I gardened a bit (the leeks are sprouting!), cleaned, and had a heart to heart with J. I took the kids out to play with bubbles yesterday, Iz and Apple had a good time but Owl just wasn't into it.
Highlight: I exercised for the first time in months, my ankle was sore and swollen afterward but the exercise felt good.
Lowlight: J and I had a knock down drag out fight on Saturday.
Lowlight: Sunday was rough. Two tired, cranky mommies with colds, and one nearly three year old with no sympathy and no nap.
Highlights: A nice relaxing day with Hen on Saturday. My parents taking him overnight while we had dinner with friends from NYC. And some (ahem) very special kid-free time (ahem)...twice
Post by awkwardpenguin on Feb 18, 2013 14:27:23 GMT -5
Friday we worked late. Saturday was kind of crazy. We both had Dr's appointments in the morning, then went to check out Costco and did our grocery shopping. Got home around 2 and went on our Valentine's Day date to Frontera's fast casual place in Macy's, and to the Chicago History Museum. Sunday we went to the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown, then DW ran errands while I did our taxes. We cooked a bunch together in the evening.
Highlight: DW gave me the most thoughtful Valentine's Day present. It made me tear up in the middle of the Macy's food court. LOL.
Lowlight: our freaking taxes! I thought for sure I'd finish them (I'd already done my individual and half of C's), but I got mega stuck on C's part-year MI return, and I haven't even gotten to the part where I have to do the dummy return to file our IL taxes. Also at one point TurboTax was showing C owed nearly $1k, but her bank just imported a bunch of stuff wrong.
Another really nice weekend. I usually hate February, but this one has been good.
Saturday I got up early with the babies and let Jen sleep in a little. We met my parents for lunch and actually managed to (a) be on time and (b) beat them there for once. Afterward we went back to their place and my parents and I played Wii and played with the babies (in between their naps) while Jen caught up with some friends on the phone and took a nap herself. Had an easy dinner at home and got through some DVR after the kids went down.
On Sunday we worked out together after the kids went down for their morning nap, which was nice, and then we gave them baths. My parents came over and we drove out toward the coast, had lunch, and went to the museum to see my dad's necklace. It was actually a really cool museum - bigger than I expected, and really interesting. We also hunted down Nellie Oleson's grave - I knew which cemetery she was in, but not where her actual grave was. Luckily we found a picture of her dad's grave online and the shape narrowed down our search a lot. Put the kids down after a leisurely drive home thru some pretty country, and then I ran errands while Jen worked on job hunt stuff.
Tiring. Z is going downhill and we are not sure if we can keep everyone safe. Seriously talking about the effects of her behavior on carrot and punkin. Talked til 2am fri night and I didn't sleep well all weekend
+Z went for respite and we had lots of fun with carrot and pumpkin at a neighborhood winter fest
Tiring. Z is going downhill and we are not sure if we can keep everyone safe. Seriously talking about the effects of her behavior on carrot and punkin. Talked til 2am fri night and I didn't sleep well all weekend
+Z went for respite and we had lots of fun with carrot and pumpkin at a neighborhood winter fest
Oh erat, huge hugs to you and the whole family. It sounds like you're already taking advantage of the resources available with respite, but I'm wondering if there are any other services that might be able to help? In Maine there's a program that provides in-home behavioral support to kids with mental health problems (especially attachment disorder/trauma stuff) - I wonder if there's something like that in your state?
Friday we both took off since the kids didn't have school. We went to work in their school library (L is volunteering to catalog a TON of donated books and since she couldn't go in today, she wanted to go on Friday.) After a few hours, we headed to Richmond and took the kids to LegoFest. It was great. It was crowded, but the kids didn't have to wait for things and they had a blast (or as they said, "This is EPIC!") Went to dinner and then we all crashed at the hotel.
Saturday - evidently we all need to sleep in a cave because even though we all woke at 6:30am, we all fell back asleep till after 8. My children NEVER sleep past 7am, so it was a small miracle. We got on the road, had breakfast at Cracker Barrel, and came home to put Legos together that were purchased at Legofest, play several rounds of Dance Party 4, and then hung out before going to dinner.
Sunday - I took the kids to get haircuts, to do errands, and to lunch while L worked on her defense meeting. We rested/hung out at home before going to drop off my van to be detailed.
Monday - we were off today. We took the kids to see Escape from Planet Earth at the theater and then picked up my car. I went to the grocery store all.by.myself. L and I have been putzing around the house all afternoon to get ready for 70 ppl to invade our house in 2 weeks.
Tiring. Z is going downhill and we are not sure if we can keep everyone safe. Seriously talking about the effects of her behavior on carrot and punkin. Talked til 2am fri night and I didn't sleep well all weekend
+Z went for respite and we had lots of fun with carrot and pumpkin at a neighborhood winter fest
Oh erat, I'm so sorry to hear about Z. I hope there are some resources to help. Thinking of you.
Tiring. Z is going downhill and we are not sure if we can keep everyone safe. Seriously talking about the effects of her behavior on carrot and punkin. Talked til 2am fri night and I didn't sleep well all weekend
+Z went for respite and we had lots of fun with carrot and pumpkin at a neighborhood winter fest
Post by never2amazing on Feb 19, 2013 10:07:02 GMT -5
Highlights: Little Man and I finally got our well-needed haircuts.
Lowlights: I miss Little Man's curls.
We didn't do all that much this weekend; at least the Kiddos and I didn't. C worked on the old house and combining our 2 storage units into one big unit.
Oh, and a highlight. We bought new bedding. We've had 3 bedding sets in 8y and never could find one we loved. We have kept trying to match the silver sage walls, and with our blond furniture and tons of sunlight it always looks dull and boring. Plus, we've discovered we aren't the people who will take off a duvet/comforter (L is always hot) at night and put it back on in the morning with 1001 pillows (though I do make the bed.) We needed something that I can use as a blanket and has color. I hope I like it as much in person as I do online.
Post by bluedaisyus on Feb 19, 2013 12:24:45 GMT -5
Mine was up and down. Friday took kitty to the vet (he's sick), but came home to a lovely dinner my wife had ready.
Saturday she worked OT so I was on my own with the boy, but we had fun playing and watched a movie. She texted me and asked if I wanted to go see a play and have dinner to make up for Wednesday. A little while later my neice texted asking if we needed any babysitting because she missed the boy, which was perfect. Of course we discovered that the play was sold out and had a waiting list (luckily I saw it on FB before we actually went there) so we went to D&B and had dinner and played games (and I had a few drinks).
Sunday she worked OT, but surprised me by only working half the shift. We decided to have a family movie date, so we headed out to an afternoon show at the dollar theater.
Yesterday was a holiday for me, but she had to work. I ended up coming in for half a day to work on a project while my dad hung with the boy (bonus that I got OT pay for it), and then we had our third counseling session. She ordered pizza on her way home. We ended up getting into an argument after dinner but were able to talk it out, and then we just had some family time in the living room before bedtime.
Post by seattlekari on Feb 19, 2013 13:19:40 GMT -5
Our weekend was mostly busy with family stuff as my parents were in town.
Lowlight: Not enough sleep due to an early rising kiddo all weekend. Headache hanging around now for over a day.
Hightlight: A was told on Friday night when she got to work in Portland that they were sending her home on Saturday (because they had meetings she needed to attend yesterday and today). We should get to spend the entire coming weekend hanging out at her place!
Post by twomoms2twins on Feb 19, 2013 13:32:05 GMT -5
Friday: just hung around at home
Sat - We had a picnic in the park with our LGBT group and M and I went out to a friends B-day which sounded so fun and enede dup being so lame we got all dressed upi just to sit in a hotel .. these were M's friends and she was so erked.
Sun - breakfast and bloody marys !!!!Chill at home take the girls to the park