Monday Blues...

[carolyngrace]

We have some sleepyheads today I see

It's snowing in Pittsburgh for the first time this winter.. It's really pretty, but totally making me want to hibernate all day. 

DB gets his helmet today. I was up last night feeling sad about it, and rubbed his fuzzy head extra when I nursed before bed.

I don't want to wish time away, but I'm looking forward to this year! Dominican republic in March, DB's first birthday in May, Extended family vacation on Lake Michigan in June.... Lots of fun things coming up.

[holliberry28]

carolyngrace, I wish we had some snow here in NYC to complement the first really cold day of the year, I think it's only going up to 32 today.

Hopefully the helmet will be short lived and before you know it, you'll be in DR sipping drinks with umbrellas in them. I'm also guilty of wishing away time a bit. Already thinking about what to do for M's first birthday, first words, first steps, etc.

Have to leave work for a few hours midday to go to a funeral of a family friend. The granddaughter and I grew up
together but had a falling out b/c she couldn't handle I met DH and she was still single. Going to pay my respects to her parents but fuck, do not want to see that girl.

[erbear]

There is snow everywhere! I heard the roads are terrible here. I decided to work a half day because of the weather, so I'll go in around 11:30, when everything should be clear.

My bff is coming over tonight! I haven't seen her since October and she hasn't seen LO since September.

[tiffbot]

That's anazing carrots!

It's 7:48, the last time my H went in to check on DD was midnight-this has never happened before with her! DS is still in bed too! I woke up and thought it for sure must be like 4 in the morning since we haven't heard DD yet and was shocked when I saw 7:30-i don't remember the last time I slept 8 hours straight!

[tiffbot]

Of course now I'm having the first time STTN conflict of going to check on her to see if she's ok or not risking waking her, lol.

[jessila]

I got to work today to find a present from a student on my desk. Fuzzy socks and a bar of Lindt chocolate-caramel with sea salt. I'll take it.

I'd also like some snow. Now. Really after I get home from work because I don't particularly enjoy driving in it.

Off to pretend I have lesson plans for today!

Eta I have no clue why the formatting on this is weird. I am not trying to be extra speshul.

[silv3rlining]

My 2.5 year old is just awesome. I asked him this morning what mommy should wear today. Without skipping a beat he should enthusiastically "yoga pants." He's really in to picking out his own and everyone else's clothes for the day.

I also came to the realization that LO does so much better when we're out and about with things to look at/people to ooh and ahh over her. We always get comments on what a happy/content/good baby she is. And I think yeah you should hear how much she screams at home. So now I need yo figure out more things that I can manage to go do with 2 kiddos since it's starting to get cold.

[mrsmonogrammed]

Back to reality with a full work week...I'll miss my 4 day weekends with DD!

She's supposed to start swim lessons this Saturday but none of my coworkers can switch Saturdays with me so we'll be missing it:( at least that's an extra week for me to get swimsuit "ready" LOL;)

[mrsmonogrammed]

michyme123 that's why we're just skipping it;) I also really want pictures of her in the water and he can't do that by himself. I'm excited to see how she likes being in a lot of water, I hope she loves it!

[jessila]

Just to be clear, I did NOT miss pumping during break.

Although it gives me a chance to TCF without O trying to grab my phone.

[silv3rlining]

Jan 4, 2016 9:42:32 GMT -5 @jemomma said:

Jan 4, 2016 9:13:25 GMT -5 silv3rlining said:

My 2.5 year old is just awesome. I asked him this morning what mommy should wear today. Without skipping a beat he should enthusiastically "yoga pants." He's really in to picking out his own and everyone else's clothes for the day.

I also came to the realization that LO does so much better when we're out and about with things to look at/people to ooh and ahh over her. We always get comments on what a happy/content/good baby she is. And I think yeah you should hear how much she screams at home. So now I need yo figure out more things that I can manage to go do with 2 kiddos since it's starting to get cold.

This was the biggest thing I had to overcome after I had #2. Check out your local community centers. Here all of them have one or two days per week that they call "open play" for younger kids. It's basically a room filled with ride-on toys, balls, books, play mats, etc. Those are such a life-saver in the winter time, and it's a contained space so you don't have to worry about the older kid running away

True. I have some mom guilt over not being able to do for LO what I did for DS and not being able to do for DS what we had been doing. But I know it's only lyrics a short period of time. With DS he was in a tumbling music class 1-2x/week (starting around 10.5 months) and an art class 1x/week (starting at 16 months) plus we'd often go to story time at the library and we'd occasionally go to an indoor play room, children's museum, or the zoo. Since we moved this summer and are in a HCOL area it makes it more difficult, plus wrangling 2 kids where activities either don't want younger/older children to tag along. DS is starting tap classes next week.

[Widget123]

Back to work and my computer after being away for the holidays. Winter finally arrived here since it was flurrying this morning. I don't envy people with tons of snow though; not mentally prepared for that yet.

A few highlights from the last week:

MIL wore this outfit on Xmas Eve, just she had skin tight leather pants underneath instead of fishnets or hooker boots:



DH was a drama queen on Xmas day. Every time we go on a roadtrip to see my family he wants to pick a fight about something or come up with whatever excuse he can not to go. It got old years ago. I called his parents so they could tell him how ridiculous he was being and that made things worse. But we did make it to my parents house and the rest of the week went off mostly without a hitch minus that LO was sick the whole time, but I've come to expect as much since DD is usually sick during the holidays too.

Now I've just got a lot of catching up to do with everything. Christmas decorations still up, a mound of clothes that need sorting, Christmas presents that still need put away, etc.

[alayne926]

Ugh Monday....

At least I have a few hours before our first patient, so I can ease into things. Missing my short weeks, though.

DH goes back to working overnights tonight for a few days. I HATE when I have to do bedtime by myself.

[alayne926]

OMG Widget123, How did you hold it together with her wearing that?

[Widget123]

Joolschweets, DH didn't seem to react much. It's pretty sad when you are not shocked to see your mother wearing something like that. We've seen her wear some pretty scantily clad outfits over the years.

alayne926, Despite her history, I was pretty shocked. I'm not sure if she bought the outfit for herself or if FIL bought it for her? I am kicking myself that I didn't take a picture of her actually wearing it.

[wegrowsheep]

Lol Widget123, I would have considering tucking some $1's into her belt...

[hannahl201477]

Feel sorry for all you ladies that went back to work today! Malcolm thought it would be fun to wake up for the day at 5am He spent a while in his jumper while I laid on the couch.

[Widget123]

Jan 4, 2016 10:24:18 GMT -5 @jemomma said:

Widget123 , is this your MIL?

LOL.  Not quite, but FIL loves to talk about how she is a MILF.  She is pretty skinny but it is not like she has big boobs or other features to lend her to wearing that kind of outfit.

[erbear]

Oh my god, Widget123. I'm dying.

[gigi3126]

Back at work today. It was so hard to drop of J at daycare. However, everyone else with babies in my department were all sad bc their babies cried at drop off; Jude happily climbed out of the carrier to be held by his teacher and the daycare director.
We've got meetings all day, and the kids come back tomorrow. At least I got to escape for a little while to pump. I'm also on the "did not miss pumping" train. It's so tedious.

[carolyngrace]

Widget123 NO WAY. That outfit!

[ashbash]

Widget123 get out! Hahaha a few glasses of wine and im sure i would have made some inappropriate comments about it

[periwinkledaydreams]

Im so happy my sister and her kids are back from their travels, and she still has 2 days off before she has to go back to work. Time to catch up! We finally finished Christmas yesterday, it was a big noisy crazy mess with lots of children and wrapping paper and toys everywhere as "Christmas morning" should be. Aand so ready for the holiday crazies to be over now! Really I'm ready for winter to fast forward and get the heck out of here, but not trying to wish time away either.. catch 22 of living in a place where its cold half the year when you can't stand the coldness, you spend half your life wishing for the other half lol!

I have a shit ton of appointments on my schedule this week.. well really this whole month and I'm trying so hard not to get stressed and overwhelmed looking at my calendar. I have at least one or more doctor's appointments every day this week, next week 5, 4 the next week.. plus job interviews to schedule. Lol and I have no idea what to say on a job interview when they ask your availability and you have more than half the next month booked in apointments..?? Im debating getting LO in daycare part-time just to accomodate this cause its getting crazy trying to find a sitter almost every day! I just don't know how some of yall ladies do it, I haven't got the hang of this balancing act just yet. Pheww.

[ashbash]

silv3rlining this has been my quest lately. We have a membership to the childrens museum we use a lot, they both enjoy child care at the Y while I work out, Little Gym has open hours for 3 and under that I do with both, library story times, and when all else fails - mall place place

[jessila]

Now that online Christmas shopping is over I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with myself during my planning/lunch at work today. Working isn't the answer because who wants to do that?

[mrsdee1982]

Jan 4, 2016 12:30:26 GMT -5 jessila said:

Now that online Christmas shopping is over I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with myself during my planning/lunch at work today. Working isn't the answer because who wants to do that?

Well, we're only a few short months away from our LO's first birthdays.  You can fall down the rabbit hole of Pinterest and start planning the 1st birthday party!  

[wegrowsheep]

Back to the homeschool routine today. T underwent a not-so-magical transformation last night and woke up as a snot faucet. Now to get dinner in the slow cooker...

[jessila]

Jan 4, 2016 12:34:32 GMT -5 mrsdee1982 said:

Jan 4, 2016 12:30:26 GMT -5 jessila said:

Now that online Christmas shopping is over I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with myself during my planning/lunch at work today. Working isn't the answer because who wants to do that?

Well, we're only a few short months away from our LO's first birthdays.  You can fall down the rabbit hole of Pinterest and start planning the 1st birthday party!  

I said something about his birthday party to DH the other day and he kind of just looked at me like I'm crazy. I was talking about making a 3D R2-D2 smash cake. *down the rabbit hole I go!*

[erbear]

Wheee, LO had two huge pukes for H. I got a picture of one and another text saying "you have a mess to clean when you get home" a she puked all over her crib sheet and it went to the mattress pad. Gee, thanks, H.

She's a little congested (she has a phlegm-y sounding cough) and I gave her a new prunes and oatmeal combo today, so I'm hoping it's just that.

[veggiemo]

Jan 4, 2016 9:42:32 GMT -5 @jemomma said:

Jan 4, 2016 9:13:25 GMT -5 silv3rlining said:

My 2.5 year old is just awesome. I asked him this morning what mommy should wear today. Without skipping a beat he should enthusiastically "yoga pants." He's really in to picking out his own and everyone else's clothes for the day.

I also came to the realization that LO does so much better when we're out and about with things to look at/people to ooh and ahh over her. We always get comments on what a happy/content/good baby she is. And I think yeah you should hear how much she screams at home. So now I need yo figure out more things that I can manage to go do with 2 kiddos since it's starting to get cold.

This was the biggest thing I had to overcome after I had #2. Check out your local community centers. Here all of them have one or two days per week that they call "open play" for younger kids. It's basically a room filled with ride-on toys, balls, books, play mats, etc. Those are such a life-saver in the winter time, and it's a contained space so you don't have to worry about the older kid running away

Also local libraries. We have at least one class offered a day at various local branches. Dancing, movement, arts and crafts, etc. And free!