Back to Monday!

[mae0111]

How was your weekend? What's up this week?

[mae0111]

DH and I had a great weekend! We went to our beach house Friday afternoon. The weather was absolutely gorgeous all weekend. We took the dog to the beach and let him run forever (which is hard to do at home due to tight spaces and tons of other dogs and my dog can be a little reactive). We went out for casual meals. We talked a lot. We watched All The Light We Cannot See uninterrupted and without having to break up fights. Overall just an awesome weekend!

Our former nanny came to take care of the kids and brought DD2 to her soccer games. They ended up winning the town rec championship! Then she took them to an arcade/bowling alley place per the kids' request, and apparently DD2 completely melted down there. Our nanny has infinite patience and an amazing ability to keep calm, and I could tell she had been pushed to her limit when we got home. But she was able to keep it together and deal with DD2 while allowing DD1 to have fun.

This is a short week for the kids but not for us. DD1 has an overnight school trip from Wed. morning until Thurs afternoon. Then we're going to see Frozen live. Should be really fun!

[mommyatty]

It was an okay weekend. DS rocked his ninja class. DD is still getting over her cold that I think was RSV. She’s mostly better, but man that virus packed a punch.

I may have a job interview Friday for a job I think would be incredibly boring with a company I don’t particularly want to work for that would be less flexible than what I have now. And yet I’m considering it because I have zero comfort in where my job is going or what I’m supposed to be doing or whether it will even exist in a month or six months or a year.

[waverly]

I posted an update in the Friday thread, but basically the kids are all friends again. And I am so glad that the popularity contest that Halloween inadvertently became is over with. I know not to invite the other girl for birthday parties unless DD specifically requests it, and I will leave it at that. I think I can avoid the one mean mom because there is not another mom event until spring, so avoid for now.

We have a nice light week because there is a break between fall and winter soccer.

Our dog was being a giant PITA this weekend, and I was about to rehome her. Instead, I sent DH 2 dog trainers with instructions to "handle it" because I did the original dog training.

[rere]

Great weekend. Dd and I were on the same volleyball team and won a shirt. We put out our Christmas decorations except for the tree, where we will wait for Ds. Saturday dh and I were going out for dinner, but decided to stay home and cook steaks and drink wine.

Tomorrow I get 4 hrs off to vote, and I will spend most of the other half day at a laid back meeting and wr get veterans day off Friday.

Side note, dhs job has asked if he wants to work remotely 1-2 days a week. It could also come with a salary increase. He's a little leary. His coworker pushed for it, but he never gave it much thought. It would be a change in classification too, so he needs to see if there is a change in his benefits and yearly raises. I don't know about both of us at home at the same time.

[186momx]

I had tax school on Saturday and DD went with me. She was fine other than bored. The speaker was fine but not very entertaining and it's hard to follow when she just is talking code sections. Speaker was a law professor who has switched to being and EA and has her own tax office specializing in trust/wills/estates. DD helped keep the coffee filled, water filled, set up lunch/snacks, and was on clean up duty. We left an hour early as it was so dark out from the storms and I was worried about flooded roads heading home which I had almost the whole way home.

Time change kicks my butt and I just wanted a quiet Sunday. DH was so angry and sullen the whole day. I suggested he go blow leaves as it wasn't raining. He was upset we did have plans to go do anything and that DD and I were having a lazy pj day.

Our old dog has her days and nights mixed up. It isn't helping that every time she moves in our room DH jumps up and takes her outside. I've been up off and on since 2am and I'm exhausted. Doggy is sleeping and snoring behind me at work which isn't helping.

No school Friday but otherwise the same old stuff this week.

[supertrooper1]

I had a pretty good long weekend. I took Friday off since DS didn't have school. We drove out to my parent's house for kitten snuggles and lunch at their local cafe. I'm still on the fence about taking a kitten home. Friday night after I dropped DS off at his dad's, Beau and I used a free room offer at the local casino so we could enjoy a few drinks without having to worry about who was driving and took advantage of their sauna.

Saturday and Sunday were pretty laid back. We went to the gym, went for a long walk, and went out for dinner. It was nice to relax most of the weekend. I didn't realize until this weekend that I also have Friday off too. I figured since Veteran's Day falls on Saturday that I wouldn't get Friday off, so I'm not sure what I'll do with my free time since DS will be with his dad and Beau will be working.

[sdlaura]

My 30 hours in Vegas were fun. It was nice and laid back since my sister and her friend went to some BravoCon events while I just hung out. I arrived a little before lunch Friday, relaxed a little and then met them between panels for a drink. Then we went to dinner and then the Katy Perry concert Friday night - which was awesome. Saturday night was the last night of her 2-year "residency" and apparently Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and Orlando Bloom and their daughter were all there. Saturday we all worked out and got breakfast, then I went to the pool while they did some Bravo stuff, and then we went to an early dinner before I flew home. It's so easy to fly to Vegas from here - I was home less than 3 hours after I left the dinner. It was also really nice to have some downtime. Even though I had spent the week in Hawaii a couple weeks ago, I don't think I sat down on a pool chair once while in Hawaii since I was with the four kids. My sister and her friend fly home to Maryland today.

Of course DS1 got sick while I was gone. And DS2's soccer game got cancelled last minute and moved to a later scrimmage that then conflicted with something else. So I was managing schedules and worrying about DS1 from Vegas. DS1 was SO sad to miss his friend's birthday party at K1 speed on Saturday afternoon. I ended up promising to take him and the birthday boy back to K1 speed this Friday afternoon when they're off for the holiday. So yesterday DS1 also missed his baseball game. DH ended up taking DD to her 3 softball games yesterday and I took DS1 to the doctor, where he was diagnosed with strep (are we all gonna get strep twice this year???), then DH took DD to her basketball game while I took the two little boys to the elementary school fall carnival. Luckily we got DS1 started on antibiotics yesterday and he felt well enough to go to school today.

I'm really liking the end of daylight savings so far. I'm going to try to keep us all going to bed a little closer to the old bedtimes so we get more sleep. And it was really nice to do my 6:10 am Orangetheory today and have it be light out and feel like 7:10 am.

[k3am]

Vent: We switched to the newest version of Microsoft everything and I flipping hate it. HATE. I have never felt so old or mentally feeble before. Why did they need to change something that worked fine? I'm not seeing any new functionality and now I have to spend extra time just trying to figure out where something is in the new ribbon. At least be like Adobe and give me the option to view it as "classic" mode where things look as they were.

[k3am]

Oh. More important. I forgot to share the GOOD news.

We upped my mom's hours with her caregiver to 12 hours a day. Which nearly doubled the cost. I don't know if that was the genesis, but oldest sister FINALLY came around to the fact that mom would be best served in memory care. Her argument is that mom is alone all day, doesn't socialize, doesn't really do anything but watch TV and it's not healthy. Which I've been saying for two years, but I've (somehow) managed not to say anything about that part. (Anyone who knows me in real life knows what an accomplishment that is!!)

Sisters toured a memory care facility on Saturday. They're dropping off a deposit this afternoon, and will take my mom for a visit this coming weekend and they'll do her assessment then. The facility has had GREAT recommendations for us, like getting an anti-anxiety medication for the days before and first few days while she adjusts (which seems common sense, but it didn't occur to us, and the facility we toured a few years ago didn't bring it up). We expect that she'll move in later this month. The estimated cost so far is going to be not much more than what we're paying now for in home caregivers for TWO WEEKS vs. a whole month. It's only about 75% of what I'd been estimating. (I am still waiting for the curve ball, but fingers crossed) Not to mention cutting out ~$500 in gas/water/electric (will be covered in rent), $300 in cable/internet/phone (they have a discount rate of $30).

We've (mostly) got oldest sister convinced that selling mom's house will be necessary, since insurance runs out in ~ 18 months, so we need to have that money on reserve, but we will have plenty of time to get her house ready for sale at whatever speed we feel like.

I am exhausted already thinking about what we need to get done, but feeling good about how things are headed.

[waverly]

k3am , I am so glad. It was such a relief to get my dad into assisted living, and we went through it 2-3 times because he tried on his own in between. This reminds me of a thread I was going to start.  

[k3am]

... we did not consider capital gains tax. She bought the house for $5 (basically) 50 years ago. It's worth ~$830k. She's done improvements, but we don't have records. Fuck.

[twinmomma]

mae0111, We are going to Frozen on Thursday night too!

I'm in Denver until late Wednesday night for work, I'll WFH Thursday, we'll go see Frozen on Thursday night, and then have Friday off to recover from all of it. Thank goodness for long weekends!

Our weekend was good. The girls did great in their theater performance and we spent a lot of time with a family that we haven't been able to hang out with lately due to sports schedules and busyness. We went to the son's birthday party in the afternoon and ended up back at their house for dinner and relaxing until bed time. It was so nice to catch up! Sunday was a chill day while I packed and prepped to be gone this week. We took the kids to the park for a little bit so they could film some of the movie they're working on in the woods and trails there. It's so funny how into it they get. They were running around with swords and an ipad capturing all this footage. Other families would happen upon us and just watch to see what they were doing. The way the three of them work together to make all these short films is so awesome! And it gave me an idea to see what other movie making materials I can get them for a family Christmas gift.

[dglvrk2]

My weekend itself is pretty good. I got a lot of cleaning/ decluttering done. DD1 had a great time at her first school dance.DD2 and I had a blast on a mountain bike ride with one of her friends.

This week is going to be a wild ride. My sister is a 6-year cancer survivor. However, she got a bad scan today which could indicate that the cancer has returned. It's so rough to see her go through this. I hope it's a misread but I can't be optimistic. We should have some answers by the end of the week. Fingers crossed.

[campermom]

Busy week but short. I’m taking off Friday to travel to run an untrained marathon that sounded like a great idea when I signed up. I have the experience but not the miles on my feet to make it through. Just didn’t want it enough. I could bring it down to a half but I’ll still probably feel sad to miss the experience so I’ll do it anyway.

I saw something somewhere about extreme sports being a way to cope-yep!

Just need to make sure ExH doesn’t “have a work emergency” crop up whcih could happen bc he would have seen the date and plan in my texts that he hacked.

A mystery package arrived at my house. It was a garbage can. I posted about it on ML. Boyfriend took it to his house for a nice upgrade.