1. I switched the toys in the living room from kitchen/food themed to a circus tent with lights and music type toys and a sit 'n spin. The girls have been exploring it and finally "get" the sit 'n spin.
2. Apple says "oh shit" in context at least 5 times a day, I'm trying to get her to replace it with uh oh.
3. Owl had her first pee and poop free night last night! Taking away pull ups was a very good decision for her right now.
4. I discovered that Iz is chewing holes in her comforter.
5. A is making her lunch right now, she is such a big kid.
6. I think a lot about how old A is (9) and worry that she is going to leave when she turns 18, I know she will be prepared to face the world but 18 years isn't enough time for me to hold her close and protect her, we are already halfway through those 18 years.
7. I have a feeling that the teenage years are going to challenge my feelings about #6.
8. I need to fold socks. I have a diaper box full of socks that I keep picking through.
9. I feel accomplished this week.
10. J is thinking about going back to work at the end of the month and surprisingly, I'm going to miss having her here. This break from work has helped our relationship tremendously.
Post by ballandchain on Apr 4, 2013 11:28:35 GMT -5
1. Salad for lunch. It's a good salad, but I would rather have pizza. 2. First shot of Lupron down. 25ish? to go. 3. I left the house without charging my phone or Kindle, and without bringing my chargers. Both devices are down to 10-15% power. Definitely not lasting the day. Good thing I have a print book for the commute home. 4. Trying to plan vacations around a pregnancy that may or may not happen, and who knows when, is getting old. 5. Why am I so freaked out about turning 35 next month? It's just a number....right??? 6. I wish I could buy a new car without speaking to a car salesperson. 7. The place I was planning on doing pre-natal yoga is closed due to a fire. Not sure if/when they are re-opening. Of course, not sure if/when I'm going to be pregnant... 8. This is a major first-world-problems TTT. 9. My garlic is scaping! This makes me happy. 10. COOKIES.
1. Blowing your nose is hard when your mouth and upper lip is numb.
2. I am trying to re organize the meals the rest of the week as I didn't expect to be this sore.
3. Reflux sucks
4. It's supposed to be really pretty this weekend so maybe M will let me take my dirt bike out while the boys sleep.
5. My garden is looking really good!
6. Drinking anything normally when your mouth is numb isn't possible. Thank goodness I am working from home as I just dribbled my drink down my shirt.
7. A week from now we are taking the boys to see M's grandfather who is 97. I am excited he will get to meet them but terrified of the 6 hour drive with the boys and worried it will turn into a 8+ hour drive. Then we have to do it all over again to go home.
8. I am in love with the show Lost Girl and that is so not like me. I am not a syfi type person.
9. I need to stop eating the Easter candy if I want to loose these last 10lbs.
10. I miss being home with M and I miss my maternity leave.
Post by joymseattle on Apr 4, 2013 13:37:22 GMT -5
1. I skipped my usual swimming time today to get things done at home (alone!). 2. I need to finish my business taxes and help C with hers. 3. Trying to decide if we can go to see my Nana in Oregon in the next month or so. C doesn't want to drive and I don't want to spend the money to fly. We'll see what happens. 4. I skipped my mid-morning snack, so I need to start thinking about lunch options ASAP. 5. This afternoon I'm going to the chiropractor and then a huge consignment sale up North. 6. We don't really "need" anything at this, but I'm willing to browse for amazing deals. 7. We do need to sit down and make some decisions about our budget, especially for bigger ticket baby-related stuff. Top of the list our doula and a new washer and dryer. 8. I have so many errands to do this week. I could spend a whole day, if I had one free! 9. Getting ready to purchase the last of my textbooks for my exam. They're expensive, but hopefully getting them will motivate me to set a study schedule. 10. I have a friend in school and we'll hopefully set up some study sessions. There are also two other people I know sitting for boards when I do, so hopefully we can do at least a monthly study night.
Post by viciouskittie on Apr 4, 2013 13:47:39 GMT -5
Alright, coming out of the woodwork here. I've been lurking but it's been a while since I actually posted.
1. M and I celebrated our third wedding anniversary this week. I stopped for take out on the way home from work and we spent the evening on the couch with pho. It was wonderfully relaxed.
2. We plan to really celebrate at the end of the month at a comic & entertainment expo. We have weekend passes and photo ops lined up and I'm looking forward to three days of panels and booths. We are giant nerds and I can't wait!
3. Last Thursday I came home from work with tonsillitis. I spent my entire long weekend on the couch, entirely miserable. It sucked a lot, but at least I only missed one day of work?
4. I applied for a new position at work and was interviewed. This alone is a huge accomplishment - my company is very big on working "head office" type jobs out of our head office, which is in a different province, but I managed to get them to agree to allow me to interview to work out of region. I feel like my interview went really well and at the end the hiring manager asked me to complete a case study as a second step. I feel really good about the work I submitted to her and I'm hoping to hear soon.
5. Re: #4 - how long do you think I should wait before asking about when I'll hear?
6. I'm allowing myself a little time out from my parents & sisters. I love them all very much but sometimes - okay, often - we only communicate if I initiate the text/phone call/Skype. I don't mind but it can start to feel like they don't want to put forth the effort and it gets tiring.
7. One of me & M's best friends is coming to stay with us for three months. I can't wait to see him, and I'm happy that he's coming to stay with us.... I just hope I still feel that way at the end of the three months
8. My work wife and I seem to have gotten work divorced. We were very close for two and a half years. She went away to get married and came back a totally different person - it's like she was body snatched. I have no idea what happened. I tried asking, I tried going on like nothing was wrong, and nothing seemed to help; she was just totally cold to me. This weekend I realized she has unfriended me on Facebook and I am really hurt by it. I wish I at least knew what happened
9. After some discussion M and I have realized that our move to this city (...5 years ago) is more permanent than we were originally thinking. It's a little painful to me to think about staying here sometimes, but it's also allowed me to give myself permission to make connections and friends here, which feels wonderful.
10. I was saying to M last week that I was really missing writing/journaling. I just haven't been able to do it in a long time, I'm having some sort of block. She very sweetly bought me a nice, useful journal to write in and even wrote in a lovely paragraph about hoping I could get my writing back. I was touched and reminded that I really got a good one <3
Post by seattlekari on Apr 4, 2013 13:59:32 GMT -5
1. I had to look up what garlic scaping is. Thanks ballandchain for my educational item of the day!
2. I have a cold on top of my allergies. Boo hiss.
3. I am taking tomorrow off. The plan was to get a bunch done at home, now I'm not so sure that will happen due to feeling like caca.
4. My mom found out this week she does not have to have chemo, just radiation. I am very relieved for her.
5. A has to work this weekend. Only the people that report to her supervisor have to work, the other 2/3 of them do not despite the fact that they are all doing the same work. What is wrong with this picture?
6. The landscapers started work on my yard yesterday. I can't wait to see it all done and healthy new grass growing!
7. I have a groupon that expires this weekend for some beer from a local brewery, I may be drinking alone.
8. I need to get serious about party planning for E's birthday in May. How is my child turning 7?
9. I've had this open forever and am stuck, I guess that's all I have for today!
1. We're trying to decide what to do about a second car. We definitely need something bigger than a Fit, but I'm not ready to commit to an SUV or mini van when we don't know where I will be working. Leaning toward just getting a really old Honda Civic or something similar for now and trading it in later. (Ostensibly at this later point we also would have decided on whether to have a 3rd kid, which would be helpful information to have.)
2. It is really nice to be able to think about something besides job hunting (even though I am still hunting).
3. We finished Downton Abbey last night. It was fun to marathon a show again, we hadn't done that in a while. (Partly b/c we rarely agree on what is worthy of marathoning
4. We started Whole30/paleo again today, after last night's celebratory sushi/sake/ice cream. We both want to feel good and healthy on the babies' first birthday, and start modeling better habits for them. Hard.
5. Mister Baby has enough teeth now that he just has a toothy grin, not that adorable baby face with just two or three teeth. My big guy!
6. He's so close to walking and I'm excited.
7. I need better top coat- my nails chip like crazy a day after being painted.
8. I should be reading for tonight's class or applying for jobs or setting up coffee dates but I can't resist TTT.
9. We are going to save a buttload on dry cleaning now that Jen is working at a casual place - no suits!
Post by viciouskittie on Apr 4, 2013 14:44:54 GMT -5
Elsa - we recently bought a Mazda5 and I seriously love it. It gets decent mileage and is pretty spacious inside. The back doors are sliding doors like on a minivan but it's not quite as tall/big as a van. There isn't a huge amount of trunk space but it does have a third row that you can fold down for more space. It seats 6.
Post by never2amazing on Apr 4, 2013 15:19:14 GMT -5
1. C is off to New Orleans all next week; I wonder what I should do special with the Kiddos. My niece will be here for three of the days.
2. My daughter has yet to send me my girl scout cookies!
3. I am thinking of buying a grill, but I don’t exactly know what bells and whistles I want.
4. Speaking about whistling the Kiddos can whistle and snap their fingers. I couldn’t do those things until I was in third grade.
5. There has been a lot of talk about another baby…we will see what the final verdict will be…money is tight.
6. The Kiddos have deemed that I need to go on time out…I wish I really could. If it were 1 minute for every year I would have a rather nice break.
7. My co-worker/friend is back from maternity leave. You can tell it is hard for her to be apart from her little one even though he is a five-minute walk away.
8. I applaud Connecticut’s gun reform laws.
9. It was recycling day…the day my son and I bond…strange but true.
10. Well, it is almost time to go home…I hope we get out of here on time.
1. I spent the day at a supervisor training...kind of nice to reflect on that every now and then.
2. Reminds me how isolated I feel from the rest of my program.
3. Why couldn't I have been born an extrovert?
4. DW probably won't like that I bought starbucks.
5. I still often can't read/talk about ttc/babies without crying.
6. I'm meeting up with my good friend this evening who I havent seen in several weeks due to opposite travel schedules and conflicting boroughs in which we work.
7. Excited to see a broadway show this weekend (Hands on a Hardbody - a musical about a contest to win a truck.)
8. Apparently my parents (who dont know about our ttc efforts) have decided that we just dont want kids. Learned this from my sister.
9. It's cold today.
10. I need to get going on my grad school application.
Post by bluedaisyus on Apr 4, 2013 16:29:50 GMT -5
1. I'm supposed to be working late to make up my time from this morning's blood draw (I don't really want to use leave). Can you tell how hard I'm working?
2. Only half an hour left...
3. I need to stop eating things, is what I need to do.
4. I have a 5k on Sunday. Guess who just told me she's working OT on Sunday?
5. Maybe my parents can meet me at the start and hang with the boy while I run, because I can't take him with me. I'll be really bummed if I have to drop out. I want my medal, damn it!
6. OH! I just remembered I need to print my workbook for my all-day training tomorrow. I'd better do that before I leave...
7. All day training means I don't have to come in to my office. I'm looking forward to the day away.
8. All. Most. Time.
9. I wonder what we're going to do for dinner.
10. I wonder how productive my wife was on her day off. Maybe she'll have painted the living room! Hey, a girl can dream.