Long weekend Friday!! Happy 4th!!

[mae0111]

What is everyone up to for the long weekend?

My ILs are in their way here, then we are all driving tomorrow to spend a week at the beach.

For many reasons, DH and I are taking separate cars. DH is starting to pack his car. Every year we take 2 cars. Every year one kid rides with him, and one with me. This year, he made the unilateral decision that he would drive himself, and I would take both kids. And he looked at me like I was insane when I told him that it was not fair that he got a nice peaceful ride by himself while I got to listen to 2 kids fight in 4th of July weekend beach traffic. And that someone is going with him.

Now he’s mad at me. And I do not care.

But beach!! Yay!! Weather looks great all week!!

[sdlaura]

We’re having our good friends (another family with 3 little kids) over to cook out and swim tomorrow evening - that’s our only plan beyond pool and maybe beach, depending on how well I think we’ll be able to distance (I try to go early when it’s cloudy and it’s usually not bad).

I’m kind of sad because the last two years we were on amazing vacations during the July 4th week. But we wouldn’t be this year anyway, even without a pandemic, because baby is 7 weeks today (and was only supposed to be 3.5 weeks if he hadn’t come early). I will be enjoying snuggles with my final newborn.

I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!

[twinmomma]

We're spending the long weekend at the lake with my family. So far we've enjoyed a massive outdoor pancake breakfast and tie dyed new red, white, and blue shirts to wear tomorrow. It'll be just hanging on the beach and the boat from here on out.

[mustardseed2007]

I'm going to make my son sleep outside in his tree house b/c he's being horrible.
JK but I took away his phone and canceled an amazon order he had begged us for and and prepromised good behavior and cooperation in exchange for it.

He was just a total jerk to his poor piano teacher via their zoom meeting. And that's after he actually practiced this week.

Refusing to do songs, refusing to count, refusing to do anything that was the tiniest bit hard. The kid has truly no grit in navigating anything uncomfortable. I am O.V.E.R. I.T.

[mommyatty]

My BFF is coming over tomorrow. We are all going to end up in our house because we went from really beautiful weather to omg we are in the 5th circle of hell over the past week. But at least at first we will be swimming and hanging out outside.

[mommyatty]

mustardseed2007, my 6 year old son was being a demon this morning. And was apparently a demon for his grandmother yesterday too. I’m making him take a nap this afternoon. And he’s not fighting about it, so he’s clearly tired.

[mustardseed2007]

mommyatty, he didn't go to bed until very late last night, so that may be at play. on the other hand, the promised me he'd be pleasant during his piano lessons about 10 minutes before he had the lesson, and then was actually a jerk. Two weeks ago he was such a jerk to his piano teacher that I gave him a lecture and he cried out of guilt, but he's since just drifted more and more into being a spoiled jerk in any situation where an adult is asking him to do something. Anything. We have GOT to course correct somehow.

[k3am]

I'm trying to work despite having an extra 3 kids in my house who don't understand that I don't have a holiday today... FUN TIMES!

DH is busy shopping. We're having the quarantine-team over for 4th of July tomorrow and he's making smoked queso and burnt ends, so he's acquiring ingredients. I think the kids are going to play pie face showdown and do slip n slide.

[waverly]

We are dropping the kids off with the grandparents for the week and heading to the family lake house. We aren’t leaving until tomorrow though. We will spend a night near the grandparents before heading up.

[sdlaura]

That sounds amazing waverly!

[vasc]

Jul 3, 2020 12:51:34 GMT -5 mustardseed2007 said:

mommyatty, he didn't go to bed until very late last night, so that may be at play. on the other hand, the promised me he'd be pleasant during his piano lessons about 10 minutes before he had the lesson, and then was actually a jerk. Two weeks ago he was such a jerk to his piano teacher that I gave him a lecture and he cried out of guilt, but he's since just drifted more and more into being a spoiled jerk in any situation where an adult is asking him to do something. Anything. We have GOT to course correct somehow.

My DD has been getting private speech therapy over web conferencing since the state shut down. She’s not a fan of speech in person already so doing it virtually was like pulling teeth. During one session, I prepped her beforehand that she better cooperate with a happy heart otherwise I would take away her stuff animals one by one. I brought a box of her stuffies downstairs and put them in front of her but out of view of the webcam. Whenever she started to get uncooperative I walked over to the basket and silently started to remove one. Her eyes would bug out and she’d immediately correct. It was a fabulous motivator and the SLP had no idea.

[vasc]

We will be picking DD up from her sleepaway camp tomorrow morning.

All the local fireworks shows have been cancelled; however, we happen to have tickets to a private, invitation-only show put on by a neighbor who is a pyrotechnics hobbyist. So we will head to the location around 8:30 and social distance from the other guests.

[mustardseed2007]

Jul 3, 2020 15:20:51 GMT -5 vasc said:

Jul 3, 2020 12:51:34 GMT -5 mustardseed2007 said:

mommyatty , he didn't go to bed until very late last night, so that may be at play. on the other hand, the promised me he'd be pleasant during his piano lessons about 10 minutes before he had the lesson, and then was actually a jerk. Two weeks ago he was such a jerk to his piano teacher that I gave him a lecture and he cried out of guilt, but he's since just drifted more and more into being a spoiled jerk in any situation where an adult is asking him to do something. Anything. We have GOT to course correct somehow.

My DD has been getting private speech therapy over web conferencing since the state shut down. She’s not a fan of speech in person already so doing it virtually was like pulling teeth. During one session, I prepped her beforehand that she better cooperate with a happy heart otherwise I would take away her stuff animals one by one. I brought a box of her stuffies downstairs and put them in front of her but out of view of the webcam. Whenever she started to get uncooperative I walked over to the basket and silently started to remove one. Her eyes would bug out and she’d immediately correct. It was a fabulous motivator and the SLP had no idea.

I did this with fruit loops as a reward for DD. She hates doing the "th" sound and every time she did it I dropped one into a bowl out of sight of the SLP. She enthusiastically did it and the SLP was so happy. I actually have done the same for DS when he does a song in piano, but it wasn't helping. Having said all that, he's asleep on the couch right now at 6:15 so...maybe he was more tired than I thought. 

[sandandsea]

We went to a semi-local zoo/glamping place for ds2’s bday yesterday, stayed the night and came home tonight. They made great accommodations for social distancing and required masks so it felt very safe. Ds has a race this weekend but only 1 parent is allowed so I’m home alone with ds2 for the weekend now. Crossing everything that it goes well and totally bummed as it’s his first race I’ll miss but happy to have a semi-quiet weekend at home now. I have to order some groceries but otherwise expect to watch some tv and chill while ds2 plays. It feels weird as this isnt at all what we had originally planned for the 4th pre COVID and there are no fireworks so our tradition is totally off.

[k3am]

Amusing anecdote... the kids have been using their “remotes” to put each other on mute. The batteries died and they’re stuck on mute.. and complaining about it silently.

[mommyatty]

We had so much fun with BFF yesterday. I’m glad we did it. But I’m so sunburned and sore today from swimming so long!

Today I made peach cobbler and homemade soft pretzels. We are having turkey burgers with queso on them for dinner with Avacado salsa and chips on the side. Followed by the peach cobbler!

[186momx]

We hung out with friends for the weekend at their place in the country and did nothing all weekend. It was great but I got fried sitting in the adult kiddie pool and am feeling it today. Not ready for tomorrow and life to start again.

[mustardseed2007]

I told DS yesterday that he could get his phone back from the phone purgatory it's been in all weekend, but only after he does his math homework his tutor gave him and practiced his piano today.

So of course he woke me up at 6:30am to tell me he wanted to play some dice addition game. Prepandemic I'd already be up, but since the pandemic I'd be sleeping for a full hour more.

Since DH and DD still aren't up I'm not allowing him to do piano yet, and he feels very wronged about that.