I feedlots appropriate to say here that I am a professor, and my dumbass kid can't read yet. She's five. Also? I was NOT in the gifted program in school. Because I can't do math. Full. Fucking. Circle.
so she listens well. she'll read.
I was never in any gifted programs. Just AP everything, eventually, in high school. your kid is fine.
Haha, she does NOT listen well! But I'm not worried about her. I was just riffing off the "fedup with my genius son's trivial homework" thread
I have an interview tomorrow for the position I currently hold (only for the past month) I am nervous as fuck for no reason and drinking beer by the fistful to calm down. NMS usually but I am pretty anxious about this whole thing and will be really bummed if I lose the position because I am not good at interviews.
My boss is in my court but I have two VPs to impress as well. blech
Any good interview/calm my damn nerves advice?
I have an interview tomorrow too! Â The best advice that I got for this time around is to match the cadence of your response to the person who asked the question. Â I am really going to try to remember that because sometimes I speak to quickly. Â
Good luck tomorrow! Â Sending you good vibes from an internet stranger.
Great advice. Thanks, I definitely talk to fast.
Good luck tomorrow. Hopefully we both get the job. Fingers crossed.
Thanks for commiserating @tamb. It's nice to know I'm not crazy
Nama, lay on your side with your husband behind you, if you feel weird with the belly let him play with your boobs...he's happy, you're happy, and you don't have to move the belly around. Win-win.
This is the only way we had sex for, like, three months of each pregnancy.
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Oct 1, 2013 7:55:59 GMT -5
@stellasmom It's a good feature. Though I live in Philadelphia- the choice was simple. I pay a couple hundred bucks a month, and EVENTUALLY she might actually be able to read.
So we decided on Liam George LastName for DS. We love the name Liam and George is FIL's name but we didn't want it to be DS's first name because we felt the other siblings felt it might be sucking up. But lately I have been having dreams that we called DS "little George" and FIL "big George" and it is so cute I can not stop thinking about it. DH likes it too so maybe the kid will end up going by George anyways.
Ok a flameful based on this:
I think middle names are pointless. Please note my middle name is Marie, which was picked because it was my mother's. My sister also got the same middle name. My parents are not creative. At all.
I completely agree with this. However if this baby is a boy, we will end up giving him a middle name for the sole reason that if we don't, our child would have the initials B.O.
We all know how obsessed I was with Leo especially as a baby. But hot damn does it feel good to get your life back month by month. I have hobbies again! I have time to myself! I am an actual interesting person again who doesn't just talk about my kids.
Confession: I'm very depressed in my marriage and am exhausted of trying to tell my H what's wrong and he's attentive to what's wrong for a day or two and goes back to being the way he usually is. I have no idea how to tell my H anymore; I've cried, yelled, written, etc.. how I feel and its still not going through.
My flameful is that I am rolling my eyes hard at someone who posted that they "finally have their life back" now that both of their kids are in school full-time. Good for you?
Saw that, My eyes may have rolled as well. It felt gross.
I brought home four brownies from my mom's house with the intention of eating 2 and giving the other 2 to H. But he pissed me off tonight, so I am keeping all 4 to myself.
Lol! I was in whole goods the other day and got in a little tiff with dh on the phone so I intentionally bought two brown sugar blondies to eat myself and not share!
I did end up sharing but it didn't start that way.
I feedlots appropriate to say here that I am a professor, and my dumbass kid can't read yet. She's five. Also? I was NOT in the gifted program in school. Because I can't do math. Full. Fucking. Circle.
Can most kids read a five? (Not all of you with gifted kids!)
David will be five in November and he's barely learning to sound out words, far from reading. And my kid's fucking smart as HELL! lol
My DS is the same age as yours and sure as hell can't read. He can recognize his name and various fast food logos (lol) but that is about it.
It's hard to explain, but it is a totally rational thought. By the time a person has been parenting for 6+ years, a scheduled break from it feels like returning to the world of grown ups, I assume. And multiple kids are alllll consuming.
I guess if you are a SAHM it could make sense since you are with your kids 24/7. Maybe I'm just sensitive because I wish I was with my baby more and I can't imagine feeling like "oh I have my life back now" because I feel like she IS my life and I want her to be, you know? I guess it's just the way it was worded, read kind of harshly to me?
Eh, I knew this would get a rise out of people, that's why it's flameful
@theycalledherkate
I understand what you are saying/trying to say here. My oldest is in 9th grade and my youngest (twin three year old girls) just started preschool four full (830-2) days this sept. Technically I'm "free" now after many many years as a sahm. My oldest did go to full time daycare for about two years (2-4 years old) but aside from that I've been home (even did some homeschooling in there too) So yeah, the first two weeks the girls were in school I went to get a mani/pedi, had lunch with my mom, walked aimlessly around the mall alone, etc. It did feel good to have free time, but phrasing it as "finally having your life back" or something equally negative sounding, to me, is rather harsh and just, I don't know, it just makes me uncomfortable.
I'm actually really freaking irritated by her attempt to shame people for not having the proper adoration for selfless motherhood.
It was the way it was worded that was off putting to me. Anyway all moms should have other interests and hobbies because you're a better mom when you take care of yourself too but like I said it was the wording that got me.
Me too Of course mothers should have other interests, it's not one extreme or another. It's just the way it was phrased felt uncomfortable.
I was such a smug asshole when my baby was 3-4mo. I remember reading an ML thread at the time about moms' darkest moments (losing our tempers and etc) and thinking to myself, "How can people feel this way about their BABIES?! It's so nice for me, I never have to control my temper with DS."
LOL. I don't think that anymore.
Like I said, my ass will be here when she's three and I'll be posting from a dark closet hiding from her and H for some alone time. I will be eating my words...haha
I didn't get the impression the poster worked outside of the home so it wasn't a mom saying she was glad to drop off at daycare so she could get to work and have coffee. I read it as she was a sahm and was glad her school aged kids were back do she could "finally have her life back" That, to me, is quite different.
Confession and flameful: I can only eat one of the two reese's peanut butter cups. They're too rich for me. So I always throw away the second. I crave them once every few months so its silly to save it. *-)
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
Like I said, my ass will be here when she's three and I'll be posting from a dark closet hiding from her and H for some alone time. I will be eating my words...haha
I didn't get the impression the poster worked outside of the home so it wasn't a mom saying she was glad to drop off at daycare so she could get to work and have coffee. I read it as she was a sahm and was glad her school aged kids were back do she could "finally have her life back" That, to me, is quite different.
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
Cinnamoncox, is it really that hard to believe that a mother (or father or both) loses that feeling of having their own identity after raising children and when they get to a point where they don't need their parents 24/7, it can feel like a giant sigh of relief from the parent?
Finally having her life back doesn't me "I regret having kids, good; I'm glad they are gone - little heathens!" I'd imagine a lot of parents feel a relief that they are their own person again, instead of just being Mom or Dad.
I didn't get the impression the poster worked outside of the home so it wasn't a mom saying she was glad to drop off at daycare so she could get to work and have coffee. I read it as she was a sahm and was glad her school aged kids were back do she could "finally have her life back" That, to me, is quite different.
And what is wrong with that?
jesus.
toledo I didn't say anything was wrong with it, I simply said it was different. I'm sure you're able to see/understand the difference
LOL she does this all the time. Responds to like ten posts out of each thread, painstakingly, one after the other.
lmao, she's totally doing that right now. It's killing me.
I can't be on here all day, I get short burst of time in which to post. Some people evidently can devote more time to posting and paying attention to the spacing of their (and clearly also of other posters') posts. Is there a specific guideline as to the appropriate spacing?