Post by jeaniebueller on Nov 21, 2014 16:00:26 GMT -5
My new dishwasher doesn't get installed for another 10 days because I can't be around next week due to work and we are going out of town for Thanksgiving. That means I have to keep washing dishes by hand like I have already been doing for the last 10 days. #fwp
So my H started a new job in October and I started working part time. We went from both getting paid on the last day of the. Month, to him getting paid hi-monthly and me once a month.
YOU GUYS! H got paid today, I get paid next Friday and H gets paid again the Friday after that. H is making more than he thought he would, and while my "base" is 24 hours/ week, they pay me hourly for anything I work from home. I averaged 30 hours/ week this month, which seems like such a breeze after the 50+hours/ week I worked for the previous 18 months. In short, we're killing it financially right now and have SUCH a better quality of life. I'm so happy it kind of makes me cry to type all of this out :-)
Vent: H is supposed to go to Friendsgiving about 3.5-4 hours away with friends from college tomorrow, overnight. I've solo parented every night this week, we just got back from an exhausting vacation, I had my L&D scare yesterday, I have a cold, I'm 29 weeks pregnant and we're hosting Thanksgiving next week. He's all "I'll stay home if you want me to" but I hate hate hate being put in the bad guy position of saying, "yes, cancel on your friends, I need you here."
Be the bad guy, this is marriage. I was the bad guy last march. DH was suppose to go away for March Madness, I was eight weeks pregnant, had morning sickness, we were trying to close in our home, I was in the process of weaning and just dead tired.
We talked about it and he stayed home. I slept 16 hours that Saturday. He had to take one for the team. I'm rarely the bad guy, but sometimes it's necessary.
I'm at a conference and the lady sitting next to me keeps putting on hand lotion that smells strongly like a combination of lysol and lemon starburst. It is foul. She has been slathering it on once or twice every HOUR.
My random is really random. I was reading this randoms thread and realized that I'd never actually looked closely at timorousbeastie's avatar. Doctor Who high five!
It's open enrollment season for insurance. So XH and I get together and compare insurance to see which is better to put DS on. I want to make sure that it covers his current doctor, and his speech therapy.
Had to take my dog to the vet last night. Her itching was getting so bad she was chewing off hair. I've been fighting these fleas for months: flea shampoo, flea collar, flea spray, Frontline...nothing. So she is on a chewable tablet. Hope it helps. I feel so bad for her. But everyone commented on how sweet she is.
We had a flea battle a few months ago and combing him every night, vacuuming daily, and dusting him with this is what I think finally got rid of them.
Post by scribellesam on Nov 21, 2014 18:36:36 GMT -5
I just spent the entire two hours of DS1's naptime trying to get a fussy DS2 to sleep. I forgot how upsetting and isolating it is to be alone with a crying baby and no one to help. I need a drink and a good cry.
Our nanny called us home early on both Wednesday and Thursday because DS wouldn't stop screaming (teething). Tylenol wouldn't touch it. DS woke up happy this morning so we were cautiously optimistic. H called me at lunch after chatting with the nanny - DS put together a 3 hour nap this morning. Holy crap. Prior to today he's slept an hour at most for her. Hopefully this means he's pushing through. Still no teeth though.
Am I a bad person for thinking your nanny shouldn't have made you come home? For me, part of the wonder of a nanny is that she's more experienced than you and can use that experience to handle all kinds of things, including teething babies and tantruming toddlers.
Our nanny called us home early on both Wednesday and Thursday because DS wouldn't stop screaming (teething). Tylenol wouldn't touch it. DS woke up happy this morning so we were cautiously optimistic. H called me at lunch after chatting with the nanny - DS put together a 3 hour nap this morning. Holy crap. Prior to today he's slept an hour at most for her. Hopefully this means he's pushing through. Still no teeth though.
Am I a bad person for thinking your nanny shouldn't have made you come home? For me, part of the wonder of a nanny is that she's more experienced than you and can use that experience to handle all kinds of things, including teething babies and tantruming toddlers.
I was thinking it too but it was only an hour early and he was screaming bloody murder. If he had just been super fussy she wouldn't have called. I can't fault her for it. The only thing that eventually calmed him was sleeping on my chest like he was a newborn again.
My random is really random. I was reading this randoms thread and realized that I'd never actually looked closely at timorousbeastie's avatar. Doctor Who high five!
The picture is from the episode Tooth and Claw, where the Doctor calls Rose a timorous beastie
My random is really random. I was reading this randoms thread and realized that I'd never actually looked closely at timorousbeastie's avatar. Doctor Who high five!
The picture is from the episode Tooth and Claw, where the Doctor calls Rose a timorous beastie
That's what I thought! I just had never noticed before - I don't always look at avatars.