My new staircase railing/landing is glorious! Pretty. Dumb thing to be excited about I know.
My kids are still sick. Neither of them sleep. They both go down fine by 830 but after midnight it all goes to hell. Last night one of them was up every 45 minutes. This has been going on for the past week. DD also keeps waking up in a cold sweat. I know she's sick but she doesn't seem *that* sick during the day. I think DS is addicted to his ear drops. His infection is definitely better but he screams and screams until I put the pain drops in his ears and then promptly falls asleep. I also have suspicions DD has a UTI. They're both at Grandma's while I work (and she's great at medical stuff, so she'll tell me what's up) but I anticipate a trip to urgent care once I get home.
I am working in a high needs room today. It's pretty fun, but the kids all have paras who can only take care of them for a lot of reasons, so really I'm just hanging out observing. I'm bored but the downtime is nice since I'm so tired. I can also do paperwork for my normal area while I'm filling in here.
My H is driving me nuts. Our 8 month old is still waking 2-3 times during the night. My H, being the lighter sleeper, immediately goes and gets him and brings him to me (wide awake at this point) because he knows that sticking a boob in his mouth is the quickest way to get him back asleep. I've told him repeatedly to let DS settle himself, he knows how, but H just can't do it for longer than a couple of minutes. He knows full well that he is choosing the short term fix over the long term solution. I've given him passages of Ferber's book to read. I've threatened murder. He just cannot keep himself out of the nursery if he can hear DS fussing or babbling. I may never get a full night of sleep ever again.
I'm wearing a sweatshirt, dress pants and a scarf. It's a Lands End sweatshirt and looks nice but is oh so comfy. I look totally put together but feel like I'm in pajamas. Win-win!
Oh and I went to Old Navy last night to return something (and of course buy more clothes for DD) and there is a Goodwill close by. I stopped in and I guess it was green tag Tuesday where all green tags are $1.99. I got DD an adorable Gap dress, Gap shorts and some other cute items for $1.99 each. Score!
DH is in a funk/pissy mood and says he doesn't know why. I think school and us just being so busy lately is stressing him out, but he won't admit it. He just left for work and won't be home for about 13-14 hours. So I'm sure his mood will be just as great tonight.
Can babies/toddlers choke on ice? N is enthralled with the ice from my iced coffee (DD rocky road is pretty tasty, btw) and is happily snacking away on it. So far he has successfully chewed all of them but you never know.
Ds2 is so much tougher than ds1. He reacted to his shot with 10s of "WTH was that?!" crying as opposed to 10 mins of "my world is crumbling" wailing. Now he's snoozing in the car seat while I eat the banana bread that finished baking in the bread maker mere minutes after we got home.
On a less fun note, the Dr asked me about the mole on my forehead and said he didn't like the look of it. One of those "it's probably nothing but I'd like to remove it" situations. I can't say I'm sad to have scheduled it's removal, I hate the damn thing.
Highs this weekend are supposed to be in the 30s, 40 on Monday and they are predicting 50 for Tuesday, which I will believe when I see. Spring is coming! (knock on wood)
DD is down for a nap, and I should be napping as well because I have to work a night shift tonight, but I would much rather lay here in bed watching TV and bumming around on the internets. I will regret this when I hit the 3am wall tonight.
If I'm not gonna sleep, I should at least be working out or cleaning, but nah.
DS's daycare class picks one family each month to be the 'star of the month' and our month is March. I had to fill out a questionnaire about our family and provide 'some of our favorite pictures'.
And by some, I think daycare meant about 10-15 pictures. I brought 40. I'm just too attached to pictures and just couldn't choose my favorites. Plus, I've spent $$$ for newborn, 6 month, 1 year, and Christmas pictures. I'm showing everyone, damn it.
Post by cincodemayo on Mar 4, 2015 10:48:14 GMT -5
Target HQ announced today that they are cutting several thousand jobs in the Twin Cities. My H's best friend is a Target HQ employee and literally JUST put an offer on a new house this weekend. He and his wife are terrified. I am sick to my stomach thinking of all the people left without jobs after today.
I just saw J calling my cell phone and braced for the worst because usually when he calls my phone in the middle of the morning (he's on vacation this week) it means either 1. something is wrong with the kid or dogs or 2. He is all pissy about some stupid thing and needs to tell me why it's my fault (don't worry, if it really isn't my fault he gets told he's a dumbass and he apologizes). Nope, he just wanted to tell me that he caught AJ getting ready to feed his morning pancake to one of the dogs with one hand and pointing to the cabinet where the cereal bars aka COOOOOKIES are with the other. While yelling "COOOOOKIE!". Thankfully, he is making AJ finish his pancake before he gets the cereal bar. But still, holy hell that kid is getting sneaky.
He also told me AJ spent 45 minutes riveted to TMNT: Secret of the Ooze on the tablet. We've never let AJ do something like that before but he was so into it that J just let him keep going. At least it was TMNT?
I just downloaded illustrator on my work computer and I've been playing with it all morning. Its addicting. I'm suppose to be creating some documents but my boss isnt here to tell me what he wants on it... just more time to doodle on illustrator and gcbn.
My new staircase railing/landing is glorious! Pretty. Dumb thing to be excited about I know.
Not dumb, picture so I can live vicariously?
I don't. I'm on my work computer and my pic is at home. It's not that exciting though. Just a standard railing/banister in typical wood stain. It is however 455324525 times better than the half sloped wall with a piece of nailed on trim that was previously there. Long story but the contractors who built parts of our house didn't know WTF they were doing, so the staircase somehow ended up in first and all the trim to work to follow. Some of which never "followed." It was such a PITA project and took my legit/quality contractor 8 hours for 4feet of railing. Normal people do the trim stuff and then put the stairs in basically. Oh well. It's done now and my house is so much better for it.
I just had my 36 week appointment. I have lost 1 lb since 33 weeks. The baby keeps getting larger. My midwife keeps guessing 9 lbs. He/she had better come out soon.
I don't. I'm on my work computer and my pic is at home. It's not that exciting though. Just a standard railing/banister in typical wood stain. It is however 455324525 times better than the half sloped wall with a piece of nailed on trim that was previously there. Long story but the contractors who built parts of our house didn't know WTF they were doing, so the staircase somehow ended up in first and all the trim to work to follow. Some of which never "followed." It was such a PITA project and took my legit/quality contractor 8 hours for 4feet of railing. Normal people do the trim stuff and then put the stairs in basically. Oh well. It's done now and my house is so much better for it.
Target HQ announced today that they are cutting several thousand jobs in the Twin Cities. My H's best friend is a Target HQ employee and literally JUST put an offer on a new house this weekend. He and his wife are terrified. I am sick to my stomach thinking of all the people left without jobs after today.
I saw this on the news last night. One of my coworkers who is an intern here has a job offer for Target that is supposed to start in June after she graduates, but it's a verbal offer only at this point. She has already started looking for other jobs just in case it doesn't move forward. I know so many people who work at HQ and have considered several times applying for positions there myself, but the lack of stability for a big company like that is what scares me away!
That said, I still (heart) Target with all my soul.
Target HQ announced today that they are cutting several thousand jobs in the Twin Cities. My H's best friend is a Target HQ employee and literally JUST put an offer on a new house this weekend. He and his wife are terrified. I am sick to my stomach thinking of all the people left without jobs after today.
I saw this on the news last night. One of my coworkers who is an intern here has a job offer for Target that is supposed to start in June after she graduates, but it's a verbal offer only at this point. She has already started looking for other jobs just in case it doesn't move forward. I know so many people who work at HQ and have considered several times applying for positions there myself, but the lack of stability for a big company like that is what scares me away!
That said, I still (heart) Target with all my soul.
It's scary. I know quite a few people employed by them including a few of DH's old coworkers. He actually got a (nice!) offer from Target last year but didn't take it. So glad he didn't given this news. No idea if they're laying off the software engineers or not but glad we're not in the boat waiting to find out.
I have my anatomy scan next Friday. I didn't even think twice about this before. Now I can't stop thinking about the sex of my baby. I don't know how I am going to hold out 9 more days.
I'm wearing a sweatshirt, dress pants and a scarf. It's a Lands End sweatshirt and looks nice but is oh so comfy. I look totally put together but feel like I'm in pajamas. Win-win!
I'm wearing a sweatshirt, dress pants and a scarf. It's a Lands End sweatshirt and looks nice but is oh so comfy. I look totally put together but feel like I'm in pajamas. Win-win!
I need a MMM kick in the pants to not be a mommy martyr.
H's birthday is next week. ALL he wants is tickets to see his favorite comedian in town on the 19th, and a new gastropub opened nearby and I know he'd love to try it. My irrational side is all "but my bayyybeee is so little and nurses all night and how will the babysitter handle two kids," whereas my rational side knows we have a reliable babysitter who is a daycare teacher who handles ten crazy one-year-olds all day long and plenty of pumped milk. Plus, our marriage could really use a date night.
I need a MMM kick in the pants to not be a mommy martyr.
H's birthday is next week. ALL he wants is tickets to see his favorite comedian in town on the 19th, and a new gastropub opened nearby and I know he'd love to try it. My irrational side is all "but my bayyybeee is so little and nurses all night and how will the babysitter handle two kids," whereas my rational side knows we have a reliable babysitter who is a daycare teacher who handles ten crazy one-year-olds all day long and plenty of pumped milk. Plus, our marriage could really use a date night.
I should pull the trigger, yes?
If you can handle two kids you know your babysitter can. I mean if you trusted her with C she is clearly a competent person.
I need a MMM kick in the pants to not be a mommy martyr.
H's birthday is next week. ALL he wants is tickets to see his favorite comedian in town on the 19th, and a new gastropub opened nearby and I know he'd love to try it. My irrational side is all "but my bayyybeee is so little and nurses all night and how will the babysitter handle two kids," whereas my rational side knows we have a reliable babysitter who is a daycare teacher who handles ten crazy one-year-olds all day long and plenty of pumped milk. Plus, our marriage could really use a date night.
I should pull the trigger, yes?
Yes go. I went to concerts when dd2 was 5 weeks--H was home but I would have used a competent sitter if he had wanted to come. It was SO good to get out and everyone did great!