Please keep me sane

[ombradellarosa]

MH is about to leave for work. I once again have made no plans to not be home alone with the baby. So she and I are both sick home alone. I can't invite my friends over because I don't want to get their little ones sick. I could go to my parents' house but I just spent two days there and they don't help me so it's not am appealing prospect. I don't even want to talk to a friend on the phone because my throat hurts so bad. And of course baby is fussy. Please keep me company! I need to make it five hours. 

[periwinkledaydreams]

Its usually pretty active here in the evening, and the daytime really.. moreso than I can usually keep up with! But if you're looking to chat there's most likely plenty of chat going to be going on!

[periwinkledaydreams]

What are yall sick with? Seems lots are sick now too.

[jessila]

We're home alone all day tomorrow, possibly Sunday, and again on Monday. I'm contemplating making cookies tonight because I...need them? That's what I'm telling myself.

[stinybean]

ombradellarosa I'm sorry you and LO are sick & that you're stuck at home alone. I hope you feel better.

[ombradellarosa]

We have some kind of cold. Sore throat, cough, runny/stuffy nose. We've all been sick since the end of November. But it's worse this week.

Now I need cookies! Told DH to bring some home.

[periwinkledaydreams]

Oh snap I need cookies too.

[dogmama22]

Now I need to make some yummy dessert tonight! H just went to pick up Panera for dinner. Our babe has been sick too, but I don't feel too bad today.

[erbear]

I made lactation PB balls tonight which are pretty much like no bake cookies. YUM.

[periwinkledaydreams]

LOL erbear, my 12 year old boy brain can't see lactation and balls together and not die of laughter.

[jessila]

erbear pretty sure I saw a recipe for lactation cookie balls on Pinterest because peanut butter is gross.

[ombradellarosa]

I love peanut butter! I crave it all the time. My favourite is peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies but we don't have chocolate chips to make them right now.

Baby fell asleep! I'm going to do my best to sleep for the next four hours. Thanks ladies! Catch ya later!

[Bluedaisy]

Awe, hope you guys feel better soon! Can you order in some yummy food or something?

[jessila]

Update: Too lazy/tired to make cookies. And all the cookie ball recipes had peanut butter. So instead I'm eating fake cookie dough. And to kindly encourage you all to make terrible choices with me here's the recipe! I made 1/4 of the original recipe so it's kind of one serving.

1/4 c butter room temp
3/8 c brown sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 c flour
As many choc chips as you want

Cream butter and sugar together. Add in other stuff in order of ingredient list. You can refrigerate it OR you can eat it out of a measuring cup and be classy like me.

[periwinkledaydreams]

Jan 15, 2016 21:10:01 GMT -5 jessila said:

Update: Too lazy/tired to make cookies. And all the cookie ball recipes had peanut butter. So instead I'm eating fake cookie dough. And to kindly encourage you all to make terrible choices with me here's the recipe! I made 1/4 of the original recipe so it's kind of one serving.

1/4 c butter room temp
3/8 c brown sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 c flour
As many choc chips as you want

Cream butter and sugar together. Add in other stuff in order of ingredient list. You can refrigerate it OR you can eat it out of a measuring cup and be classy like me.

I think you can like, smush a banana in it and microwave it or something? Also, this post just made me fall in love with you. Chocolate chip cookie dough = life.

[tiffbot]

Definite yum to cookie dough! But I made popcorn tonight.

Watching the Bridge on Netflix now so have to pay attention because it's Swedish/Danish so I need to watch the subtitles lol.

[jessila]

Carl is super mad that I'm not sharing with him.

Edit bc I was wrong. The dog actually wants the baby toy. He's got his priorities out of line.

[periwinkledaydreams]

We're watching Little Boy on Netflix with SO son. Its pretty great!

[Bluedaisy]

jessila, omg I think you are my favourite. That looks amazing and why waste another dish??

[ombradellarosa]

Jan 15, 2016 20:49:49 GMT -5 Bluedaisy said:

Awe, hope you guys feel better soon! Can you order in some yummy food or something?

No, that's not a thing here. The only thing you can get delivered is pizza and we never do it because of delivery charges. 

So much for sleeping his shift away. I finally fell asleep and baby woke me up. Then she spit up on me. I don't have the energy to clean it up so I'll just be in it. And I have to wait three and a half hours for DH to come home. Kill me now. 

[Bluedaisy]

Awe, that sucks!

[beersandweirs]

Jan 15, 2016 21:06:45 GMT -5 budders said:

Jan 15, 2016 20:21:38 GMT -5 erbear said:

I made lactation PB balls tonight which are pretty much like no bake cookies. YUM.

Recipe? No bake cookies are my favorite, and I can definitely use the lactation help.

+1 for recipe please

[ombradellarosa]

Some idiot was about to knock my door down and ring my doorbell off and he had the wrong house. He was on the phone with whoever it was too so you'd think he'd have figured it out sooner. I was rushing to get dressed to answer the door and sad to say I was hoping it was a friend coming to visit me. He's just lucky my baby wasn't sleeping because I'd have decked him.

[billyhorrible]

Jan 15, 2016 21:53:41 GMT -5 ombradellarosa said:

Jan 15, 2016 20:49:49 GMT -5 Bluedaisy said:

Awe, hope you guys feel better soon! Can you order in some yummy food or something?

No, that's not a thing here. The only thing you can get delivered is pizza and we never do it because of delivery charges. 

So much for sleeping his shift away. I finally fell asleep and baby woke me up. Then she spit up on me. I don't have the energy to clean it up so I'll just be in it. And I have to wait three and a half hours for DH to come home. Kill me now. 

Has your bath situation been taken care of yet? A nice warm bath might make both of you feel better.

[erbear]

budders, sorry if it's huge. I miss tinypic. Ask, I added some cinnamon since I've found it hides the brewer's yeast taste well.

[ombradellarosa]

Jan 15, 2016 22:24:21 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

Jan 15, 2016 21:53:41 GMT -5 ombradellarosa said:

No, that's not a thing here. The only thing you can get delivered is pizza and we never do it because of delivery charges. 

So much for sleeping his shift away. I finally fell asleep and baby woke me up. Then she spit up on me. I don't have the energy to clean it up so I'll just be in it. And I have to wait three and a half hours for DH to come home. Kill me now. 

Has your bath situation been taken care of yet? A nice warm bath might make both of you feel better.

Not sure which bath situation you are referring to, but I have given her a bath since the last time I talked about it and our bathtub is empty of boxes now. Are you suggesting we take a bath together? I've heard of moms taking a shower with babies before. 

Btw, I made it! And when DH came home he made me loads of food and brought me cookies, yay! Thanks for the company

[veggiemo]

Jan 16, 2016 5:02:10 GMT -5 ombradellarosa said:

Jan 15, 2016 22:24:21 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

Has your bath situation been taken care of yet? A nice warm bath might make both of you feel better.

Not sure which bath situation you are referring to, but I have given her a bath since the last time I talked about it and our bathtub is empty of boxes now. Are you suggesting we take a bath together? I've heard of moms taking a shower with babies before. 

Btw, I made it! And when DH came home he made me loads of food and brought me cookies, yay! Thanks for the company

Glad you made it! As far as the baths, I take baths with my LO all the time. I love it!

[jessila]

I think @babybean9 has said she takes baths with her LO, too.
I'm always jealous of you ladies and your baths. I prefer to use soaker tubs and we don't have one so I just shower.

[griffindor24]

I shower with both my kiddos here (not at the same time, that would be chaos). Its the only way to get my 2 year old to bathe even though I know the time is coming where she is going to have to just suck it up. My son hates his tub so showering is less traumatizing for him, the only problem is that he is getting squirmier so bathing a wet squirmy baby is a difficult task.

[jessila]

I always want to shower with O but he's a mammoth baby (22 lbs) so I don't think I could swing it without some kind of seat for him. I figure if I shower with him it's two things checked off at the same time!