Friday-Saturday-Sunday Holiday Weekend Randoms

[lilyelayne]

[lilyelayne]

DH is up with the baby while I am lazy in bed. I love having him home on a weekday We're going to town later to hang out with my cousins who are visiting from NoLa.

[pitdigger]

Checking in after being spotty, sorry ladies. G was refusing naps and conking out at 5 pm only to wake up for the day at 3:30 am. We finally got two (short) naps yesterday and a nearly normal bedtime for a 5 am wake-up. While early, that is at least minimally acceptable. He's got some serious red bum and that's no fun.

We're doing Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, just the 3 of us. Tonight DH and I are out to dinner for my birthday (Sunday) since we're going to a Grey Cup party on my birthday and DH has deemed pub food unacceptable. And, as an early Christmas present, I get 2 nights off next week! I'm going unaccompanied to my gym and rugby holiday parties! I wish I had some sparkly shoes, but I'll survive just putting on a nice dress and silly heels again.

[lilyelayne]

pitdigger glad your sleep situation is improving! And yay for parties and nights off!

[danitaec]

Went out this morning about 7ish, not exciting to find any "deals" I had my eye on. The roads were empty, and the stores had everything! I guess the intense shoppers did their thing last night. I got the things I was after, and a little extra, and am feeling no stress! It's kind of weird.

Eating leftover lunch at my parents', then hopefully making an outdoor Christmas tree. Still don't know what the plan is with the inside Christmas tree; there's not a lot of room for baby + tree...

[kartish]

At work again today. Our sitter called at 2 am this morning to let us know she had food poisoning and couldn't watch V. So my husband is home with the baby today, since it's a mandatory day for me today. And hopefully DH doesn't get written up, but we had no way else of taking care of the baby.

[dreemkin]

Ugh, raining today and it's foiling my Christmas tree plans

[WittyLittle]

No thanksgiving or black friday here so not much to report! Listening to jake refuse to go to sleep in his crib. He never usually does that when i put him down for the night so I'll forgive him. Odd child

Have a great rest-of-the-holiday-weekend everyone!!!

[mishka29]

Today mil came with me to take the girls to the mall to get their photo done together...I had a groupon! So big mistake to book it on Black Friday ugh what a mess.

LO was really not into the whole but DD1 did pretty well but slowly went downhill and eventually just said I'm done. But I got a good pic and I ordered 4 magnets so I could get 4 different poses with that.

Unfortunately it took so long that I wasn't able to run out to do a quick errand and now I have to take both crazies with me to toys r us later. BUT I need to get my price adjustment today for the car seats we bought. I'm getting $200 back so it will be worth the trip.

[pitdigger]

lilyelayne, I'll celebrate more if it becomes a trend.

Also, we went to the Dr. about the bum: yeast. We've got a prescription cream and hopefully this will start to clear up.

[seamonster]

The worst part of traveling is the messed up sleep from being in an unfamiliar location. DS could not settle himself at all last night and I don't think tonight will be much better.

The thread in Parenting about the 10 month old who can escape from his crib has me hoping DS doesn't figure that out anytime soon.

[aggiebug]

Hola. We went for a hike today. It was such a beautiful day to be outside and DD did great. However we confirmed we want a hiking pack for DD it was tough with the carrier we had.

Now I hungry! Time for leftovers

[cougarette]

Week I'm pooped from Thanksgiving and shopping today.

We headed out around 9am, which is late for us. Usually we're getting home at 9. We went to both the mall and the outlets, so we had to struggle to find parking twice. But it was worth it.

Then when we got back I finished off some shopping online.

[mishka29]

Man taking care of 2 kids is a lot of work. I guess it didn't help that I went to a toy store but I got $200 on a price adjustment. We were there for an hour while DD1 ran around and touched everything and was driving a little car around the store lol.

[cloe111479]

Dh went to Home Depot when it opened for the deal on the little kitchen for our niece.

Then when he got back I went out to the mall around 8/9 am. I swear that is like the sweet spot for Black Friday shopping. I still got door busters at both Macy's and jcpenney. ($30 for 750 thread count king size sheet set). I parked with no issues and checked out just as easily. We got a really good start on our lists.

Then the 3 of us went to Home Depot for our tree. We started decorating and dh got all the lights up outside.

A really good day.

Tomorrow dh heads to Baton Rouge for the last LSU game. Dd and I are going to do some shopping at different places tomorrow. Hoping to find some new boots for me and get stuff crossed off the list.

Sunday we are doing my family thanksgiving since we didn't Thursday but my mom has all the stuff. My grandma is moved out of icu and in a regular room. She should be out in a few days.

[pitdigger]

G slept until 6 with only one wakeup at 4! He fell asleep dor the babysitter, then woke up for about an hour to play with us, but then down.

I've got turkey to roast today since we moved our festivities to tonight.

[Deleted]

Today is busy; two concerts with our choir then 3h car trip to my parents because tomorrow the whole family is coming there.

So far today everything has gone wrong; it took forever to fix my hair and get dressed, then I had to pack for the weekend, then DH and I ran around packing stuff for DD and managed to forget everything despite of this, so we were late going to MIL for kid drop off. And that ment that DD had to eat on the train and I had to nurse by pulling up my (non-BF friendly) dress all the way and use DD to cover me up. And we forgot to bring any BM to MILs, so now we just have to hope that DD can cope without it for 5 hours. Ugh. I hate running around like this. Sorry, rant over.

Eta and my throat hurts and I haven't practised my singing properly. Ok, now the rant is over

[maryxc1]

We are at DH's grandparents' house for the second part of the weekend and, per her usual, DD was up at 6:00. She and I are hanging out in the living room trying not to wake up the other million people asleep in this house. Easier said than done with an active baby. In true mother of the year fashion, I haven't changed her dirty diaper because she usually fusses when I do that. She's not concerned. Hopefully her skin isn't either.

[aggiebug]

@alyllyra eesh I hope it goes well. I am sorry it has been such an adventure to this point.

[dreemkin]

So we tried to go cut down a tree yesterday and it was a disaster. First of all we came to a screeching hault on the HIGHWAY bc the exit we were taking just so happened to be the same exit as an outlet mall. Then it got dark. Fine, we'll use flashlights. It'll be fun... We finally get there and head out to a field. Well bc it rained earlier in the day it was extremely muddy and our SUV and my IL's rental car got stuck in mud, badly. So the boys had to push us out which was not working but finally the three of them got us both backed up enough to hit some non muddy ground. Ugh what a night! After all that, we ended up just going home with no tree

Working today which means I miss the IL thanksgiving. Part of me is sad but the other part of me is excited to get home to a house to myself for a few hours! Now I just have to get through work with this cold.

[aggiebug]

maryxc1 that is the worst about being somewhere else. It's so hard to keep them quiet. I like my morning routine at home but it's so tough away.

[aggiebug]

dreemkin that sounds like a disaster! I am glad you got the cars out and made it home in one piece.

[aggiebug]

Child and I are enjoying our morning snuggles and nurse session this morning. She is practically asleep. That is what happens when she starts waking up am good and a half early.

I have no idea what is going to happen today. H is off to run at the local state park and apparently he has to go shopping for my birthday present so I guess it's just me and DD today.

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Thanks aggiebug I hope so too. Nowhere to go but up, right? Right?

dreemkin I'm really sorry, that sucks! It's like everything just piles up, doesn't it?

[dreemkin]

Thanks guys. It was nerve racking at the time but we were all laughing about it too. It'll go down as "the mud thanksgiving" haha. I just wish I had a tree...

[lilyelayne]

cloe111479 glad your grandmother is doing well.
@alyllyra yikes what a morning. Hope your concerts go well!
dreemkin what a crazy adventure. Hopefully you get a tree soon.

[lilyelayne]

Staying at home today, woo! We were at my grandmother's house most of yesterday hanging out with my cousins. I should probably get DH to pull our Christmas stuff down but I'm just going to work on my novel instead.

[Deleted]

Thanks lilyelayne! The concerts went well, although my voice kinda gave up in the end. Glad this day is almost over!

[pitdigger]

Turkey was a success! So were the spriuts gratin! G decided to gnaw on a quarter of a raw sprout. He liked it, the little weirdo.

Our tree got delivered and it's up and resting. Lights go on tomorrow and maybe the ornaments if there's time.

[danitaec]

Got our fake tree up today. So far we don't have any kind of barrier, but little man has learned what "no" means from staying with my mom, and when we say it he quits what he's doing and pouts.

Also, just walked in while my husband was doing bedtime. Baby's laying on the changing table alone with a bottle while husband is closing drapes and turning on the monitor. No. That's not how we do bedtime AT ALL.