My power is back on as of last night!! Yay, because when I got home yesterday, DH had hooked up the generator and was running the fridge, freezer, WiFi, Xbox, TV and no furnace?
DS is better but now DH has it, and of course he feels 1000xs worse. Thought and prayers needed in the rere household this weekend, for my sanity.
I am going to bunco tonight, which will get me away from the man sickness, DD is babysitting. Tomorrow, we don't have many plans. Sunday, I pray DH is feeling better, because we had planned to set up the main Christmas tree and it is an event at our house. Christmas music, the entire family, making homemade pizza after to enjoy the glow. Sick DH is has no Christmas spirit.
Celebrate on a Friday - I got set up with a 2 monitor system at work. Mind blown. I put together a presentation in less than an hour when ordinarily I would be going back and forth from several sights and presentations. Lifechanging, may be an exaggeration, but close.
We are doing pizza and a movie tonight. Tomorrow DD has a birthday party for a girl on her cheer squad. Sunday is blessedly open.
Next week is just a cluster. I have DD’s Thanksgiving Play Monday morning. Tuesday I’m supposed to have lunch with a friend, but now I have to do an allergy skin test in the afternoon so may have to reschedule. Wednesday I need to prep for Thursday. Then it’s TGITD!
Next week will be bad here also. We are hosting Thanksgiving, and life is not giving me time to get ready for it. But somehow it always gets pulled off in the end. Thankfully as far as I know we don't have any Thanksgiving stuff for either kid at school and daycare.
Post by erinshelley21 on Nov 16, 2018 22:45:30 GMT -5
We have not one single thing on the agenda for tomorrow, so I'm hoping it can be productive but also relaxing. Given the recent development in my office (update in TWERKS: someone made an offer and we accepted it!), I need to go buy some totes so I can pack up the rest of my belongings there to store them in our garage or shed. DH also has some things there, so I'm guessing some of our time will be spent at the building tomorrow.
Sunday I have a baby shower. DH works, so DS is going to spend the afternoon with MIL and DD will go with my mom and I.
Next week will also be semi-nuts over here. Monday is one of my BFF's birthday so we are going to get drinks. Tuesday morning I'm going to make my trip to the grocery for Thanksgiving and the week, then I have meetings all afternoon. Wednesday will be a normal-ish day. Maybe.
Our view for the night. It’s beautiful. And the air is clear and smoke free.
DH and I have been fighting, I’m either getting sick or having a bad reaction to the smoke we’ve been dealing with, and I’m stuck with my in laws for the weekend and Sunday will be another 9-11 hour drive.
Post by sandandsea on Nov 17, 2018 11:35:16 GMT -5
We made it to DHs race and escaped the smoke. I flew alone with both boys and they were great on the plane! And even survived a 9pm dinner once we got here.
Girls weekend. We have nothing planned! Last night we did movie and dinner in front of the TV. Today I need to run errands but I don't want to. I really need this quiet stress free weekend.
Post by librarychica on Nov 18, 2018 11:59:41 GMT -5
I’m having a great weekend. My parents requested that my brother and I squire them around the outlets. So we did that Saturday while H and the girls jumped at one of those jumpy places. Then H took my dad’s truck and hauled a shit ton of mulch home. This morning we laid it all out in the backyard. We were done by 10 and my butterfly garden and the kid play area look great now. I’m thrilled.
I took the week off and I’m glad I did. We host a small thanksgiving Thursday and I am really looking forward to the week. I’m getting a manicure Monday and getting all the grocery shopping done while the girls are at a 2.5 hour “camp” at a local gym, Tuesday we are driving to visit my in-laws for the day, Wednesday I will cook while kids movie, Thursday is turkey day! Then idk.
Post by supertrooper1 on Nov 18, 2018 13:25:37 GMT -5
I had Friday and Saturday off. It's amazing how I felt more normal to have a weekend day off, even if it was only one. Friday was yoga, errands and DS's PTC. Yesterday we drove an hour and a half away to the nearest Cheesecake Factory and did some Christmas shopping. It was nice to do something as a family since it seems like we rarely do. DS and DH were in good moods too. I'm working today and hope I don't get mandatory OT so I can go to my SIL's jewelry party. I hate MLM stuff, but I feel like I need to get out and do socializing once in a while. I work tomorrow, then I'm off for a week for Thanksgiving and just to be away from work.
FFC: It became very evident yesterday that we rarely do fun family outings when we asked DS what he wanted to do. His response for family fun was that he wanted to go to the grocery store.
Now that I can breathe, I’m finding I have so much more energy. Amazing what oxygen can do. So today, I made homemade Star-shaped biscuits for breakfast, shopped for Thanksgiving, painted wood ornaments with the kids ($2 for a pack of 3 at Joann’s!), made cookies with the kids, cleaned up the playroom so it’s at least not a disaster area, and have a chicken broccoli rice casserole baking for dinner.
I really love how the ornaments came out. Each kid did 2 and I did 2. Then I remembered to write their names and the year on the back. I’m a sucker for kid-made ornaments.
Post by covergirl82 on Nov 19, 2018 7:48:44 GMT -5
rere, two monitors at work is the best and definitely life changing! I have two monitors and I feel like it's so much more efficient than having to switch among the different windows/programs I have open.
rere, I love having 2 monitors and if my desk was slightly wider I would add a third. I love being able to type info from one program into another with out having to constantly switch screens or print paper just to make an adjustment and have to reprint start over.
Weekend vent: girls weekend sucked! DD and I ran errands and got almost all the Christmas shopping done Saturday. But then we rearranged her room in the afternoon and I pulled my back out. I just saw the chiropractor on Friday afternoon. Then Sunday we spent the entire day cleaning house or I did while trying to find things for the bored child to do but then she wanted me to do them with her. Also DH didn't talk to us at all and ignored my texts which just pissed me off. We normally don't talk on the phone while he is gone but he at least will respond to texts but not this weekend. I blame it all on him dealing with his parents house and his mother being their. He also came home yesterday an emotional hot mess.
Thank you! Yes it was amazing. I cried at the start bc I was so happy. My H had signed and the kids held them up at mile 1. I saw the sign that said marathon mom and thought “that’s a lucky mom!” Before I realized it was them and I gasped and covered my mouth and H snapped a pic of my reaction.
He was supposed to meet me at 17-18. At 15 he texted to tell me they were lost and my phone was dying. Long story short I stressed out about that for a few miles. It put a damper on my race experience. I cried at 23, pulled over and stretched and cried some more. I said out loud a couple of times, “This is really hard. This is just sooo hard.”
But got my self together and stared ahead. Finally saw H and the kids at 25. Gave them each a hug and kiss and he gave me encouraging words. I have the most amazing pictures. The pro pics turned out great too.
I wanted under 5, really wanted under 4:45. I was 4:48. Overall really happy considering I cried so much!
campermom, That is amazing. I run for health, but nowhere on my list is a marathon. That takes a lot of discipline and determination. You should be so proud of your accomplishment. I know I felt like I should get a parade and maybe a day in my honor when I finished a 5k LOL>