My kids have been playing well together for over an hour now. I have done zero parenting this afternoon but have prepped a bunch of stuff for dinner, planted a grape tomato plant, and sat happily on my ass for some time.
Maybe I will go inside and get a beer in a minute.
Just put C down for the night and sat my butt on the couch. H went to a friend's house, but apparently he bought me a bottle of wine on his way home from work tonight. I'm trying to decide if I actually want any of it.
Post by turtlegirl on Mar 27, 2015 18:54:40 GMT -5
With about 2 hours notice DH let me know we are having people over to watch basketball. 4 adults and 2 kids. So not too bad. But no notice means I'm about to run out to Costco and we are serving pizza for dinner.
Post by teatimefor2 on Mar 27, 2015 19:07:19 GMT -5
I feel so lame. DH and DS1 are OOT visiting his friend. The house is so quiet, too quiet. I had the TV on way more than usual. DS1 told me he missed me and loved me and I started crying. I think its hormones and exhaustion. I've only spent three night apart of him (two were having DS2!) and I was the one who left.
I feel lame, but I'm surprised by how much I miss both of them. I knew I would miss DH, but the sheer amount of how much I miss DS1 surprised me. They will be back Sunday morning.
So remember on Monday when I said in randoms I cooked E. student like 6 steaks and 8 porkchops, a ton of potatoes and a pot of soup to eat while we were on vacation?
I get home tonight from said vacation and there's still 6 steaks, 4 porkchops and an entire pot of soup in my fridge still.
I jokingly asked him if he was sick or what he just gave me his typical "I don't speak English stare."
He then gets all serious and says, "I thought you said you'd leave the food in the garage for me?"
Garage. Fridge/Freezer. Same thing I guess.
WTH. I like the kid but I think I'm done playing nice girl and making sure he's taken care of awhile. Effort is a two way street. Don't pretend to understand me when I speak on Monday and then end up all confused on Wednesday.
I'm not mad. He'll probably down it all for dinner tonight because I think he lived on bread and cereal alone for the past 3 days. More like I'm making the weirdest LOL/side eyed expression IRL as I type.
@justdairy sheesh! Not sure how he wouldn't have figured that one out. You are too nice trying to take care of him.
This is what kills me exactly. He is the nicest kid. He is a smart kid when it comes to what he knows. However when it comes to figuring out things he has no forthrightness to determine what should happen next. I mean logical thought would be, "Dairy left. There's a fridge full of food. I've lived here 7 months I know I can help myself to anything she didn't stick a post-it on. She said something about leaving food somewhere. This must be it. I guess I'll have some soup for lunch."
Couple that with his "I'm too stubborn to listen to help, because I WILL always be right" and that my friends is how one lives on cereal alone for 3 days.
Dd1 was star of the week at school last week. One of the activities is each kid in the class writes a note to her. Almost every note said "I like you because you are a good friend" or "You are kind". Then I get to one which says:
"You are a bucket filler". Lol. wtf does that mean?? I would totally post a pic but it has the other kid's name on it.
I'm pretty sure it is a great compliment! DS's class read a book about "filling a bucket" to make people feel good and all the kids had to come up with a way to fill someone's bucket. It was very sweet!
I know and that is why I feel like it's weird to have this anxiety over it. Hopefully I feel better once things are put away.
Moving is fucking hard. I would prioritize the immediate needs (blinds, etc) and putting away your stuff and then worry about furniture and decoraring.
Maybe make a list of things you want to buy/do and then you'll feel better checking small things off.
It is hard! And DH bought green couches (he loves them, I'm not 100% on board) and I have no fricking clue how to decorate with them. H&G is being super helpful but u kind of want to crawl back into my neutral filled hole because it's easier.
I'm doing tummy massage on the baby to get him to fart. WILD FRIDAY NIGHT.
I'm also moderately annoyed at H for a variety of reasons that I don't feel like arguing about. But I also don't want to just be passive aggressive all night.
I'm meeting a friend tomorrow in our old college/post college apt. town. I was hoping we could hit one of our old hangouts (which I didn't mean the skanky bars..lol. I meant one of the local bar and grill type places that are nice/family friendly/right in our age range. We are meeting at an odd time of the day but a beer and predinner app would've been fun.
She wants to meet at freakin' Coldstone because it's right next to where her prior meeting is.
Really? So much fun and cool stuff to do in said town and that's what she wants? She apparently doesn't want to drive "across" town which makes no sense. It's a 13K town 4 main roads in and out and 2 streets and 1 stop light not residential. There really isn't an across town that's more than like 2.1 miles..haha.
Post by everafter07 on Mar 27, 2015 19:38:41 GMT -5
Anyone have any tips on giving a toddler antibiotics? We are on round 2 of the same sinus infection and she pukes everything up when we give her medicine. Doesn't matter which kind (we've switched), she just gets herself so worked up that she throws up. We finally got tonight's dose into her while my H held her arms down and I held her head and trickled little drops into her mouth. It was so pitiful. Books, tv, toys, phone, singing, NOTHING helps. Going to try it in her milk in the morning, but then there is still the evening dose (she won't drink milk at night). She also won't take it in food.
Dd1 was star of the week at school last week. One of the activities is each kid in the class writes a note to her. Almost every note said "I like you because you are a good friend" or "You are kind". Then I get to one which says:
"You are a bucket filler". Lol. wtf does that mean?? I would totally post a pic but it has the other kid's name on it.
LOL. Do they do the bucket filler "game" at school? My school does this school wide and basically each classroom has a wall with a paper bucket cut out and a kid's name. Throughout the week you can write a note to a friend and stick it in the bucket. On Fridays everyone write a note to everyone else in the class.
You are allowed to write "you are a bucket filler" on someone's if you followed all the school rules that week, were kind, were polite etc. Basically a good person to be around.
Anyone have any tips on giving a toddler antibiotics? We are on round 2 of the same sinus infection and she pukes everything up when we give her medicine. Doesn't matter which kind (we've switched), she just gets herself so worked up that she throws up. We finally got tonight's dose into her while my H held her arms down and I held her head and trickled little drops into her mouth. It was so pitiful. Books, tv, toys, phone, singing, NOTHING helps. Going to try it in her milk in the morning, but then there is still the evening dose (she won't drink milk at night). She also won't take it in food.
I always gave it to DD in a shot glass of full of milk. Novel and just enough I know she'd get it all.
The last round of antibiotics she had literally did taste terrible and couldn't be flavored at all (I asked). The pharmacist told me I could put it in a syringe with some chocolate syrup. It did work.
I am borderline obsessed with acquiring certain pieces from the tea Germany collection... If only I would have pulled the trigger on more when it was readily available.
H and I are going to finish up the walking dead episodes that are available on Netflix this weekend... Time to find another show to binge watch.
I'm suppose to have gotten my period today. Haven't. POAS a couple days ago and it was negative. I guess now I wait. I am really bitching according to H.