FI's mom joined Facebook a few weeks ago. She doesn't like me. I "keep her son and grandson from her." Yeah, no. YOUR SON made the decision to no longer bring DS to your roach-infested, smokers' home with two (possibly three now) untrained dogs that scare the shit out of him. She is still welcome to see DS, either at our apartment or somewhere in public. Except that she never calls about visiting, and the past three times we called her to schedule a visit, she either canceled or no-showed.
Anyway, I was relishing in the fact that she hadn't friended me on FB.
And this morning, it happened -- she friend-requested me. Guess I need to figure out my privacy settings, so it looks to her like I never post on FB.
Put her on the Restricted list. I just figured this out and put 1/3 of my "friends" on it. Lol. They can only see the public stuff.
I had no idea this existed. I'm going to be doing a LOT of organizing this morning! Thanks!
Help - what should I do? I'm on my first business trip for my new company (been here since oct). When I boarded my flight last night I was fine. During the flight DH texted me to say he puked and was feeling awful. Long story short I did too when I got to my hotel. I'm supposed to work out of one of my company's other offices today and meet a bunch of coworkers. I have to call in sick right? That's better than getting others sick, I hope I don't look too flakey though.
Can you call in sick but try and work remotely if you feel up to it- like take phone calls and emails? I think they will completely understand you not coming in as that means you aren't getting them sick.
We had a two hour delay due to ice. Normally I just come in at the normal time because it is too hard to change my routine (creature of habit). It took H and I 40 minutes to chip away the walkway and our cars so we could actually leave the house. Glad you we had the delay.
No matter how much people talk up minivans I still couldn't do it. No way, no how. But I do technically own a station wagon so I guess that is saying something.
Unlike for me where my child will be going to bed at 10pm and not up in time for daycare
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With the sun coming up earlier, it'll push back for us soon enough. The only semi successful tactic we have now is the whole when it's dark, we sleep. That's totally going to bite us in the ass. Toddlers and their schedules, it's the worst lol.
My supply all of a sudden has decided to be funky. Since returning to work I was already barely making enough and I had to pump 30 minutes at work since it seemed to take awhile for milk to start coming even with massaging. Well now at home I have to pump 30 minutes! And I have to really work to get extra milk during the MOTN session which I used to easily get 10-12 oz. I'm trying not to stress. If formula x2 wasn't so expensive I would quit. My first goal was 6 months which is 6 weeks away. We'll see what happens then.
I'm impressed you've made it as long as you have - EPing with twins sounds hard! Remember that it doesn't have to be all or nothing; you could just drop a session or two and supplement.
I am a teacher. Before I left I was a middle school special educator, and it is what I would like to do again. I have been out on extended child-care leave, since two weeks before A was born. I am guaranteed a job, but not at my old school.
My mom brought over her super duper migraine pills and ginger ale. Now I'm all loopy but at least I'm feeling a bit better. I wish I could hang out with jenny1980 right now!
So my lovely second child likes to spend her mornings just lounging around in her room reading books.
This is the child I deserved. She's lucky she was born after the one I got first. If we could special order one more like her, we'd have a third, but we're both terrified of another round of #1.*
*We love him and shit, but that child is exhausting and HE ALWAYS HAS BEEN. He has never, in his life, just hung out in his room and read books for 20 minutes.
First day back to work after over a week of vacation. Sooo many emails, as I purposefully did not check them while gone (just watched the badge count on my iPhone go up every day, LOL).
I hope I remember to post a pic or two on Wednesday's HDBD thread, as I have some cute ones of E.
Yesterday I took my very pregnant good friend to a charity tea for the organization I volunteer with. I thought it would be a nice treat and a chance for us to hang out one-on-one before she has the baby any day now. And it was, but it was a lot more of a fundraiser than I expected and there was pretty much no downtime to just chat. So I feel a little guilty about that. I bought our tickets, and she says she had fun, but still...
In related news, the org raised $300k+ just from the tea (including donations made there), so that's AMAZING. And the guest speaker was really cool.
My mom brought over her super duper migraine pills and ginger ale. Now I'm all loopy but at least I'm feeling a bit better. I wish I could hang out with jenny1980 right now!
LOL. Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
I have successfully taught Lu to use the Keurig independently, so I now can get coffee by playing a chime on my phone.
I think we will make this part of the toddler bed transition when the time comes. The only way you are allowed up and out of bed is if you bring mommy her coffee.
MIL told DH last night that she is giving us two diamonds so the boys each have one for future engagement rings. I said "oh cool can I make earrings out of them in the meantime?" To which DH said that they were of different sizes and that she wants Ben to have the bigger one. So I said "but what if Ethan gets married first?" and DH said that MIL was pretty clear that Ben was meant to have the bigger one since he's older.
Is she now?
WTF? BTW, my friend's boys are named Ethan and Ben.
MIL told DH last night that she is giving us two diamonds so the boys each have one for future engagement rings. I said "oh cool can I make earrings out of them in the meantime?" To which DH said that they were of different sizes and that she wants Ben to have the bigger one. So I said "but what if Ethan gets married first?" and DH said that MIL was pretty clear that Ben was meant to have the bigger one since he's older.
Is she now?
WTF? BTW, my friend's boys are named Ethan and Ben.
I'm so fucking sick of everything today. I'm sick of picking up the same shit a million times a day. I'm sick of the crying, and the whining, and the irrational tantrums. I'm sick of living with my parents and their faux help on days where they "just want to be grandparents." I'm sick of everything falling on me to get done (with regard to more than should).
I'm just really feeling like I'm spinning out of control and I've already yelled and said no more today than I can handle.
This is coming to you from the bathroom floor where I'm hiding "taking a shower." I just can't do it right now.
I'm sorry, swizz. lots of hugs to you. i wish I lived closer so I could help you out.
My supply all of a sudden has decided to be funky. Since returning to work I was already barely making enough and I had to pump 30 minutes at work since it seemed to take awhile for milk to start coming even with massaging. Well now at home I have to pump 30 minutes! And I have to really work to get extra milk during the MOTN session which I used to easily get 10-12 oz. I'm trying not to stress. If formula x2 wasn't so expensive I would quit. My first goal was 6 months which is 6 weeks away. We'll see what happens then.
I'm impressed you've made it as long as you have - EPing with twins sounds hard! Remember that it doesn't have to be all or nothing; you could just drop a session or two and supplement.
I'm about to do that. I'm ok with how often I pump but I think I'm gonna stop stressing and just start doing formula if I come up short. Stress isn't helping me right now.
DH agreed to ditch the green in the dining room! He's thinking a federal yellow. I can dig it. I know there's not many color people on the board but I'm all about color. Maybe something like this:
We are both nesting hard core.
I love it. One of my favorite yellows is BM's Hawthorne Yellow, but it's less orange.
I'm going to have to acknowledge the fact that my kids wake up at 6. They do, all of them. They rotate who gets up first and then they wake up the house. Every morning, no avoiding it, no one goes back to sleep. Six AM it is. Deep breath.
At this point, all I can change is my mindset because spending 30-45 minutes trying to get a three year old to be quiet/not turn on the lights/stop bothering his sister is no way to start a morning.
I think tomorrow I'll plan on getting up at 6 and running or something since we'll have a full 100 minutes of family time together before DH has to leave for work lol.
I've learned to embrace the early mornings too. Before M I was not a morning person.
Hugs to you Swizz. I feel you completely. We're living with my parents while we renovate our house. MH works out of town 14 hrs a day. I also receive faux help from my parents who refuse to discipline and frequently do the whole "no. no. no....ok." thing and then turn DS over to me when he is freaking out and they can't control him. He is a completely different child when he's not around them. I'm so sorry. I hope the "shower" helps a bit.
So my lovely second child likes to spend her mornings just lounging around in her room reading books.
This is the child I deserved. She's lucky she was born after the one I got first. If we could special order one more like her, we'd have a third, but we're both terrified of another round of #1.*
*We love him and shit, but that child is exhausting and HE ALWAYS HAS BEEN. He has never, in his life, just hung out in his room and read books for 20 minutes.
This is why I'm terrified to have #2. #1 was ridiculous as an infant but she is FABULOUS as a toddler. She has her moments, don't get me wrong, but I'm really scared to screw up how easy things are by adding a second. But I want another one.
Post by gerberdaisy on Mar 2, 2015 13:23:36 GMT -5
Well looks like it might be an ear infection afterall. Daycare called, tugging ear, fussy, elevated temp. We're off to the doctors later the afternoon.
And I'm sorry you're going through it too. 14-hour days, he might as well be gone full time too. It blows.
THanks. Just know you're not alone, as much as it sucks in the moment. And also, your parents will really have it coming when C is older and really won't listen to them. It won't be so much fun for them then.
I convinced my H to let me buy pair of wedges for our Hawaii trip I have been eyeing (which are not at all MM). I went to the mall at lunch and picked them up. It made my week.