Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rere]

I am so excited!!! I leave for vacation at 2:00!!!!! Tomorrow I will hopefully be sitting on the beach with a drink from the bar!!!


DH is super annoyed that his family is a bunch of flakes.   His sister lives an hour away and we thought they were taking vacation with us.  He hasn't seen her in 2 year.  Well we get a text from BIL that they are not coming until Thursday.  We will probably leave Friday.  If we stay until Saturday, we would have to stay in their camper, and I am not committed to that.  There is a huge 4th party on the lake here that Saturday that the entire community goes to and the kids would like to go.  Plus, our condo is by the pier and they have a big fireworks show on Thursday, so if they want to see us, we will be on the beach watching the show.  It really makes no difference to me, I don't want to have to work around someone anyway, but it would have been nice to catch up.  DH is bummed because one of our friends had a video of their entire family on the beach, grandparents, grandkids, all the BILs and SILs and kids hanging out on the beach and having some drinks.  We just wish we had family like that to hang out with.  As we get older, everyone seems to drift toward family. We always say we should have married better.   Maybe when the kids grow up I hope we can be a lot closer than what we have. 



Of course last time we tried to take his family to the beach my other SIL basically sat in her room the entire time and MIL got mad and pulled her hair.  So this should be much more peaceful. 

[mustardseed2007]

This is so funny because all WE do is socialize with family and my therapist said that's not good (and I do agree).

We have a big weekend of socializing. We have a playdate and dinner with a friend of mine tomorrow, and then tomorrow we're hosting a playdate at our house with one of DS' classmates. I don't yet know if the mom is going to stay. If she does, STRESSFUL for me, even though she's nice and I like her. If not, I'm totally relaxed.

Side note: As I said, this classmate is really nice and I like them, but they are moving to a new school next year. Somehow we get close to the people who end up moving further away for one reason or another

[librarychica]

Yesterday was such a long day at work. It was really a long week. I talked to more people last week than the entire month of May.

Today is an off-work Friday and the girls and I aren’t doing much. Haircuts, the library, laundry. I hope to cook a real meal — probably fish, corn on the cob and I have this tropical fruit salad recipe with cilantro and mint H loves. Tomorrow DD1 has a play date with her friend for a few hours. Other than that, no weekend plans.

rere, I somewhat understand your feelings. I always have wanted a large, warm family and yet somehow though my small family is close enough (when my mom isn’t being weird and super prickly like she is ATM) things never go as smoothly as I hope. H had a large family but it’s full of unreasonable expectations and drama. Anyway, hugs, enjoy your vacation and don’t let too many what-ifs slow you down!

[mae0111]

It’s been a quiet week. DD1 has been gone and DD2 was at day camp. DD2 commented that it’s been nice because I haven’t yelled all week. She’s just a much easier kid.

DH has been away all week, coming home tonight. Tomorrow he wanted to open up his new-to-him camper to give it a good cleaning, but we are expecting thunderstorms later, so we will see. DD2 has s birthday party about 25 mins away and it’s a drop off, so I’m going to get her lacrosse gear for camp in a few weeks.

Sunday I was really looking forward to just hanging at home, but my mom wants to have a cookout. I would say no, but my sister is coming in to town, and I haven’t seen her since March. And in March, she was here to help after my dad had surgery, so not a lot of socializing. She will leave soon after to head to her beach house, so this will be my only opportunity to see her.

[supertrooper1]

This morning was difficult. I dropped DS at STBXH's house before work and he didn't want to leave me. This was the first really hard drop off.

I have a first date tonight! I'm very excited. The rest of the weekend is open. I might go to yoga, maybe a massage and I really need to unpack boxes that I've been saying I'm going to unpack for over a month now.

[mommyatty]

We have 2 parties tomorrow, one in the morning at a splash pad for the baseball team, and one in the evening for a friend of DS. That’s it though.

I want to spend time in our pool and just veg. Maybe do some gardening. But mostly I want some calm downtime to get back into a good family rhythm post-vacation.

[k3am]

Tomorrow is DD's last ice skating lesson of the session. We find out if she moves up or repeats a level. She'll be happy either way, she just "likes to be on the ice because it's like winter and it's her happy place." We're moving her to Wednesday lessons, so if she repeats the level, I have an extra 30 mins to get from work to camp and then to the rink.

We have college friends and their kids coming over tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it since they're fun people and we don't see them often enough.

[waverly]

We picked DS up from sleep away camp today. He had a blast and cried when he had to leave. He says DD should go with him next year. They would be in separate cabins, but see each other in passing.

[twinmomma]

Stayed out way too late for a concert last night. I'm going to grab ice cream for dinner and watch a movie in peace and quiet tonight.
Tomorrow I'm going on a second date and Sunday is gloriously free. I think I'll read a book on my porch. My friends and I all decided to read a book together this summer and I haven't started it yet.

[xctsclrx]

DH comes home tonight after 4 weeks of being gone. I am excited!

[k3am]

I totally forgot. It's parents night out at daycare, and since both kids are in the same place, we signed up! DH and I are getting a date night. Tomorrow, we'll regret it (it costs about as much as a babysitter, with the downside of they stay up late and are hepped up on sweets), but tonight, we'll relish being childfree for a few hours.

[186momx]

A low key quiet weekend. DD finished gymnastics camp today and is super tired. DH wants to go off and hike and do all the things but both of us girls just want to do nothing.

[2chatter]

DS can’t swim or be super active post-surgery, so it’s a pretty quiet weekend. DD’s soccer practice and I will run during, lunch with my mom and DD is going to the pool with her “BF” both Saturday and Sunday, while DH, DS and I go to a bbq. Girls with their Dad, church, VBS celebration, errands.

So today DD (the one going into 6th) invited her boyfriend over to swim. Her K-5 boyfriend isn’t returning to our district so she has moved on to another boy she has known since kinder. So ... embracing that my super social child wants to host at our house. They played really well together -
Unlike some of her friends who are girls, he could keep up with her pace and athletic challenges. Cutest moment - he was splashing wasps for her all evening. She screamed and he turned to her and said “DD, I will protect you” very solemnly. I about died trying not to laugh while melting at the sweetness.

[sandandsea]

We will be camping until Sunday and are hoping to get set up before we lose all sunlight tonight. I’m excited to be offline for a couple of nights.

[sdlaura]

We ended up having babysitters both nights this weekend. Our old babysitter who moved a little over an hour away has been coming back to see family, and so we had scheduled her for tonight. Then DH got his work tickets to the Padres game last night and babysitter couldn’t switch to Friday, so we had a different babysitter last night. Baseball game last night and date night tonight were fun - we saw Biggest Little Farm movie, which I would recommend. Then we came out of the movie around 8 and there was an amazing sunset and double rainbow over our town.

I took the older kids to a horseback riding bday party this morning, and tomorrow evening we’re having friends over to swim and have dinner. The only thing not fun about this weekend is that DH has a terrible cough and isn’t feeling well. He slept a lot of the day today.

Thursday we leave for our 10-day trip! Not calling it a vacation since 3 kids 6 and under and no help or kids club on this trip!

[waverly]

We made it home but everyone is out of sorts. The cat is whiny because we were gone a week. DD is whiny for the same reason. She said the grandparents were boring except when the other Grandma picked her up to hang with the cousins and her uncle came over to play video games. DH is cranky because the cat, DD and grocery delivery woke us up. We are still unpacking. My extended family is once again being manipulative- ugh.

[mommyatty]

This has been such a good weekend. Both parties yesterday were fun. We spent a lot of time in the pool today, and grilled turkey burgers. Just really chill and relaxed.

But I’m not sleeping worth a crap. Wtf is up with that? I need to get back to meditating.