Long weekend Friday!

[mae0111]

We made it! How was your week?  Any plans for the long weekend?

[mae0111]

It was a very long week in our house, full of meltdowns and screaming, leading up to the new student orientation at the kids' new school yesterday. DD1 left the day very happy. DD2 seemed distraught and overwhelmed, but couldn't articulate anything. DD1 had several significant meltdowns leading up to the day, so everyone's nerves were completely fried by Thursday afternoon when she finally snapped out of it. DD2 just... couldn't.

We were all supposed to go to the beach house for the weekend as a last summer hurrah, but DH ended up taking DD1 there last night and DD2 and I stayed home. Part of me is pretty bummed out that we couldn't all be there together, but part of me is relieved that I don't have to listen to constant fighting for 3 straight days. It is supposed to be perfect beach weather all weekend, so I'm pretty disappointed that we aren't there for it. But it is better to keep them separated, and DH has to do some things that I don't know how to do (close the pool, winterize some outdoor water hookups, etc.) so he's there and I'm home.

Oh well!

Kids start school next Wednesday and I'm anticipating a tornado of emotions until probably the end of September. I'd best buckle up.

[rere]

No concrete plans for the weekend, which I'm excited about. Except that Dd and I have a big shopping day planned tomorrow. We are looking for fall decorations, bargains at Ross and TJ Maxx, nice lunch and maybe even supper and just a nice day.

[librarychica]

The emotions in this house have largely been mine this week. I have swung wildly between “ready to pack” and “omg never moving” and I was very short with H and the kids Monday and Tuesday, with a side of work-breakdown Tuesday night. It was all out of proportion and (I hope) out of character. How does one know if they’re having a midlife crisis? 😆

We have a somewhat busy weekend but in a stay-near-home sort of way. My family is coming over for a birthday lunch for my mom Sunday so Saturday we will be cleaning, Sunday we’ll go that. Monday I’m planning to take the girls and a couple of their friends to the science museum and H will have some decompress time, which he probably sorely needs after my being gone a week and then coming home and emotional wreck. No work travel for either us this month, prepping for his busiest travel month in October, so I am hoping for lots of friends and family time, at-home productivity, and general stability from the month of September.

[librarychica]

rere I love fall decor. My youngest has had us all mass productive various types of paper pumpkins, even though it’s still 90 degrees and 10000% humidity outside!

[rere]

Sept 1, 2023 9:33:20 GMT -5 librarychica said:

rere I love fall decor. My youngest has had us all mass productive various types of paper pumpkins, even though it’s still 90 degrees and 10000% humidity outside!

She had big plans to pretty much decorate the entire apartment in fall, so I hope her roommates love it as much as she does.

[supertrooper1]

This is the one weekend we decided to stay home and not go camping because everyone else travels and the roads are a mess. The only thing set so far is visiting our parents on Sunday. Beau and his brother have talked about going riding Saturday, so if they do, I'll go to the farmer's market with DS and have a day just with him. If they don't go riding, Beau's grandson will probably come over and we'll find something to do. Nothing planned for Monday yet other than the gym.

[mae0111]

DD2's new teacher just sent out a ton of photos from the day yesterday. DD2 is walking arm in arm with new and old friends, smiling, laughing in every photo. So at least I know she had a nice day!

[mommyatty]

DS has ninja class on Saturday, DH and I are going to see Avenue Q at a community theater on Sunday, and I have to work a bit on Monday. But when we aren’t doing that, I plan on being in our pool or reading a book on our couch. I’m tired. My kids are tired. We need a break.

[186momx]

Its a weird weekend here. I'm working for a while today to make Tuesday easier. All of my payroll clients get paid between the 1st and the 5th so when it falls weirdly plus the holiday weekend it just made sense for me to work a bit today. DD and I are going to visit Ms Jo and take her estimated tax payments on our way home and I think visiting with her will be the highlight of the weekend.

Saturday is going to be a mix of trim painting and canning tomatoes. Sunday DD is going to go ride and then she is staying out until sometime Monday. She is trading being a mothers helper for horse time. Her lady husband is leaving today for a 10 day hunting trip and she is 1st time mom freaking over being just her and baby. She made a helper train with different people coming to give her a break or do all the farm chores that her H has been handling. Baby is 5 months old and doesn't sleep much still.

Monday DD's gymnastics team is doing the concessions at the free concert in the park. So we will be busy from 1-8 there. I'm crock potting some of the pork Sunday overnight for the pulled pork.

supertrooper1, is the rain reaching you? How are your parents doing with the fire? I'm hopeful that all the rain has greatly helped the firefighters and the t-storms predicted for today don't happen.

[erbear]

One of my newer colleagues invited us to his 39th birthday party beer tasting tonight so I’m excited about that. DD2 was asked to be a guest player on the A Team in her club on Sunday. She’s excited. I really hope we don’t schlep all the way up there and sit out in 90* heat to watch her never get into a game 🥴

[supertrooper1]

186momx , we got rain 3 days this week and then we're back to sunny until Sunday. I think the rain helped some. They still only have it 50% contained, but they have perimeter control. After they rescinded the level 2 evacuation for my parents a couple hours after they issued it, they never put it in place again which is great. My mom was pretty worried.

[dglvrk2]

It was a longish week. Kids are tired from their first week at school. DH is away at a guys weekend. We are eating relatively early and watching a movie. My goal is to have the girls in bed by 9:30 my time.

Tomorrow I'm mountain biking with some friends as long as the rain holds off. Then taking DD1 to an extra gymnastics practice and DD2 to a craft shop while her sister is at practice. Sunday, DD1 and her bestie want to go back to school shopping. They started 7th grade on Tuesday and got the memo that they need new clothes. GOod thing DD1 saves her money because she's not getting much from me!

My sister and I are mountain biking on Labor Day and H gets the kids because he hasn't had them on a weekend in a long time....

[sdlaura]

I’m having some FOMO from not having big plans on a holiday weekend

DD’s flag football game was fun to watch tonight. She’s doing well as quarterback. Tomorrow we’re meeting friends at the beach. Sunday DS2 goes to a bday party and then we have a date evening with another couple. TBD on Monday. We may go to the childrens museum downtown because our membership expires at the end of September.

I’m already annoyed that I have no WFH days next week. Which used to be totally normal but I’ve gotten used to having that wiggle room. My company’s ‘common days’ are Monday/Wednesday, but they’ve decided that if Monday is a holiday, we should all be there Tuesday and Wednesday. Then I have work travel Thursday and Friday. Boo

[waverly]

We had big plans to visit family. Everyone had a good time except me. My mom threw a fit Saturday morning that we were going to visit in-laws and my dad who I haven’t seen in a year. So I stayed back with DD to appease her. While she had a point, the other point was who throws a fit when you are going to visit someone in assisted living whose health has been declining.

When we stayed back, I was a bit resentful but starting to get over it. Then she told me that me giving her a glass of wine at a 3pm a year ago at a party caused her to start drinking wine every night to go to sleep. Basically blaming me for that. She is not an alcoholic but an insomniac who ignore her health issues. She has Crohn’s disease but never saw a GI until 11 months into a flare. She is 9 months into a diagnosis and still not on a Crohns medication.

She also spent the entire visit complaining and correcting me. For example I was told not to use the paper towel in my hand to clean up spilled water and that I used her toaster incorrectly (twice). It was literally an entire day of this. We packed up and left early this morning. I was polite and agreed with her mostly because if I don’t it turns into a debate. But it has to be at least 30 comments in a day. Kind of demoralizing and it’s clear she can’t handle people staying with her anymore so that will probably be our last visit.  We stopped vacationing with her due to this behavior, so now we have to add not staying with her anymore to the list.  I could try to talk to her and she would apologize and try to be better but quickly slip into her old ways again, so it's not really worth it.  She's been like that my whole life and it has gotten worse with age.