Ok... so, I'm sad for my mom's dog that he got hit by a car and died. I genuinely feel bad about it. BUT I am also kind of relieved he's gone. He pissed all over everything. Everything. If you left anything where he could get to it, even if it was only for a few minutes, he peed on it. This includes so many of C's toys. My mom never tried to fix whatever his problem was and by the end of his life no one even really liked him because he peed on everyone's shit constantly. She was going to re-home him at one point, and I wish she would have done it then because she didn't take care of him, then she started keeping them outside all the time unless it was raining or freezing, which is how he got out and subsequently hit by a car.
Sometimes when my dog starts to run away (and I see him doing so), I have a thought "maybe I should just let him". I don't because, well that's awful.
I also tried rehoming (via rescue routes) and no one would take them. They are too old.
I don't love my dog near as much as I did pre-Graham. I have wished before he would run away and find a happy new home just so I don't have one more being to take care of and clean up after in my house. I know that's flame worthy.
Thanks. Chris being zero MOTN help is wearing me out. I get that he wakes up at 4 and needs sleep so I let him. He also has a painfully loud alarm that he snoozes. I need to make that stop because it wakes me up.
In regards to Hazel, she is taking the transition to sleeping alone really hard and each night she goes to bed later and later. She wants me to sleep with her, but I have to get up with Greta. She also wants her paci back. She doesn't want Chris at all. We've tried more light and snacks and me cuddling witg her for a while. Nothing is working. What do we do?
@gisa, with edie, i started doing a countdown. "hey, i'll stay here two more minutes...one more minute...OK, time for me to go and i love you so much!"
this is also weird and i NEVER thought it'd work, but it does. a friend i trust suggested when i lay in bed with edie and just play on my phone. edie LOVES my phone so i thought it'd be a distraction. but it was the opposite! i think she thought i was distracted so she didn't talk to me.
I may try this. She likes to be all over me and to chat while I'm in there.
EDIE TOO! And if I get grumpy she's like "Mommy, can i have a hug and a kiss" because she knows that melts me. So at the end of our stories, I'll say "OK, time to turn out the light and I'll lay with you for two minutes, but you should close your eyes and I'll play with my phone."
It is bizzare how easy it was. How she was just like OK instead of wanting to play with my phone. I NEVER thought it'd work.
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I will try a chart. We have the same bedtime routine every night. She is just scared she says. I'm tempted to put Owen in there to see what happens
Ella falls asleep with the lights on every night (I sneak in to turn them off before I go to bed). That just started not too long ago as well. Before she was cool with night lights, and then all of a sudden, she saw shadows, or didn't like the butterflies on her wall. Toddlers are weird.
Good luck. I know it's frustrating!
It may be the age. Sometime around 3 we ended up with a 15w light in his room because he was scared and wanted us in his room. It is on all night long because he would wake up screaming if it was off. That worked for a long time.
Just recently he wanted me back in his room. Two nights ago, he kept looking beyond me and I asked what do you see. His answer: people. Yep, no sleep for me. I think he was talking about the creepy lamp that H had as a kid. I put some stuffed animals in front of the lamp so you couldn't see the clown. I didn't have to lay with him last night.
Right now I want to be really loud to wake up Noah and my H. Noah was singing for over an hour and kept me up and I am exhausted, and of course H slept through that. And now since Noah was up singing he is tired and sleeping in, so my H gets to sleep in when I am the one who got up with Noah and I have to work. Of course I won't do that because that is just mean.
Im considering not going to see the Easter bunny this year. Lexi will likely freak, the lines will be long..... I just don't know.
I'm having major guilt about the fact that we have cute pics of E with the Easter bunny last year and none for A this year. I think we will go this morning. I'm sure it will end in disaster but I feel like I have to try.
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I have another. I love having a son but I effing HATE changing boy diapers and every time I have to do it, I secretly wish he had a vagina.
I've been peed on so many times (yes, I try to "tent" it but this kid pees soooo much!) and he leaks through diapers like three times a day (we were gifted NB disposables so we are using those before switching to cloth. And yes, I try to make sure his penis is pointed down before the diaper goes on. Also, I hate putting the petroleum jelly on his circ.
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I have another. I love having a son but I effing HATE changing boy diapers and every time I have to do it, I secretly wish he had a vagina.
I've been peed on so many times (yes, I try to "tent" it but this kid pees soooo much!) and he leaks through diapers like three times a day (we were gifted NB disposables so we are using those before switching to cloth. And yes, I try to make sure his penis is pointed down before the diaper goes on. Also, I hate putting the petroleum jelly on his circ.
I agree with the getting peed on, but let me tell you this last week I have been very grateful for 2 little boys being able to stand up and pee in the nasty toilets we have encountered! At the airports and generally when travelling overseas.
I would have been having conniptions if I had a little girl who needed to sit down on the loo seats. So gross, and at least as an adult I can hold it, or hover!
I was terrible with the dark and sleeping by myself around 3-4yrs. my dad gave me a big stuffed bear, put the bear in front of my bed, and told me the bear would protect me from whatever I was scared of. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it worked on me. I hope you guys are able to get some rest soon.
I do not want to get out of bed and parent today. I'm tired. So, one kid is jumping in his crib, two are watching tv, and one is sitting in a shitty diaper. And I sit in bed with a cup of coffee ignoring it all.
Im considering not going to see the Easter bunny this year. Lexi will likely freak, the lines will be long..... I just don't know.
I'm having major guilt about the fact that we have cute pics of E with the Easter bunny last year and none for A this year. I think we will go this morning. I'm sure it will end in disaster but I feel like I have to try.
My guilt will probably get the best of me. We will probably end up going tomorrow... on her birthday.
My confession is that I can't pay attention to you ladies today even though I really want to. I have a ton of work to do
This is mine...and after this I have to leave or I will never get my work done.
I am so sad because I have a crazy deadline at work and it's the worst timing. I feel like the worst parent because I don't have anything special planned for the kids for their birthdays. H has today off and is going to go out and buy birthday gifts. I want to be part of it, but I just have no time. I have been working late and coming in early and I hate it.
Post by dixeedeluxe on Apr 18, 2014 8:00:46 GMT -5
Oh I have one.
I have an athiest friend who asked on FB about celebrating Easter. And how other people do it and because "she's an athiest" she has to do it differently. So she just got her daughter a huge easter basket. Uh, even growing up Catholic, that's all we did. She's not doing anything "differently" because she's athiest. But she went on to explain how she wanted to celebrate "the pagen roots" of Easter.
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I have an athiest friend who asked on FB about celebrating Easter. And how other people do it and because "she's an athiest" she has to do it differently. So she just got her daughter a huge easter basket. Uh, even growing up Catholic, that's all we did. She's not doing anything "differently" because she's athiest. But she went on to explain how she wanted to celebrate "the pagen roots" of Easter.
So, the easter bunny is the pagen root of easter?
She acted the same way around christmas.
I wouldn't be able to roll my eyes hard enough at this.
I'm having major guilt about the fact that we have cute pics of E with the Easter bunny last year and none for A this year. I think we will go this morning. I'm sure it will end in disaster but I feel like I have to try.
My guilt will probably get the best of me. We will probably end up going tomorrow... on her birthday.
Don't do it. We went and it was torture and I was with my SIL so we had to get the pic so I had to put my giant pregnant ass next to the EB to keep her from being traumatized. And I got to pay $$ for that experience. Don't bother!
Post by rainbowchip on Apr 18, 2014 8:09:34 GMT -5
When people have gtgs they always say how great and sweet and pretty and nice the person they met is. I'm worried that if I ever met someone they would be like, yeah, I met rainbowchip she was alright I guess.
My guilt will probably get the best of me. We will probably end up going tomorrow... on her birthday.
Don't do it. We went and it was torture and I was with my SIL so we had to get the pic so I had to put my giant pregnant ass next to the EB to keep her from being traumatized. And I got to pay $$ for that experience. Don't bother!
We have no Santa picture of her this past year for this very reason. Just the boys. I'll be by myself too.
Oh and another one, I get sick of H on vacation. It sounds bad, but it's true. I'm not used to him being around all the time. And doing everything together!
I'm such a spoiled only child and I need my alone time dammit.
Dh told me that he only plans on working a half day today and coming home at lunch. This would be okay but he's the loudest person I know and A doesn't nap as long when he's home. I also like to have my own downtime when she's sleeping and him being here messes that up!
I have no interest in taking care of my child so I am glad to be still working. HOWEVER I also have no interest in doing work and therefore I spend my days in an unfocused haze feeling guilty all the time.
Matilda has been fighting bedtime the last few days and I am finding that having 3+ hours with her in the evening is wearing on me. This makes me feel terrible because 3 hours with your child isn't even a lot.
@pcloadletter it took until Lydia was almost four to get to the okay, it's time to turn off the iPad, mommy's going to go potty and I will check on you later. Before that we had to stay in her room until she fell asleep. I feel you. My H had to do it when we had C.
My confessions is Lydia keeps satin ummm mommy, ummm mommy and it is driving me bonkers. Then she will be like I love you. Ugh. I am horrible.
My h let me go back go bed and brought me coffee and breakfast in bed. Because of the rough night we had. I asked him why he is being so nice. He fed the girls breakfast and everything.
I have no interest in taking j to pictures with Santa or the Easter bunny. I haven't done it at all yet. I think the pics people post are cute, I just don't want to do them myself. Maybe I am missing a heart.
Post by pinchofspice on Apr 18, 2014 8:46:03 GMT -5
Confession: I'm sitting at work prepping for an interview next week. I don't feel that bad because I'm being let go. I do feel a little bad though. What if I don't get the job?
Other random: I feel like such a Debbie Downer lately. I'm generally a very happy, drama free person, but I feel like I keep getting kicked in the pants lately and it's getting really old. I keep thinking that life is made up of peaks and pits and this is just a pit time. But it's been pitty since November and I think I'm turning into a bitter person.
Then I feel guilty because so many people have it WAY worse than me and I just need to quit my bitching.
So far this gorgeous 31 degree weather morning-where is the sarcasm font?-, my children have drawn with (erasable) marker all over the media console, opened 3 presents from their party this past weekend, played with 10ml syringes full of water, taken every damn toy out of every possible place, and are STILL DRIVING ME UP THE MOTHER F'ING WALL.
Oh and H will be working late tonight. Why? Because Jack was up 6 times last night and H was up with him 3 of those times. AND Henry was up for the day at 5am.
I'm going to suck it up and take them to a museum and sit back with a tea and iphone.