Evening thread...

[rugbywife]

Am I blind? I thought I saw one and now I can't find it.

I put P down not asleep (although, not awake) and just left him to roll.  He is asleep now. I am stunned, considering he is sick and teething and had a rough day.

Now I am watching TV instead of doing the dishes and putting away laundry.

[Deleted]

My dad just came home for a bit and read a Dr. Seuss book to DD with such incredible enthusiasm. It was great, considering the atrocious week he's had. He also helped DD finish her watercolor paint page, which, lol! Adult coloring books for my dad for Christmas?

Anyway, I felt like my heart grew by about 3 sizes just now.

[bowies]

I'm going shopping on Wednesday. I'm tired of being near tears when I try to find an outfit to wear.

[bowies]

Also I'm now involved in a back and forth with a Minted CS rep. It's getting testy.

We had a code brown tonight while a friend was over for dinner.

[turtlegirl]

DD was a cat napping cranky mess today. Whereas yesterday she took a 3 hour nap in the swing. Babies are so annoying. I'm holding her now to try to get at least one decent nap out of her before bedtime.

The boys are both sick and watching tv. I'm hoping they are fully recovered by the weekend for DS1's bday party.

[zarapipe]

Rough day all around. And it's only monday.

[Deleted]

I think the girls are weaned at just shy of 20 months. A couple of nights last week while we were at Disney H and I went out and my mom put the kids to bed so I didn't nurse. The other nights it just wasn't comfortable without a chair and they were so tired that they didn't nurse much. Since being home they have latched at night for a couple of seconds but both are sick and not into it much. Tonight I just snuggled them each for a minute in the glider and put them down without nursing at all.

I have a lot of mixed emotions. I expected they would be nursing for a lot longer and I feel sad that it's likely over and I will never nurse another baby. On the other hand I will have my body to myself for the very first time since September 2011 when I got pregnant with J. 4 straight years of nursing or pregnant or both has been exhausting.

[antoniamarchette]

We tried to go to our local lights on the lake walk through tonight but we couldn't even get near it. There was no parking and traffic was backed up for miles. I'm so bummed! We spent an hour in the car for nothing. We will go back and drive through it when it officially starts but I thought walking through would be cool. And so did everyone else apparently!

[preppy]

I'm getting DD down for bed then I might go to bed myself. I was up watching TWD last night and we had a busy day today so I am exhausted.

We have no plans tomorrow and it's the only free day this week, I think I might pack up DD and go to the mall and try and do more or our xmas shopping.

[Deleted]

I am excited to be buying Christmas things! Just scored a good deal on the PBK stockings I have been lusting after for YEEEARS. I was just waiting for our family to be finished I really liked what we picked out! I also messaged the Etsy seller who made DS's "baby's first Christmas" about making one for DD, we're ordering that on Friday (payday). Yay for buying all the Christmas things!

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Piper was cruising along me earlier while I was laying on the floor and decided to stand up on her own. She lasted a good 3 seconds before falling on her butt. Then she did it 3 more times.

STOP GROWING UP SO FAST JUST STOP.

[bananapancakes]

I teach Kindergarten Science and we are learning about characteristics of living things. Today we were having a discussion and sorting pictures of various living and non-living things into a t-chart. Things were going along well until we came to a photo of Elmo. There were strong feelings on both sides, "He's just a puppet!" "No, he's not. He can eat/breathe/move/grow. He's living." In the end, I just couldn't be a dream squasher. These are 3-5 year olds. I put Elmo right in the middle and said, "Some people think he is living and others think he is non-living. I think this is a good spot for him."

I'll be taking the Elmo card out before I repeat the activity with a different class tomorrow!

[greycat]

Tomorrow is picture day at school and DS picked out an outfit (with guidance). Hopefully the morning will go smoothly.

Also he's learning how to make jokes. Tonight he was pretending to be an ice cream stand. He gave me ice cream and asked if MH wanted a sticker. MH said sure and DS started laughing and said "I no have stickers!! I have ice cream!" It was adorable.

[Brie]

C threw up all over when H picked him up from DC. P has been inconsolable and in retrospect puked last night (we thought he'd just gagged.)

Can we not get a fucking break? Why are we always sick?

[mellymel]

This conversation just happened at bathtime:

DS: I went to swimming today
Me: I know! Do you like swimming?
DS: yeah.
Me: I love swimming too
DS: you're too big for swimming
Me: but I can still swim, right? (Thinking he was only referring to his swim school)
DS: yeah but only in GIGANTIC pools

OMG!

[chickens987]

There is a fundraiser for daycare at Nando's tomorrow night. Yay for not having to cool!

[niq]

IL's cancelled on our standing Monday night dinner for like the 8th time in the last 10 but didn't tell us until this afternoon. Mom is understandably PO'd. And the bus is delayed by a million years.

I would like a mulligan on today, please.

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Nov 9, 2015 20:32:30 GMT -5 farmvillelover said:

I'm giving up booze until Dedember 4 (holiday party). I really need a push to lose weight through the holiday season!

I need to do this too. But I can't make it through Thanksgiving without wine lol.

[irish]

It's 1.40am. Dd2 most likely has croup. She's still awake. She puked all over her crib 20mins ago. We had just gotten a steroid into her 30 mins ago.

But at least her temp is down even if she's still barking... Small mercies?

[starburst]

I want to order Christmas stockings, but I'm afraid that if we decide to have a second kid in a couple of years that his/her stocking won't match if PBK discontinues the collection. Is it irrational and crazy of me to be worrying about this?

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Nov 9, 2015 20:40:45 GMT -5 @awinter said:

Nov 9, 2015 20:32:30 GMT -5 farmvillelover said:

I'm giving up booze until Dedember 4 (holiday party). I really need a push to lose weight through the holiday season!

I need to do this too. But I can't make it through Thanksgiving without wine lol.

I initially read this as "I can't make it through Tuesday without wine." And I was like, "awinter is my kind of girl!"

[cincodemayo]

I had a crap day. Holiday drama is starting and it just sucks so much damn joy out of it all.

Then we went to our anatomy scan. I cried all the way there because I felt like we would get bad news. The u/s tech was awful, just didn't talk or tell us what she was looking at. We didn't even see the baby because he was turned into my placenta. She got a pic of his hand and like the top of his head. When she left I burst into tears because it seemed like it just didn't go well. The midwives took FOREVER and then were like, "hmm, looks ok. Come back again next week."

We *think* we are still team green. And we think everything's ok. But a day that was supposed to be happy and exciting just wasn't and I'm really bummed.

[Brie]

H and I just bargained that I get the crabby baby overnight and he gets the pukey toddler. It's a gamble but I infinitely prefer crying to puke.

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@kirkette, you guys are so cute! When is the Chico Hot Springs, MT trip?

[namasteak]

Nov 9, 2015 20:47:08 GMT -5 starburst said:

I want to order Christmas stockings, but I'm afraid that if we decide to have a second kid in a couple of years that his/her stocking won't match if PBK discontinues the collection. Is it irrational and crazy of me to be worrying about this?

I'm waiting to order nice stockings for the same reason!

[zeewifeandmama]

Horrible no good very bad day. #ontotuesday

[starburst]

Nov 9, 2015 20:51:12 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

I'm waiting another year (currently pregnant) and my family is acting like I'm depriving B. Lol.

Nov 9, 2015 20:55:25 GMT -5 namasteak said:

I'm waiting to order nice stockings for the same reason!

I'm glad I'm not alone in this thinking because when I just brought it up to my H, he told me I'm crazy!

[lg28]

I'm on day 3 of solo parenting and Omg I'm over it. It's a bit harder because we are in a vacation condo so I don't have all my usual tricks to get through the day. The kids are being good I'm just tired!

My mom arrives wed night for a week and I'm actually really excited.

[turtlegirl]

@starry, not to scare you, but DD slept great without the swaddle for like 3 or 4 weeks. Then she seemed to become a bit more aware of her movements and wakung herself up, so swaddling is a must now.

[SallySparrow]

Watching Downton Abbey. I hate Mary so much. So. Much.