I had to chase my kid from one side of the car to the other when we pulled into daycare because I wouldn't let him wear rainbow gloves inside (because he'd drive his teachers nuts with them).
Then he latched onto my leg and wouldn't let go inside his classroom.
Then I got a very large iced coffee (decaf because anxietyyyy).
If unsubscribing from Mondays was a possibility, I would love to opt out.
I am on hold with our mutual fund company making a prior year IRA contribution. LOL I sold in our taxable account in February and just never made the contribution. Then today found I couldn't just transfer the funds into a new fund in the IRA. Why do I leave these things hanging over my head until the last possible second?!?!
We bought a vacation house at the end of last week. H was really the one who was interested in doing it, he has gotten me on board, but I’m not as excited as he is.
I feel kind of terrible about the fact that, I’m just not excited about this house. I’m not super excited about any vacation house, and I’m especially not excited about this particular house. I feel terrible about all of that. 😬😬
I don’t regret that we’ve done it. It was a mutually agreed-upon decision. But I could’ve just as soon done without any of this.
It's a long story, but our 4th of July trip to Red Lodge is going to be 80% less fun and 50% more expensive than usual because so many freaking people are coming so I'm bummed about that.
We had dinner Saturday night with two couples we don't know because there was supposed to be one other couple we DID know, but one of them ended up getting sick and so they didn't come. But it was SO fun! And one of the couples lives in our neighborhood and also has 2 dogs and no kids. So hopefully we have some new friends We'll see if anything actually develops there lol
Post by maudefindlay on Apr 18, 2022 9:34:35 GMT -5
I love DS2's teacher and I think the following policy is not hers, but a grade wise thing (10 yr old/5th grade). Ugggh. I'm all for teaching responsibility and independence. The kids in his grade have a planner where they write down their homework daily, awesome. Parents have to sign the planner daily, uggh. DS2 consistently does his homework and gets good grades and I touch base with him daily and check whatever needs checking and quiz him before tests. That stupid planner though. He does remind me to sign it, but I can get distracted. If I don't sign it he gets an "N" for needs improvement on his weekly Lifeskills sheet that I also have to sign weekly or he gets an "N". I think this is stupid. His work is getting done and turned in on time. He writes down his assignments. Come on. I haven't forgotten many times either, just a couple this whole year, so it is not a repeated pattern. Cue today and it's the first day back to school since last Wednesday as they had a 4 day weekend. The first time all year DS2 forgot his chromebook at home. I saw it charging after he left and drove it to school. When I got to school I saw where he had called and left me a voice mail about forgetting it. He called me and I had it in the office before school started, but I guarantee we get an "N" today. Look people ass up, this isn't a pattern and I think it shows responsibility he initiated calling me to bring it in. End vent.
Post by emilyinchile on Apr 18, 2022 9:47:38 GMT -5
My kid isn't even in daycare yet, and I'm already annoyed by all the dumb stuff parents are expected to do, maudefindlay. My friend was telling me how her son's preschool celebrates birthdays so that it's fair for everyone, which is great, but the upshot is that parents (read: moms) are required to organize all this extra stuff and it's just ugh. Why? Let us live!
Yesterday was the first holiday where I felt a bit of that magic of having a child. My son is 11 months old, and we went to this community egg hunt where mostly he was just amazed to see so many people in one place (pandemic baby life), and obviously he doesn't eat chocolate or "get it" yet. But seeing him so excited and happy even though it was just because of the crowd made me think of all the years we have ahead of us where these things will be special for him.
My kid isn't even in daycare yet, and I'm already annoyed by all the dumb stuff parents are expected to do, maudefindlay. My friend was telling me how her son's preschool celebrates birthdays so that it's fair for everyone, which is great, but the upshot is that parents (read: moms) are required to organize all this extra stuff and it's just ugh. Why? Let us live!
Yesterday was the first holiday where I felt a bit of that magic of having a child. My son is 11 months old, and we went to this community egg hunt where mostly he was just amazed to see so many people in one place (pandemic baby life), and obviously he doesn't eat chocolate or "get it" yet. But seeing him so excited and happy even though it was just because of the crowd made me think of all the years we have ahead of us where these things will be special for him.
Daycares create so much work for parents. My kids daycare also kept having events that parents were invited to during the workday. Then your kid felt bad if you didn’t come. Fun times!
Aw Patsy Baloney, I'm sorry your birthday was awful. You do so much to make occasions fun for your kids and others, I wish others did the same for you!
I haven't been on the boards much since my Dad passed last week, it's still just all so surreal. He had Stage 4 Lung Cancer that had gone in to remission, went to the ER for a heart attack, then suffered a Bilateral Stroke, they found an Aortic Aneurism, he developed a Blood Clot in his heart, and then ultimately we discovered that he had Pulmonary Fibrosis from the Cancer treatment and that is what he passed from. Still just such a whirlwind and then yesterday having our first major holiday without him. I'm not okay.
And now, I just got a call from H that my FIL is being rushed to the ER.
I'd like to go back to bed and just not deal with any of this.
We bought a vacation house at the end of last week. H was really the one who was interested in doing it, he has gotten me on board, but I’m not as excited as he is.
I feel kind of terrible about the fact that, I’m just not excited about this house. I’m not super excited about any vacation house, and I’m especially not excited about this particular house. I feel terrible about all of that. 😬😬
I don’t regret that we’ve done it. It was a mutually agreed-upon decision. But I could’ve just as soon done without any of this.
This is how I feel about H's new car. He's super jazzed about it, but I would have just bought a much cheaper car. It's fine, we can afford it yada yada yada, but spending a lot of money on cars isn't my favorite thing.
My weekend was good, too short as always. I did finish painting my living room/staircase hallway so now I'm DONE with that project. I still want to paint our powder room sometime soon, and eventually will do the basement (which is finished and is where our primary workspace is) but I will probably wait until after summer for that. MAYBE do the powder room sooner since that is tiny so shouldn't take more than a few hours. I love how a newly painted room looks, but I hate the giant time suck that comes with painting!
I got a bit sunburned at the baseball game yesterday. Thankfully it was a long sleeves/pants day and I wore a baseball hat, so it could have been much worse. I am really bad at remembering sunscreen when I'm doing local activities, especially this early in the year when I'm not used to being outside for very long. It didn't even cross my mind that we'd be sitting in the sun and course would need sunscreen until we were already there. Whoops.
Our cleaners just arrive and my cat darted underneath a blanket. It always cracks me up that he thinks that's a safer spot. I guess technically it is because you wouldn't know he was there unless you picked it up. He is such a baby.
Post by followyourarrow on Apr 18, 2022 10:35:54 GMT -5
I'm sorry @sameoldstory. I hope your FIL will be ok.
On Saturday I ended up coaching a group of teenage girls. I was honestly nervous, but they all did great. No complaints about our trek through the woods or how cold it was. One of the targets (archery) was a dinosaur and they were legit excited about it and asked me to take their pictures with it.
I'm sorry @sameoldstory. I hope your FIL will be ok.
On Saturday I ended up coaching a group of teenage girls. I was honestly nervous, but they all did great. No complaints about our trek through the woods or how cold it was. One of the targets (archery) was a dinosaur and they were legit excited about it and asked me to take their pictures with it.
Teenagers are my favorite people. Just when you think they’re too cool for everything, out comes their little kid side. 💕
I'm sorry @sameoldstory. I hope your FIL will be ok.
On Saturday I ended up coaching a group of teenage girls. I was honestly nervous, but they all did great. No complaints about our trek through the woods or how cold it was. One of the targets (archery) was a dinosaur and they were legit excited about it and asked me to take their pictures with it.
Teenagers are my favorite people. Just when you think they’re too cool for everything, out comes their little kid side. 💕
This is why I laugh when people tell me I’m a saint for teaching middle school. Little do they know
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Slightly annoyed that a meeting I was looking forward to was cancelled/rescheduled 15 minutes BEFORE it was set to start. After I re-applied lipstick and got zoom-camera ready.
We had a tornado warning in the middle of the night, so we all spent about 40 minutes in the walk-in-closet. Crappy sleep, woke up and of course I’m sick (COVID home test was negative, likely just a cold).
wildrice, don't fool yourself into thinking that painting the powder room will be easy/quick. Powder rooms and bathrooms have so many things that have to be taped off or painted behind, (tip: cover toilet tank with a trash bag, so you don't have worry about getting paint on it), and a lot of cutting in, in a really small space.
I really love painting...just not bathrooms.
I keep obsessing over packing my personal bag to take on the plane, and I keep laughing at myself and all of the stuff I think I *might* need on basically overnight flights.
At least I have a really great, not too big or too small, backpack style bag that I got free somewhere (maybe DSW). It has a shoe compartment at the bottom that is perfect for all of the things that I actually am apt to use on a plane and want easy access to. The main compartment is sized okay for my needs, and there's an outer pocket that is perfect for my kindle.
I ordered a rug from cb2 in January, and it just shipped. It's supposed to arrive the day we leave on our trip, because of course it is. lol
If it's FedEx's normal schedule, it will arrive before we leave for the airport. It's more likely that we will just miss the truck and our neighbors said that they will lug it to their house and hold it for us.
I feel like I am financially just getting by every fucking year. Like sure... I do stuff that I don't need to do like pain management acupuncture for my dog or don't pay for hulu live. But for the most part I spend conservatively and still feel like I don't make it. Like I pass on buying rugs or décor for my house because I can't justify it. I have a 1099 that I occasionally work at 24/hr but am looking for a second job and they are turning me down because I have a 9-5 and they want a part timer only being paid 14.50 an hour to have open availability. I interviewed for one job and they said I was overly qualified and they didn't think Id be happy in the simple role. Bruh. I just want to pay off my student loans and save for a house as a single woman.
maudefindlay I had the same planner/parent signature thing in 4th grade and distinctly remember that being the time I got good at forging my parents signature. I always had my work done and got As, but never remembered to have my parents sign my planner book. There's already so many rules in school I hate the getting in trouble for something your parents did or didn't do.