Totally Tuesday randoms

[cupcakecutiern]

What's going on?

[cupcakecutiern]

Sitting on a 2 hour conference call. At least I'm at home

[Deleted]

4 month appointment today and I am going to try and catch up on TCF, it has been a while. Work and 2 kids and wanting all the sleep I can get at night has made it hard. :-(

[noname]

There is a new Mother Goose story time at the library here geared towards infants on Mondays. I was planning to go yesterday but DD2 decided to sleep until 9am which put her naptime right at story time. Of course today it is 7:45 and she is awake.

[flippinchica]

Parenting group today. Then some of us go to lunch afterwards I should stop by the post office to get stamps. We'll see.

[anaberry]

Stayed in from work today because baby's been sick and I have all the guilt. I wish I could quit soooooo bad.

[packmomma]

I have an appointment later today but until then W and I are going to be cuddling. He slept great last night but I was up all night sucking on cough drops and trying not to wake him up with my cough. He's started to cough a little too poor guy. So cuddling seems like a good plan.

[htuzzi324]

Mil's car melted the accessory belt to the engine, so I'm taking her to work and picking her up. But hey, she's filling my tank. Other than that we're not doing much. I'm still recovering from yesterday's tramadol reaction.

[elizabethnevadap]

Bedding needs to be changed, it's covered in formula.
All the clothes need to be washed. All.
Boxes of baby clothes need to be organized.
Dusting and vacuuming badly needed.
Instead I'm going to binge watch 90210 and cuddle with the cranky, drooly boy.

[shannonabigail]

Sitting at urgent care for a dot physical. It's going to take at least an hour.

[csb314]

Dec 1, 2015 8:59:20 GMT -5 packmomma said:

I have an appointment later today but until then W and I are going to be cuddling. He slept great last night but I was up all night sucking on cough drops and trying not to wake him up with my cough. He's started to cough a little too poor guy. So cuddling seems like a good plan.

Feel better! 

[csb314]

It's spirit week to celebrate the beginning of basketball season at the high school I work at. Today is "camo day." I can't tell which kids are wearing their normal clothes and which ones are dressed up. The joys of living in the boonies.

[amberlie]

Dec 1, 2015 9:13:11 GMT -5 @mrspanpan said:

J finally had a good night of sleep. He slept from nine till four, eight, then went right back to bed until 830. He had a couple small coughing fits, but I just picked him up and took him into the bathroom and turned on the hot shower for the steam. I didn't want to send him to day care so I took the day off. We won tickets to the Cavs game tonight so I'll be going with my parents and my sister while H stays home with the baby.

I may try to get some cleaning done today and plan out which Christmas cookies I want to make. I may bust the baby out of the house too. He hasn't left except to go to the ER since last week sometime.

I loled at how he "eight." Did you sleep as well as he did?? I hope he gets to feeling better asap!

[amberlie]

E fell asleep a lot earlier than usual last night. I took advantage and went to bed an hour earlier. She ended up waking after 2 hours. And then again. And again. She finally went down for a long stretch at 2. Then DF knocked the shower curtain down at 6 and woke her up. I just got her back down so I'm hoping for a long stretch.

[smore]

At home with C. He had a fever at 5 this morning. He couldn't settle or breathe through his nose. We did some suction and some baby Tylenol. Now it is baby snuggles all day. I did have to go into work to make sure things were ready to go for my sub. Which stinks because I had to take the baby with me.

[nimfalen]

Tl;dr: DH has a drinking problem and ruined Thanksgiving.

I haven't been around for a while. It's been a pretty rough week. We left for my mom's last Wednesday. Everything was ok until Thanksgiving afternoon, when DH and my brother started drinking. DH had way too much and started acting really obnoxious. He was trying to take T, but I wouldn't let him. He could barely stand up. He finally passed out, and slept through dinner. That was really embarrassing. Needless to say, he was miserable on Friday.

Saturday started off pretty well. We had to go pick up some things for SIL's baby shower. I asked DH not to drink. My cousin was going to be there, and he has a drinking problem. He doesn't know when to stop and has a really bad temper. Well, DH completely ignored me. He, my brother, and some friends sat on the deck and drank while the ladies were inside doing baby shower stuff. I refused to go outside. I didn't want to be around it. Long story short, DH and my cousin got into a fight, an actual physical fight. They were threatening to kill each other. Nobody really knows what lead up to it or what really happened. It was horrible. T was screaming. I have never been so scared in my entire life. DH was insane. All kinds of things from his past came up. He said some incredibly hurtful things to me and told me we could never come back to my mom's.

He finally passed out, and by Sunday morning he had no idea what happened. He apologized to my mom and told her we would definitely come back. DH and I talked a lot on the way home. He has a problem. He told me he won't be drinking anymore. I don't believe him, but we'll see. I'm so embarrassed and worried my family won't want to see us again. He needs help. But I don't know that I can convince him to get the help he needs. All I know is that cannot happen again. I can't have my daughter around that.

[tmclawchick]

nimfalen I'm so sorry, that's really shitty. My father ruined quite a few holidays with his drinking, sending you a million hugs. Do you think he'd be willing to try AA or talk to someone about it?

[nimfalen]

Dec 1, 2015 9:33:41 GMT -5 tmclawchick said:

nimfalen I'm so sorry, that's really shitty. My father ruined quite a few holidays with his drinking, sending you a million hugs. Do you think he'd be willing to try AA or talk to someone about it?

Thanks! I'm hoping so. We've talked before about him getting help. He has a lot of things to work through (childhood stuff, issues from his divorce). I think it's time to stop talking about getting help and actually do it. I've told him I'll do it with him and support him in any and all ways I can. 

[zonagirl]

So last Wed I went to Panera. Apparently I put my smoothie and my phone on top of the car while we were getting the baby in. I remembered my smoothie but forgot my phone. I think the otterbox kept it in tact when it fell off the car, but it could not survive being run over I got a new phone yesterday, but it sucks that I still owed 350 on the smashed phone. But I'm glad to be back!

[redandblue]

nimfalen, I'm so sorry you are dealing with this. I do hope that you H can get the help he needs. You are right in saying that your DD cannot be around that. Thinking of you.

smore, anaberry, packmomma, Sorry your LO's are sick. M has a little cold that has been trailing for a while. Stuffy nose (getting better) and a little cough. I keep going back and forth about whether or not we should pack up to go to the doctors. Part of me thinks yes, better to get checked out, but then then other part of me feels it's just a cold and they can't do anything for him that I'm not already doing. Plus we would be risking being around more sick people at the office. I will see how he is after his nap, and might give them a call.

@mrspanpan, when you decide about the cookies let us know. Maybe we can start a Christmas cookie recipe share thread soon? We did that on another board and it was fun to see what people were making and get some good ideas on new things to make!

elizabethnevadap, This...this was my day yesterday. Good news is M is stocked up on clothes for a few years and it's organized-ish now!

Nothing too much going on today for us. Working on some knitting crafts for xmas and figuring out what we still need to get on our list for xmas.

[csb314]

nimfalen, Sorry about your holiday!! I hope that y'all can work it out and H can get the help he needs!

Also, hope all of the sick babies get to feeling better! There is literally nothing more pitiful than a sick baby!

[Deleted]

posting and running.

I got sucked into shutterfly. I have created our wedding album (finally) and a mug for H for Christmas.

Every year I do an ornament exchange with my girls. This year is the first year of Christmas without our friend Laura, who lost her fight to cancer back in January (some of you might remember me posting about it way back then). I decided to make this years ornament on shutterfly and have been going thru hundreds of pictures of her with all of us. I am so sad right now. And I am at work. (which is why this is a post and run, I need to do something productive.) But the ornament turned out great. I hope it doesn't make everyone cry though. I really really miss her and think about her just about everyday.

[runningmommy519]

nimfalen I am so sorry you are going through this. I wrote a simpler post last week about my husband. Actually it was a week ago.,,, I'm lucky at least that when my husband is drunk he's a happy drunk. But when he drunks he drinks enough to get sick often. I know everyone is going to give you great advice. They recommended al-anon for me. I haven't decided if I'm going to do that or not. My husband says he's done too. I am also not convinced. He hasn't had a drink since that night. It's been a week. But he has gone long periods before.

[zonagirl]

nimfalen so sorry you are dealing with this! I hope your H is able to get some help!

[smore]

nimfalen, hugs. I hope your husband finds the help he needs and you have our support.

redandblue, thanks. We went for a well check yesterday. C had been congested for a few weeks. The doc said it was just a cold. He also got shots. I think the cold and vaccines just have him run down. I hope he feels better soon. My heartbreaks for all the sick babies.

I would be down for a cookie recipe exchange! I love baking. My kitchen is super tiny so I don't to it too much. However my mom and I will bake here in a couple of weeks in her huge kitchen with her double oven.

[runningmommy519]

@sarawalk what a great idea. I'm sure it will make some of your friends cry and that's ok. I made something like that for a friend of mine when she lost her mother. The photo plaque us still on her Mattel.

[Deleted]

nimfalen, you've been pm'd

[lemon200]

nimfalen, Sorry you are going through that! Hopefully he finds the help he needs!

I just came back from a week away and of course the first thing DH does when he comes through the door is complain that I have stuff all over the living room. Nevermind the fact that when I got home there was so much dirt throughout the house (he does construction) that I couldn't walk barefoot and had to sweep. Lately it's been like everything we do or say annoys the shit out of the other one. Now he's sick because he never got his flu shot (which I asked him to do 15 times. Hopefully this is just a phase of hating DH but I regret coming home.

[ampaints]

nimfalen I'd been thinking about you. Hugs. I hope he's open to getting the help he needs.

[motownthrowdown]

@janetheconquerer that sounds like a beautiful tribute to your friend. Sometimes crying is helpful, so don't worry about that.