We were supposed to get a foot of snow between last night and tomorrow, but so far it's pretty weak. Guess I'll be going into the office. I'm kind of bummed. I was looking forward to hanging out with my boys today.
DH made chili last night to have for dinner tonight. I'm looking forward to it. It smelled really good.
I'm catching up on what happened here over the weekend, and I'm just appalled and sad. Seriously, WTF?
I finally made an appointment for a haircut this weekend, and I am SO excited. I want a short layered bob, and I think I've got enough length now to chop off Children with Hair Loss's 8" minimum and not have the bob be too short.
DH and I booked plane tickets for a friend's wedding in Maine in March this weekend- really looking forward to a couple of days away together.
Post by shamrockshake on Feb 1, 2016 8:46:11 GMT -5
we're taking a family camping trip this summer with several members of my extended family, site reservations open this morning and it's causing me so much anxiety, you need to be on the ball to snap up the site you want immediately. my nerves can't handle the pressure!
Post by W.T.Faulkner on Feb 1, 2016 8:47:35 GMT -5
My parents want me and my sister to come to Clearwater with them for a couple of days during spring break. FI is working, so he doesn't mind that I'm going without him, but he does mind that I'd fly home on Easter Sunday and would dinner with his parents. This is entirely fair, because we live 30 minutes from my family and 90 minutes from his, and we don't see them as much. (I've also spent Easter with them the last two years, since my mom "doesn't care about Easter").
So I told my parents this, and said that I'll fly back a bit earlier on Sunday and that they can stay in Clearwater, and you would have thought I said I was leaving the family altogether, because now they're saying they'll just cancel the trip, and why can't I give them one last Easter with our family, because it's the most important day in our Catholic faith?
I love them, but they are turning into the exact type of in-laws that I am afraid they would be.
Tickets booked for vacation! We are going to Sri Lanka and India for 2 weeks. Scotland and Ireland have been tabled till April 2017 as a graduation trip/I/our relationship survided H being in school for 5 years trip.
W.T.Faulkner - I am sorry your parents are being difficult. My parents were the exact same way when I got engaged and the beginning days of when we got married. Holiday's and events they never gave a crap about became the most important thing ever. I just kept putting my foot down and telling them we were splitting time equally and refused to give into every whim they had (in our case, we saw my family MUCH more than H's). They eventually stopped pushing, I hope your family lays off the guilt.
I'm really sad about what's been going on here lately.
I feel very unmotivated at work today.
I made a chicken stir-fry last night to have for lunches this week. I would really love to have rice with it, but my pants are getting tight and I need to get control of that. Blech.
Stella is 3 today IG repeat (I think my favorite is the top right during her awkward stage where her ears weren't all the way up, yet):
W.T.Faulkner, Be strong now and don't let them change your plans. On one hand, I think your FI could have been fine with you missing Easter this one time, given you spent the last two with his family. But if you really want to change it, then be firm with your family. This is going to be about give and take and not just geography.
My parents did the swapping holidays and switching each year and that always worked well. I do think that this is one of hate harder things for parents to come to terms with when their child gets married. Holidays will no longer be a given and that will be easier for them to accept the sooner you put your foot down.
Post by W.T.Faulkner on Feb 1, 2016 9:01:57 GMT -5
Thanks, pandora89. I really appreciate it. I don't think this would be that significant, except FI's one reservation about marrying me is knowing that my family will be extremely involved in our lives forever. While we love them and they've been very good to us, they are definitely very used to getting their way when it comes to their daughters, and my mom hasn't necessarily adjusted very well to me being a part of a new family now.
I'm watching Pride and Prejudice for like the millionth time, I have a bunch of shit to do, but I don't want to do any of it. I need to clean up, clean the floors and go grocery shopping. Instead I sit here watching a movie, hanging out here.
I was so proud of myself this morning. I got up early and prepped lunches for the whole week - chopped veggies, scooped hummus into individual containers. Just real solid adulting. And after all that, I left my lunch at home. Damn it all to hell.
I bought a few sewing patterns for DD and would like to make her a (simple) baptism gown. I don't know if my seamstress skills are up to clothing and I'd hate to spend the money on the supplies just to end up buying the one online I've been eyeing.
Post by balletofangels on Feb 1, 2016 9:07:36 GMT -5
I've been really bad at reading posts and therefore am really lost in regards to the board drama. I kind of feel like I don't want to be caught up I am sad that others are sad.
I dreaded work this morning. But my hair is in a bun so that's cool!
My bf and I were planning my Cape Town trip this weekend and I'm so excited! I get to go on a safari which has been my dream forever. And we're going to stay overnight! Then my dad told me he would be giving me money to spend when I'm there so that made me happy. I'm quite poor haha so that takes stress off it!
W.T.Faulkner I swear it must be a rite of passage for parents to go off the rails a little bit about splitting family holidays. I agree with/had to do the same thing as pandora89, though - I just kept putting my foot down and not playing to the dramatics until family realized they weren't getting anywhere. I of course still feel bad, years later, that we have to split at all, but at least the comments have stopped.
So tired today. The weekend was a lot of fun but so busy, and then L had a crappy night last night because she randomly woke up with a stuffy nose and then cried for 45 minutes because all she wanted was her pacifier, but couldn't breathe. I'm drinking coffee and pretending it will actually do something for me.
I found out on Friday that our insurance retroactively paid a bunch of L's well visits for 2015, clearing all but $20 of our $500+ balance with the office. I also got a $50 reimbursement for "meeting a health goal". Now we just have to get H's W2, make an appointment to get our taxes done and find out why our township is trying to charge us $700 for not paying taxes for September-December of 2013 even though we did, and we'll be golden.
Ilya took 4 steps over the weekend! I was just talking to h about getting him a walker for his birthday this friday because he had zero interest in walking if he wasn't holding furniture or someone's hand. So that's pretty neat. My baby
Today is day 2 of my diet. The first 3 or 4 days always blow. I'm always so hungry and grumpy. I'm going to start working out today, too.
We have a two hour delay here, I think mostly due to unlearned sidewalks. Garr!
I just laughed and laughed when I got the notification yesterday, because what else can you do. And of course Thursday is early dismissal and Friday is a teacher work day.
Thank God the before-school care program still opens on time. Not surprisingly, there were a lot more kids than usual being dropped off as soon as they opened this morning, lol.
My bf and I were planning my Cape Town trip this weekend and I'm so excited! I get to go on a safari which has been my dream forever. And we're going to stay overnight! Then my dad told me he would be giving me money to spend when I'm there so that made me happy. I'm quite poor haha so that takes stress off it!
Tickets booked for vacation! We are going to Sri Lanka and India for 2 weeks. Scotland and Ireland have been tabled till April 2017 as a graduation trip/I/our relationship survided H being in school for 5 years trip.
I am super excited for H to see it.
Sounds amazing! When do you go? Will you travel throughout, or stay in one place?
Post by amandakisser on Feb 1, 2016 9:16:21 GMT -5
I was wicked uncomfortable all night and was up on and off from 1:30 until 4:30, when I just gave up and got up for the day.
I proceeded to drop my entire cup of coffee all over the floor as I walked it the six feet from the coffee maker to the couch. Ugh.
My daughter caught pink eye this weekend, but luckily I caught it in time to get her a prescription for drops yesterday, so she had been taking them for 24 hours when I took her to daycare today (doctor told me it is not contagious after that). Of COURSE when we walk in she yells, "I got a boo boo in my eye!" so I had to explain to them what she was talking about. Pretty sure I got a couple side eyes from teachers/parents, but I have four hours of meetings that I'm running today and I cannot risk staying at home with her, especially since she's not contagious.
dreamcrisp1 - When do you plan on going? I am so happy for you that you are going to be able to visit your BF! And also slightly jealous.
I'll be going April 18 to May 4! I can't wait to see him and Cape Town. We're going to a penguin colony, cape of good hope, table mountain, Safari, and so much more. It's such a dream.
I'm excited for your trip though! I'm dying to go to that side of the world.
Woot, snow day so H doesn't have work! Now I can get him to finish some more of the "to do" list. We'll still have to go out today though, I have an appointment.
Tickets booked for vacation! We are going to Sri Lanka and India for 2 weeks. Scotland and Ireland have been tabled till April 2017 as a graduation trip/I/our relationship survided H being in school for 5 years trip.
I am super excited for H to see it.
Sounds amazing! When do you go? Will you travel throughout, or stay in one place?
We go July 1-14th. We do plan on travelling a bit through out, I know we are spending a few days in Colomobo in Sri Lanka and Chennai in India, unsure well else yet. Our plan is to spend a couple of days at a resort in Sri Lanka as well. But everything else is kind of up in the air right now.
We have a two hour delay here, I think mostly due to unlearned sidewalks. Garr!
I just laughed and laughed when I got the notification yesterday, because what else can you do. And of course Thursday is early dismissal and Friday is a teacher work day.
Thank God the before-school care program still opens on time. Not surprisingly, there were a lot more kids than usual being dropped off as soon as they opened this morning, lol.
Is that true about Thursday and Friday? Are you messing with a woman on the edge!?
K, between being sick and snow days, has not been to school in over two weeks. This is going to suck.
Post by ladystardust on Feb 1, 2016 9:27:56 GMT -5
I think DD was having night terrors last night and I'm feeling helpless about it. Maybe it was just a nightmare but she woke up very panicked, shaking, saying odd things and took a while to calm down. If it was a night terror I apparently responded wrong by picking her up and waking her (assuming she was still in some kind a weird sleep mode while panicking?). The second time I just talked to her reassuringly and she eventually calmed down.
She wanted a bunch of blankets on her last night so I'm really hoping it was just from being overheated and won't become a regular thing.
Post by ginandjucie24 on Feb 1, 2016 9:29:47 GMT -5
There is a one hour time difference between my sister and I, this morning I accidentally sent a text to her thinking I was sending it to my H at 7 this morning which was 6am her time. I felt horrible because I woke her up.
My H cleaned the whole house yesterday, including vacuuming the stairs!
I think DD was having night terrors last night and I'm feeling helpless about it. Maybe it was just a nightmare but she woke up very panicked, shaking, saying odd things and took a while to calm down. If it was a night terror I apparently responded wrong by picking her up and waking her (assuming she was still in some kind a weird sleep mode while panicking?). The second time I just talked to her reassuringly and she eventually calmed down.
She wanted a bunch of blankets on her last night so I'm really hoping it was just from being overheated and won't become a regular thing.
We went through a seemingly random week of this with E. Just a ton of moaning and thrashing. Did the same thing and tried to wake him up the first time. It was like he just couldn't wake up. After that, patting and shushing seemed to work the best, but it was a rough couple of nights because it happened every few hours. Then, it just stopped as randomly and quickly as it had started.