it's 80 here today, which is hot for our area this time of year. I made sushi rice this morning for California roll bowls for dinner tonight, took a ~2.5 mile walk, watched an episode of Sex Education, and now I kind of want to go read outside, but I'm having a hard time mustering the energy to drag my deck chair out and upstairs.
I was just thinking about what special thing I want for Mother's Day... it may be donuts. ;-) FTR, H knows what my first and second choices are. I love apple fritters but they sell out fast at our favorite donut shop so the second choice is a necessity.
H took DS to a dr appt this morning (and then to school after) so I took the opportunity to get coffee at Starbucks on my way to work. I usually take DS with me since I work at his school. Instead today I got a Chocolate Cold Brew in my to go cup from home and thoroughly enjoyed it while peacefully getting work done instead of being asked questions and shown things until the bell rings to start the school day.
wildrice I'm glad you found a good person! The absolute best dog watcher we ever had was a real young 20 something. I think she still lived at home with her parents, and didn't want to lol so she'd hang out all day at our house and took such good care of the animals. And was always on her phone updating us with pictures and things.
Unrelated, my 2yr old is going through a real biting stage and just bit me. And omg does that hurt! She bites my older kid a lot and I feel really bad now, it's so painful. And it comes out of no where she'll just saunter up to you and bite you totally unprovoked.
H and I are getting on a cruise today (it’s our anniversary)! We flew out yesterday and ran in to some acquaintances of ours at the airport gate. They are going to be on our cruise ship. Small world.
Anniversary twin! This is 14 years for us - what about you?
Have a great trip.
16 years for us. Happy anniversary to you as well.
Post by underwaterrhymes on May 10, 2024 20:49:52 GMT -5
I REALLY want to see the Aurora borealis. We should be able to see it in the Northern IL suburbs some time after midnight. If K wasn’t sick and we weren’t all exhausted, I would drag us all somewhere dark. But, after this crap week, I will be asleep by then. However, I almost always wake up naturally at 3 am to pee, so I am going to peek outside and hope that they’re high enough and our street lights don’t drown them out.
What a long strange trip today has been! I had blood work and my ADHD testing “intake” today. And the later turned into far more childhood trauma discussion than I planned. Before that appointment, my friends and I pivoted from playing mini golf tonight (in 55* rain) to… coming over to my place for homemade pizza.
At the end of the night, I tripped over the dog bed. The high end, orthopedic dog bed we bought for our German shepherd. And I landed on the dog bed. Which was large enough to catch my whole body. It was on hardwood floors, and didn’t hurt at all!! After the requisite 5 second full body scan, I started laughing so hard I almost peed myself.
In celebration of Friday, I have a good WWYD situation that comes from a friend:
Your daughter just turned 15 and is interested in her learner's permit. You have a very demanding job and travel often. Before you go on a business trip this week, you find out that your MIL - who you like - texted your DD (but not you or your H) to volunteer to teach her to drive. You talk to your H, a stay-at-home dad, and tell him that you think that's overstepping and that you'd really prefer to teach her yourself or have him teach her. Before you leave, you take her out for her first drive, but when you come back, you find out that MIL has taken her out, too. Your H says he didn't say anything to his mother because he didn't want to have a "conflict," - even though MIL is not the type to make a deal out of things, and he doesn't really want to teach her himself. Would you be mad at MIL? DH? Not care?
If I am the parent who is traveling and does not want my MIL doing the driving lessons & H didn’t say anything to my MIL then screw H. I told you how I feel, so just back me up. If I am the H and my frequent traveller W decided to have feelings about something and assigned me to implement it, screw that. I can’t mange everything while W is gone + take requests while someone else is perfectly happy to teach my DD something important.
I recognize that I may have some inconsistencies here. Well, one consistency.
I REALLY want to see the Aurora borealis. We should be able to see it in the Northern IL suburbs some time after midnight. If K wasn’t sick and we weren’t all exhausted, I would drag us all somewhere dark. But, after this crap week, I will be asleep by then. However, I almost always wake up naturally at 3 am to pee, so I am going to peek outside and hope that they’re high enough and our street lights don’t drown them out.
I’m in NH and DD and I just saw them for the first time!! It’s cloudy here so could not see them with the naked eye but just point your phone to the sky and open your camera app and be dazed!
dochas, not me but good point! I personally think she has a lot of built up feelings about workload in the house but it's not really my business! She asked me if I thought she was wrong to be mad and I do not but I also don't have a child that age so I haven't been through it yet!
It really does sound like it has little to do with the driving lessons, it would be great if she could address the real issue. But with marriage sometimes you don't even know what it is! I think she should be able to see that it would be fine to say, no, I want to do it. But not to say, no, I want him to do it. I also think it's completely appropriate for a grandmother to communicate directly with a 15 year old. We have to prepare our kids for life and we need to always be letting them go slowly, in small ways.