Anyone want to whine? Come in

[peach]

I haven't slept, my hips hurt so bad when I walk and I am sick. And I have 6 kids, all with runny noses - one who is teething and miserable, and one who is just miserable because she is always miserable. We are staying inside today. I feel guilty but I cannot handle getting that many kids into snow gear today to go stand outside and freeze.

We have company coming tonight which means I also have to find time to bake and clean my floors. And I have no idea what's for dinner.

Bleh. Today cannot be over soon enough.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Ew, that sounds awful. My pity goes out to you.

I slept like crap last night because the delivery van for our CSA (they deliver in the middle of the night and every other Wednesday is like Christmas!) fell off our driveway while he was turning around and wound up stuck in the lawn. At like, 1:30am. And the tow truck didn't arrive to fish him out until 2:30-ish? So there was an idling van and headlights/taillights outside our bedroom window for more than an hour, plus then the sounds of a tow truck - chains, heavy idling, creaky winch, etc. So I'd say I got approximately 4 hours of decent sleep last night. Wahhh.

[peach]

ah! Now I gave the baby his bottle and his mom didn't screw the lid on right - he soaked himself and my high chair. Had to strip him naked and change him. My high chair is drenched, the floor had a huge milk puddle.

OMG. And my difficult child just told me she was puking last night. If so, she is not allowed to be here. Last week the mom tried to drop her off with the squirts and I caught her and sent the child home.

Who sends their kid to daycare if they are up in the night throwing up? It's against my policies.

Heaven help me. I just want to sit down and cry.

[pitterwoo]

another sick and tired signing in. I came down with something Sunday and felt better yesterday, obviously overdid it and feel like crap again today.

I took some cold medicine two of the nights and both times I had a dream that I was pregnant/about to give birth. I clearly have the baby-rabies.

[boiler717]

Can I have first world whine? I really want to take a nap before continuing TG prep but my cleaning lady is still here. What a brat I am!

I'm super stressed about our pup ( he has a bladder stone) and need DH to come home from work but he just got called into another meeting.

[wawa]

My dog has decided he hates my IL's house and tried to dig through their laundry room door last night. so I spent most of the night sitting on the floor with him trying to getting him to chill out and then gave up and slept on the couch in the basement with him on my feet.

Andplusalso - I'm still staying at my IL's house. And probably will be here till saturday.

for whatever reason all our other setbacks (and they have been legion) I've been able to just go with the flow. But because this one involves not being in my own house I'm completely and totally out of patience.

Also...I'm a stretchmarked mess and I'm not even 3rd tri yet. This makes me a vain-ass heifer, but plastic surgery is in my future. I get a little worked up every time I look at myself in the mirror and notice that the stretch marks have traveled a bit further, or a new one has popped up. God is an asshole for this gestating nonsense. Why can't we lay eggs like birds?

[bunnymendelbaum]

I'm a zombie. F'ing sciatica or restless leg had me up past 1am, then all of us were strangely up from 3-4am. So I think I got about 4 hours of sleep. Ugh.
I want to take a nap, but of course, my stupid legs hurt. These next 6 weeks can't move fast enough. Get out of my belly!

Plus I had to run around all day getting things ready for company.

[emoflamingo]

I looked at myself in the mirror last night and it was awful. I have some stretch marks, but I'm flabby and my boobs like like deflated balloons. You kids had better love me!!

Also, I am on day 4 of no essential systems at work. The new agent has no access so she has to log in under my name while I'm in a different office. I'm not even kidding when I say I'm thisclose to snapping and quitting without a backup job. I found one I'm applying for and I might cry if I don't even get an interview.

[kaylie]

If one more person from back home asks me about the status of my uterus, I'm going to f a mother up. I'm not even 30 (i'm 28 and a half) and this is the northeast. Most of my friends aren't even married yet. Plus, how do they know we even want kids? What if we were trying and having issues? WTF business is it of theirs?

I realize it's not something to go postal over, but it's pissing me off because I'm starting to want a kid but it's just not in the cards for a few years. We're definitely not mature enough yet and we don't feel like we can afford one. I'm also worrying that I'll never be mature enough. I like babies and I think they're cute, I just don't want to have to care for / pay attention to one for longer than 10 minutes. I also don't want one making the house messy. I'm a neurotic freak show and I go crazy when things are out of place.

/end rant

[kaylie]

Yeah, I think that's the way to go. I had to explain to H how when we do decide to start trying we shouldn't tell anyone because it will just make them nosy. I have a few friends who have had difficulty as well and it really makes me nervous.

[ssmjlm]

We went to a movie and dinner tonight. I jokingly said "can we do this again tomorrow" except I wasn't joking.

If I get through tomorrow without going BSC on one of my ILs it will be a success.

[finally]

Since I started my new job 6 weeks ago (which has been very stressful) it's been absolutely nuts. I think I am going to have to put my DH in a straight jacket for dealing with his family issues that have all surfaced in the past 3 weeks:

1. Almost had to have Gilbert (our dog) put down but thankfully he recovered (but we are probably still going to have to make a hard decision soon)
2. Hurricane / no power for a week (i know we were the lucky ones). MIL & SIL stayed with us for 4 days and messed up a house more than you ever thought 2 people could. DH is on Disaster Recovery team for his company which lost all generators and he almost worked 96 straight hours with only a few naps so I was alone with MIL and SIL (not a good thing).
3. DH's 80+ year old grandparents lost their home to hurricane and we have been helping get all their stuff out. Grandmother has alzheimers and keeps freaking out that she can't go home and having to be brought to ER to be sedated. They are staying with MIL who keeps calling on DH for help.
4. SIL car was flooded in Sandy and keeps calling DH for help with getting a new car.
5. DH was in bad hit & run car accident in his 18 month old car and he now has back pain issues
6. Freak snowstorm and MIL & SIL had to stay with us again for 2 days because of forced evacuation (again, my very clean/neat house was destroyed)
7. Step-FIL in hospital for past 2 weeks w/ major surgery and since he and MIL have been separated for past 2 years and he has no other family, he has been depending on DH and I to assist.
8. FIL called DH this morning and admitted to being an alcholic and wants help (different than step-FIL)
9. Step-FIL called during dinner tonight that he was discharged from hospital and was brought to rehab but his car is still at hospital and it has his cell charger so can we come down tonight, get his car and bring it to rehab (40 minutes away). Rehab is 2 miles from where my mom lives so we said we'd do it tomorrow but he really wants his charger now and almost started crying that we wouldn't bring it.

Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings! Give me & DH strength!

I keep hoping things will get better and then the phone rings again with the next issue.