Football Sunday Spam

[dreemkin]

Let's hear it!

[dreemkin]

No wake up last night! I'm feeling so refreshed! Off to work now. But I'm still rooting for the bears in spirit. It sucks missing the games sometimes. I'll be checking my phone periodically if I can! Fx for my fantasy teams too.

Have a good day everyone!

[aggiebug]

I have had an awful time sleeping this week. It's not the child it's me. I am exhausted and can't fall asleep, I wake up in the middle of the night and can go back to sleep for an hour and if anything wakes me up after 5 I am toast. Ugh. We had a good time at the baseball game yesterday. DD wore her earmuffs with no problem which was great. Baseball isn't usually noisy, but the college football game we will be attending at the end of Oct will be.

Boo working the weekend dreemkin . You work in a lab right? Are you associated with a hospital? Or a research lab? I should know this I know.

[mishka29]

Ughhhhhh I'm paying for the drinks last night. A lot.

[hollydfromtn]

Woke up to a wet baby laying in bed beside me. Somehow the sheets were completely dry, but the side of S' jammies was soaked. I guess we need to size up again for night time. If he wouldn't wake up to eat at least 4 times every night, he wouldn't have so much pee. I DNW to have to go back to changing him MOTN.

Off to church this morning and then H is going to pick up a piano that was being given away on our local FB yardsale page. FX it's in decent shape. DH has been wanting one for a while now.

[pitdigger]

Sleep training seems to be going reasonably well. We've got a bedtime routine going that seems to help (we've gone from 4 hrs to wake up to 5 hrs to wake up in one night) and we only have the one wake up. That unfortunately is taking an hour, at which point I nurse him down and he sleeps for another 4 hrs. During that wake up DH changes him and then I try to rock him back to calm, so I'm hoping we can get that shorter or just keep increasing the time until first wake up.

So the way cable works here is silly and it just snags channels from all over. So, I get no rugby today because it's all being shown on TSN2, not TSN and we don't get TSN2. I might have to pay for streaming. Boo!

Edited for correct channel.

[tortor4]

dreemkin sucks you have to work today. Good luck with your fantasy team!
aggiebug ugh I've been the same way with waking up way too early and not being able to get back to sleep. So annoying.
mishka29 sorry about the hangover, but hopefully it was tons of fun and worth it!
pitdigger I'm glad the sleep training is working! FX for even longer stretches soon!
hollydfromtn boo for a wet baby but yay for dry sheets!

Our craft sale went pretty well yesterday! We didn't sell as many as we usually do at the flea market but it definitely wasn't a waste of time. And we have a really big event next weekend so I got lots of good display ideas to use. So that's what we'll be doing today! Hope everyone has a good day!

[emilyz320]

aggiebug I'm sorry you aren't sleeping well, I hope it gets better soon

We are not up to much today. Had a busy day yesterday with a parade, fair, target trip and BBQ/fire at our house with friends. Dh is doing his Sunday am shift now, dd is napping and I'm going to clean up. I think when she wakes up I will take her in the jogging stroller and start couch to 5k. Is anyone else working on it? I used to run 5ish miles regularly when I was young and cool and living in Boston. I want to get back there.

I need some tips for how you and your partners split up the housework. It has been a struggle in our house with dh's new job.l and the school year starting. I feel like I am taking on the majority of the responsibility for keeping the house clean, stocked with food and organized. I have tried a few different things to get dh to take on more - talking to him, making him a honey-do list... Nothing seems to be working. I'm starting to get annoyed and resentful. How do you guys all work it out?

[hollydfromtn]

Well it was bound to happen sometime. S just ate his first grasshopper. DH looked down at him while he was playing on the rug and realized he was chewing on something. DH was only able to fish out half of it. I had literally just looked at him before and there was nothing in sight. I have no clue where he found the grasshopper.

[kartish]

emilyz320 I did the couch to 5k awhile ago with my brother and sister. I felt the pace was good, but we didn't complete the program because my brother moved we lost motivation. as far as getting my husband to help out with chores I usually just ask him to come help me when I'm working in the kitchen or folding laundry or stuff like that. If he is home alone its really up in the air whether he'll do something from a list or not so you're not alone.

[lilyelayne]

pitdigger love tit for sleep improving.
emilyz320 can you write out a list of all the weekly chores and then sit down and choose which ones you each want to do? One of my friends did that with her ex, and it didn't matter when it got done as long as by Sunday evening of each week all the weekly tasks were done. So she did hers throughout the week and he spent all of Sunday morning powering through his.
hollydfromtn crunchy.

[lilyelayne]

Also I think @nolagal was doing couch to 5k before her foot (ankle?) injury? How's that going, btw?

[kartish]

hollydfromtn well, that's protein anyway, right?

[johanna]

Good morning!

dreemkin - yay for no night time wake ups.
aggiebug - sorry about your sleep trouble. I find reading at bedtime really helps me to calm my mind and relax so I can get to sleep.
pitdigger - I'm glad sleep training is going well.
hollydfromtn - grasshopper. Oh boy. It's amazing how quickly you start to shrug these things off.

Today I went to the early church service. I haven't been in forever but really like it when I do go. I'm going to try to go more frequently. Those of you who go on a regular basis, do you bring your LO to the service or do you use the nursery?

This afternoon the in laws are coming to watch DD so I can work around the house and as a trial run for their weekend with her next weekend. Ahh! I can't wait for our weekend away (though I'm going to miss DD a ton!). H is livin' it up in NYC with some friends today.

[dmorgendorffer]

DD was quite the hit at the grocery store this morning, although one woman was going on and on about what a big boy she is and I didn't bother to correct her.

All we have planned for the rest of the day is laundry and football. I won the office football pool I'm in last week which makes me a little less excited for this week, no way I'm winning twice in a row.

[dmorgendorffer]

Anyone have any good gift ideas for someone in their first trimester? The only thing I can think of is a Bellaband. Its a birthday gift for someone due in April.

[dmorgendorffer]

dreemkin good luck with your fantasy team today!

aggiebug I can commiserate on the sleeping issues, although I feel like mine are related to anxiety about DDs MOTN wake ups. Sometimes I am just laying there waiting to hear her.

emilyz320 I have started training for a 5 mile turkey trot this thanksgiving, I'm not following the couch to 5k program per se but I have been doing some easy runs and gradually upping my mileage every week. I'm just trying to take it easy and enjoy running like I used to. It is discouraging to be so slow and not have the endurance I used to but now I just focus on trying to do a little better than I did the week before.

johanna are you close to NYC? I'm in north jersey and work in Brooklyn.

[johanna]

dmorgendorffer - I'm in Connecticut. It's about an hr by metronorth into grand central for us and we live a 5 min walk to the station. It is very convenient but I still haven't brought DD into the city. Maybe this fall if I can fit it around nap times. Also, I get that all the time at the grocery store with people saying DD "is such a cute/big boy." I don't correct them. Ha.

[PikoPiko]

emilyz320, we have 2 lists for each person for chores. One is things I'm doing this weekend and the other is things I want the other person to do. We used to argue about chores a lot, but since we had the lists, it's clear who's not doing anything around here! We also talk about who's primary for LO on Sat and who takes Sun. This weekend I had Sat, so I barely got anything done with a sick kiddo attached to me whenever he's not napping; DH went around clearing his list of chores. Today he has DS, so I'm now working on my chore list, taking care of laundry.

Our inside vs outside chores are loosely divided - I take care of things inside the house except for vacuuming and cleaning the shower, DH does garden work and errands like grocery shopping. But most of the time, Costco and target trips have become our dates. Lame, I know.

[aggiebug]

johanna use the nursery! The ladies (and gents) that work the love those little ones and I think it can really help them AND you. I am glad you are getting back to church, we have found such a strong support system through our church.

And yes to the reading. I usually read until my eyes hurt lol, but this week has just been strange for sleep.


dmorgendorffer dang elusive sleep! I am sorry you are dealing with it too. I remember having MOTN wake up anxiety.

As far as a gift. Hmm maybe a baby bargains book? Or one you found helpful. And a gift card to a restaurant like panera. I kno first tri I was so exhausted that making food was hard.

[lilyelayne]

johanna DS stays with me for the church service. I go to the early service (830) and there isn't a nursery then cause other than me it's all senior citizens! It's also the shorter service, only ~50 minutes. There are probably only 20 of us or so, and everyone is so thrilled to see DS, even when he's chatty I do step into the narthex if he needs to nurse.
When he was younger I'd wear him and he'd sleep the whole service, but now he's well entertained. I bring a paci and a quiet toy/teether.
DH chooses not to go to church. I don't have any problem not having back up.

[aggiebug]

emilyz320 I am sorry you are struggling to find a balance with H it can be so tough. I don't think they mean to, but it seems like they don't think of housekeeping the same way. I would start off by saying how you feel. Keep it positive and about you not him. So "I feel like the burden of household chores fall to me and I am beginning to feel frustrated and resentful." not "your lack of help is making frustrated". Focus on you wanting to come up with a plan to help the balance so you can both relax and have time together.

[lilyelayne]

dmorgendorffer gift ideas: gift card for spa place (could use on manicure, pedicure, facial, whatever she wants), freezer meals (there are two restaurants in my town that sell frozen meals or casseroles, or you could make some), or if she's a FTM I'd do movie theatre gift cards or something similar - I remember going to the movies a lot because I knew it'd be less common with a newborn.

Obviously I like giving experience type gifts more than stuff.

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Sept 20, 2015 11:11:07 GMT -5 johanna said:

dmorgendorffer - I'm in Connecticut. It's about an hr by metronorth into grand central for us and we live a 5 min walk to the station. It is very convenient but I still haven't brought DD into the city. Maybe this fall if I can fit it around nap times. Also, I get that all the time at the grocery store with people saying DD "is such a cute/big boy." I don't correct them. Ha.

I get that all the time about DD too. I don't correct them most of the time either, because 1) I don't really care, and 2) I've found that even when I do, a significant number still call her a boy, so what's the point? I don't dress her in super girly stuff, and my MIL has commented many times that people will mistake her for a boy. Well, the days where she is in something unmistakably girly, it still happens! Some people just have a default in their mind I think. All babies are boys unless otherwise specified.

[mishka29]

emilyz320 DH and I uses to fight about this stuff all the time. Then we sat down wrote out the chores and ranked them by level of effort and divided them between us based on the points. Excel was involved and a chart lol

That was years ago and the wheels have fallen off a bit regarding that plan. Since I'm off I try to take care of a lot of things but once I'm back to work that's going to change because I don't work full time only to come home and have to do it all myself. GL!

[seamonster]

I got a roll on stretch mark reducing gel. We'll see if it works. I'm embarrassed how bad my stretch marks are and I had some from before I was pregnant. Figure I might as well give it a shot.

[dreemkin]

aggiebug Hospital lab, microbiology dept.

[aggiebug]

Sept 20, 2015 16:06:02 GMT -5 dreemkin said:

aggiebug Hospital lab, microbiology dept.

I thought so. Those labs never sleep.

[emilyz320]

Thanks ladies. He did do a lot of his to-do list today but we are def gonna have to sit down and break up the chores. We had done it a couple years ago when we were renting his aunt and uncles house, and basically he did all the outside chores plus dishes, and I did everything else inside plus grocery shopping. But now we rent from a landlord and there are no outside chores so it's not evenly distributed. I know we will work it out.

[lilyelayne]

badw0lf hoping for a better night tonight.
DH & I are watching the doctor who premiere now!