of May. Eta: and I can't take it down cause it's full of laundry.
Ours is still up too, but I think it will stay up for a while because it's convenient to put DS in it when we're getting ready.
ETA: That quoted really awkwardly. I think I fixed it.
I guess I have a confession based on this thread. My DS doesn't go to bed anywhere close to the time most of your LOs do. DH doesn't get home until late and I am a SAHM, so we've adjusted our schedules to maximize our time with him. DS gets plenty of sleep though.
This is how it works in our house. DH gets off at 10pm. LO goes to bed around midnight. We all sleep in. LO wakes up once for a bottle and diaper change then goes back to sleep until noon.
I usually only wash it if I know it fell on/in something disgusting, or if it fell on the floor in a public place.
We were at a Breakfast on the Farm event and there was a little girl in front of us that dropped her paci in the dirt. Mom picked it up, wiped it on her pants, and popped it back in LO's mouth... it was in the dirt. WHERE COWS POOP. This was my face:
I just woke up the baby laughing at this. Thanks Obama.
I wish I had a later to bed baby! O has to be in bed by 6...he doesn't last any later and I even Googled how to push back his bedtime and nada. He gets so worked up and over tired if I try to push it back even a half hour...I guess I'm going to be up with him at 6am everyday and just need to get used to it.
FFFC I have double standards for others when dealing with my baby. What I'm ok with one person doing is not ok that another does it too. It was a hard pregnancy and labor and nicu stay and I'm still holding on to some issues when dealing with the people who hurt me during that time and that comes up when they are around O.
I wish I had a later to bed baby! O has to be in bed by 6...he doesn't last any later and I even Googled how to push back his bedtime and nada. He gets so worked up and over tired if I try to push it back even a half hour...I guess I'm going to be up with him at 6am everyday and just need to get used to it.
So DD has a bed time of 7:30 be is he said so. I had no say in it. Trust me I wish both of us could be out of the house later but she has made us pay several times for attempting to do so. No judgement for later bed times here.
FFFC I have double standards for others when dealing with my baby. What I'm ok with one person doing is not ok that another does it too. It was a hard pregnancy and labor and nicu stay and I'm still holding on to some issues and that comes up when others are around O.
Like what?
I'm being cryptic I know. This goes as far as worrying about them reading our board because they asked about how to join before and it freaked me out. It didn't help that the one time I shared about the difficulty during O's birth on here and mentioned a specific event that out of no where a random person came in here and told us that we should think about it from the other people's perspective and people with boys need to understand.
I wish I had a later to bed baby! O has to be in bed by 6...he doesn't last any later and I even Googled how to push back his bedtime and nada. He gets so worked up and over tired if I try to push it back even a half hour...I guess I'm going to be up with him at 6am everyday and just need to get used to it.
this. If DD isn't in bed by 730 at the latest, it is miserable trying to get her to sleep. It does suck for DH because by the time he gets home from work, showers, and eats something, he only sees her for like 2 hours. We try to do a family dinner but that is hit or miss.
This is maybe more an UO (or maybe just an O) than a confession: I don't understand chain smoking. We had to move all our stuff (chairs, umbrella, stroller, etc) at the beach because two chain smokers put their stuff down right in front of us. It's 2015. We know the effects of smoking tobacco. I don't get it.
This. My SIL has breast cancer for the 2nd time in her life. Her mom died young of cancer. And SIL still smokes a pack a day. As if she needs more cancer triggers in her life.
Post by misshart00 on Jun 26, 2015 16:40:53 GMT -5
I am a terrible mother and I'm going to cry now.
We went to the zoo today and when we left, H buckled in DD while I put DS in the car. When we got home, I went to get him out of the car seat and he wasn't buckled in. Epic mom fail.
I have another one. I don't want to start DS on solids until 6 months because I am lazy. I like the convenience of breastfeeding. DNW to prepare and clean up anything more than I have to right now.
We went to the zoo today and when we left, H buckled in DD while I put DS in the car. When we got home, I went to get him out of the car seat and he wasn't buckled in. Epic mom fail.
But I will be double checking from now on.
I did that when LO was really little. I cried for an hour. I felt awful.
I wish I had a later to bed baby! O has to be in bed by 6...he doesn't last any later and I even Googled how to push back his bedtime and nada. He gets so worked up and over tired if I try to push it back even a half hour...I guess I'm going to be up with him at 6am everyday and just need to get used to it.
this. If DD isn't in bed by 730 at the latest, it is miserable trying to get her to sleep. It does suck for DH because by the time he gets home from work, showers, and eats something, he only sees her for like 2 hours. We try to do a family dinner but that is hit or miss.
It doesn't matter how early I put DS in for the night, he'd always wake up after 30mins-45mins. Then he'd only go back down after 9.30pm. I consider 9.30pm his real bed time. He wakes up several times at night to feed anyway, the definition of bed time is arbitrary.
I secretly hate all of these STTN stories. I'm burning with extreme jealousy here.
So I don't think everyone who waves the confederate flag is racist. Ignorant? Yes. Racist? No.
I lived in a small fairly affluent town where those flying the flag really did mean it as a rebel thing and a heritage thing. There was so little racism, if any, that the privileged white don't get what the flag represents for some or how prevalent racism is still.
Eta not saying I agree with them I just can't say they are all racists.
So I don't think everyone who waves the confederate flag is racist. Ignorant? Yes. Racist? No.
I lived in a small fairly affluent town where those flying the flag really did mean it as a rebel thing and a heritage thing. There was so little racism, if any, that the privileged white don't get what the flag represents for some or how prevalent racism is still.
I totally get this. People can get swept up in the idea of heritage and the way that the Civil War is taught in Southern schools, they just don't get it. What bugs me is when these people don't educate themselves and insist that anyone who dislikes the confederate flag is trying to take away their history or whatever.
dacora I completely agree. I will admit if this discussion had come up 5-10 years ago I likely wouldn't have seen the issue with the flag. As I have grown up and seen more of the world I have worked hard to open my eyes and see things from others perspectives.
I just can't call them racist based on their opinion.
I try and keep lo up till 9/9:30 so he can see his dad, but many times he is passed out by about 7 and angry if he wakes up. We do have to get up him up at 6:30 during the week, so its a long day for him.
I secretly judge one of my friends and her money management. She hasn't worked full time since her LO was born and I can't imagine that her DH makes much more then mine. They are potentially buying a house down the street from their current, beautiful, fully modern finished house that they have only been in for 2 years. The reason is because it has .5 of a bathroom more then their current house. They do stuff like this all the time, then complain about credit card debt. The house they are buying is like 120k more then our house. I don't understand how they remotely pay for that, unless her parents are chipping in a huge amount. Every time she complains about money(often) I want to smack her. I'm sorry, you can't not work, buy new cars, have a way nicer house than me, and complain about not having money when you are in my house, that literally has holes in the walls because DH is updating the electrical himself. Your a smart girl make some smart choices. ugh.
@holachica I think what aggiebug was trying to say (and what I was agreeing with at least) is that people who like or fly the flag aren't necessarily racist (yes MANY of them are), just ignorant. I'm certainly not sticking up for them, especially when they refuse to listen to anyone trying to explain why the flag IS racist.
There is a lot of what I'd like to call 'brainwashing' here in the South, and folks really just don't seem to get it. I really don't consider my in-laws racist, despite their opinions on the flag, they're just stubborn, old, and fiercely Southern.
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