We went to, by far, the most extravagant wedding I’ve ever been to Saturday night. It was SO fun to get dressed up all fancy and be away from the kids, lol. We had such a great time!
I’m so sorry. This happened to me last year- like you, I was completely blindsided and heartbroken. I stayed with my h, but he cut off all contact immediately. We’ve been through a lot of counseling, and have had a lot of tough conversations.
It hasn’t been easy. Give yourself some time to figure out what you want. I highly recommend individual counseling for both of you, and marriage counseling on top. It really helped me to see things straight.
I never thought I’d be someone who stayed with a cheater, and that was sort of another blow I had to deal with. Just know you’ll get through it, one way or another.
38. I think this is probably universal, but I don't feel like what I thought 38 would feel like. I was 14/15 when my mom was 38. My memories of her are...not how I feel now, does that make sense?
Yes. I am still not completely convinced that I'm the adult in the room. I felt like my parents were so much more grown up than me at this age.
Of course, I was 16/17 when they were my age and they had 2 other kids, so we had very different lifestyles and responsibilities at this age.
I voted I'm in my 30's, but I'll be 40 in June so that feels like a bit of an underestimation.
I’ll also be 40 in June- the 23rd. We should do dinner to celebrate!
Wow wanderingback that is so cool. Hope you get to see the show soon and that it does well!
Bernadine you are so kind taking on a 2nd exchange student now. Glad to hear everything worked out with your current student. Do you think in the future you will visit them in their home countries? That's what my relatives who have hosted did.
Yes, I would love to visit them! Our current student, G, I think will always be special to us, because she’s our first. And she’s so easy- very mature and responsible.
We’ve selected our exchange student for next year! Lilly from Germany should be joining us in August, just need written approval from the school.
Also it looks like we may be temporarily hosting a boy from France starting Sunday. His host family is facing some medical issues and they’re no longer able to host. I’ve made it clear we can’t keep him permanently, but we’re willing to take him on a temp basis.
My H brought home a chest cold in early January. Tested a few times, always negative. I test through work weekly, always negative. Kids have stayed well.
I have not.
I have been barking like a dog for over a week! I keep waiting for symptoms to subside, but I think I'm just going to cough for the rest of my life.
Ugh, I have the same thing. Went to urgent care because the cough wasn’t any better after 2 weeks, and they said it would last a few weeks.
I interviewed for a job last week, and just found out they called my references. Fingers crossed!
Another late bus here- we got a call that it would be 15 minutes late, but it ended up being 40 minutes late. Not the first time it’s happened, so I think in the future when we get the call, I’ll just drive dd to school.
I did one of those foot peels Sunday and I’m waiting not so patiently for the peeling to start.
Bernadine any updates on the rings? Did you get the one you wanted originally and how is the exchange going on the Zorro ring?
I did not get the one I originally wanted, because they don’t have it big enough for my fat fingers, lol. But I did exchange the Zorro ring and got a band that I’m very happy with!
I like Megan Fox’s ring better than my original ring, lol.
I put on makeup for an interview this morning and now I keep thinking I’m all dressed up with no where to go, lol. It’s been a while since I did a full face of makeup!
G is not feeling well. We did an at home test Sunday and it was negative, but we’re going to retest this afternoon. Hoping for her sake it’s negative so she can go back to school tomorrow for mid-terms.
It’s been a while since I had an interview- anything I should make sure I include? The interviewers are not the hiring official, if that makes a difference, and there may be a second interview.
My 5 yr old DS needs a lot of attention. I can get some good stretches of time where he'll play independently but even screen time he often wants me to watch with him/watch what he's doing on a game. We're OAD so no sibling to fight or play with. Look mom! Come see this mom! Watch this mom! DS is a daddy's boy so H gets it even worse than me.
I definitely breath a sigh of relief when he's finally asleep (usually 1ish hours after we leave his room at 8:30).
Oh, this with my dd, but she’s a mommy’s girl. She needs so.much.attention.
Dd is finally back to school today. The house is so nice and quiet!
I have a mountain of laundry to tackle that is totally overwhelming me, to the point where I just keep putting it off. And so of course, the mountain keeps growing, and I keep getting more overwhelmed.
I just started a six month assignment in a different office. They had an MS Teams video meet and greet for me this morning. Dd is home sick and made her way into the camera to wave to everyone. 🥴
Dd has a virus similar to hand foot mouth, but no rash. She started throwing up Friday night, and still has diarrhea. Her fever finally broke yesterday and I’m hoping she can go back to school tomorrow.
It is so dreary here this week and I'm dragging. It's been hard to get out of bed in the morning and all I want to do in the afternoon is take a nap. I feel fine otherwise so I'm not sick or anything, just very blah this week. It sounds like things should pick up next week in my new job, but it's been kind of a slow start with that so I'm also kind of bored.
We are supposed to go to an NFL game on Sunday and I am having major 2nd thoughts with COVID. The team is doing terrible right now anyway (lots of injuries and people out with COVID) so they will probably lose. It's an outdoor stadium and hopefully won't be too crowded given those two things, but IDK. I think if it were just me I'd skip it but my H still wants to go and I'm not sure if it's worth putting my foot down on or not. He'll go with whatever I want, but I don't want to make him sad lol.