lest anyone be uninformed as to my crap mood, here's a C&P from the randoms thread I started.
Im on CD 34 and everything I pee on is negative. WTH is going on in my body?!
I just recieved a note from the director that I was $x "short" this month "fyi it's a 5 week month." Umm, there is one day in the "5th" week and I assumed I'd cover that in my September payment. And since you never give me a fucking invoice, how the hell am I supposed to know what's due?! Andplusalso, there is a $5 charge for food that I've never seen before and I think is erroneous. She is just suuuuuuuuuuch a crappy bookkeeper, I can't stand it.
Ooooh, and they lost his stupid $6 cup. I'm only sending take and toss from now on. They can deal with the increased spills.
I made a super healthy pinteresty breakfast and lunch (overnight oats, quinoa salad, etc) and left my lunch box sitting on the table at home. I am SO annoyed because I wasted all that effort just to get fast food for lunch anyway! I could have slept 30 more minutes!
I saw a thread a couple weeks ago on ML about a British show called Peaky Blinders, didn't think anything of it. . .then I found out that Tom Hardy was in season 2 so I decided why not watch it? Well, I've watched all of season 1 right now and I am now adding Cillian Murphy to my list. I'm looking forward to tomorrow when I have a half day and I can binge watch season 2 with both Cillian and Tom.
As soon as I drop Jack off at school I'm making a huge sale post here and on my local moms group. H is grumbly about the cost of all the new furniture we need, so selling the stuff we don't need should help a bit.
(Selling a patio set if any NYC'ers are interested!)
I've sung Edelweiss to DD basically every night since she's been born, but the last year we've been singing mostly Frozen. lol
Last night I asked her what she wanted to sing and she said, "Ummm... vise?" And I asked her if she meant Edelweiss. She said, "Yeah. I just love that one."
I've sung Edelweiss to DD basically every night since she's been born, but the last year we've been singing mostly Frozen. lol
Last night I asked her what she wanted to sing and she said, "Ummm... vise?" And I asked her if she meant Edelweiss. She said, "Yeah. I just love that one."
I wish H could be a SAHD. It's so nice not having to cook dinner while also trying to entertain 3 kids aged 3 and under!
But, since neither of us want to be a sahp, we both have student loans to pay, and he makes more than I do, it just isn't going to happen. So I'll just soak up the next two days.
DD randomly woke up when I got home from work last night (after 1130pm). She just stood in her crib silently for about 40 minutes. So I just left her. Now she is still sleeping.
Also, is it bad to just let your toddler sleep until the wake up? My MIL gets on us about this, but there is nowhere we have to go. MIL thinks we should have her more on a schedule. She will be starting daycare in a couple of months, but I don't plan on waking her to take her there. Just go when she wakes up. I know at some point she will have to get up earlier, but this is my free time.
I am the opposite of your MIL. I vastly prefer to let DD follow her own natural patterns and rhythms and wake up when she wakes up.
I consider it one of the huge benefits of our arrangement that DH can take her when she's ready vs on an early schedule. She has always put herself on a natural schedule- currently roughly 8pm-8am.
I'm trying to come up with a plan for the day and it's hard to do a whole days worth of entertaining without a lot of TV or leaving the house.
If you have an empty milk jug, cut a smallish hole in the top and a somewhat larger hole on the side. Set him up with toys that will fit through the top. DS spent A LOT of time playing with that the other day.
Also, if you have contact paper around, tape it sticky side up on a table. Give him cut up pieces if contraction paper to put on it. That should also entertain for a bit.
Eta - tape a tube or tubes from toilet paper or paper towel rolls on the wall like pipes and let him slide things through them.
DD randomly woke up when I got home from work last night (after 1130pm). She just stood in her crib silently for about 40 minutes. So I just left her. Now she is still sleeping.
Also, is it bad to just let your toddler sleep until the wake up? My MIL gets on us about this, but there is nowhere we have to go. MIL thinks we should have her more on a schedule. She will be starting daycare in a couple of months, but I don't plan on waking her to take her there. Just go when she wakes up. I know at some point she will have to get up earlier, but this is my free time.
Leave her sleep. My kids have adjusted just fine to getting up early on DC days but sleeping in on home days. It's almost a 2 hour difference sometimes. Toddlers are so little and constantly growing creatures that they need it more than we think they do sometimes.
And yeah, NEVER disturb a peacefully sleeping toddler. It's a different version of hell. One far far worse than waking a sleeping baby even.
She's in her own pattern, let it be. Schedule enough.
Post by jeaniebueller on Aug 6, 2015 7:53:29 GMT -5
I was supposed to go to a lengthy meeting this morning but think I got out of it due to other work. Woot!
I was a machine yesterday after work. My H worked late and didn't get home until after DD was in bed, but I somehow managed to feed both kids, make he and I a good dinner, wash dishes, do 2 loads of laundry, vacuum the house, organize the pantry and change a bunch of light bulbs (a task because it required hauling the ladder out of the garage) and watch a little TV last night. I don't know where that burst of energy came from. Maybe that is what happens on nights I don't run?
I'm trying to come up with a plan for the day and it's hard to do a whole days worth of entertaining without a lot of TV or leaving the house.
I've had to do this since my trip to L&D and it is really hard, but doable. We have dance parties (I sit on the couch and move my arms), color, build things, clean (she loves to help), bake, etc. Recently she has loved to help put baby gear together and try her dolls in it. Good luck!
I'm trying to come up with a plan for the day and it's hard to do a whole days worth of entertaining without a lot of TV or leaving the house.
I can't remember how old your child is, but how about doing an extended bath? That can kill a lot of time and wear them out. Play doh? Finger paint? Do you have an old cardboard box? For some reason, DS will spend forever decorating and playing with old boxes. When DS was smaller sometimes we would make a "zoo" and set up his stuffed animals around his room.
I'm sure this goes in the confessions thread, but oh well.
I'm annoyed that DH is being guilt tripped into going to Texas for his grandmothers 80th birthday in September. Not only did we have to spend $$$$ on a ticket, but DHs mom, who will arrive the day before him, won't even pick him up from the airport, even though it's only a 20 minute drive. She told him to "take a cab for $50" or if he must have her pick him up "she will if he pays her for gas". What the fuck? Seriously?
I guess I just don't understand not helping out. She pays for DHs sister to fly to visit this Grandma with her almost every year, but has never once offered to do the same for DH. Not that he really wants to, but still.
Also, his sister is being a twat, accusing DH of taking time off work to spend with my family, but didn't drop everything to fly down to Texas when his grandpa died like everyone else (he could get paid time off at the last minute like that, plus a plane ticket was insane. And of course their mom paid for sister to go). She also said how much he disappointed their grandma because he didn't fly to Ohio for whatever it was they did for their grandpas celebration of life the following summer.
Sorry for the vent, DH told me about the ride thing yesterday after we bought his ticket, and I'm pissed. He has to take three days off unpaid to freaking go, but they can't pick him up?
DD randomly woke up when I got home from work last night (after 1130pm). She just stood in her crib silently for about 40 minutes. So I just left her. Now she is still sleeping.
Also, is it bad to just let your toddler sleep until the wake up? My MIL gets on us about this, but there is nowhere we have to go. MIL thinks we should have her more on a schedule. She will be starting daycare in a couple of months, but I don't plan on waking her to take her there. Just go when she wakes up. I know at some point she will have to get up earlier, but this is my free time.
My kid is 7 and I never wake her unless I have to. What's the point? She has to wake up at 7:30 for school every day from late August- late June and that still doesn't make her sleepy enough to go to bed before 9 or 10. Vacations, weekends and any day we don't have to be somewhere? She sleeps as late as she pleases.
I have a derm appointment this afternoon for a re-excision. Story of my life. The nurse called me yesterday to tell me to pump an hour before and pump/dump and hour after. I have never done this before and I've had at least 5 re-excisions done while nursing (but with a different practice). Off to google.
I also need to find somewhere to go when the Pope is in town. DH will be WFH since basically the whole city will be shut down. There is NO way this won't be a complete cluster. And as a Jesuit-educated person, I LOVE this pope. from a distance lol
I have a work happy hour tonight and my co-worker straight up asked me yesterday if I was pregnant. I was like, um. I don't know.
Then she said she's going to watch me tonight to see if I order a beer and I'd I pour the beer in the plant. WTF.
So now I'm paranoid about getting there early enough to order an Odouhls which I don't want to drink. Hopefully she forgot.
OMG! How annoying!
FTR, I recommend seeing if the place has Kaliber. It's another non-alcoholic beer (made by Guinness) that I feel like people don't know is N/A. At least I got away with it at two events when I was newly pregnant.
Post by barefootcontessa on Aug 6, 2015 8:12:49 GMT -5
My daughter told me earlier this week she wants to use the potty. I do not even have any girl underwear. For three days now she has used the potty about 75% of the time for #1. We have been changing at least one set of diapers since 2006. I feel like I am about to arrive.