My sitter cancelled, so we are unexpectedly home all day. This is good, because my house looks like an episode of hoarders.
I'm also trying a new crockpot recipe. Fingers crossed!
I wasn't aware you live in my house!
So, you also have seven loads of clean but unfolded laundry? And the remnants of a blanket fort in your office? And dirty dishes covering every available surface?
Omg. My kids are both monsters today. DS cried a bloody storm before his nap and DD won't stop whining. Right now she is having a tantrum because I won't let her go in DS's swing.
DS hasn't stopped crying since DH left 40 minutes ago. DH didn't take out the trash (so it's overflowing) or unload the dishwasher (so there is a pile of dishes). I barely slept and feel like crap.
I would even deal with my annoying MIL if it meant I didn't have to deal with all of this *waves arms around*
T likes helping put away the groceries and lately I've been buying those chocolate jello puddings from the refrigerated section. Every time she picks them up she yells "Mommy's prunes!!"
Yes dear, they are prunes. None for you.
When DS catches me sneaking a chocolate bar, I tell him it's meat. It still works.
Post by cincodemayo on Sept 2, 2015 8:51:27 GMT -5
I've never wanted a fitbit and have been waiting for the phase to die.
Until now. I desperately need SOME activity in my life and think it would help? but money. and the fact that I know myself enough to know that I will stop using it after 2 weeks.
Went to an RE today since we haven't had luck conceiving #2. Of course he said something about my weight...I know I need to lose some/a lot. Although I got pregnant with DD when I was heavier than I am now. The RE asked if I smoked, I said no. Then he asked if I had any other addictions, I said beside food....he thought that was hilarious. No dude I am serious.
Have to do a blood test 3 days after my next cycle starts and DH has to give a sample.
I know we are moving in 10 months and getting pregnant now isn't the best idea, but if we need help it is covered by insurance here...going to miss the European health system!
Post by SallySparrow on Sept 2, 2015 8:56:15 GMT -5
Anatomy scan today! I'm getting nervous, I just want to know if everything is okay. I still haven't really felt any movement, even though "everyone" says you notice it sooner with the second. It all just feels like gas to me.
Also excited to find out sex. Girl or boy? Charlotte or Sullivan? Five hours and we'll know.
I forgot my breakfast this morning, and have zero enthusiasm for the emergency yogurt I have in the fridge here at work. I'd pay a million fake dollars for a sausage biscuit though!
DD has decided that the funniest thing to do is push her anywhere chair over to the built ins, climb up on it, stand up on it, and try to open the cabinets (she's too short to reach the knobs unless she's standing on the chair). She laughs and laughs when you go over and get her down. It's so cute, which makes it very hard to tell her seriously that we sit on our bottom on the chair. Today she was still snickering after I got her off the chair and re-directed her to her crawl around car.
DD only wants to wear dresses. I am peeved I spent time looking for shorts this summer at all. Unfortunately, she also wants to pick out her dress, which means holding her up in front of the closet while she looks at each one.
I did put her in shorts this morning, and she flipped for a minute. Oh well.
Once A was able to pick her own clothes, I rearranged them, so she can reach them herself. It is messier, but makes life easier for all of us. The which dress battle was annoying, and made worse by her no sleeves rule. Once I took myself out of the equation I was much happier. I have to do M's dresser soon
I am planning on it...but we should be moving her into her big girl room soon (maybe??) and will get a closet system so I don't want to do too much.
but maybe I will stop hanging and put them in the dresser in the meantime...
I've never wanted a fitbit and have been waiting for the phase to die.
Until now. I desperately need SOME activity in my life and think it would help? but money. and the fact that I know myself enough to know that I will stop using it after 2 weeks.
For a while, I've been the same way. I did, however, suck it up and get one about a month ago. It's actually been REALLY helpful to me. I have a few alarms set on it to remind me to walk during the day, and getting to the 10K has been a motivator as well.
I've never wanted a fitbit and have been waiting for the phase to die.
Until now. I desperately need SOME activity in my life and think it would help? but money. and the fact that I know myself enough to know that I will stop using it after 2 weeks.
The bracelet ones are nice because you don't need to think about it. ML has a Fitbit check in thread where you set a goal for yourself and check in to keep yourself accountable.
I've been lurking that thread! I think I'm going to bite the bullet.
I hate driving so I should love the train. But I also hate people. Life is tough!!!
Commuting would be so much better if we were the only ones doing it.
I actually contemplated taking the train when I went back to work from maternity leave. But it's either drive and park and take 2 trains, or take the commuter rail and then either walk to another train or take 2 trains, or walk to the bus and take two trains. I suspect it actually wouldn't take me that much longer than driving does if I drove and took the trains (15 miles takes me anywhere from 20 minutes in no traffic to 2 1/2 hours last winter), but at least I have some control when I'm in my own car, and the IF on "if the trains run on time" is way too iffy. Also, I don't have to worry about smelly people falling asleep on me in a train car with no AC on a 90 degree and humid day. (Actual situation I have been in.) Or have to hear anyone else's shitty music.
I had to rush in this morning to get here for 9 o'clock meeting. Meetings should not be scheduled before 9 am or after 4 pm unless absolutely necessary. And there are very few things that should qualify as necessary.
Also, my kid is obsessed with the sconce over our mantel. He can see it from the chair we sit in to feed him, and he just stares at it. My husband told me that this morning, after he was done his bottle, B just started babbling at the sconce. We've started singing "I love sconce...sconce-y, sconce sconce" like 40 times per day for him. We're also starting to think he loves it more than us, heh.
Post by MadamePresident on Sept 2, 2015 9:37:22 GMT -5
I'm going to the regular doctor for the first time in YEARS. I think I have a belly button hernia. But my mom is watching the kids, so I get to do something all by myself!
I am going to have to choose my seat more carefully at dd's gymnastics class in the future. I had the pleasure of sitting in front of one mom who spent the entire hour talking about how all of her choices for her kid are the best. The highlight? When she explained that her DD is in the Spanish Immersion program at her elementary school and uses her Spanish to speak to their cleaning lady and got to have her first real conversation in Spanish this summer when they went to Costa Rica so she could practice her Spanish. We live in Houston and she had to go to CR to have a conversation in Spanish with someone other than her cleaning lady? Side-eyeing.
My child is wearing a Disney/Minnie shirt for the 3rd day in a row. She doesn't have anymore shirts after today. I offer her options, we pick out the night before, but nope, she wants Minnie.
Tomorrow is going to be bad if I can't convince her to wear something else.
I am going to have to choose my seat more carefully at dd's gymnastics class in the future. I had the pleasure of sitting in front of one mom who spent the entire hour talking about how all of her choices for her kid are the best. The highlight? When she explained that her DD is in the Spanish Immersion program at her elementary school and uses her Spanish to speak to their cleaning lady and got to have her first real conversation in Spanish this summer when they went to Costa Rica so she could practice her Spanish. We live in Houston and she had to go to CR to have a conversation in Spanish with someone other than her cleaning lady? Side-eyeing.
I bring my kindle fire, phone, and headphones. I make myself as unapproachable as possible.
Thankfully my old neighbor's dd is in gym at the same time so we hang out. She's cool. We were giving each other looks like, WTF?
I dropped Ds at preschool, did a pre natal yoga video, cleaned the bathrooms including the tub, showered and was ready for the day by 10 am.
Then I had a second breakfast because that is a full day of activity for me lol. I didn't leave enough time to go to aldi before preschool pickup though so I'm going to attempt to take Ds. Could be a disaster. I will try to bribe him with candy to behave, that usually has a decent success rate.
I'm really mostly going for the knock off tag alongs they have. I need to hide them though this time, my DH has zero self control and doesn't understand they are for the pregnant lady, not him!!!!
My bff sent me a text this morning of her newly FF daughter...that turns 1 tomorrow. I debated briefly then wrote back that she could tell me to mind my own business but would she please consider turning her back around, blah blah research, blah blah safety, blah blah maybe read some info for herself. She wrote back and said that she didn't need to read it for herself, she trusted my judgment and she would turn the seat back around tonight. It feels good to know that I maybe made a difference for her baby.
My seven year old had her first day of second grade today. We came home from drop-off and my toddler started sobbing and throwing a fit. "I miss sissy." Aww. Poor thing.