Monday Randoms 12/21

[stinybean]

Good morning ladies! How are you all doing?

(Gifs to be added later, tapatalk is not cooperating.)





Eta: yay gifs!

[stinybean]

Today is my last work Monday of the year. Only two more days after today to get through until vacation starts. Phew I'm so looking forward to not being with my class.

I spent hours yesterday baking cookies for my administration. Only one tray burnt and one recipe had to be redone. Pretty good since this is my first year baking completely on my own. I'm surprised MH didn't start twitching with the amount of crap out on the counter.

Today we will be taking J for the renal U/S to check her kidneys due to the UTI. FX she's all good.

[stinybean]

LT for short week, not sick baby. What's wrong @wwprestige?

[erbear]

Happy Monday! I'm teaching today and tomorrow and then I'm done until January!

LO is absolutely constipated, and I feel awful. I have h giving her more prunes today and a warm bath/belly massage. Mil was lecturing me on how I should keep suppositories around for times like this and I was just like, no. No I shouldn't. Thank god she can't just go to a store while she's here and get one.

[Widget123]

I busted out my winter coat for the first time this season, but I'm probably going to put it back in the closet when I get home again. Looking at the weather forecast, Xmas eve high in the mid 70s, then dropping off but not dramatically. I guess I can officially conclude that we aren't getting a white Christmas. I'm a little disappointed.

[hannahl201477]

I'm so mad at DH he helps out so much when he is home. But I never ask or expect him to MOTN since I SAH. But damn it I feel so bad I was finally starting to fall asleep when Mal decided he needed a bottle. DH refused to do it. I really wanted to hit him.

[mcp6286]

Widget123 same feelings about our 67 degree Christmad. Boo!

+1 on being so happy about Christmas break! My school gets two full weeks, so today is my first day off! Unfortunately, I still have to go in for a few hours to meet with my supervisor about our curriculum maps for the spring but hey, at least there's no kids!

[holliberry28]

Hope your LOs feel better in time for Christmas budders, @weprestige, and Kristykristyleelee.

Good luck at the appointment today stinybean. FX all goes well.

@jemomma, M was up at 5 am too. But didn't go back to sleep yet. MIL assigned to try to keep him up til 8 am so he doesn't confuse that first nap as his last stretch of not sleep.

Who am I kidding, every trick of pushing his wake up time to 6 doesn't work. I need to become a morning person.

My 15 year old niece is posting pics on her Instagram of drinking, smoking, and hanging out in the MOTN when she tells her mom she's sleeping over friends houses. I know she's in high school, but I didn't do shit til I was 17 (late bloomer over here). DH thinks we should tell my sister, but I don't - especially since he "found" her Instagram which is private aka snooping. Andplusalso, any attempts I make to talk to her don't work. Most secretive person ever. WWYD?

[holliberry28]

Dec 21, 2015 8:17:56 GMT -5 Kristykristyleelee said:

Dec 21, 2015 8:12:48 GMT -5 holliberry28 said:

Hope your LOs feel better in time for Christmas budders , @weprestige, and Kristykristyleelee .

Good luck at the appointment today stinybean . FX all goes well.

@jemomma , M was up at 5 am too. But didn't go back to sleep yet. MIL assigned to try to keep him up til 8 am so he doesn't confuse that first nap as his last stretch of not sleep.

Who am I kidding, every trick of pushing his wake up time to 6 doesn't work. I need to become a morning person.

My 15 year old niece is posting pics on her Instagram of drinking, smoking, and hanging out in the MOTN when she tells her mom she's sleeping over friends houses. I know she's in high school, but I didn't do shit til I was 17 (late bloomer over here). DH thinks we should tell my sister, but I don't - especially since he "found" her Instagram which is private aka snooping. Andplusalso, any attempts I make to talk to her don't work. Most secretive person ever. WWYD?

I would DEF tell your sister. 15 is still so young IMO. And posting it on social media? Private or not, she doesn't need to be posting it.

Who knows, maybe your sister already knows, but I wouldn't be able to keep this information to myself, I would need to tell my sister and let her decide how to handle.

I'm just so conflicted. I've hinted it to my sister, and have told her on more than one occasion, she needs to stop letting H do whatever she wants. They met her throw a party in their house, and came back the next morning to vomit on their walls, say she's grounded, but don't follow through. Then think there's no way she's doing this partying consistently.

Since my oldest niece passed away last January, my sister kind of became unhinged.

[erbear]

@kej0004, pre-baby I tracked my sleep obsessively. Now...I never look at that part of the app!

There were Godiva truffles in the office so at least my work day had a brighter start than my home day!

[billyhorrible]

stinybean - nice work on the cookies! I still have to make a majority of my Christmas treats.

hannahl201477 - no way. No one gets to refuse anything kid related because they're tired. If that excuse worked, most of us would have used it almost every night.

carrots - I've done that more times than I care to admit.

[billyhorrible]

I found the perfect gift for my nephew. Then sometime between putting it in my Amazon cart and checking out, it sold out.

[holliberry28]

Dec 21, 2015 8:26:40 GMT -5 @kej0004 said:

Dec 21, 2015 8:17:56 GMT -5 Kristykristyleelee said:

I would DEF tell your sister. 15 is still so young IMO. And posting it on social media? Private or not, she doesn't need to be posting it.

Who knows, maybe your sister already knows, but I wouldn't be able to keep this information to myself, I would need to tell my sister and let her decide how to handle.

+1. This definitely isn't the worst thing she could be doing, but my concern would be safety if driving, who she's with, where they are hanging out, etc. If it was my kid, I'd want to know.

I just would feel like a hypocrite to do that to her.  Anyway, we're in NYC so she travels everywhere by train..no one is driving.

[billyhorrible]

Dec 21, 2015 8:48:52 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

Dec 21, 2015 8:39:45 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

I found the perfect gift for my nephew. Then sometime between putting it in my Amazon cart and checking out, it sold out.

what was it?

The makey makey invention board. I can apparently order it from uncommon goods, but then I have to pay for expedited shipping. I am so spoiled by Prime.

[jessila]

@kej0004, DH asked if I wanted a fitbit for Christmas. I laughed really hard and said "I already know it will tell me to be more active, stop eating like crap, and that my sleep isn't healthy." DNW to know how little sleep I'm getting.

O slept pretty well last night. Went down at 7:30, up at 11:15, up at 4, up for the day at 7:30. Of course when he got up at 4 I couldn't go back to sleep. Around 4:45 I finally fall back asleep and DH wakes up with a migraine. Then huffs and puffs around finding meds. Then I remind him to use a heated face mask. I try to go back to sleep and realize I'm way too hungry. I get a glass of milk while H is heating up the face mask. I'm almost back asleep at 5:15 and he comes in eating flipping crackers. Crinkling the wrapper. He's lucky to be alive right now.

In much better news-my mom is bringing O to work for lunch today! And my principal made at least 300 cookies over the weekend. YES COOKIES!

[tiffbot]

Morning!

I invited a friend over with her kids to come today and our kids can do their gift exchange and we can have a little pre Christmas hangout. My H is also officially off now which is sweet.

So DD didn't sleep like, at all last week. But in the last couple days she has gotten her 6th tooth, started regularily pulling herself standing using solid furniture, and crawls a little on her hands and knees and not just army crawls. DS wasn't doing any of this stuff for another 2 or 3 months yet, I am so scared now I'm going to have one of those kids that walks at 9 months because I've always laughed at people who told me that their kids did, a little out of disbelief and a little out of sympathy for a little kid on the go, lol. The good news is, while sleep isn't perfect again it has greatly improved once again, for now anyway.

[jessila]

@jemomma I rationalize that I need to eat all the cookies because breastfeeding.

[mrsmonogrammed]

Dec 21, 2015 7:32:20 GMT -5 Widget123 said:

I busted out my winter coat for the first time this season, but I'm probably going to put it back in the closet when I get home again. Looking at the weather forecast, Xmas eve high in the mid 70s, then dropping off but not dramatically. I guess I can officially conclude that we aren't getting a white Christmas. I'm a little disappointed.

Our forecast is calling for 55 and sunny on Christmas Day, we're making the best of no white Christmas by having steaks and lobster on the grill!

[gilder40]

Dec 21, 2015 7:03:35 GMT -5 budders said:

I, too, am counting down three more days of school until break. V was up most of the night because of his cough, so today's theme will be caffeine and survival.

Wait?! Some of y'all are still at school this week?! When do you get out and when do you have to go back?

[gilder40]

Dec 21, 2015 8:23:02 GMT -5 @kej0004 said:

FX for a good appointment, stinybean!

I got a Fitbit over the weekend. I think I'm going to have to turn off the sleep tracking because it is just really depressing to see how few hours I'm getting...

I have a FitBit too! I love it. But the sleep tracking is depressing when the pink and blue lines are half the time you're "asleep!!!"

[tiffbot]

To the fellow Scandanavians on this board, my mom made her yearly batch of lefse recently and we got our bag of it this weekend. Yum.

[alayne926]

Dec 21, 2015 6:49:05 GMT -5 @wwprestige said:

Happy Monday and short work week!

Sick baby = very little sleep. Coffee, please.

Ugh me too!  

S was coughing ALL night. She woke up with boogers all over her face. I had to suck out her nose twice before we left for school.

[gilder40]

Little miss decided that last night was a slumber party. She fell asleep at 8:30, woke up at 11:00 bright-eyed and bushy tailed, fell back asleep after midnight, and was then up at 2:30, 4:00, and 5:30. I was falling asleep holding her at midnight, so I put her in her PNP and she fell asleep on her own. Small victories, right?

[musicfrk2002]

H was up sick all night and J was up ready to play at 4 am. H ended up going to work, J fell back asleep around 445 and woke up somewhere around 630 bust just talked to himself until 8, so I napped until then.

I have a bit of a stomach ache now, but that might be due to the constipstion-inducing pain meds. Hopefully that's all it is.

My boss says I can't work because the note from the Dr said no work until after my follow up on the 29th. Um. Wtf. Now the Dr is sending a note that I can work just with a lifting restriction. That restriction at home has gone out the window though since no one can come over to help me during the day.

[erbear]

Dec 21, 2015 9:40:41 GMT -5 jessila said:

@jemomma I rationalize that I need to eat all the cookies because breastfeeding.

That's what I said when I took a second truffle.

[wegrowsheep]

Dec 21, 2015 8:12:48 GMT -5 holliberry28 said:

Hope your LOs feel better in time for Christmas budders, @weprestige, and Kristykristyleelee.

Good luck at the appointment today stinybean. FX all goes well.

@jemomma, M was up at 5 am too. But didn't go back to sleep yet. MIL assigned to try to keep him up til 8 am so he doesn't confuse that first nap as his last stretch of not sleep.

Who am I kidding, every trick of pushing his wake up time to 6 doesn't work. I need to become a morning person.

My 15 year old niece is posting pics on her Instagram of drinking, smoking, and hanging out in the MOTN when she tells her mom she's sleeping over friends houses. I know she's in high school, but I didn't do shit til I was 17 (late bloomer over here). DH thinks we should tell my sister, but I don't - especially since he "found" her Instagram which is private aka snooping. Andplusalso, any attempts I make to talk to her don't work. Most secretive person ever. WWYD?

Lol to posting it on social media. If it's on the internet, it's fair game. Clearly she wants SOMEONE to know.

[carolyngrace]

It appears we have entered the "just want to be held" phase. Oscar will only do anything out of my arms for 5 minutes today. Also yesterday whenever anyone else held him he would crane his neck to find me, and smile incessantly. When he couldn't see me, he fussed.

It's actually SUPER sweet, but I just found out I'm watching a friend's kids tonight, so I need to do all my errands and house readying TODAY. Ahhh!

[mirage86]

Dec 21, 2015 9:48:01 GMT -5 mrsmonogrammed said:

Dec 21, 2015 7:32:20 GMT -5 Widget123 said:

I busted out my winter coat for the first time this season, but I'm probably going to put it back in the closet when I get home again. Looking at the weather forecast, Xmas eve high in the mid 70s, then dropping off but not dramatically. I guess I can officially conclude that we aren't getting a white Christmas. I'm a little disappointed.

Our forecast is calling for 55 and sunny on Christmas Day, we're making the best of no white Christmas by having steaks and lobster on the grill!

This is my Christmas dream.

[musicfrk2002]

Dec 21, 2015 11:00:47 GMT -5 @jemomma said:

Cookie question ladies - would you rather have a peanut butter dark chocolate chip cookie or a cookie with white chocolate and dark chocolate chips?

Yes.

[carolyngrace]

Oh my goodness, so many sick and sleepless babies! Sorry ladies. Hope they perk up soon!