My landlord just called she is sending her son over to fix the door. She couldn't even give me a timeline as to exactly when. Just at some point
He'll show up the minute you start to poop.
Or when both kids start do something that ensures I will be yelling at them or saying something like "Colton please don't touch your brothers penis. It's not a toy" "Travis your penis won't just disappear if you stop touching it for a bit". "Yes I know he grabbed your penis, if you would stop playing and touching it then maybe he would leave it alone. "
Honestly? That's most jobs (aside from the money thing & daycare thing).
Have her put in writing how she wants you to do things, that way you have something to fall back on.
I know it's hot as balls, but you might have to wear pants until you find work appropriate capris. That's what I had to do.
i honestly wish I had your set up. It sounds really fucking sweet.
Plus one. Shorts are not work appropriate. She might have not said anything expecting you to realize that and stop wearing them. Daycare- sucks, but sometimes you have to make it work. DH and I will split sick days to lessen the impact. I also have a few backup sitters in case of emergency. And stuff getting changed- yea that happens daily. It is super fustrating, but it is pretty common everywhere.
My shorts that cover my knees are nothing compared to her yoga pants at work and greeting potential clients without shoes on. I'm still trying to figure out the daycare shit. My backup plan died and my second backup plan can't physically help. Alex's parents are a whole other story. I don't have many options here. I'm just over all this now.
Thanks for all the advice everyone. I really do appreciate it.
Re: magical sick kids daycare- the family housing at my university had one. I thought it was a great/terrible idea. It was only for kids too sick to go to regular daycare. The Sniffles Club or something.
We have one for our employees at the hospital. I've never sent my kids because I'm always afraid they will catch something else worse while there.
DH and I were on our front porch enjoying 7&7 high balls. The families next door and also across the street both have four-year-old boys who like to play together, mostly in the next door neighbor's yard. They were out playing (adults supervising from their front porch).
The boys crossed over to our yard (out of sight from neighbor's porch) and we said hello and just made small chitchat. One of the boys actually walked up onto the porch and then acted like he wanted to enter our house. He asked if he could play with DD's toys (he knows the water table is in back) and we said no, not tonight. Other boy tried to get him back into his yard, but Boy 1 kept lingering, saying stuff like "I love you" and "I'm gonna kiss you." I was joking back with him and saying I'm an old lady and to save his kisses for his mama.
Eventually DH got impatient with their lingering and stood up to go inside. I stood up to follow and Boy 1 tried to enter as well. DH had to physically block him from entering. DH and I both kindly told him to go back to his yard or the neighbor's, but he was trying to resist. Eventually he backed away, turned around, looked me straight in the eye, and said "You're a bitch!" DH and I were all like
Boy 2 didn't hear the bitch part, and had already gone back to his yard. We entered the house, boy 1 rang our doorbell just to act annoying, then left.
So there you go, I've been called a bitch by a four-year-old.
vasc it doesn't sound like those parents were really supervising at all.
I agree....I think they thought the boys were just in the driveway between our house and theirs, but obviously they weren't. But, Boy 1 actually lives across the street. I don't know that family well, but when I've heard the parents talking/yelling at him in their yard and driveway, it's not always with the most four-y-o appropriate language.
Before all that happened, the kids were just in the yard, and Boy 1 saw his dad pull into the driveway across the street, but made a point to turn around to Boy 2 and say "I'm not going home! I'm not going home!" So although his language wasn't appropriate, I kinda suspect that life might not be all that peaceful or loving in his own home.
M really doesn't "get" pacifiers. She just chews them. I gave her one because she wants to nurse to sleep, but she's not hungry (nursing on and off or the last 1.5hrs) and is in nursing time out for excessive pinching. Now she's mad at me for giving it to her.
Post by stargazer763 on Jul 20, 2015 20:21:49 GMT -5
heelibrarian I like the fabric, but I had no idea there was a Meteor print. I was looking at the pattern going "that doesn't look anything like a meteor ..." /facepalm
I'm super torn. G just got a party invite to a classmate's party this coming Sunday. We went to the party last year, and the birthday boy is on the spectrum and it was all kids from his other program (I guess? he is also in the public school system and the classmates from that were all on the spectrum). It was by far the most intense kid's party I've been too and G had fun but not playing with other kids, just getting one on one time with the hired entertainer because the other kids were not handling the stimulation very well. When I was talking kids' parties with my close friend, her daughter has Downs and she got all teary and said that it really means a lot to special needs parents when "normal" kids come to their parties. So I'm super torn. I don't know the parents at all and I just spent the last party watching G play, and it's a summer weekend day with TWO birthday parties the day before. I really don't want to go but I feel super guilty RSVPing no...
ETA: also it's 10-1 and I don't feel like Arlo can really go too as he wasn't invited so it's splitting up the family for one of our precious together days. I think that's the biggest drawback for me.
While I want my special needs kid to be treated like any other kid, I also know that it's summer and people make plans in advance. I feel like if you only give people a week or so notice you can't be upset if they don't all show up. Plus if I already had two parties in a weekend, there's no way I'd want to go to a third.
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