Friday. Quarantine day???

[rere]

I am supposed to get a half day today starting at 11.  We have a staff on call, but I will have to keep checking email all weekend  to make sure she is ok and keep an eye on clusters for positives. 


I actually got a grocery pick up tonight which is shocking.  I hope they actually give me what I ordered and don't just eliminate half my list.  


Easter seems to be a bust, but we will make the best of it.  We will watch mass.  It is supposed to be rainy and cool so I think DD and I decided to take over the basement for a movie day and DS says that the last Star Wars is available to rent.   I think I am going to make a pot a chili.  DH will gripe, but the kids will love it. Not conventional Easter dinner.    

[twinmomma]

I am currently pulling myself together after laughing so hard I cried. Like, totally snapped, tears running down my face, all alone in my house. Someone discovered a really inappropriate typo in our database that pushes out to the website on thousands of pages. I'm really glad that I was handling this virtually and not in person because I lost it. I think it was just the stress of life bubbling out, but man, did I need a good laugh. And thankfully it was an easy fix and we're back in business.

No plans, no kids this weekend. Fever is finally gone, but I won't get them back until Wednesday as normally scheduled now. So I think I'm going to tackle painting my living room. If I tape it all off tonight and prep it, then I can just paint all day tomorrow. I bought the supplies thinking it would be a good project while I'm stuck at home on the weekends and now ExH has requested we switch up the schedule so I'll have the kids for the next 4 weekends in a row. So this is my shot!

[waverly]

I’m off work today, and we just finished up elearning for the week. What am I supposed to do? It’s only 43 out so it’s chilly and the pup got spayed yesterday so no dog walks. The only thing in my todo list is wash windows outside, and it’s too cold for that. I might do target pick up for some Easter stuff...

[k3am]

twinmomma, please share the unfortunate typo with the class.

[sdlaura]

We're on quarantine day 28. I was planning to take today off, but someone scheduled a 9-10:30 meeting. That's all I plan to do today other than answer emails. DH is technically off since stock markets are closed. If things were normal, we would have sent the kids to school/daycare and had a date day.

We're had torrential rains all week and it has turned our pool brown and green - we have a hill behind the pool and I guess a lot of plant matter has run off. It has also driven ants inside the house. Luckily after today, no rain in the forecast for awhile.

I started an Easter egg piñata last night per librarychica's recommendation. I have to put another layer of newspaper on that today.

I'm also planning to go to the post office with my mask and sanitizer and use the self service machine to ship off some boxes of DD's old girls clothes that I sorted last weekend. I would love to get rid of some other stuff, but Goodwill is understandably not taking pick-ups now, so I will continue to have trash bags build up in my home office.

[twinmomma]

k3am, They left two very important letters out of client. So we didn't have "client needs" - we had very, very different needs.

[sdlaura]

Apr 10, 2020 11:26:55 GMT -5 twinmomma said:

k3am , They left two very important letters out of client. So we didn't have "client needs" - we had very, very different needs.

Hehehe

[k3am]

Apr 10, 2020 11:26:55 GMT -5 twinmomma said:

k3am, They left two very important letters out of client. So we didn't have "client needs" - we had very, very different needs.

Haha. That’s great!

[twinmomma]

k3am, I died. The typo was one thing, but then having to deal with my ultra conservative IT guy to get it fixed just did me in. I could just imagine his horrified face as he read my email.

[erinshelley21]

I posted my ups too soon yesterday. DD drove me bonkers and we were both crying at bedtime. I wallowed over a large bowl of ice cream and Grey's Anatomy because I am still behind despite all of the time at home.

I'm working a couple more hours then taking off for a little bit. I told DH I need out of the house, alone, for a bit. I planned to go walk in town but DS broke the water jug for his bunny so I'll go walk into the pet store I guess. DD needs diapers too since she refuses to potty train.

And I have a headache.

[186momx]

Well I just made mom of the week. DD is crying her eyes out because I asked her to write the spelling words she got wrong on her quiz 3 times. This resulted in a meltdown and that isn't how we do it at school. My dad pipped up that school is over so new rules and spelling is important which made even more tears. Spelling and writing are the two skills she has been lacking all school year so those are the two things I'm trying to implement in "mommy school". This is the first week I added spelling and I just don't know if it is worth it.

[k3am]

186momx, we've been doing the same. Writing/penmanship/fine motor skills are DD's weaknesses, so we've been really focusing on those.

[mustardseed2007]

We have to get a new HVAC system. OMG.

[phdmomma]

186momx, k3am, I've been doing DS's strength and weakness. So he is really good at math, so we do math. And really terrible at penmanship, so we do both to balance that out. Unsurprisingly he likes the strengths more than the weakness.

[k3am]

phdmomma, I have been having DD use graph paper for her assignments (or a table that looks like graph paper anyways). Capital letters are meant to take up the space of 4 squares (two up, two across), lower case two square (two up, one across), and a one box wide space between words. She hates it, but it's been really helpful. It forces here to write a little more neatly. If we come out of this with anything, I hope it's an improvement in her writing ability. But man.. that girl HATES writing. HATES.

[186momx]

k3am, phdmomma, DD also hates writing and I figured out why she writes have of her letter opposite of how she should. But trying to fix now at almost 9 seems to be an uphill battle. Going to try and teach cursive to fix it but in a couple weeks when hopefully work isn't so crazy.
DD loves math and reading so she gets lots of that too. I keep telling her to do the harder stuff first and not default to your favorite easy stuff. She is reading for fun between 15-20 a hours a week!

[sandandsea]

Ds is doing amazing at math and writing/reading are major struggle city. He told me last night that having messy writing is “just in my dna”. I asked what that meant and he knew so at least he is good at math and science and vocabulary???

[k3am]

sandandsea, DD's teacher told us.. it doesn't matter in the long run. So much in life is computer based that if a kid has bad penmanship it won't hurt them in the long run.

DH is a grown ass adult with a good job and aside from his lack of backwards letters and numbers, his writing isn't much better than DD's. So maybe your DS is onto something with messy handwriting DNA.

[mustardseed2007]

My DH has the WORST handwriting. The WORST. He's very "whatever" about DS' also horrible handwriting.

Bad news, we have to replace our AC unit. I literally cried. The guy is therefore giving us a deal. But it's still expensive. And now I feel bad that I cried and got a deal.

The upside is that he can do it tomorrow and we still have money in the bank to do it.

The downside is that now we won't have that money in the bank.

FML. For real.