Post by lurknomore on Oct 24, 2014 20:58:03 GMT -5
My aunt and uncle wanted to meet me and the girls at one of the local fall festivals. There are a ton so I suggested one. Pumpkins, kids hay bale mazes, slides, a smallish corn maze with a bunch if different exits (and it comes with a map in case you want to get out before the end) and a PETTING ZOO. Well they started looking online and now were going to one with a HUGE, traditional corn maze and basically nothing else. Pumpkins. And, to top it off, it opens at 1, which is when they want to meet up, which, if I'm going to get a nap from my 3 yo is the time I would try to do it. So now I'll be lugging a crabby 3 yo, my 6 yo and the baby thru a corn maze during nap time. This sounds like such a disaster. And while I should just say no, I want to go to the other place at 11 like we planned, my cousins are older so they want to be entertained too. It's a no win for someone and I guess this time I drew the short straw. Fuck me.
**UPDATE**. We ended up going. Supposed to meet them at 1 but I texted and told them we would be 20 min late. I was another 30 after that. Oops. DD2 fell asleep in the car and slept about 30 minutes on the way out there. It turned out that there was a lot more kid stuff than it appeared from their website, incl pony rides, a playground, an apple cannon and a kids corn maze. We had a great time. DD3 slept in the ergo most of the time and my uncle and cousins boyfriend helped carry DD2 when she got tired. We got B1G1 pumpkins (we already had ours so just two small ones for $1) and then came home. DD2 fell asleep in the car coming home and got another 30 min or so nap. The weather was gorgeous and I'm so glad I sucked it up and went. It was fun and nice to see them.
Nope. Just explain yourself. Otherwise you're dragging your kids home at 2:30 while they scream like maniacs because you weren't abundantly clear about the importance of nap time. Not that I'd know.
To pile onto lurknomore's theme about fall festivals. After several weeks of DH not being able to go (work, farm chores, more work) we are FINALLY going apple & pumpkin picking tomorrow. He is ADMANT we don't need to pack lunch, that we can have a quick breakfast at home, drive the 40mins there, pick fruit, AND drive back before DS melts down at 12pm for lunch. This sounds CRAZY to me, I want to pack lunch and eat there. But DH is ADMANT we eat lunch at home. Do I fight or fold?
Or...secretly pack heavy snacks?
ETA: I am annoyed because I'm a goddamn SAHM. Knowing when my kid eats is like, a huge portion of my job. I do it all day, EVERY DAY. But ohhhh no, now that DH is involved he knows how long it takes to get a toddler someplace and back better than I do?!
To pile onto lurknomore's theme about fall festivals. After several weeks of DH not being able to go (work, farm chores, more work) we are FINALLY going apple & pumpkin picking tomorrow. He is ADMANT we don't need to pack lunch, that we can have a quick breakfast at home, drive the 40mins there, pick fruit, AND drive back before DS melts down at 12pm for lunch. This sounds CRAZY to me, I want to pack lunch and eat there. But DH is ADMANT we eat lunch at home. Do I fight or fold?
Or...secretly pack heavy snacks?
ETA: I am annoyed because I'm a goddamn SAHM. Knowing when my kid eats is like, a huge portion of my job. I do it all day, EVERY DAY. But ohhhh no, now that DH is involved he knows how long it takes to get a toddler someplace and back better than I do?!
To pile onto lurknomore's theme about fall festivals. After several weeks of DH not being able to go (work, farm chores, more work) we are FINALLY going apple & pumpkin picking tomorrow. He is ADMANT we don't need to pack lunch, that we can have a quick breakfast at home, drive the 40mins there, pick fruit, AND drive back before DS melts down at 12pm for lunch. This sounds CRAZY to me, I want to pack lunch and eat there. But DH is ADMANT we eat lunch at home. Do I fight or fold?
Or...secretly pack heavy snacks?
ETA: I am annoyed because I'm a goddamn SAHM. Knowing when my kid eats is like, a huge portion of my job. I do it all day, EVERY DAY. But ohhhh no, now that DH is involved he knows how long it takes to get a toddler someplace and back better than I do?!
To pile onto lurknomore's theme about fall festivals. After several weeks of DH not being able to go (work, farm chores, more work) we are FINALLY going apple & pumpkin picking tomorrow. He is ADMANT we don't need to pack lunch, that we can have a quick breakfast at home, drive the 40mins there, pick fruit, AND drive back before DS melts down at 12pm for lunch. This sounds CRAZY to me, I want to pack lunch and eat there. But DH is ADMANT we eat lunch at home. Do I fight or fold?
Or...secretly pack heavy snacks?
ETA: I am annoyed because I'm a goddamn SAHM. Knowing when my kid eats is like, a huge portion of my job. I do it all day, EVERY DAY. But ohhhh no, now that DH is involved he knows how long it takes to get a toddler someplace and back better than I do?!
ALWAYS pack snacks! My mom still keeps granola bars and trail mix pouches in her purse for my sister and I when we get hungry, and we're in our 30s. It's what moms do, right? Be a hero and whip out snacks when nobody else plans for food? :-)
To pile onto lurknomore's theme about fall festivals. After several weeks of DH not being able to go (work, farm chores, more work) we are FINALLY going apple & pumpkin picking tomorrow. He is ADMANT we don't need to pack lunch, that we can have a quick breakfast at home, drive the 40mins there, pick fruit, AND drive back before DS melts down at 12pm for lunch. This sounds CRAZY to me, I want to pack lunch and eat there. But DH is ADMANT we eat lunch at home. Do I fight or fold?
Or...secretly pack heavy snacks?
ETA: I am annoyed because I'm a goddamn SAHM. Knowing when my kid eats is like, a huge portion of my job. I do it all day, EVERY DAY. But ohhhh no, now that DH is involved he knows how long it takes to get a toddler someplace and back better than I do?!
Pack snacks for you and ds, none for dh. I mean we barely go to target without snacks, your husband is crazy.
say "thanks, but no thanks" lurknomore. a corn maze sounds hellish as an adult and i cannot imagine doing it with grumpy kids. a petting zoo sounds awesome. the older kids (teenagers?) can have fun because they get to hang out with their younger cousins. they can do their corn maze later. really, they could do both the same day unless they are a great distance apart. it's not like you're going to be out for hours upon hours with young kids.
i'm annoyed because i drove to the grocery store earlier and realized my wallet was at home on the table where i left it. thankfully i realized this BEFORE getting inside with a cart full of groceries, but still.
I'm annoyed that we traveled 400+ miles and took off 2 days of work to attend a family wedding, but we're not being included in any of the events. I spent the day driving aimlessly around a strange town because I couldn't think of anything better to do with a 6 month old. Come to find out a group went to a pumpkin patch. Nobody thought "Gee, maybe Jackie & Co who traveled all this way to be with the family would like to join us!!"
lurknomore tell them that it won't work for you. You're going to the more age appropriate one in the morning because being out at naptime is not happening.
or tell them a kid woke up with a fever, sorry to miss it! (but that's the cowards way out, lol)
@supergreen pack snacks, lots of them. Your husband is being an idiot as per usual
lurknomore you will have to tell me which ones you are talking about because we want to go this weekend. Lol
They first suggested Pattersons which is always a hit mess this time if year. It is $8 pp to get in and it looks like they have nothing going on per usual. The admission Includes a hayride around the property, which is admittedly gorgeous, but they had a disasterous PYO apple season and so it looks like nothing.
I suggested Guyette Farms in Mantua. It looks pretty cool. Petting zoo. Need I say more?!? We are now going to go to Derthicks which is also in Mantua. And yes, I know I should tell them to go piss up a tree but I won't. I'll just deal and well leave early if my kids lose it. We've already been to 2, so it isn't like they need more fall festival time. Aunt and uncle just wanted to go.
Too bad you're down there. My favorite one is an hour from here way west. It would be a haul from your area I think. We were down that way today at Anazone. Interesting place but the girls loved it.
Post by JayhawkGirl on Oct 25, 2014 2:25:42 GMT -5
I just need to vent this out....we had a baseball watch party tonight at our best friends' house. They invited my MIL earlier his week (my friend is our family atty, they had a meeting, invitation was extended).
MIL walks up to DD in her high chair and gives her a drink of Shirley temple with whipped cream - droppered it from her straw into DD's mouth. I didn't register what was happening and then sputtered that she isn't to have any dairy. DD is 10 months old. She doesn't need a fucking sprite with cherry juice and whipped cream. She drinks breastmilk and a tiny bit of water just to practice using a cup.
MIL then giggles and tells other guests "DIL won't let me give her more bc she things that canned whipped cream has diary." No one said anything. No you don't give a baby soda. I had just finished spoon feeding her gerber baby food, some shredded meat and tiny diced up banana. I'm not going to let you give her soda.
I just need to vent this out....we had a baseball watch party tonight at our best friends' house. They invited my MIL earlier his week (my friend is our family atty, they had a meeting, invitation was extended).
MIL walks up to DD in her high chair and gives her a drink of Shirley temple with whipped cream - droppered it from her straw into DD's mouth. I didn't register what was happening and then sputtered that she isn't to have any dairy. DD is 10 months old. She doesn't need a fucking sprite with cherry juice and whipped cream. She drinks breastmilk and a tiny bit of water just to practice using a cup.
MIL then giggles and tells other guests "DIL won't let me give her more bc she things that canned whipped cream has diary." No one said anything. No you don't give a baby soda. I had just finished spoon feeding her gerber baby food, some shredded meat and tiny diced up banana. I'm not going to let you give her soda.
She drives me to drink.
Not cool. Why do old ppl think it's funny to do crap like this.
I have 2 annoyances: 1. Lately it seems like very thread I read happens to G. The one about constipation the other day? Guess who hasn't pooped in the last 24 hours? 2. The thread about the 4mw - I've been up with G at 12, 2, and now 5. Omgggg. Someone please post about regularly pooping babies who sttn please!
Also, h was supremely unhelpful last night when I asked him to get attend to g at the 12 wake up. It was like he's never seen a crying baby before! He was all what do I do then dropped the paci under the crib. :/
@supergreen, pack snacks! I always have an emergency Granola bar in my purse for ds1. And one for me too when I was pg. Your dh can eat apples if he decides he's hungry.
Follow-up: I told DH I was packing lunch. I said, "if we get home in time, lunch is all made! No waiting around. If we get lost, or stuck in traffic or whatever, we can eat there. Win-win." He reluctantly agreed.
We had a GREAT time. Beautiful weather, sunny and 70. DS loving picking apples and pumpkins. At 11:30 he literally sat down in the orchard and said "tired...hungry." DH said all chipper "let's go have lunch!" And DS says "thank you dadda!" I decided not to ruin the afternoon by giving him the stink eye. We all devoured our lunches and came home. DS is now sound asleep.