Post by dancingirl21 on Jul 18, 2022 7:58:57 GMT -5
My mom took my kids this week for “Grandma Camp” and my DH is traveling. I have 5 full days entirely to myself. I’m not sure this has happened since I was single 17 years ago. It feels odd and so quiet.
I have lots of fun things planned and also plenty of downtime. I’m a SAHM, so my days will be entirely mine this week. So strange.
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Jul 18, 2022 8:09:07 GMT -5
If someone gave me five days alone I would sob for joy! I hope your break is amazing!
I’m psyched that Lucy’s summer school program is over tomorrow. No more driving there and back twice before noon, thank god. And she even started cleaning her room up so she can have friends over. I’ve been asking for this for so long.
Post by HoneySpider on Jul 18, 2022 8:23:56 GMT -5
We're having a birthday party for DS1 and DS2 in a few weeks and SO many people can't come because they are out of town. I know there will still be enough kids to make it fun, and it will cost me less money, but this is the first time we are doing a friends party and was hoping a few more people could make it. Summer parties are so hard!
We're having a birthday party for DS1 and DS2 in a few weeks and SO many people can't come because they are out of town. I know there will still be enough kids to make it fun, and it will cost me less money, but this is the first time we are doing a friends party and was hoping a few more people could make it. Summer parties are so hard!
DS and I were just talking about this this morning. His birthday is at the end of August, and none of his friends are ever around. We always say we will do a party once school starts but haven’t yet. We usually plan our vacation that week or do something fun with his cousins.
We're having a birthday party for DS1 and DS2 in a few weeks and SO many people can't come because they are out of town. I know there will still be enough kids to make it fun, and it will cost me less money, but this is the first time we are doing a friends party and was hoping a few more people could make it. Summer parties are so hard!
DS and I were just talking about this this morning. His birthday is at the end of August, and none of his friends are ever around. We always say we will do a party once school starts but haven’t yet. We usually plan our vacation that week or do something fun with his cousins.
The boys are really into playing with their cousins so we picked a date based on when they could come...didn't realize everyone near us went out of town then! Live and learn.
Post by verycontrary247 on Jul 18, 2022 8:31:51 GMT -5
I'm going on a girls trip with some friends Wednesday-Sunday. My husband and Stella are traveling to spend the week at my inlaws. This is the first time Ive been away from her for more than 12 hours. I am excited but also extremely anxious.
We're having a birthday party for DS1 and DS2 in a few weeks and SO many people can't come because they are out of town. I know there will still be enough kids to make it fun, and it will cost me less money, but this is the first time we are doing a friends party and was hoping a few more people could make it. Summer parties are so hard!
DS and I were just talking about this this morning. His birthday is at the end of August, and none of his friends are ever around. We always say we will do a party once school starts but haven’t yet. We usually plan our vacation that week or do something fun with his cousins.
My kids b-day is mid December and we experience the same thing with people being busy with various holiday gatherings. We keep thinking about doing a summer party (like 1/2 b-day or something) but I hadn't considered we'd probably run into the same thing with people not being around due to vacations (I mean duh I don't know why that hadn't occurred to me LOL). Friend parties are harder than they should be!
Post by gerberdaisy on Jul 18, 2022 8:35:40 GMT -5
We had a whirlwind weekend, including 2 birthday parties for DS on Saturday. Yeah...I'm never doing that again. Between moving and COVID we've never done a friend party for either kid, so thought we'd invite all his friends assuming some would be out of town, yeah, only one didn't show up! But it was lots of fun and he was great. (feel like I should clarify, friend party in the morning and family party in the afternoon)
So now, need to get my house back in order and cull through all of toys today.
This morning I went and requested about 12 days of work off for the rest of the summer. Was looking at my time and have taken 5 days off this year. So sick of always putting work first and not using my time off for me. Its not even that work makes me, just a me thing that I need to work on.
We're having a birthday party for DS1 and DS2 in a few weeks and SO many people can't come because they are out of town. I know there will still be enough kids to make it fun, and it will cost me less money, but this is the first time we are doing a friends party and was hoping a few more people could make it. Summer parties are so hard!
DS and I were just talking about this this morning. His birthday is at the end of August, and none of his friends are ever around. We always say we will do a party once school starts but haven’t yet. We usually plan our vacation that week or do something fun with his cousins.
We just had DS1’s birthday party last Friday night for his friends. It was the first friend party we have done for him because of Covid. We rented a video game trailer, got lots of pizza, cake, the whole thing. Out of 20 kids invited, only 5 were able to come. To be fair, we were supposed to have 10 but 5 of them were unable to come day-of because of Covid and other sickness. DS1 was fine so it ended up okay but was a bummer. Summer birthdays are hard!
We're having a birthday party for DS1 and DS2 in a few weeks and SO many people can't come because they are out of town. I know there will still be enough kids to make it fun, and it will cost me less money, but this is the first time we are doing a friends party and was hoping a few more people could make it. Summer parties are so hard!
DS2 also has a summer bday and its so hard. The worst part is I spoke to the parents of a few of his closest friends to see if the date worked for them. They all agreed and so I picked the date and then the all RSVPd no and decided to go out of town. Bah/.
Kid woke up at 443 am with his first bedwetting accident and while I was cleaning it my foot discovered it was also on the carpet.
Kid's rash resurfaced 2 days ago, conveniently right before his dermatology appt--diagnosed with eczema this morning.
My oatmeal gave me heartburn.
The current strain is running rampant through his daycare center/preschool, 2 weeks before our flight. 🙃
I'm doing the lion's share of parenting the last few weeks and I'm about to kick my husband in the throat if he even dares to breathe too loud. A large part of it is because I'm the preferred parent and that is due, in large part, to the fact that kid prefers my parenting style. I have ✨️begged✨️ my husband to adopt some of my approaches (not that they're perfect or the best, but it doesn't lead to tantrums and meltdowns that overstimulate me and do not lead to the desired behavior in kid).
Down the street from us they ran water lines, but there was a whole issue with who was paying to bring the water from the street to the houses (we have city water on our street already). I guess they're going more work today because it's SO LOUD and I'm going to have to turn on the tv to drown it out. They also love to park and wait on our street and leave the street a mess of oil, debris, and trash.
Post by Patsy Baloney on Jul 18, 2022 8:50:50 GMT -5
Today is my H’s birthday, the last one of his 30s. We had family over yesterday to celebrate.
Man, his mom annoys the shit out of me. She is a nice lady, but says things like, “Sammich,” and, “Sody,” for humor without irony. So she’s got to be the worst person in the world, right?
Post by emilyinchile on Jul 18, 2022 8:58:05 GMT -5
It is currently 92 degrees, which in northern England is hot AF. The UK has declared a national emergency and is expecting things like train lines buckling in the heat and causing transport chaos, power going out, and people dying.
Luckily our room is pretty cool, so we're just being lazy in here waiting for L to wake up from his nap so that we can go get ice cream.
Today is my H’s birthday, the last one of his 30s. We had family over yesterday to celebrate.
Man, his mom annoys the shit out of me. She is a nice lady, but says things like, “Sammich,” and, “Sody,” for humor without irony. So she’s got to be the worst person in the world, right?
Team you. I'm not a fan of adults using cutesy words - super annoying.
Girl Scout question for you - how do you go about setting when your meetings are? My kid is interested but in the past the meeting times have not been conducive to my work schedule. We're going to an information meeting tomorrow evening and I'm wondering (and hoping) if they might do some sort of a poll? I totally understand leaders setting the time that works for them because they are the ones doing the work and be there! This is the first time that we've gotten invite for an Information meeting.
Post by gretchenindisguise on Jul 18, 2022 9:07:28 GMT -5
H and 7yo are both testing negative on rapids. 13yo and myself have never had it. Will test again tomorrow since they are babysitting, but man - I hope we've avoided it!
emilyinchile, oh no! I've been reading about that heat wave, what bad luck that it is happening while you are there visiting. I hope you stay cool!
I saw the Broadway show "Mean Girls" (here locally, not on Broadway) yesterday and it was so good! It's just like the movie story-wise, but the songs were really clever and fun and the choreography and such was really well done. I really enjoyed it. I'm kind of sad that the season is over now and there isn't anything else until October. I'm a volunteer usher so I see everything for free, and it is so fun.
I am trying to figure out somewhere to go on vacation the week of Thanksgiving, and really struggling. We wanted to go to Colombia, but none of the flights are really working - they are either like 18-24 hours of travel and arriving at 3am, or $600+ each way per person. Since we only have a week I don't want to go somewhere super far away, and we don't want to do Europe since we were just there and plan to go again next May so we want to do another region of the world. We talked about Jamaica but the flights are kind of expensive to go there, too, though not quite as horrible as Colombia.
Post by Patsy Baloney on Jul 18, 2022 9:18:22 GMT -5
bex1973 our first year, we went off my co-leader’s custody schedule when she knew she would have a guaranteed night with her kid. After that leader/kid left the troop, we polled.
Now, we’re pretty established with our time, and our council has our meeting time listed in their database so families can join our troop by times they’re able to meet. If the new troop picks a sucky time for your family, reach out to your area membership person and see if there’s room in one that fits your schedule.
My stepmom is spreading rumors about me again. I shouldn’t care but it hurts. Especially since these ones are about how I don’t want to celebrate my moms birthday with her this week and how I keep the kids from her. A) my mom is dead so celebrating feels weird B) I just set boundaries with her about what she can say to the kids and she can’t follow that so SHE is the one keeping herself from them.
On the bright side our new built ins look great! I just have to decide what color to paint them (They’re angled because it’s a staircase)
Patsy Baloney, thanks for the tip on checking for other troop times! One of the other dance moms mentioned their troop when we were chatting the other day so I hope we can find one that works because my kid is really interested in trying it out!
I've been getting these weird waves of nausea all weekend. I'll feel completely fine and then all of a sudden I literally feel like I'm getting waves in my head and I feel super nauseated. It gets bad enough that I need to lie down but eventually it passes and then I feel completely fine again. It kind of almost feels like if I forget to take my Lexapro, but I haven't missed a dose in a while, so I have no idea what is going on.
I really want to go see Lizzo when she is in town at the end of September. My bff and I are debating if we want to spend $300 for awesome seats, or $200 for pretty good seats. I'm leaning slightly towards the pretty good seats so that I can bring DD too, I can't afford (2) awesome seats, but I know that she would love to go as well.
Post by sofamonkey on Jul 18, 2022 10:01:45 GMT -5
We had our contractor out yesterday. They made some good suggestions, and our next step is the architect, then inspection with the city. Depending on what we end up going with, it could be anywhere from $200-500k. :/
We made ice cream last night in the new machine! The lemon one from the Jeni’s ice cream book and we crumbled meringues into it to make it sort of like lemon meringue pie. I checked out a lot of ice cream books from the library and so far Jeni’s is the winner. I need to order some freezeable containers so I can make more flavors at once. I bought fresh guava and how good would that be in something?
Today is my H’s birthday, the last one of his 30s. We had family over yesterday to celebrate.
Man, his mom annoys the shit out of me. She is a nice lady, but says things like, “Sammich,” and, “Sody,” for humor without irony. So she’s got to be the worst person in the world, right?
My MIL does this. Also “kind-ee-garden” instead of kindergarten.
ETA: I love my MIL, and she’s great in so many ways, but this has always driven me bananas.